Why Does This Woman Look Exactly Like Me? | Finding My Identical Twin Stranger | Full Documentary 

What I found most remarkable was the social similarities between so many of the doppelgängers.

Back in the late 1980's I stopped at a Texas Dunkin Donuts. When I got up to the drive-thru window, the girl handed me my order then did a double-take, screamed out "Michael!" and reached out to hug me. She thought I was her brother! After some minutes I was able to "prove" I wasn't her brother playing a joke. She even called him in California and they spoke briefly. After the call she grabbed her purse and showed me a family picture and sure enough, her brother looked JUST LIKE ME, down to the style of dress. Needless to say we were both almost left speechless. Too bad this was before the time of selfies.

I would have been interested to see pictures of John and Neil as young men to see how similar they looked 20,30, and 40 years ago.

I had about a dozen different people tell me they saw me working at a casino. I worked in a lab and never in my life have I been a cocktail waitress. After so many people at our office said it I went to see if I could find this woman. I was astonished! She was a bit shorter but only by an inch or so, it was so crazy! Same laugh, same walk, same everything. I never saw her again but it was fun.

I walked into a salon and the woman just finishing thought I was her daughter there to give her a lift. Then the daughter walked in behind me, and I totally got it. If I hadn't known better, I might have thought she was me. I grew up elsewhere, but where I am now I have a lot of relatives I've never met. She's probably one of them.

Around 25 years ago, my dad sent me a magazine clipping for a software advertisement. He added a note telling me how awesome it was that he found me. It stopped me in my tracks! There was a young woman looking exactly like me, and that wasn’t all. The woman was sitting behind a pc (which I do) she had a cat on her desk (which I have), and she looked like me EXACTLY she even rocked my hairdo! I still have it and to this day I am still questioning myself if I didn't, in fact, participated in an advert, but I forgot somehow!

I was adopted and haven't met many biological relatives. (Yes, I've taken all the DNA tests, and know who my bio family is now). When a stranger tells me I remind them of someone, or mistakes me for someone else, I feel almost panicky, desperate to know who it might be, and if we could be related. There's so many missing pieces of me. I'd like to meet even a few.

I'm a twin and learned to be very tuned in to differences in features. I was amazed at how many of the pairs had different jawlines/chins which were not remarked on until the 3D scans were examined. I caught those differences immediately. I think the Professor caught the key: if either the eyes or noses are matching and then the other feature is similar, viewers perceive two people as "identical" and ignore the jawline.

John and Nei looked like each other and also had the same life experience which blew me away .

This "cutting edge three dimensional science" got some chick arrested in America a few months back for looking like someone who was wanted in a criminal situation. The women who was erroneously arrested was pregnant at the time, I can only imagine the stress she endured during the time trying to vindicate herself, I hope her and her baby are doing well...

As a child, I saw my doppelgänger on the other side of a busy street. I remember it almost took my breath away as I looked right at her. She too stopped with a blank look then smiled warmly and waved as her Mom grabbed her hand and they walked off. My Mom asked what I was staring at and I pointed but all she saw was her back. I have never forgotten that chance encounter and sadly, we were visiting from out of town so there was no chance to see her again.

A close friend gave me an old tintype of a woman which he found in an antique shop. The date 1937 is written on the back. The woman looks to be around 30 years old. 😯. I was born in 1943. To both of us it looked exactly like I had in my late 20s or early 30s. I have no information about this woman, but we are certainly doppelgängers born about a generation apart. I keep it on my dresser to this day.

If they are really interested in seeing how much they actually look alike, they should NOT have them wear matching outfits, hairstyles, etc. Those nonessential elements that are just superficial are likely to make people believe they appear more similar than they actually do. Some of these people don’t really look all that similar after all.

Many years ago, I remember watching the news and seeing surveillance footage of two suspected shoplifters in a store. The resolution was quite good and one of them looked EXACTLY like me. Not just in the face but same build, similar height, looked like same age, and wore clothes just like what I would wear. I was stunned. The scary part was that I used to shop at this store occasionally. I don't think I ever went back there again.

I briefly dated a woman who looked exactly like me. We were the same age, height, weight, and we both had long blonde hair. The only difference was she had blue eyes, and I have green eyes. We both decided that the relationship felt way too much like "twincest", so we called it off. The chemistry was just weird.

