Why Does This Woman Look Exactly Like Me? | Finding My Identical Twin Stranger | Full Documentary

[@elisabethm9655]

What I found most remarkable was the social similarities between so many of the doppelgängers.

[@winterbeaches]

Agree. It's amazing how much our appearance effects how we socialize as well as social expectations, treatment and opportunities.

[@GirlOfTheTardis]

I think the fact some had the same careers etc should have been explored more

[@blahco4tt]

I worked with gal in healthcare who's doppleganger I met working in a hospital (I had a friend staying there for a few days so I got familiar with this one nurse there). She was incredibly similar in personality, all the way down to being on the spectrum, too. I told my co-worker about it and she was astounded. She knew that gal sounded just like her. They could totally have been on this show. I don't think they're ethnically related at all (my co-worker was definitely on Ancestry, but also knew her family's history outside of that), but I suppose they could have been 4th or 5th cousins, like one of the pairs in this Yotube video (which, that was incredibly cool!). Oddly, I keep meeting autistic dopplegangers in my area. One was an ex-friend of mine who I encountered her younger doppleganger at the same university that my ex-friend had graduated from. Same mannerisms and way of being, haircut, hair color...they even sat the same unique way...and magnetized to me all the same...I kind of had to drop that class...not just b/c of that, but it didn't help (that friend became an ex-friend shortly before I started taking this class w/her doppleganger). Outside of that, one of my cousins (he's on the spectrum) has a doppleganger as well, whom my sister, who also saw this doppleganger in person, agreed looked uncannily just like him and was also into weight training like him...as well as *incredibly* introverted. I don't know much else since that doppleganger didn't stick around much (like I mentioned, he had incredible introversion). I'm sure if I showed a picture of this guy to my cousin, he would agree. I know we're not related to that guy (at least not 4th cousins or closer) since my family is big into keeping track of our genetic inheritance and being in touch with all our relatives...which is great since before all this, a couple cousins in my family dated by accident. Fortunately, they discovered they had relatives in common before things progressed 😅 I guess it's genetic--and fortunate--that our shared family hobby is being into our family background; I'm sure that helped stopped a great problem from happening 😬

[@Ariannaishun]

Hardly. Culture/society is downstream from genetics/race/epigenetics. It is Nature out-stripping Nurture as the influencing factor.

[@Ariannaishun]

Continuing.....Genetics is a much maligned area of investigation in the current tyrannical PC milieu (a subverted Western Civ) that now enforces broadbrush equality measure for the purpose of equity for foreigners to Europe whose antecedents have produced different types of societies quite quite different to Western Society. By way of example Chinese people produce Chinese culture/society (Chinatown enclaves in the West make that easily attestable). Japanese produce Japanese culture/society (interestingly no formulation of enclaves outside of Japan). Amazonian Indigenous produce their native culture/society. EtC EtC. Mass migration by peoples of non IndoEuropean origin into Western Societies is having the consequence of them congregating together and creating their own cultures/societies in their places of relocation. Western society is in freefall without Western Europeans to uphold it. Cultures and cohesive societies where mannerism align can only emerge through similarly aligned genetic peoples...all innately expressing similar social traits. In the case of Japanese and Chinese cultures both will argue to the end of time that their cultures are unique to their specific people and that the one cannot create the other. Similarly Western culture/society is a product of Indo European people who once were the peoples of classical civilisations of antiquity. It is the Indo European that expresses and demands high standards of organisation and performance on all levels of cultural layers in government, military and the Arts, works on meritocracy not equity and produces societies of high trust. All but one pair in this documentary are of single origin meaning they are pairs of a similar stock; ones that have a common ancestral place of origin, - 3 pairs are North Western European as are probably the gayboiz. The blokes in dark blue are clearly of middle eastern origin, most likely semitic (arab and/or jewish). Even the mixed girls fit this paradigm ... if a direct cross with a European. The photos of that white parent and also of the non European parent would be most interesting to examine. That these pairs are living in non-contiguous regions is irrelevant. And for the Europeans and semitics it also means that their (immediate) antecedents all produced offspring from genetically similar partners; they married within their genetic stock. Many, many historic migrations, generally deliberately instigated by military and economic forces, have caused genetically similar peoples to relocate to foreign parts and up until ww2 these people predominantly married partners from within their own ethnic folk. Interestingly the Europeans from Northern Europe migrated in social groups, sometimes whole families all at once, less often migrating later after initial establishment by a forerunner ie husband sending for his wife after a homestead has been made. This resulted in the successful transference of Western society from Europe to the North Americas, Australia, NZ. Conversely the colonisation of Sth America was quite different. In the case of the landmass south of the Rio Grande, it was the European Iberian men that settled in the Spanish/Portuguese colonies and due to Nature's calling for pairbonding and children they intermarried with native women, a practice that was totally approved by the Catholic church as long as the women converted to the religion. Thus a whole new racial expression in Sth America was created....the mestizo. Catholic Central and South America never in all of its 500 year history rose to the level of 1st world society whereas North Westerns wherever they went achieved that status, sometimes within 200 years. So the trait of social similarities between all these pairs of similar stock is actually quite unremarkable but its impact is significantly and wholly remarkable.

[@monkeyteeth6559]

Back in the late 1980's I stopped at a Texas Dunkin Donuts. When I got up to the drive-thru window, the girl handed me my order then did a double-take, screamed out "Michael!" and reached out to hug me. She thought I was her brother! After some minutes I was able to "prove" I wasn't her brother playing a joke. She even called him in California and they spoke briefly. After the call she grabbed her purse and showed me a family picture and sure enough, her brother looked JUST LIKE ME, down to the style of dress. Needless to say we were both almost left speechless. Too bad this was before the time of selfies.

[@llorttaf]

What kind of dress was it?

