Doppelgängers

The Morbid Curiosity Podcast

Hallie Lloyd

Cryptid, Serialkiller, Science, Disease, Medicine, Scary, Skeleton, Historyofmedicine, Social Sciences, Ghost, History, Medical, Anthropology, Monsters, Archeology, Murder, Creepy, Skeptic, Paranormal, Prison

4.8 • 634 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

The Doppelgänger, or supernatural double, has been featured in almost every modern media genre, from romance to science fiction. However, the roots of this folkloric creature are ancient, and the concept of the double and what it represents has been the subject of deep professional curiosity since the 19th century.

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0:00.0	This episode was suggested by a listener, Kelsey. If you'd like to make a suggestion or just say hi,
0:06.6	you can do so on Facebook and Instagram at Morbid Curiosity Podcast, on Twitter, at Morbid Podcast,
0:13.0	and on our website, www.morbidcuriositypodcast.com. Also, a huge thank you to Dr. Andrea Keita for helping me source some
0:23.3	excellent scholarly articles on this topic. And hello to the whole creepy community at East
0:28.3	Carolina University. You folks are a great bunch. Humans are fascinated by gore and violence, but even more so the mysterious and unsolved.
0:49.3	Interest in these disturbing and unpleasant subjects is called morbid curiosity, and it has gripped hundreds of people throughout the ages.
0:58.8	I am one of those people.
1:01.3	My name is Halley, and this is the Morbid Curiosity podcast.
1:05.6	Music How many TV shows, films, comics, and books can you name where a double, clone or shadow
1:32.2	version of a main character somehow appears, either to torment them or force them to examine
1:38.0	their own lives? This motif is so prevalent in modern storytelling that we've come to accept
1:44.1	it as a trope or literary device.
1:46.7	These doubles are called evil twins, clones, alter egos, and most often in the fantasy genre, doppelgangers.
1:54.7	Doppelganger is also used today to describe someone who looks just like you.
1:59.8	There are many websites dedicated to finding
2:01.9	people who look almost identical but are not related. The word is also used to describe fantasy
2:07.9	or sci-fi creatures that can shift form to look like anyone. The first example that comes to
2:13.5	mind at the moment is the Doppler in the new Witcher television series. However, there are many
2:18.7	examples in the Witcher franchise, as well as other games, films, TV shows, books, and comics.
2:25.8	I'll go into all of these after the ad break. The word doppelganger is actually fairly recent.
2:32.0	It was first used by German romantic writer Jean-Paul Richter in
2:36.3	1796 or 1797. Romantic in this case means an intellectual movement that combined philosophy,
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