Sinister Encounters with Evil Doppelgängers

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The idea of a duplicitous, supernatural twin version of ourselves has been around for a long time, and far from just scary stories there have been many accounts of people actually encountering alternate versions of themselves who seem to be less than benign.

Although not always malicious, such doubles are nevertheless very often described as being a bad omen or portent of misfortune and death, and it is in many traditions typically not a good sign if you see your own doppelgänger.

They are generally described as at least being very naughty or mischievous, if not downright ominous or even evil, often luring the host to danger, trying to trick them or get the into some form of trouble, or just basically freaking them out.

One such account concerns an apparent doppelgänger of a girl attempting to lure a young woman to her death. The witness tells of how she and her family had been out on one day in 2015 hunting for seashells out on a beach when her 4-year-old daughter said she wanted to continue even though the weather was starting to look like a storm was brewing.

The woman’s older daughters had gone off to have lunch at a nearby cottage, and soon after the 4-year-old also went off to join them. The woman made sure her youngest daughter had caught up to them and then went back to seashell hunting. She says she walked for a further 20 minutes before the waves started to get more treacherous and the weather stormier and she started to make her way back.

At this point the woman explains that she had a sudden feeling of inexplicable dread, and then looked out to see the very same 4-year-old daughter she had just sent on her way out in the rough seas struggling for her life.

She would say of what happened next thus:

I have never seen such a rough sea and so I turned back with a feeling of unexplained dread. I couldn’t shake it. I looked out into the ocean and I could have sworn I saw my 4-year-old drowning in the waves. I knew with absolute certainty that she was safe back in the cottage with her father and siblings, but yet there she was drowning in the rough seas.

I started wading into the water to try to help her. I was in a total state of panic. I was crying and absolutely hysterical. I knew that if I went in the water I would drown. But there I was going, even though I knew that it wasn’t really my baby out there. I felt like something wanted me to go into the water so I would die. I had to fight the instinct to help her. Keep in mind that the thing in the water was the spitting image of her.

I took off running to the cottage, crying the entire time. My young daughter greeted me at the door. I was never in my life so happy to see her. To this day I am convinced that the thing in the water was her doppelgänger trying to lure me to my own death. I know they say that you only can see your own double, but I wonder. I hope I never have this happen again. I hope this never happens to anyone who is reading this—the desire to go into the water was stronger than any force I have ever known.

Some stories of creepy doppelgängers read more like a ghost story of some sort. One individual wrote of a bizarre and harrowing experience with what appears to have been some sort of evil version of her grandmother.

The witness says that this happened when she was around 15 years old, and at the time she had a grandmother who was always in her room cleaning up. One day the witness came home to find the grandmother simply sitting there staring at the closet without moving.

The witness would say of what happened next:

She wasn’t moving at all. It was like she was suspended in the middle of cleaning the closet. I asked her if she was okay but she totally ignored me. My eighty-five-year-old grandmother just continued to stare into the closet.

Suddenly, she turned her head slowly toward me and gave me the coldest of stares. She had the evilest eyes I had ever seen! A chill ran up and down my spine. Those were not my grandma’s eyes, I thought. Then she looked away from me and walked into my closet closing the door behind her.
But when I went to my closet she wasn’t there. She had literally disappeared into thin air.

Completely gone! I froze for a few seconds! Then I yelled for her and heard her say, “I’m down here in the kitchen! Dinner’s almost ready.” I ran to the kitchen to find her standing there cooking away! Then I asked her if she was here the whole time! “Of course I was, dear. Dinner’s not going to make itself,” she laughed. I mean, she had no idea what had gone on upstairs.

What did I find in my bedroom that day? I still have no idea.

The paranormal author Victoria Branden described being nearly run down by her evil spiritual twin. She claims that she had been driving one day and turned a corner to have a truck come careening towards her on the wrong side of the road.

As Branden veered out of the way she noticed that the driver was a double of herself and that she had an “evil smile” on her face, and throughout the whole episode she reported experiencing a thick malevolence and negativity emanating from the double, as well as an “eerie sense of quiet and suspension of normal thought,” which did not abate until it had sped off.

Sinister Encounters with Evil Doppelgängers