Your True Tales
October 2006 - Page 1
Doppelganger or Reincarnation
by Constance
I have had several strange experiences in my life. One particular one I would like to discuss here involves my doppelganger or twin, or maybe a reincarnation, I am not really sure which. Let my explain.
The first of these experiences happened when I was about seven years old and living in New York State. I was leaving my apartment building and was standing inside a set of glass doors ready to enter the street when a car pulled up and sat waiting at the light with a little girl in the passenger's seat. The girl was my mirror image. For a second I almost thought I was seeing my reflection. The girl was wearing this really unusual shirt that was just like one that I owned and that I had never seen anyone else with. I did have this same shirt on, but it was wintertime and I had the shirt on under a heavy winter coat! I stood there stunned. Then the light changed and the car pulled away. Only then did it occur to me to go after the car, but by then it was too late.
About six months later, I was in the same town, but in an area where I had never been before when some children came up to me and called me by a different name. I told them that I did not know who they were and they acted like I was crazy. They later told me that this girl and her father had just moved a couple of weeks earlier and she was apparently my exact double.
If that had been all I would have chalked this up to simply having a twin out there, but about a year an a half later my family still lived in New York State, but we had moved from the city to a very rural area of upstate New York. They had found a hundred-plus year old farm house that they were going to work on and fix up. Well, my parents have always liked to go to auction, so when there was an auction held in the small farming town they went. There was a lot of miscellaneous junk, but the strange part came when they came to this old black-and-white portrait from the turn of the century. The portrait was of a little girl who was about eight years old, and from the clothes in the portrait it appears she was from the turn of the century. The little girl in the picture looked exactly like me! We even wore our hair in the same style. I had my hair in two braids that day, and the girl in the picture had hers the same way. Everyone was amazed and asked my parents if they were related to the people whose things were being sold. My parents were not from the area, though, and did not know anyone. They bought the portrait, of course, and put it in the house where several times while we lived there my parents swore that they had seen me come in the door a few minutes before as I walked in. We lost that picture about a year later when we moved from the house.
I had several other minor incidents, but the next one that I would call major happened when I was in my 20s and living in Las Vegas. I worked on the floor in a casino, and one night while I was working I noticed several people standing together whispering and pointing at me. I thought this was strange, but went on working until several of them came over to me. They asked me I they could ask me a favor. I said cautiously, okay. They then asked me to go on a break for about 20 minutes. I obviously looked at them strangely because they went on to explain that they had brought their/brother/son, to Vegas for the anniversary of his wife's death a year earlier and they did not want him to see me because I looked exactly like his dead wife. I agreed of course. Also, several times in my life, while I was still quite young, I would have older - even elderly - people come up to me and tell me that I looked like their dead mother or aunt. I feel like this has some meaning, I wonder if anyone has any idea what it may be?
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