I sure feel sorry for my identical twin strangers. 🤣

Damn! They all took a DNA test, and I was waiting to see if they had found any correlation between the DNA and the actual features - that something in the DNA caused a certain feature. Identical twins are identical because their identical DNAs have driven their physical development, so I was hoping to see if there was any valuable scientific discovery made here, but they didn't talk about the DNA mechanism - how DNA forms physical features. One pair was found to be weakly related, and others originated from similar areas of the world, but I really wanted more on the DNA side of the discussion.

It's like looking at a painting by Monet. From a distance it makes sense but when you get close and look at details, it doesn't look at all like it did from a distance.

I've had employess who work for my airline [I'm a flight attendant] walk up to me and start chatting with 'Patty'. I seem to have a doppelganger based in another city. I actually had a few get upset with me for denying at being Patty! They're stunned when I show my I.D. and point at my name wings. I hope to actually work a flight with this mysterious twin that I have.😊 ...with over 20,000 flight crew, with so many diverse flying schedules, it doesn't seem likely.

My parents were already deceased when I got into genealogy. Turns out my parents were 8th cousins. I was able to track this down primarily due to a marriage in VA in 1691, parish records, where the brides surname was really uncommon. For whatever reason, her surname was handed down generation after generation as a middle name. No doppelgangers that I know of but it makes me wonder about the number of kinships that are unknown?

What’s weirdest is that they’re similar ages too!

I feel bad for Ambrosia. It seems like she desperately wants a twin sister on some level and is completely blinded to the fact that she really isn't a match to Fiorella at all (but Fiorella is very aware of that fact and is trying not to hurt her)

I am an identical twin and although my twin sister and I look similar, we've both had things happen to us in our lives to make our appearances look a bit dissimilar. We still look very close but there are subtleties that makes each of us unique. What we do share that identical strangers probably don't is that closeness in the womb which is a bond forever. We often know what the other is thinking; will say the same thing at the same time; we are both equine sculptors and are still BFF at 70 years of age.

40 years ago we went to Tunisia as part of a Company trip. The entertainment group at the hotel we stayed at had not only my doppelgänger, but also my ex's doppelgänger , which was a wee bitty awkward as I was there with my 2nd husband, lol.

The number of times in my life that people think they know me when they dont is endless. I wonder if i have a doppelganger or more than one that lives relatively near me!

Very interesting, John and Neil was my choice also, they even have the same good sense of humour. I enjoyed watching this study thx

I met my doppelganger when I went into a music shop to buy a new Alto sax. We looked identical and everyone that worked there started teasing him about his long lost twin. Same face, same facial hair style, same hair length, colour, and cut, both our eyes are hazel, and he was maybe only 1 inch shorter than me. Then he spoke, and he had a very high voice, whereas mine is a deep baritone. If we didn't talk though, you'd never tell us apart. It was disturbing, but also kind of cool.

I ran into my twin in a bar, she was bartending , my husband was amazed, as was I . This was in Boise, ID USA . She was unforgettable 50 years ago. Should have got her particulars, but didn’t .

I want a doppelgänger! But only if she’s good and not evil. Dont want anyone looking like me and committing crimes and stuff! 😂

Why it has to be an actual contest is beyond me.

With Sperm Donation for IVF, I wonder how many really are related?

I wish I had that much time to look for my twin steanger! I barely have time to look at myself in the mirror sometimes.

St. Thomas’ Hospital where the study takes place is oddly appropriate since the name Thomas literally means twin. Was this a coincidence?

Had a friend who was adopting. She and her husband were instructed to come to the lawyer's one hour after the birth parents. When they got there, the lawyer looked up and said "What are you doing back here?! The adoptive parents are comi.....uh...OH! You look SO much like the birth mother! The daughter that they adopted looks just like her, and you'd never think that she wasn't genetically hers.

I would've liked to know if more of them were actually related, especially with their ancestry if John and Neil were related. It's cool that Kobe and his look-alike are about 4th cousins -- how great to find family!

Love how some of them interact... Fascinating study!! I have twin Aunts, Twin grandchildren, and my cousins daughter has twins.. only my Aunts are considered identical... so I find this sort of thing very interesting..

I wonder what their parents look like

The other weird thing to me is that the tone of voices of these pairs was also very similar.

I love the playfulness of the Brits!! This was a delight!!

As an adoptee I have asked every potential boyfriend where he came from and did either parent have a child they gave up for adoption - no matter what the boys color was

I love things like this, natures miracles.