[@dorotheegranby5480]

@@llorttaf😅

[@willow1698]

Michael*

[@Angie-mm9rn]

I gather you didn't keep in touch? I would've, seeing that it's such an extraordinary situation

[@willow1698]

@@Angie-mm9rntbh I'd find it weird for somebody to keep in touch with me just because I said they looked like somebody I knew. It's happened several times before and each time they agreed, said that was crazy, and moved on. We're not going to be friends because of that yk?

[@livinglife8333]

I had about a dozen different people tell me they saw me working at a casino. I worked in a lab and never in my life have I been a cocktail waitress. After so many people at our office said it I went to see if I could find this woman. I was astonished! She was a bit shorter but only by an inch or so, it was so crazy! Same laugh, same walk, same everything. I never saw her again but it was fun.

[@sroy9789]

Did you check to see if she probably was your sister? It happened to a pair of twins from South America.

[@sroy9789]

@@eej902 DNA test

[@grammadoh1]

Would LUV to check this out ❤

[@CastledarkDweller27]

I would have traded addresses and kept in touch to see if like every 5 years as u both age, u could trade photos and see if the similarities get stronger or fade away.

[@plane_guy6051]

Same laugh, same walk, and same FATHER 😆

[@jdice6868]

I would have been interested to see pictures of John and Neil as young men to see how similar they looked 20,30, and 40 years ago.

[@plan4life]

They did show pictures. If you pause each one it’s easy to see who they are. They looked remarkably similar strangely enough, particularly the chin shape.

[@richardandreao1332]

Agree. Old people start looking alike. My sister never looked like my mother until she got old.

[@marciawalden]

They did show younger pictures but it was so quick you may have missed it.

[@dammar117]

True. My father and his brother looked nothing like each other, but in their old age were very similar. My youngest brother, who never looked at all like my father, is starting to resemble him.

[@Langenbacher]

Around 25 years ago, my dad sent me a magazine clipping for a software advertisement. He added a note telling me how awesome it was that he found me. It stopped me in my tracks! There was a young woman looking exactly like me, and that wasn’t all. The woman was sitting behind a pc (which I do) she had a cat on her desk (which I have), and she looked like me EXACTLY she even rocked my hairdo! I still have it and to this day I am still questioning myself if I didn't, in fact, participated in an advert, but I forgot somehow!

[@DanielSnyder-bz8kp]

Wow, that is very interesting. Did you ever do anything to find out more?

[@MelissaThompson432]

I walked into a salon and the woman just finishing thought I was her daughter there to give her a lift. Then the daughter walked in behind me, and I totally got it. If I hadn't known better, I might have thought she was me. I grew up elsewhere, but where I am now I have a lot of relatives I've never met. She's probably one of them.

[@ChrisRaine.]

So, if you didn’t know that you were you, you may have thought that she was you?

[@ronitsinghala5086]

you thought you were her daughter till her daughter showed up ? The story is confusing.

[@sonjak8265]

@@ronitsinghala5086 The woman in the salon thought that Melissa was her daughter.

[@sharonloomis5264]

How could you not understand what she said? The woman thought she was her daughter until the real daughter waked in.

[@ChrisRaine.]

@@sharonloomis5264 I totally understand what she means, I was just messing around with the line “If I hadn’t known better, I might have thought she was me” I thought that was very clear, are you replying to the other comment?

[@vegascece]

As a child, I saw my doppelgänger on the other side of a busy street. I remember it almost took my breath away as I looked right at her. She too stopped with a blank look then smiled warmly and waved as her Mom grabbed her hand and they walked off. My Mom asked what I was staring at and I pointed but all she saw was her back. I have never forgotten that chance encounter and sadly, we were visiting from out of town so there was no chance to see her again.

[@plane_guy6051]

Maybe your father had also 'visited from out of town' before your doppleganger was born and had an affair with the mother. I suspect that happens more frequently than people think.

[@vegascece]

LOL!! You have no idea how true that could have been!! I was 58yo when I found out I had 4 sisters from 2 different mothers. I connected with the eldest sister and learned all about the 3 of them, their life, and why the silence all of our years (she knew all about me and my "full" brother (our Dad and all the mothers were already deceased). I told her about a 2nd brother, which she didn't know about from yet another Mother. We look similar but it's that 4th sister we could never find...just maybe...not twins, but enough to have looked just like me!! Sadly, all 6 of my siblings are now deceased. @@plane_guy6051

[@DanielSnyder-bz8kp]

You're always gonna have these ball busters replying . hmmm but who knows, ha

[@harukoshimabukuro9221]

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[@marie-michelleanderson2851]

​@@plane_guy6051I am a teacher in a some what well off community. Quite often, children are so similar to younger kids coming up that I suspect that some men have strayed as have the women!

[@lisakilmer2667]

I'm a twin and learned to be very tuned in to differences in features. I was amazed at how many of the pairs had different jawlines/chins which were not remarked on until the 3D scans were examined. I caught those differences immediately. I think the Professor caught the key: if either the eyes or noses are matching and then the other feature is similar, viewers perceive two people as "identical" and ignore the jawline.

[@rabbithowls71]

Not a twin, but I don’t think many of these pairs are that close. Similar but definitely not “twins”.

[@NigelTolley]

The thing is, you can easily change that as a guy by growing a beard! It's not a useful way to tell between two men if they're not close shaven.

[@lauracarter1618]

i'm not a twin, i make portraits of people, and i can say definitively that whether you actually capture the look of your subject starts and ends with the eyes. if you don't get the eyes right, the portrait will suck. if you get the eyes right, even if you fudge other details, it doesn't matter; the portrait will work.

