General Mysteries

My doppelganger story

November 12, 2016 |  0 comments
Image Credit: CC BY-SA 3.0 Laitr Keiows This is something that happened to be over 40 years ago, and to this day I've been mystified by it. It happened sometime during either my junior or senior year at high school. My best friend, L, and I rode the same bus. One day during the course of the school day, she told me that she wasn't feeling well and her mom was coming to pick her up so she wasn't going home on the bus (I guess she didn't want me to wonder where she was and worry about her.)

After school, I was waiting for the bus, and I happened to glance over to the other side of the parking lot and I saw someone who I was positive was L, talking to some boys I'd never seen before (we went an all-girls school by the way). I was sure it was her and not just someone who happened to look like her because this girl was not only a dead ringer for L, she had the same color, length, and style of hair, was wearing the same glasses, and was wearing the same coat she'd been wearing when we rode the bus to school in the morning.

I was shocked to see her, and since I didn't know these guys or where they'd come from, I didn't want to go over and ask why she was there when she'd said she was going home sick. And I thought it was highly unusual because (1) L was NOT the type of kid to skip school, and (2) Why would someone skip school and then come and hang out 50 feet from the school building? Anyway, I came home from school, and later that evening I decided to go to the school dance by myself even though L and I were going to go together. My parents dropped me off, and as I was going up the steps into the school, I saw L's lookalike up ahead of me! I was unable to get through the big crowd of kids to go up and talk to her, so once I was in the auditorium I looked around for her, but she was nowhere to be found.

The next day was Saturday and L called me and asked me over (I guess she was feeling better). When I got to her house, I naturally told her what had happened the day before and asked her if she'd really gone home sick. She said of course she had, and her mom vouched for her having been home. And I certainly had no reason to disbelieve her MOM!

I have been mystified by this ever since it happened. Years after this I'd heard about 'doppelgangers' and came to the conclusion that this had to be what I'd seen. I don't know what in the world the explanation could be; I've heard that if you see someone's doppelganger it means the person will die soon.

As a matter of fact L did end up being killed in a car accident, but that happened 40 YEARS LATER!

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