I found my doppelganger in a photo taken in 1920s Dublin! I have family who hail from Dublin, so I suppose she could be a relative from the past. I was looking at random photos on YT of historic Irish photos and her face 'jumped' out at me. I could not stop looking at her. It really was as though I was looking in a mirror. I screen shotted it for future perusing.

I thought both sets of women with the long blond hair looked the most alike.

I remember when facial mapping type software came out for “entertainment purposes”. According to family stories my mom and actress Katherine Hepburn were fourth or fifth cousins. I ran headshots of both women through app. They matched in the upper seventy percent range! I found a photo of Hepburn’s grandfather and several of my mom’s great grandfather. I don’t recall the numbers, but Hepburn’s grandfather and my mom’s great grandfather were in the 90% range. I ran the other pics of my mom’s great grandfather and they still matched very high when compared with Hepburn’s grandfather.

I wish the subjects had their face pictures reversed and reprinted so they saw the image that they each saw when they looked in the mirror, They can still observe the images more correctly if they hold their original pics facing the mirror up beside their head. It is always fun to hold 2 family members pics upside down and see the resemblance quickly. I enjoyed this video very much.

The two older men in the yellow shirts laugh the same way.

It's wild how some of them even have the same styles. It's one thing just to look alike with similar features but it's another thing to have the same style of facial hair, same hairstyles, same fashion sense, same fake tan 😂

This was a Channel4 documentary called finding my twin 3 years ago it's a great documentary

Forty some years ago I was told I had a doppelganger living in the same town of 20,000. I now live sixty miles east of there in a town of 14,000 and several times people have spoken to me lately, saying "Hi, Steven". My name is not Steven.

Did you see the one about the little boy who met his look alike at school? Parents tested their DNA and they were actually identical twins. They were separated at birth and adopted.

Not always a good thing. Many years ago I was talking to my mom on the phone and we both happened to have the same local news station on. A story came on of a man who had confessed to killing and dumping a woman's body in a lake within a few miles of where I lived. They showed the man being booked into jail and I told my mom to look at the tv. Mom also said the guy looked basically just like me. Really, I would have picked me out of a line up looking like this guy. Glad his conscience got to him and he confessed to the crime and they were able to recover the body where he said.

I have a Doppler ganger in Germany. She caused some shocking experiences for several coworkers of mine, one was almost arrested and my fiance accused me of cheating on him when she was seen with another man. Luckily my fiance and I were together on the weekend and in another town at the time of the sighting.

I am adopted and know absolutely nothing about my biological parents and a few times I met people who look like me and I wonder if we are related, once my wife and sons met a man while we were on vacation and they thought it was me until I came out of the restroom. The guy and me just stared at each other, turns out he was born two years after me in the same town I was born and he was adopted also. This was before easy DNA test and I didn't get his information. Honestly I really didn't want to know but it's very likely I have half siblings out there somewhere. My sister who was also adopted but from different biological parents died eight years ago at only 42 years old so now I'm thinking of doing a DNA test and see if anyone is in the database who may be related.

The most shocking similarity among all pairs in this study, to me at least, is their ages. I would fully expect to see maybe a 30 and 40 year old with same features, because in that age range not much on your face should be changing. But all these pairs are almost the exact same age....very weird.

This was so interesting. I was surprised there was only one set of "twins" who were distantly related. I look forward to future episodes.

I met my male doppelganger :) In our early 20ies we both worked in the same mall. And ppl always asked me about my brother and asked him about his sister. So of course both of us had to find each other. We were like twins but different gender. He was a bit older. We became friends. But then both changed work place and he married and we lost contact. We were also similar in habits but different in interests, that's why we didn't stay friends, too different there. But even my mom was: " Did I have another kid I forgot about?"

I wish they had added super-recognizers to the experiment to see how accurate they were versus the computer models. I'm a super-matcher and to me, most of these pairs look like they could be related, certainly siblings, but not identical twins.

31:35 No doppelgangers can be found! But what's bizarre is how similar their lives are lol!

That was fun!! loved it! you put together a great little story on each as well. Thanks for sharing with us. so interesting

This is so interesting.

Two stand up comic doppelgängers? Wild.

I wonder what it feels like emotionally to meet your doppelganger. That must be a very strange, happy, and enlightening thing to experience. Especially seeing at yourself for the first time in real life when you are not an identical twin.