[@willow1698]

@@NigelTolleyI've been watching the Hodge twins for a while and I've been trying to differentiate between them recently, but their BEARDS make it so hard! I'm usually good at this stuff too

[@motcornerbyalisonhasselquist]

I knew a pair of twins who were family friends. I started noticing I could tell them apart if their face was round or narrow. I learned to identify them that way.

[@sophirichmanfletcher4657]

I was adopted and haven't met many biological relatives. (Yes, I've taken all the DNA tests, and know who my bio family is now). When a stranger tells me I remind them of someone, or mistakes me for someone else, I feel almost panicky, desperate to know who it might be, and if we could be related. There's so many missing pieces of me. I'd like to meet even a few.

[@Donovanwalter13]

Everything will be okay. Life also has a plan for you. When the time is there, you will find your peace and happiness too! You just never know what the future can bring.

[@Kaxxonxbox]

I’m adopted too and also feel like that! It almost creeps me out when someone says that because I have unique features and have very rarely seen someone who looks similar. I hope you get some answers one day, but try and understand that not knowing may be for the better. Everything will happen when it’s meant to, god has a plan for us all. You were made in gods image, if you grow closer to him it will make you feel less alone and help bring peace to your soul. ❤ Just some things that have helped me find closer.

[@sophirichmanfletcher4657]

@@Kaxxonxbox thanks, and yes, He's been connecting me to new close relatives just since I made my earlier comment! Sadly their lives were much harder than mine, but I hope some healing can happen now. I believe we all deserve to know our truth, but some of it may be really hard to process. 💔🙏

[@MrVvulf]

I wonder if you've seen the story of the two pairs of twins in Colombia who had one twin swapped in the hospital (born 1988). One identical twin from each family grew up in the wrong household, so both families assumed the twins were simply fraternal. They eventually found each other when acquaintances of two of the identical separated brothers said, "You look exactly like another guy who shops here, and even more bizarre...his brother looks exactly like your brother."

[@sophirichmanfletcher4657]

@@MrVvulf 😬😳 I don't think I'm familiar with that. What a mess I imagine it was.

[@debbilermond1553]

I am an identical twin and although my twin sister and I look similar, we've both had things happen to us in our lives to make our appearances look a bit dissimilar. We still look very close but there are subtleties that makes each of us unique. What we do share that identical strangers probably don't is that closeness in the womb which is a bond forever. We often know what the other is thinking; will say the same thing at the same time; we are both equine sculptors and are still BFF at 70 years of age.

[@gcxj220]

Many years ago, I remember watching the news and seeing surveillance footage of two suspected shoplifters in a store. The resolution was quite good and one of them looked EXACTLY like me. Not just in the face but same build, similar height, looked like same age, and wore clothes just like what I would wear. I was stunned. The scary part was that I used to shop at this store occasionally. I don't think I ever went back there again.

[@bonnylouwho76]

My older was almost arrested for the same reason. She has a doppelganger that lives in our area that she has never met. She has been spoken to many times or people have stopped to give her a ride home, calling her the name of the other woman. I was the one that backed her up with the police, when they tried to arrest her, because I KNEW that she had been at her home and we had been talking on the phone with each other. ( Landlines, not cell phones.) I don't think she ever went back to that store, it was traumatic. I had some traumatic experiences there as well.

[@LimitlessMarketers]

🤣nice story

[@l.l.a.s3645]

Hmmm 🤔

[@marilynnjefferson8525]

A close friend gave me an old tintype of a woman which he found in an antique shop. The date 1937 is written on the back. The woman looks to be around 30 years old. 😯. I was born in 1943. To both of us it looked exactly like I had in my late 20s or early 30s. I have no information about this woman, but we are certainly doppelgängers born about a generation apart. I keep it on my dresser to this day.

[@motcornerbyalisonhasselquist]

Ancestor perhaps?

[@im_calling_you_out]

Maybe you mistyped the date, but 1937 and 1943 is only a 6 year difference. Is that considered a "generation apart?"

[@wispa7214]

@@im_calling_you_out The women on the tin 1937 @ 30years old would have be born in 1907, and the women born in 1943 would be 30 in 1963. so 36 years apart

[@Mordraneth]

I met my doppelganger when I went into a music shop to buy a new Alto sax. We looked identical and everyone that worked there started teasing him about his long lost twin. Same face, same facial hair style, same hair length, colour, and cut, both our eyes are hazel, and he was maybe only 1 inch shorter than me. Then he spoke, and he had a very high voice, whereas mine is a deep baritone. If we didn't talk though, you'd never tell us apart. It was disturbing, but also kind of cool.

[@zerobaseone_TimeLessWorldTour]

Love that they all found not just a doppelganger but a genuine friend for life in each other, so heartwarming♥️

[@igitha..._]

This "cutting edge three dimensional science" got some chick arrested in America a few months back for looking like someone who was wanted in a criminal situation. The women who was erroneously arrested was pregnant at the time, I can only imagine the stress she endured during the time trying to vindicate herself, I hope her and her baby are doing well...

[@jenm1]

We really learn nothing from the misuse of statistics huh

[@goldenemily1]

@@jenm1 makes it scary to use facial recognition at airports. I guess that is why they started issuing redress numbers for people caught in the issue of having the same name as someone on the suspect list... need to add facial similarities to the redress cases.

[@geronimo5537]

Sadly, we are visual creatures. If an apple looks like an orange. We will assume its an orange until digging further.

[@igitha..._]

@@geronimo5537 Being visual creatures, it may interest all of us to start investigating the phenomena of Doppelgangers.

[@Danielle-nz9tn]

If they are really interested in seeing how much they actually look alike, they should NOT have them wear matching outfits, hairstyles, etc. Those nonessential elements that are just superficial are likely to make people believe they appear more similar than they actually do. Some of these people don’t really look all that similar after all.

