'One of the most common apparitions in the world of the supernatural is the doppelganger, which is a phantom ‘twin’ that sometimes haunts its flesh-and-blood counterpart. A person’s doppelganger is said to appear when he or she is sick or near death, but this isn’t always the case.
In May 1995 a Liverpool man named Terry saw his own exact double three times, and on each occasion he was terrified by the experience. When he saw it the first time he was on a bus up in Walton Road. He glanced out the window and saw his spitting image - dressed in the very same clothes he was wearing himself that day - coming out of a newsagents. Terry often visited that particular shop and was really shaken by the sighting On the second occasion, Terry walked into his barbers and took a seat. The barber turned around and said to Terry, "You're hair grows fast Tel."
Terry just grinned, but didn't realise what the barber meant. When the barber had finished with his customer, he walked over to Terry, eyed his hair with a puzzled look, and muttered, "You were only in here last week."
"I wasn't." Terry replied, thinking the hairdresser was confusing him with someone else.
"You were. You were depressed." the barber insisted.
"I never set foot in here - " Terry was saying, when he remembered the doppelganger incident on the bus. He told the barber, who turned white.
Terry told his neighbour about the double, and she wrote a letter for him and addressed it to me. I found Terry to be very sincere, and he asked me not to disclose his identity in a book I was writing on the paranormal. I told a psychical researcher in Hunts Cross who had an interest in doppelgangers about the case and he looked into it. He became like another shadow, tailing Terry everywhere he went - and he saw the doppelganger too, strolling down Barlow Lane one Sunday morning. The lane was deadly quiet, and the researcher cried out to Terry, "There it is! It's coming this way." And it was. It was walking towards the two men, glancing down at the ground, apparently in a sombre mood. Terry turned and was about to flee, as nerves got the better of him, but the researcher seized him by the shoulders and turned him so that he faced his sinister mirror image. When the doppelganger was around fifty feet away, it suddenly noticed it's original counterpart. The figure turned and ran, and the researcher ran after it. The doppelganger turned the corner into Westminster Road and when the researcher turned that same corner seconds later, the double had mysteriously vanished. It was seen on one more occasion walking amongst the milling crowds in Church Street near the entrance to the C&A clothes store, when Terry was in town shopping with his girlfriend. He pointed the double out to his girlfriend, and she was astounded to see that all of Terry's accounts of his encounters with his doppelganger were true after all, but she believed there was a rational explanation; she speculated that Terry's mum had given birth to twins, who were separated for some reason. The doppelganger walked up the street and turned a corner with Terry and his girlfriend in hot pursuit. They lost sight of it in the crowds near the Bluecoat Chambers. Since that day, Terry has never set eyes on his second self, but a fortnight after the grand finale, there was one last calling card from his alter ego. Terry went up to Anfield Cemetery to place a bouquet of roses on his mother's grave, but was perplexed to see that someone had already placed a similar bouquet there already. The note attached to the floral tribute read: 'Still miss you loads Mum. Love, Terry xxx.'
So what exactly are Dopplegangers?
Are they our etheric doubles? Can they break away and lead lives of their own?
Maybe it was my Doppleganger that got drunk and fell over and flashed at a Police car......?
Maybe not
Hammy x x x
), the idea that the doppelganger was aware of him, and that maybe they were somehow connected from birth....spooky. 