I was on that find your twin app and everyone they paired me with looked nothing like me.

Some have similar features, others are clearly different. Visually, I think John and Neal look the most alike.

Most of them look like they could be related, brothers/sisters/cousins. But really the only ones that I think could actually pass for twins would be John and Neil, and the guys in blue. Those 4 look strikingly similar. The others you can easily see slight differences in face shapes, noses, and such. I think the people's opinions would be more easily influenced by the "twins" wearing the same hairstyle, glasses, make up, etc. So I don't find their input very helpful.

I've always appreciated Neil and John....

What a fantastic video! So very interesting and entertaining and important. I fully believe we all have a double and I have even seen people who I think look like myself or others.What an intriguing topic to study and work on. Thanks to all of you.

This is hilarious, my father messaged me a few years ago asking me what I was doing in Italy as he had seen me in a video of a tour of Rome. I remember watching the clip of this girl with the same haircut similar facial features and clothes as me walking around and thinking yeah I can see how he thought that it was me. We had a chuckle but I like to think about the fact that out in the world there is a version of me running around looking fab in Italy. I would have expected a doppelganger to be closer to home though as it would be weird for a European to look like a Polynesian.

I used to play pool , I think I played in about 20 states, One day I was playing and a guy I had seen a few times at pool tournaments and rooms and knew slightly , came up to me and said , congratulations on the tournament win, I said which one , he said New Mexico I think , the problem was I never played in New Mexico. Then he said yeah I have a picture I took of you. Then he shows me the picture on his phone , it is me! Only it isn't . It is a guy who looks just like me and also plays pool. The only way I knew it wasn't me was because he had a watch on . I never wear a watch. lol I still haven't met him , but I hope to.

My identical twin in my hometown is not my brother. I almost got thrown into jail because of him. My sister has met him and says he looks exactly like me.

I actually ran into one "doppleganger" in a Psychiatric Emergency Hospital (a.k.a. "Loony bin")...In fact we were assigned the same room, and it was HIM that pointed out to ME that "we look alike"...He was right...We DID look alike!! NOT the best place to run into one's "doppelganger"....He left or was transferred, and a more "demonic" looking character became my roomate...Much to my "relief"?? 😳

Great documentary! Fun fact: I am from Germany. When the professor first came into sight, I thought: "Wow, he looks like that football player ..." (I didn't remember the name but knew that it was a British guy.) Then, he said something like: "People say I look a bit like Gary Lineker." 🙂

the two gents who both have a son that plays the didgeridoo !!!

I went to school with 3 sets of twins as long as they were together I knew which was which but if they were out of sight of each other I had a hard time until I realized that each pair one had a more oval face that their sibling with a more round face.

This is very cool show!! So interesting. Now I want to find my doppelgänger😊

None of them really are near-perfect matches but the best ones are the two guys in blue T-shirts and the bottom two guys in red T-shirts. Yet, I have seen closer matches before, and sometimes, when there is a good match, those people work as 'doubles' for celebrities in their movies and the audience can't tell the difference.

My wife once showed me a picture of myself as a teenager standing in front of a van with my friends, apparently on a road trip. Then I looked at the friends and said "Wait, I don't know any of these people. When was this?" It was a picture of a young Edward Norton from a magazine article. I'm one month older than him, and we've aged about the same, grayed about the same, and still look a lot alike when smiling (and like him, I naturally smile with a closed or almost-closed mouth). When not smiling, it's not that close a resemblance though.

I started secondary school about two weeks late and when I arrived, so many students whom I obviously didn't even know kept calling me Kelechi and I was always confused because who even was that. That's not my name and when I told them I didn't know who Kelechi was they would tell me that I looked and acted exactly like her. Unfortunately, she had just left the school a few days before I arrived so I never got to meet this girl who supposedly looks exactly like me.

I wonder if they are still in touch with each other

Yep I said it all along John and Neil definitely but surprised the blonde girls didn't win any category

I love this! It feels really happy! I don’t think they look like identical twins but they definitely look like fraternal twins or cousins.

This is really cool! Genetics are SO cool!

What a cool documentary!

I wonder what would be the result if two men who looked alike were to marry two women who looked alike and both couples had children. It would be interesting to see how similar or not their children were.

Second time I've watched this. Loved it!

Having MET my doppelganger in person, I can say it is a truly strange experience - his own sister could not tell us apart. Even more strange was his first name was my middle name. Then again, my relatives say that I look EXACTLY like a younger version of my estranged dad.