[@MsHojat]

I mostly disagree, because we want to look at the similarities that cannot be easily changed are, so making the hair style and clothing the same helps to minimize that. In other words I think matching clothing and hair style kind of has the opposite effect. If you had them with different hairstyles and clothing it could make them seem more different than they really are. The parts that I would _disagree_ with is using make-up to look similar, or even dying hair color.

[@sophirichmanfletcher4657]

I especially thought that of the two sets of girls with long hair.

[@NigelTolley]

Each pair are wearing the same colour T shirts. Hardly shocking!

[@ObamAmerican48]

It's like looking at a painting by Monet. From a distance it makes sense but when you get close and look at details, it doesn't look at all like it did from a distance.

[@YochevedDesigns]

I briefly dated a woman who looked exactly like me. We were the same age, height, weight, and we both had long blonde hair. The only difference was she had blue eyes, and I have green eyes. We both decided that the relationship felt way too much like "twincest", so we called it off. The chemistry was just weird.

[@DanielSnyder-bz8kp]

You dated a chick that looked like a dude? huh?

[@allisonlew4508]

That would make an interesting movie!

[@daughterofpb]

Actually happens frequently...people are attracted to people who look like themselves

[@flygirlfly]

I've had employess who work for my airline [I'm a flight attendant] walk up to me and start chatting with 'Patty'. I seem to have a doppelganger based in another city. I actually had a few get upset with me for denying at being Patty! They're stunned when I show my I.D. and point at my name wings. I hope to actually work a flight with this mysterious twin that I have.😊 ...with over 20,000 flight crew, with so many diverse flying schedules, it doesn't seem likely.

[@1337flite]

It shouldn't be that hard to find her through you have a name to start with and it sounds she works in the same role as you - cabin crew. I bet there are not that many female cabin crew in your company and region called "Patty". If you really want to meet her you could just put up posters in crew only areas with your head and shoulders picture (in uniform) and an email address saying "Patty - please email me". If you follow my suggestion, or part of it, and are successful can you please let me know via a comment? I'd like to know if my guesses/theory is correct.

[@richardandreao1332]

I had a man in college get angry at me because he insisted I was at a party the night before and was just giving him the cold shoulder. I had to show him my student I.D. before he apologized.

[@jeffguarino2097]

Do an image search. Yandex is the best image search engine I find.

[@kathyragland5724]

I ran into my twin in a bar, she was bartending , my husband was amazed, as was I . This was in Boise, ID USA . She was unforgettable 50 years ago. Should have got her particulars, but didn’t .

[@BeezleSpiritCommunicator]

John and Nei looked like each other and also had the same life experience which blew me away .

[@nankadutoit1635]

Very interesting, John and Neil was my choice also, they even have the same good sense of humour. I enjoyed watching this study thx

[@BeeHappySunshine]

Same, 😂 I was thinking, if they aren't named the winner I'm going to be disappointed.

[@OAlem]

Mine too. The most convincing part was their younger photos. One could argue "They're just 2 old guys with the same glasses and white beards" but they've always looked similar, apparently. They only showed 2 photos briefly. I'd be curious to see more old pictures of them.

[@gmaureen]

My parents were already deceased when I got into genealogy. Turns out my parents were 8th cousins. I was able to track this down primarily due to a marriage in VA in 1691, parish records, where the brides surname was really uncommon. For whatever reason, her surname was handed down generation after generation as a middle name. No doppelgangers that I know of but it makes me wonder about the number of kinships that are unknown?

[@moirahill6397]

I've often wondered this too since my sister married a man with the same surname as her and they look like brother and sister! (She loved that she didn't have to change her name).

[@MonkeyMind69]

The human population on earth around 2,000 BC is estimated to be around 23 million. The earth's population is now over 8 billion. Mathematically speaking, the fact is you're more likely to share ancestry (kinship) with people you see day to day, than not. Alternatively, if you subscribe to the theology of Adam and Eve, we're all related, and if you subscribe to Darwinism, not only are we all related, but we're also related to all mammals (and possibly other forms of life) from somewhere far back in time.

[@sundayze]

My ex-husband and I have 4 daughters and it turns out we are very distant cousins (10th), but our girls all look very similar. The two in the middle were always thought to be twins by those who didn't know them well and they were mistaken often by their friends. My ex has just a bit of native American ancestry, but otherwise we are quite similar in being primarily NW European (mostly British Isles).

[@KevinWarburton-tv2iy]

I found out after the fact that my High School Girlfriend was my 5th Cousin LOL

[@UniquelyGeeky]

Actually, almost everyone you know whose ancestors are from the UK are your cousins. Your teachers in school, your boss, your next-door neighbor.... they're likely your cousins. Might be only 4th or might be 12th... but definitely cousins. Most people don't know this.

[@jamasp1951]

Love how some of them interact... Fascinating study!! I have twin Aunts, Twin grandchildren, and my cousins daughter has twins.. only my Aunts are considered identical... so I find this sort of thing very interesting..

[@cocojo2356]

40 years ago we went to Tunisia as part of a Company trip. The entertainment group at the hotel we stayed at had not only my doppelgänger, but also my ex's doppelgänger , which was a wee bitty awkward as I was there with my 2nd husband, lol.

[@hd-xc2lz]

Did your second husband recognize the similarities between your ex and his Tunisian doppelgänger?

[@cocojo2356]

@@hd-xc2lz He sure did and passed comment on it. What made it worse was that the woman kept looking at me (and I her, of course) and when I looked at the man, he gave me a big smile, 2nd hubby not impressed but also puzzled, like myself.

[@KevinWarburton-tv2iy]

Glitch in the Matrix :)

[@justgrowthehellup6598]

I found my doppelganger in a photo taken in 1920s Dublin! I have family who hail from Dublin, so I suppose she could be a relative from the past. I was looking at random photos on YT of historic Irish photos and her face 'jumped' out at me. I could not stop looking at her. It really was as though I was looking in a mirror. I screen shotted it for future perusing.

