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Was This A Doppelganger?

Posted on July 29, 2008

This is not so much a ghost story but more so as a question for everyone.  I believe in the supernatural and unexplainable however, something happened that has me perplexed.

In the mid nineties when I was in high school, my younger sister (by only 13 months) and myself were out for the night.  My mother and father were home and sitting in their bedroom.  A girl walk passed the doorway heading down the hall towards the back of the house towards my sister’s bathroom.  My mother immediately thought it was my younger sister “A,” we will call her. My mother got up and headed to the back of the house calling her name.  There was no answer.  My mother looked in the bathroom in the back as well as the guest bedroom that was back there, but everything was pitch black.  She called for my sister again but there was no response.  She went to the front of the house to check for either of our cars, but of course neither of us were there.  When we got home that night mom questioned her about coming home earlier and A said she didn’t.  Even my dad swore it was her.

My story continues… not five months ago my father passed away from a short illness.  He was home for a week prior to his passing.  My sister A came in from 360 miles away for the ordeal.  The night he passed away, my mother, my sister A, and myself were the only ones here with him at home.  Two days after he had passed we were still the only ones here, seeing as all of our family lives hundreds of miles away.  That night I was cleaning out the fridge and throwing out food neighbors had brought (he was home dying for a little over a week so we had excessive amounts of food).

My sister A walked through our kitchen and was headed towards the back of the house.  I hollered for A to “come help me with the kitchen” as she walked through.  She didn’t even acknowledge me.  Needless to say, I was upset at her and followed her right around the corner of the kitchen.  Once around that corner, there was no sign of her or any lights on what-so-ever.  I hollered for A and there was no response.  I walked to her room and opened her door and found her sitting in her bed reviewing some articles for work in a white T-shirt and jeans with her glasses on (yes I made a note of what she was wearing.) I asked A if she just went to the back of the house, she said no and wanted to know why.  About that time my mother was calling and I told A, no reason.

In March, a month after my father had passed, I brought up what happened that night.  My mother then told me about her sighting of my sister that night. My sister was in awe.  She realized that was why I asked if she had gone to the back that night.  My mother then asked, was her hair up in a messy bun?  Goose bumps filled my arms.  Yes.  Which is how my sister usually wears her hair when she is not at work. My sister thinks we saw a ghost that resembled her and is amazed that this ghost was not in “old time” clothes.  She cannot accept that we saw her physical …. being? entity? doppelganger? I don’t know.

I know that I saw my sister, or what appeared to be my sister.  I can even go to her closet and pick out the shirt and jeans I saw her in that night that “she” walked through the kitchen.  I was not scared when I saw her just confused as to why she would ignore me.  I have research doppelgangers and found that they can predict omens.  However, my father had already passed. Is this meaning that something more will happen?  And why is it always her figure that we see?  Any input would help.  I am just confused as to what that meant.  I do not feel that she was a ghostly presence in fact I felt no presence at all.

Thanks for your time, A.P.F.

Sent in by Alyson, Copyright 2008 True Ghost Tales




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11 Responses to “Was This A Doppelganger?”
  1. willz says:

    It could have been a vardøger. Similar to a doppelganger but it is not a harbinger of doom but a kind of future ecoh of a person. It preceeds what the person will do i.e performing the action in advance.

  2. hazel says:

    Wow that is something really weird, but first of all want to tell you sorry for you lost ( your dad) he is in a better place where he is not suffering or ill, watching over you’ll. Well I heard about ghost or evil that can turn into any kind of shape or into a person, but it can’t be evil because if it was then it would had done a harm, maybe is just a ghost that is just wondering around no one probably prayed for her or have you done a search on your residence or home? Maybe you need to get your mom’s house blessed?
    I hope nothing bad happen’s.

  3. Jackie says:

    Wow!! that must have really freaked you out.
    A long time ago a friend i once knew got up late one day and as she came out of her bedroom she thought she saw her sister walk into her (the sisters room). My friend then made her way downstairs to the kitchen and saw her mother and her sister sitting chatting at the kitchen table. She was so shocked and asked her sister, why are you here? i’ve just seen you walk into your bedroom. They just looked at her as though she was still dreaming or something.
    I could tell she was telling me the truth about it, although i thought it could have been that she was still half asleep and thought she saw her sis. But i suppose it’s hard for my old friend to accept someone saying you’re still half asleep and the solid person you’ve just seen is only an illusion.
    Your story is very different as you were wide awake and it must still freak you out!!

  4. Warrior Priestess says:

    i’d say that it was a Vardoger as Willz said. But it just sounds strange, Perhaps your family is psychic. And you never know, it may have been a memory imprinted into the house of your sister’s action. It can happens. The Past that is imprinted in the timeline can leak into the present. Like waatching a video over and over again…

  5. VALERY says:

    IM SORRY FOR YOUR DAD

  6. shelly says:

    all i can say is wow.!!!!

  7. melissa says:

    well 1st of all i wanted 2 tell u that i’m really sorry that ur dad died. but he is in a better place watching u, ur mom, and sister…..O.k. its really freaky that u saw ur sister walking & never answer u. its really weird. i think its true cuz i heard people that they say that every person has other 7 person that have the same face as u weird right. its true cuz my homie had gotten kick out & i will always see him but he was always in his house. its true cuz i also read like other story about this too.

  8. Jessica says:

    hey that’s a pretty wierd but cool story because i had something similar to that that happened to me. one night, when i was asleep it was in december and i had been staring at the door and i saw of what appeared to be my mom came in the room and the door was wide open on the wall, and then she comes in and just stands there swaying back in forth pointing her finger at me and then she stood there and pointed her finger at me for about 2 minutes and then she turned around and left through the door that was wide open and she went through the wall too.

  9. Killa Karoline says:

    I read this story and I decided to look it up
    here is the definition that i foound:
    “A doppelgänger (pronunciation (help·info)) or fetch is the fictional ghostly double of a living person, a sinister form of bilocation.

    In the vernacular, “Doppelgänger” has come to refer (as in German) to any double or look-alike of a person. The literal translation of the German word is “double–goer,” meaning someone who is acting (i.e. going) the same way as another person. The word is also used to describe the sensation of having glimpsed oneself in peripheral vision, in a position where there is no chance that it could have been a reflection.[citation needed] They are generally regarded as harbingers of bad luck. In some traditions, a doppelgänger seen by a person’s friends or relatives portends illness or danger, while seeing one’s own doppelgänger is an omen of death. In Norse mythology, a vardøger is a ghostly double who precedes a living person; the double is seen performing the living person’s actions in advance.”

    What Frightens me about this is that you saw your sisters DoppleGanger when your father was dying. I think It probubly is but it could be something else.

  10. Sinem says:

    I had something similiar, I was staying at my friend home, one day I woke up earlier than her and headed to kitchen to have a cup of coffee and I saw a girl almost the same shape as my friend passed in front of the kitchen door to the small room just next to it. I thought it was my friend, suprised she didnt say hello. So I followed her but there was no one in the room I ran to her bedroom she was still sleeping.

    I tried to convince myself that it was just my imagination that I watch too much horror movie but I even heard her foodsteps, felt her moves while she was passing.

  11. cj says:

    Hi,

    It might be that teh house ‘stores’ energy and then repeat actions that people did… this is what ghosts are, and the same can happen to people who are still alive.

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