The Welcome once again and thank you for being here. I'm your host, Nick Ryan.

Tonight's episode is brought to you by my newest supporters, Elva, Sue, and Sabrina.

Thank you so much for making the show possible.

Tonight's first encounter comes to us from Lee, and Lee's experience is called

My Doppelganger. Lee says, I'm a new listener to your podcast and have enjoyed each episode. I was hesitant to bring up these experiences because I understand that one should never see their own Doppelganger.

I am in my 30s now, but I'm well aware that there is a doppel ganger of me that seems to follow me wherever I go.

It started in middle school where kids would tell me that they saw me in a store or doing extracurricular activities.

My mom didn't approve of me going by myself anywhere at that age, so I certainly wasn't at

a store, and the only activity I did was track, but the activities that I was found participating in were cooking,

music and other classes. I always thought to myself,

well, whoever she is, at least she's making it easy for me to talk to people.

But instead of people continuing to talk to me, they actually avoided me because they thought that

I was fooling around.

In high school, my Doppelginger was seen by teachers on the days I wasn't at school.

There were two classes that said on my report cards that I was present in attendance and

participating.

I asked my teacher if this was an ongoing joke since kids from my middle school were also at my high school.

But my teacher explained that I had actually been there, raised my hand for attendance, and that I did my work, as I normally

did.

In my 20s, I moved to Minnesota and had several friends in different states that I stayed in contact with on the internet.

They too had said that they had seen me waiting on a train with a bag, and when they called out to

me to see what I was doing in their state, the girl simply looked at them and then proceeded to board the train.

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