14-Doppelgangers: Do not Go Gentle into that Good Night

Myths and Legends

Jason Weiser, Carissa Weiser

Fiction, History, Arts, Books

4.8 • 25.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2015

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

People throughout history, before they died, have seen something...strange. They have seen ghostly doubles haunting their steps, foretelling their doom. These things are called doppelgängers, and while they mean something different now - basically someone that looks like you - their folklore origins are something far more ominous and sinister. This episode is about the shadowy creatures of ill omen that follow us all, and the famous historical figures that have seen theirs before they met their end.
The creature of the week is an extended, creepy story of a creature from Japanese folklore, and a solitary priest that became lost in the mountains.
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0:00.0	This week on the Myths and Legends podcast, it's a Halloween episode, and at the end of the show,
0:05.0	I'll tell an extended ghost story of sorts about this week's creature. Before that, though,
0:09.9	I'll be talking about the strange, semi-historical phenomenon of doppelgangers, ghostly devils of
0:16.0	Il-Omen that will either signal your impending doom, or be really mad at you for staying in bed-drinking
0:21.8	beer instead of going to work.
0:23.4	This is the Myths and Legends podcast, Episode 14. Do not go gentle into that good night.
0:40.0	This is a podcast where I tell stories that are shaped cultures throughout history.
0:44.2	Some are incredibly popular stories you think you know, but with surprising origins.
0:48.2	Others are stories you probably haven't heard, but really should. Today we're taking a short break
0:54.0	from the saga of Ragnar Lothbrook to do a Halloween episode. I thought about telling ghost stories,
0:59.7	but I'm personally not a fan of a lot of the sadistic or overly bloody horror, and when it comes
1:04.5	to Myths and Legends, it can be tough to find the stories that are both creepy and where you don't
1:08.6	see the conclusion coming from miles off. That's why I like the boy who drew cat so much if you
1:13.5	episodes back. I'm a much bigger fan of those things that exist in the in-between spaces between
1:18.9	reality and fiction. You know, like a legend, the things that could be real are the most creepy.
1:25.0	That's why I'll be telling stories about real life apparitions. I'll be telling the story of
1:29.2	doppelgangers, an ominous ghostly devil of a person that supposedly foretells their doom.
1:35.0	What I find the most bizarre is that these apparitions have their roots in real life.
1:38.4	Several prominent historical, political, and literary figures have seen ghostly doppelgangers of
1:44.7	themselves are their loved ones, including Abraham Lincoln, Queen Elizabeth I, Catherine the Great,
1:50.7	John Dunn, and Percy Shelley. The word doppelganger is a German one, and it means double gore or double
1:58.1	walker. When you think of a doppelganger, you probably think of a twin, particularly an evil one,
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