[@tarawiseman8785]

The number of times in my life that people think they know me when they dont is endless. I wonder if i have a doppelganger or more than one that lives relatively near me!

[@lauriemashek5419]

If that happened to me I’d be checking to see if my bio dad was donor DNA for IVF. It’s so nice they can help but how many have they helped.

[@daughterofpb]

Same! Minnesota

[@KinderKim-b3x]

I had a math teacher in junior high school who insisted that I looked like his daughter. When we finally met, we could see similarities, but not to the degree my teacher believed. It was a tad disconcerting.

[@Gizathecat2]

I remember when facial mapping type software came out for “entertainment purposes”. According to family stories my mom and actress Katherine Hepburn were fourth or fifth cousins. I ran headshots of both women through app. They matched in the upper seventy percent range! I found a photo of Hepburn’s grandfather and several of my mom’s great grandfather. I don’t recall the numbers, but Hepburn’s grandfather and my mom’s great grandfather were in the 90% range. I ran the other pics of my mom’s great grandfather and they still matched very high when compared with Hepburn’s grandfather.

[@DeborahE7]

Do you happen to have the name of the facial mapping software app? I have a lost brother (half brother) and my father's extended family claims it is someone specific but it's hard to believe as he was supposedly adopted into a wealthy and famous family. I'd like to run facial mapping software for this.

[@penthesilya]

I met my male doppelganger :) In our early 20ies we both worked in the same mall. And ppl always asked me about my brother and asked him about his sister. So of course both of us had to find each other. We were like twins but different gender. He was a bit older. We became friends. But then both changed work place and he married and we lost contact. We were also similar in habits but different in interests, that's why we didn't stay friends, too different there. But even my mom was: " Did I have another kid I forgot about?"

[@KayKay14m]

I feel bad for Ambrosia. It seems like she desperately wants a twin sister on some level and is completely blinded to the fact that she really isn't a match to Fiorella at all (but Fiorella is very aware of that fact and is trying not to hurt her)

[@Rocketjay12]

That's exactly what I thought and especially when Ambrosia said "we're even not that different in height!" at the same time Fiorella said "but a big difference in height", when she is probably 6 inches taller than Ambrosia.

[@emuemu]

Interesting. I got the impression Fiorella didn't like Ambrosia and was annoyed with her and the process the whole time. She was very bubbly before they met and then got a little grumpy and rude.

[@arottie4097]

@@emuemu Yup.

[@texacostar9543]

I wish the subjects had their face pictures reversed and reprinted so they saw the image that they each saw when they looked in the mirror, They can still observe the images more correctly if they hold their original pics facing the mirror up beside their head. It is always fun to hold 2 family members pics upside down and see the resemblance quickly. I enjoyed this video very much.

[@rebeccacollins1218]

I would've liked to know if more of them were actually related, especially with their ancestry if John and Neil were related. It's cool that Kobe and his look-alike are about 4th cousins -- how great to find family!

[@GirlOfTheTardis]

I would assume the others maybe weren't related as they would have said but I think they should have made it clear in the video

[@MCamaiani]

Yes, I kept watching until the end because they mentioned they took DNA tests for all of them.... but then didn't reveal all the results. :/

[@wendyannh]

John and Kobe are probably more distantly related than 4th cousins. I have no idea why it works this way, but we Jews have such a high degree of endogamy that it tends to skew the estimated relationship in favor of showing closer relationships than actually exist genealogically.

[@alphadog3384]

I love things like this, natures miracles.

[@spynles7947]

Why it has to be an actual contest is beyond me.

[@geronimo5537]

television rating

[@LibertyRapsher]

You two are basically aholes, you look nothing alike, may god have mercy on your souls

[@DownhillAllTheWay]

Damn! They all took a DNA test, and I was waiting to see if they had found any correlation between the DNA and the actual features - that something in the DNA caused a certain feature. Identical twins are identical because their identical DNAs have driven their physical development, so I was hoping to see if there was any valuable scientific discovery made here, but they didn't talk about the DNA mechanism - how DNA forms physical features. One pair was found to be weakly related, and others originated from similar areas of the world, but I really wanted more on the DNA side of the discussion.

[@pieohmy45]

Thanks for saving me 40mins

[@preacherjohn]

Yeah, wish I'd read your comment before spending time watching this video!

[@bun04y]

I was expecting some family surprises, but perhaps that was already weeded out in the dopple ganger selection. I had to look up King George & Tsar Nicholas to see that they were first cousins.

[@Figgatella]

It was still interesting. Two of them were distantly related.

[@susanlovesjava4961]

I don't think the mechanisms that determine looks has been completely identified.

[@kkossor]

With Sperm Donation for IVF, I wonder how many really are related?

[@julesmbc]

Good point, except that the DNA banks would match them...

[@bridgwll]

When a potential relationship comes up you will have to do a DNA test first. Back before DNA there was a case in Australia a couple were engaged to be married, she wanted to find her biological mother. Yes, her mother was his mother.

[@rosemaryconstable5620]

And donated sperm, recently, through DNA testing, 5 random people found out they were half siblings, in all cases the father was a donor

[@jemmajames6719]

@@bridgwllThere’s lots of these cases and it’s getting worse because people have babies outside marriage/ a long term relationship or marriage breakdowns. An American couple who grew up states away from each other both moved for a job in another state they met married and had children only to find about ten years in that they are full siblings last I heard they had decided to stay married.

[@bridgwll]

@@jemmajames6719 oh the poor family. I can understand staying married. They just probably live as brother and sister now in the house. The children don’t need the upset of a divorce etc.

