The Ghostly DOPPLEGANGER - meeting yourself in Spirit

Let me paint you a picture.
Imagine sitting up at night seeing yourself walk in and out of your bedroom. Thinking you were dreaming you get up to meet YOURSELF standing on the other side of your bedroom door....

Doppleganger, from the German meaning 'double walker', a ghostly double or counterpart of a living person.
The belief that each person has an identical 'twin' somewhere, though they are unrelated, is a very ancient one.
Sometimes the Doppelgänger is the direct opposite personality of the real person; a very nice person will have an evil Doppelgänger and vice-versa.



Legend says that if the two should meet, they will both die. Other accounts describe the Doppelgänger as the soul embodied, sometimes a astral projection or aura, the double most often presenting itself as a warning.
According to an old belief, anyone who wants to know who will pass away in the coming year has only to stand vigil near a church door on April 24, the eve of the feast of St. Mark. At midnight, the airy doubles of all who will die file in a solemn processional into the church.

If the watcher is unlucky enough to see his/her own image there, he/she knows his/her own time is not far off.

So imagine its nearly midnight and you wake thinking you've just had a weird dream, which most of us really.
You open your bedroom door to see your EXACT reflection standing looking at you. Only this ones your complete opposite in everyway but looks.

Our Story:

The call went like this......
"Hi can you help me I think I've had a twin brother, I didn't know about and they've come to see me"
Silence but we waited the caller seemed to pause in mid sentance.
" Er, only thing is its F*****g Evil and I want rid of it....NOW !"
Off into action we went.

Indeed on inspection this was evil, and, really Evil !

Try convincing someone its a Spirit who likes you and wanted to look like you, because it found it funnier than scaring you with noises and all because it knew you could see it.

Only thing now was exorcising a spirit double, whilst keeping the real life double calm.
Straight forward ish ! But here we had to unravel why a seemingly unknown spirit wanted not only look like you, but just appear out of the blue.


A mystery soon to be solved. We waited til 3 in the morning before being confronted by the spirit. He made his entrance, seemingly this man was not nice at all. He'd lived there and was ruled by the landowner. Being abused and treated like a slave, it seemed as though his only way not to be miss treated was to 'blend in'.

Took some time for us to make good contact, but he'd had a rough time and he wanted to be left alone. The new owner when we asked him had unfortunatly destroyed a barm at the end of the gardens, thinking it was rubbish. Here is where our man stepped in thinking he had done something wrong. When he appeared to the new owner he felt it appropriate to look similar for fear of getting a telling off.


Now realising he couldn't be told off and that this new owner could see him, he'd started to terrorize him. By now we realised he wasn't going to go under any circumstances, and, to make it worse he actually liked seeing the new owner look terrified.

The only way to remove this man was to be forceful and direct, we moved out into the garden. Standing by the pulled down barn we where immeadiatly abused and stoned, one such stone catching our new owner on the leg. More remarkable was the glowing light seen under the stones, all saw a glowing yellowish light. Calling for him to be moved on and by now getting pungant smells wasnt easy. The distractions being out in the open and hearing running footsteps towards you isn't nice. When calm . . . , we ran back into the home to the bedroom doorway and exorcised the remaining spirit.

This spirit over a matter three weeks had managed to get the new owner to research and find out about dopplegangers. So terrified of this was he he'd called in ghost hunters and vicars to help. In real terms we didnt have such a spirit, though he was right to check. But he too easilly drew conclusions about his destiny.
In reality this spirit had over time developed a knack of blending in, our own research after revealed many locals had seen what they thought was the previous owner. The house had become known for its old spirits of the dead returning. In fact we had here two spirits, one whom was very passive and connected with the new owner. The other this labourer of old who'd managed to look like either old visitors or (as a the new owner found out) you....

1. The Brothers of Shadow
2. Dealing with Voodoo and Black magic
3. Meeting a Real Witch
4. Doppleganger Ghosts - seeing yourself.