S04-E01 - Doppelgängers
Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained
Steven Holloway
4.5 • 652 Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
What would you do if someone saw you somewhere you’d never been?
If your reflection seemed out of time?
If a stranger wearing your face appeared in the shadows of your own life?
Across history, folklore and witness testimony, the doppelgänger has carried a deeply unsettling reputation. Sometimes it appears as an omen. Sometimes as a warning. Sometimes as something colder, stranger and far more personal — a double that moves through the world with your face, but not your mind.
This episode explores the eerie phenomenon of the doppelgänger through famous historical accounts and disturbing modern encounters. From Abraham Lincoln’s pale double in the mirror, to Émilie Sagée and the spectral twin witnessed by her students, to royal death omens, strange apparitions, and the deeply unsettling story of a woman haunted for months by a darker version of herself.
Blending paranormal folklore, historical mystery and true unexplained experiences, this is a journey into one of the most unnerving ideas in the supernatural world: that somewhere, somehow, another version of you might appear — and its arrival may not be accidental.
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| 1:04.3 | Thanks for listening and enjoy the episode. At first I wasn't sure if it was the house or if it was me. But throughout a period of |
| 1:25.3 | around eight months, I came to realize that I had a doppelganger, |
| 1:29.9 | one that followed me but stayed in the shadows, one that would appear without being seen, |
| 1:35.8 | one that would torment and terrify me. Nobody else saw us together, but on the rare occasions |
| 1:42.1 | I would have friends say that they had spotted me out |
| 1:44.4 | somewhere and I didn't react, or that they had approached me to speak to me, but I would give them |
| 1:49.9 | the coldest and evilest glare they had ever seen. A witness who had been haunted by their doppelganger. |
| 2:55.0 | The their doppelganger. The Welcome to Season 4 and Episode 31 of the Haunted UK podcast. |
| 3:26.5 | And this time, we're going to hear stories about the odds are that somewhere in the world, |
| 3:33.5 | there is at least one person out there who looks just like you. That person is probably kind in good-natured, funny and trustworthy. But the doppelganger is a whole different phenomenon. |
| 3:44.6 | The German word doppelganger means double-goer, and is often described as an apparition of a real living person, |
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