[@farvista]

Had a friend who was adopting. She and her husband were instructed to come to the lawyer's one hour after the birth parents. When they got there, the lawyer looked up and said "What are you doing back here?! The adoptive parents are comi.....uh...OH! You look SO much like the birth mother! The daughter that they adopted looks just like her, and you'd never think that she wasn't genetically hers.

[@TheBaumcm]

My cousin adopted two different boys from two different sets of parents, who both look like him. They have to convince people they are both adopted and not pulling a prank, meanwhile I am adopted from India and have to convince people I didn’t marry in😂. We find it absolutely hilarious.

[@JenShea]

I'm adopted... and I always looked like my Mum. Even now, at 61, I look like she did. I remember I was about 16-17 and I stopped at my Mum's office on my way home from high school - I think I was meeting her to do something after work... but her secretary said "oh, you have to be Mary's daughter... you are the spitting image of her. Funny enough, Mum was a blonde and I always had darkish brown hair... Now that I'm grey, I do favour how she looked when she got older. Both the same height, both curvy too... but I have long legs - short torso, she had short legs and longer torso. She had green eyes, mine are aqua-coloured. Both slim noses, but not really the same... both with cheekbones. Mum looked like she could have been Meryl Streeps older sister. I do not.

[@farvista]

@@JenShea You, like my friend's daughter, were sent where you needed to be by an alternate route.

[@raymondkymsuttle]

What’s weirdest is that they’re similar ages too!

[@MsHojat]

That's not really a coincidence, since it's generally required to look similar.

[@brennatheelvenqueen5576]

yeah, i wonder how many "twins" we have add down through the ages?!

[@NigelTolley]

Yeah, it's a self-selecting set.

[@GrammaJo360]

Did you see the one about the little boy who met his look alike at school? Parents tested their DNA and they were actually identical twins. They were separated at birth and adopted.

[@manilkasheran2934]

31:35 No doppelgangers can be found! But what's bizarre is how similar their lives are lol!

[@MacBailey]

Not always a good thing. Many years ago I was talking to my mom on the phone and we both happened to have the same local news station on. A story came on of a man who had confessed to killing and dumping a woman's body in a lake within a few miles of where I lived. They showed the man being booked into jail and I told my mom to look at the tv. Mom also said the guy looked basically just like me. Really, I would have picked me out of a line up looking like this guy. Glad his conscience got to him and he confessed to the crime and they were able to recover the body where he said.

[@MarkovianMan]

I sure feel sorry for my identical twin strangers. 🤣

[@flonoiisana4647]

🤣😂😂

[@SteveSingsThings]

St. Thomas’ Hospital where the study takes place is oddly appropriate since the name Thomas literally means twin. Was this a coincidence?

[@daughterofpb]

😮😅😂

[@johnellison3030]

I wonder what it feels like emotionally to meet your doppelganger. That must be a very strange, happy, and enlightening thing to experience. Especially seeing at yourself for the first time in real life when you are not an identical twin.

[@MelissaThompson432]

I've always appreciated Neil and John....

[@FanOblues51]

Throw Pete Townshend in with Neil & John and you would have doppelganger triplets ...

[@firouz4296]

I wish I had that much time to look for my twin steanger! I barely have time to look at myself in the mirror sometimes.

[@josiecamilo7098]

So true

[@russellstarr9111]

Forty some years ago I was told I had a doppelganger living in the same town of 20,000. I now live sixty miles east of there in a town of 14,000 and several times people have spoken to me lately, saying "Hi, Steven". My name is not Steven.

[@rappmasterdugg6825]

Thank you Steven.

[@rebeccad.6248]

I love the playfulness of the Brits!! This was a delight!!

[@TinyDancerO]

Some have similar features, others are clearly different. Visually, I think John and Neal look the most alike.

[@NebulaBull]

This was a Channel4 documentary called finding my twin 3 years ago it's a great documentary

[@noonespecial4171]

Yes, and people think it's this week they are so 🤣

[@nicolem889]

Lmao I knew I had already saw it but the date was recent

[@JebidiahKrackedyetagain-xv9hc]

I actually ran into one "doppleganger" in a Psychiatric Emergency Hospital (a.k.a. "Loony bin")...In fact we were assigned the same room, and it was HIM that pointed out to ME that "we look alike"...He was right...We DID look alike!! NOT the best place to run into one's "doppelganger"....He left or was transferred, and a more "demonic" looking character became my roomate...Much to my "relief"?? 😳

[@hopejoses1686]

😂😂😂

[@victoriao1828]

This is so interesting.

[@Christy.1]

Most of them look like they could be related, brothers/sisters/cousins. But really the only ones that I think could actually pass for twins would be John and Neil, and the guys in blue. Those 4 look strikingly similar. The others you can easily see slight differences in face shapes, noses, and such. I think the people's opinions would be more easily influenced by the "twins" wearing the same hairstyle, glasses, make up, etc. So I don't find their input very helpful.

[@MCRice-el7os]

As an adoptee I have asked every potential boyfriend where he came from and did either parent have a child they gave up for adoption - no matter what the boys color was

[@carrieannmcleod5219]

This was so interesting. I was surprised there was only one set of "twins" who were distantly related. I look forward to future episodes.

[@pelol1074]

I wonder what their parents look like

[@fidenemini111]

The other weird thing to me is that the tone of voices of these pairs was also very similar.

[@Rocketjay12]

I've had this happen a few times and usually didn't see any resemblance to the person I was told I "looked just like!". On one occassion though, I was stopped in my car at an intersection with a few friends as my passengers. They were talking while I was watching the pedestrians cross, when almost at the same time, my friends yelled "hey, look at that guy! He looks just like you!" and the guys crossing the street were pointing at the car while they shook one of their friends that DID look like me as they appeared to be saying"hey,look at that guy! He looks just like you!". Even I thought he did, and I could tell he thought so too.

