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July 2006 - Page 19
Doppelgangers in Families?
by Donna
I guess I should start by telling you that my story is rather lengthy. I am a "30 something" wife and mother of three. I am mentally competent, do not do, nor have I ever done, drugs or drink and have never even so much as smoked a cigarette in my life. My family does tie into my story to some degree, which I will explain as I go.
During my senior year in high school, I had a strange experience. You must first understand that I was very straight-laced and simple fear kept me from becoming one of those students who would ever even have a fleeting thought of skipping school for the sheer fun of it. I was also the first among my small circle of friends to get a car.
One afternoon, after school, a couple of my girlfriends approached me with angry looks on their faces and their hostilities seemed to be directed straight at me. A bit confused from not knowing exactly what it was I had done to upset them so, I asked them what their problem was. They both accused me of "playing dumb" and how dare I skip class and not invite them to come along in my car. Needless to say, I thought they had both lost their minds! I jokingly asked them what kind of drugs they were on, for as far as I knew they did not do any. They were still very puzzled and continued accusing me of having driven right past them on the street while they tried to flag me down for a ride, and claim I simply ignored them.
I started to believe that perhaps they had simply seen someone who looked a lot like me who just happened to be driving the same kind of car, but the look in their faces seemed to become increasingly confused as I reminded them that I had never skipped a day of school in my life and I was not about to start doing it my senior year. I suggested they pay a visit to the teacher I had been in class with at the time they allegedly saw me and she would confirm I had been in class the entire hour. They refused to confront my teacher for obvious reasons, but also refused to let me live it down for the rest of the year and I never could convince them otherwise.
It was not until some months later, when I started dating a guy who lived in another city, had already graduated from another school and who had never met my friends that it really started to dawn on me that perhaps my friends actually did see something. A few months after I started dating him, he claimed to have ! seen me driving in the vicinity of his house in my same little gold chevy. He lived 20 minutes away and we had just spoken on my home phone about 5 minutes before he claimed to have seen me. As soon as he saw "me" he turned around and went home thinking I was driving to his house to see him, but when he realized there was no physical way it could have been me, and when I never actually showed up, he called my house again and I answered. He was obviously a bit freaked out by the whole thing. He simply demanded to know "what was I doing?!" I had no clue what he was talking about until he explained it to me. At the time I chalked the whole thing up to mere coincidence. There were plenty of 18 year old girls who drove little gold Chevys, right?
It was not until later that it really hit me that, "What if I have a double somewhere?" More recently I have had this memory brought back into the forefront of my mind because my teenaged daughter seems to have one as well. Makes me wonder if this kind of thing runs in families? I am living with my family in a house I grew up in (incidentally, the same house I was living in with my parents when all those strange things happened to me as a teen) and within the past 6 months my husband claims to have seen my daughter no less than two times walking through the hallway at night. When he has addressed her, she simply turns and walks away.
Our house is very small (less than 1,000 square feet) and her bed is one that she cannot even so much as roll over in without it creaking. We can always tell when she is moving or getting out of it because it is very loud and noisy. She also walks very heavy and we heard no footsteps. The first night he claims to have seen her, she had been in her bed asleep for a few hours and we were just getting into bed for the night. He looked in the direction of the hall door, where he claims to have seen her standing, and asked in a very stern tone "What are you doing?" I had been facing the other direction and did not see who he was talking to, but he said it was her plain as day and that she simply looked at him and turned to walk back down the hall. I told him to be quiet for a moment and we laid there still as we could be. I was trying to listen for the loud creaking of her poster bed as she crawls back in, but after less than a minute, I heard nothing.
I slowly got up and walked back to her room as quietly as I could to make sure that I would be able to either see or hear her getting back into her bed, but I saw and heard nothing, yet when I walked into her room, there she was with covers on and all still fast asleep. I roused her and asked her if she had been out of bed recently and she claimed that she had not been up for hours. I left it at that and went back to my room. It happened again just a few short weeks later that my husband saw her again stop at the hallway door and tur! n back t o look at him when he again asked what she was doing and, just as before, she simply glanced at him and continued walking in the direction of her bedroom. This time, however, my daughter woke up a few minutes later screaming that she felt as though someone had grabbed the calf of her leg through the covers. She was in her room alone, but I ran back to check on her and ended up sleeping with her the rest of the night. This all seems so strange to me, but I feel that it must be connected thru me somehow...especially after what I have experienced in my own past. I leave it to the readers to draw their own conclusions.
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