There have been many encounters with doppelgangers throughout history. All of these stories are about famous people of our past and present, which I think is really cool because they have encountered a supernatural phenomenon. Here are some of the stories.
President Abraham Lincoln reported that on several occasion he would see himself(but much paler, almost ghostly looking) standing in the mirror from across the room while he was laying in bed. His wife also would witness the same encounter with her husband's double. She believed it meant that Lincoln would be elected a second term in office, but would not live to the end of his term (crystalinks.com). Woah, now that's creepy, and his wife was right.
"Richard Rossi, the maverick minister and Hollywood filmmaker, allegedly told police a man who resembled him attacked his wife. According to the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, he allegedly speculated the mysterious incident was a Satanic counterattack because of his work as an exorcist. Rossi stood trial for the assault, resulting in a hung jury, partially because both Rossi's wife and an eyewitness named John Fair confirmed the story," (crystalinks.com).
Queen Elizabeth I of England told several of her colleagues that she had encountered her double when she was up in her room and she saw a ghostly white figure of herself laid out on her bed. She has died several weeks later (Wagner).
"John Donne, the 16th century English poet whose work often touched on the metaphysical, was visited by a doppelganger while he was in Paris - not his, but his wife's. She appeared to him holding a newborn baby. Donne's wife was pregnant at the time, but the apparition was a portent of great sadness. At the same moment that the doppelganger appeared, his wife had given birth to a stillborn child," (Wagner).
Past President George W. Bush is said to be the doppelganger of his own father earlier president George Bush. George W. Bush was often question about his fascination with capital punishment, and that was the "bad omen" that fell on his late father ( oocities.org). Well I kind of think this story is a bunch of bologna, but I thought it would be entertaining to share with you.
I wanted to share this video, because I just thought it was really creepy.
"Doppelganger". Oocities.org. Web. 29 October 2011. <http://www.oocities.org/theunx/doppelgangers.html>
Wagner, Stephen. "True Stories of Doppelgangers". About.com. Web. 29 October 2011. <http://paranormal.about.com/od/Doppelgangers/a/doppelgangers.htm>
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