[@jmodified]

My wife once showed me a picture of myself as a teenager standing in front of a van with my friends, apparently on a road trip. Then I looked at the friends and said "Wait, I don't know any of these people. When was this?" It was a picture of a young Edward Norton from a magazine article. I'm one month older than him, and we've aged about the same, grayed about the same, and still look a lot alike when smiling (and like him, I naturally smile with a closed or almost-closed mouth). When not smiling, it's not that close a resemblance though.

[@MySardarji]

I Love Niel and John's humour.

[@charlynwalden9205]

I'm just wondering what site should I go to if I want to find my look alike?

[@jerry12314]

There are several sites. Just search for "find my twin".

[@LibertyRapsher]

What brought this into fruition is face recognition software. It's software that's able to scan through thousands to millions of images really quick and provides similar results/appearances (and with things like Facebook etc, there are a lot of photos out there). There's several sources online. I just looked up one that's called PimEyes. You could upload a photo of yourself or someone else (you obviously get better results when you try a variety of photos of the given person). It doesn't permanently upload a photo. It just runs it through a data base and gives you several people who are partial matches in some way. Sometimes it could just be a hairstyle that the software picks up on. But it does a good job.

[@williamburdon6993]

I used to play pool , I think I played in about 20 states, One day I was playing and a guy I had seen a few times at pool tournaments and rooms and knew slightly , came up to me and said , congratulations on the tournament win, I said which one , he said New Mexico I think , the problem was I never played in New Mexico. Then he said yeah I have a picture I took of you. Then he shows me the picture on his phone , it is me! Only it isn't . It is a guy who looks just like me and also plays pool. The only way I knew it wasn't me was because he had a watch on . I never wear a watch. lol I still haven't met him , but I hope to.

[@coolbreeze5683]

It's wild how some of them even have the same styles. It's one thing just to look alike with similar features but it's another thing to have the same style of facial hair, same hairstyles, same fashion sense, same fake tan 😂

[@davidponseigo8811]

I am adopted and know absolutely nothing about my biological parents and a few times I met people who look like me and I wonder if we are related, once my wife and sons met a man while we were on vacation and they thought it was me until I came out of the restroom. The guy and me just stared at each other, turns out he was born two years after me in the same town I was born and he was adopted also. This was before easy DNA test and I didn't get his information. Honestly I really didn't want to know but it's very likely I have half siblings out there somewhere. My sister who was also adopted but from different biological parents died eight years ago at only 42 years old so now I'm thinking of doing a DNA test and see if anyone is in the database who may be related.

[@TracyW1965]

I wish they had added super-recognizers to the experiment to see how accurate they were versus the computer models. I'm a super-matcher and to me, most of these pairs look like they could be related, certainly siblings, but not identical twins.

[@vanillablossom]

Agree, I don't consider myself super matcher or anything, but to me most of them looked like they wanted to be perceived as identical way more than they actually were.

[@love2sing20101]

The two older men in the yellow shirts laugh the same way.

[@intothecryptoverse4347]

It's not a big surprise that there are people with very similar facial features in a world with 7 billion people but what I find fascinating is that these doppelgangers have such similar personalities as well... same jobs, same sense of humour, same mannerisms... even sexual preference. Is there a connection between how we look and how we behave?

[@lauriebriggs9705]

Two stand up comic doppelgängers? Wild.

[@hils1015]

I started secondary school about two weeks late and when I arrived, so many students whom I obviously didn't even know kept calling me Kelechi and I was always confused because who even was that. That's not my name and when I told them I didn't know who Kelechi was they would tell me that I looked and acted exactly like her. Unfortunately, she had just left the school a few days before I arrived so I never got to meet this girl who supposedly looks exactly like me.

[@jennynott3841]

I wonder if they are still in touch with each other

[@orlabuckley9641]

Yep I said it all along John and Neil definitely but surprised the blonde girls didn't win any category

[@Queenread82]

I love this! It feels really happy! I don’t think they look like identical twins but they definitely look like fraternal twins or cousins.

[@bigbadmojothebulldog]

I want a doppelgänger! But only if she’s good and not evil. Dont want anyone looking like me and committing crimes and stuff! 😂

[@hannahmitchell87]

Many moons ago, an older lady approached my Dad on the street, slapped him & shouted, "Why aren't you in court!?" She was the mother of his lookalike

[@sarahakin]

Maybe you're the evil one.

[@arottie4097]

@@sarahakin ???

[@sarahakin]

@@arottie4097 Joking.

[@cynthias311]

Was a case where guy was arrested, SA. Had DNA so it was sealed fate. Was in prison several years. Turned out, he had a twin he did not know about. Usually they do not separate twins in adoption. But yeah, was the unknown twin that did it.

[@nineveha]

This is hilarious, my father messaged me a few years ago asking me what I was doing in Italy as he had seen me in a video of a tour of Rome. I remember watching the clip of this girl with the same haircut similar facial features and clothes as me walking around and thinking yeah I can see how he thought that it was me. We had a chuckle but I like to think about the fact that out in the world there is a version of me running around looking fab in Italy. I would have expected a doppelganger to be closer to home though as it would be weird for a European to look like a Polynesian.

[@christinadm9277]

She may not be European if she was in a tour group🤷‍♀️ On the other hand, people from the Mediterranean regions have olive skin, so definitely can give off a Polynesian look.

[@k.k.2157]

Not everyone you see walking around Europe is a local or has local ancestors. Some are of mixed heritage while others may be second, third generation Europeans with a totally different ethnic background. Additionally, there are people who have migrated from countries outside of Europe and have chosen to settle in Europe as adults, or they could be tourists or mere digital nomads living in the country just temporarily.