I'm just wondering what site should I go to if I want to find my look alike?

Well you know what they say ... everyone out there has a twin somewhere... When I was 10 (sadly too many yrs ago) living in Canada, my best friend called me up and told me to come over, to wear my hair the way I often did with a half ponytail (top half of hair, rest down) and my yellow tank top. I knew she was having a cousin from the UK she never met, come stay with them for the summer, so was expecting her call me to come over. When the door opened I think I went into shock. My friend had her cousin Zoe answer it. After staring at Zoe for a minute or 2 with neither of us saying anything but really checking each other out, I looked over at my friend and her family and they were all big eyed, smiling and giggling. Our hair was the exact same shade of dirty blonde, even the same length and cut and pony tail, both hazel green eyes, even our eyebrows were exact same shape. Mouth, lips and nose, it was insane! After we all compared every feature even our exact feet, my friends mom measured our height and I was 1/4" taller. We even shared the same month for our birthdays. That was a really exciting day for me with many more to come. I have 5 siblings which we look somewhat alike in some features but this was totally crazy! After telling my family at dinner all about my twin, none of them believed me! Spent the next several days hanging with my twin and bestie, trying to find out as much about each other as we could. The one difference we had ... we didn't sound the same. She was British and had the accent, I didn't. I did try and practice an accent as she had tried to talk like me but it wasnt working. We laughed for hrs at our attempts tho! Zoe's parents had called and she told them about me and they said she has to get many pics of us together. Back then there was no cell phones or even digital cameras, it was very expensive old school film cameras you had to wait forever for development. One day I finally brought Zoe and my bestie over to my place, had them wait on the back patio while I tidied my room. I shared with a sister who was a clean freak and my mom was constantly on my case to clean up my half. I didnt want Zoe to think I was a slob so I had them wait about 10 minutes while I did a quick tidy. From my window I could hear my mom yelling at me to go clean my room now! I looked out and saw the scared look on Zoe's face. My mom was looking right at her face to face and she couldnt even tell the difference. I even told her about Zoe too and she said it was nonsense. My mom could be very intimidating when she is being strict. When she took a pause Zoe said "I'm sorry" and my mom froze. I was laughing my head off at my moms reaction, all she could say was "what??" I ran to the back and put my arm around Zoe and said "mom this is Zoe, the nonsense". Needless to say, that was a very very fun summer! We kept in touch for a few yrs through snail mail but lost contact with each other. I think it was we had both moved because I know I did and my mail to her came back return to sender. My bestie had moved as well and I was unable to get any address. So Zoe if you do by chance see this please reply!! 🙏 Sure would have been nice to have had cell phones back then or even social media to be able to keep in touch. I missed her and really loved her name. Even practiced writing her first name with my last name. So I approached my parents one night to ask them if I could change my name. Without asking me why, I was told a flat out NO. I am who I am and thats it. I now have a mini me and her name is Zoe. She loves her name and it suits her to a tee. She also loves the story behind her name as well. 🥰 Watching this documentary makes me think of the Matrix. I know there are many people out there that believe that concept is true. Then you start thinking about the SIMS worlds and how the NPCs often are copies with some slight changes. So, are we all living in a game? 😂😂🙃

Really interesting

I Love Niel and John's humour.

"Cure version of myself." :) I like that!

I've lost count of how many times ive been told i "look familiar" or i "look like someone" without anyone a actually knowing who is it i look like. I very frequently notice people looking and staring at me when in public as well, which used to make me a bit paranoid (maybe self-conscious is a better way to describe it.. idk) when i first started being aware of it, but then alot of people id meet started telling me how familiar i looked. So now i just assume people are trying to figure out who i look like when they look at me lol

Very interesting and comprehensive

I had one when I was young and lived in another city. I never met her, but my boyfriends mother and sisters saw her on separate occasions and thought it was me ignoring them.

really great video and it was very interesting too

John and Neil even have similar walk and build

what surprises me about this test, is how many of the contestants are from the british isles. so one is english and they found the 2nd one somewhere else. they should have taken random images from throughout the world and run a computerprogram on it. and then invite those people. you might have found many more very close calls

For decades people have been asking me "has anyone ever mentioned you look like Meryl Streep?" Yes they have, about a million times. Sure would like to meet her!

Very interesting documentary:)

Fascinating!