[@andykaufman7620]

None of them really are near-perfect matches but the best ones are the two guys in blue T-shirts and the bottom two guys in red T-shirts. Yet, I have seen closer matches before, and sometimes, when there is a good match, those people work as 'doubles' for celebrities in their movies and the audience can't tell the difference.

[@corvettesbme]

What a cool documentary!

[@RaeCarson]

What struck me was the jaw dropping similarities between each pair's vocal intonation, pitch, and their speech patterns and cadence. I'd be excited to hang out with each pair and observe if they like to use similar syntax and slang.

[@jenniferknowles2023]

I was on that find your twin app and everyone they paired me with looked nothing like me.

[@zchettaz]

I've lost count of how many times ive been told i "look familiar" or i "look like someone" without anyone a actually knowing who is it i look like. I very frequently notice people looking and staring at me when in public as well, which used to make me a bit paranoid (maybe self-conscious is a better way to describe it.. idk) when i first started being aware of it, but then alot of people id meet started telling me how familiar i looked. So now i just assume people are trying to figure out who i look like when they look at me lol

[@Londonb5698]

John and Neil even have similar walk and build

[@anhpam9205]

What a fantastic video! So very interesting and entertaining and important. I fully believe we all have a double and I have even seen people who I think look like myself or others.What an intriguing topic to study and work on. Thanks to all of you.

[@learningtoride1840]

What a fun documentary

[@deb7518]

I wonder what would be the result if two men who looked alike were to marry two women who looked alike and both couples had children. It would be interesting to see how similar or not their children were.

[@djf8619]

There was a couple that I knew who was like that. A bother and a sister, married the brother and sister from the second family. The kids all looked like they were siblings. You could not tell which came from which family, if you didn't already know.

[@susannekaufmann7368]

Great documentary! Fun fact: I am from Germany. When the professor first came into sight, I thought: "Wow, he looks like that football player ..." (I didn't remember the name but knew that it was a British guy.) Then, he said something like: "People say I look a bit like Gary Lineker." 🙂

[@signaldrift2274]

the two gents who both have a son that plays the didgeridoo !!!

[@cherylbrooks7005]

Really interesting

[@DeKKH]

This is very cool show!! So interesting. Now I want to find my doppelgänger😊

[@ecilaeniarol9863]

When I see stories like this, the people never look much alike to me. I can't understand how others think they do. I think i must be "programmed" to focus on all the differences overriding any similarities that are there.

[@tanyadrake5674]

Yeah I worked in the service industry and waiting on some people who swore I was the same person that waited on them and another Washington state

[@jjo5375]

I've run into two people, one each gender, who looked exactly like people I knew, but who were not. One was a nephew I saw frequently but who didn't know 'meee.' The other was in a foreign country from mine, that I went thru school with, but it wasn't that person, either. Very interesting, yet very strange! Very POSSIBLE, folks....just know it IS a thing! : )

[@alibi247]

I haven’t watched all of this because it doesn’t particularly interest me. As to why that is, is because I have always been able to tell actual identical twins apart. Even identical there are differences. I find it interesting that I’m able to tell yet others don’t seem to see these differences. Looking at a fair few of these people on here who are “doppelgängers” I wouldn’t class them as looking like twins, yes there are similarities but similarities of looking like siblings ie looking like brothers or sisters. The only interesting take about all this is that there are people out there who look like they are relatives but for the most part aren’t. When you think about ancestry we all came from the same exact gene pool.

[@james.telfer]

Anyone can tell identical twins apart once you spend a bit of time with them. Can you do it from a few pictures?

[@poodlegirl55]

For decades people have been asking me "has anyone ever mentioned you look like Meryl Streep?" Yes they have, about a million times. Sure would like to meet her!

[@mellie5899]

In my younger days I was working at the fragrance counter of a department store. Every day multiple people would come up to my counter to say, "Sarah, you're back! How's the baby?" I had to explain to all of them that I wasn't Sarah. I'd never met Sarah since she went on maternity leave before I was hired. One day I glanced in one of the mirrors on the showroom floor and reached up to adjust my hair and felt shocked when my reflection didn't also reach up to adjust my hair. It took me a minute to figure out I wasn't looking in a mirror. I was looking at Sarah who had returned to work and happened to be wearing a blue dress almost exactly like the one I was wearing.

[@bartduynstee1577]

what surprises me about this test, is how many of the contestants are from the british isles. so one is english and they found the 2nd one somewhere else. they should have taken random images from throughout the world and run a computerprogram on it. and then invite those people. you might have found many more very close calls

[@geronimo5537]

What I have found is well all share similar facial features from genetics. The more you look the more everyone has similar features of that from others of their genetic background. Which is mostly seen in select regions. But can be more distinguished when you go to larger regions or metropolitans where crowds mix. Mix in a few hundred years of genetics mixing and next thing we know people are sharing their most dominant traits quite commonly. At this rate of genetic mixture from population mixing that I could see us all sharing very common features in the next thousand years. Where as a thousands year prior to now. We were all very isolated from one another. Making the last couple hundred years unique in our timeline. Where industrialization and travel have allowed us to far more easily access other areas more easily and commonly. These twin strangers are the first true inkling of such becoming more of the norm as time passes.

[@HughMadBro]

I remember watching this years ago.. when was this filmed???

[@moirahill6397]

Channel 4, 2020 I think

[@htgar8201]

Second time I've watched this. Loved it!

[@KikiJ1112]

same

[@janayejohnson9300]

Where can you watch more of this ?

[@danipianoarts]

Very interesting documentary:)

[@donolinger6904]

My identical twin in my hometown is not my brother. I almost got thrown into jail because of him. My sister has met him and says he looks exactly like me.

[@kf10126]

I was in the breech position and delivered in that position as well which has caused some major asymmetry in my face. I would be amazed to find someone that looks identical to me.