My Ghost Doppelgänger
Aug 31, 2023 14:36:51 #
MosheR
Loc: New York City
PhotogHobbyist wrote:
I can see the strong resemblance in you and the man in the old photo. The possibility of having a doppelganger is really quite high in my mind. There was photo posted a year or two ago, of several young ladies in a sorority. One of those young ladies looked like an exact twin of a friend I had met, and dated, in college back in the 1960s and '70s. I even copied the photo and sent it to that friend. Amazing story, and very plausible. Thankyou for sharing.
Thank you. I once ran into a man who strongly resembled me, except for a big difference in height. It does happen.
Aug 31, 2023 14:42:22 #
MosheR
Loc: New York City
AviRoad wrote:
As another Ashkenazi Jew, myself, I'd had a simila... (show quote)
I don't know if you saw my post from last month called "Just for Fun."
(https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-781253-1.html)
In that post I inserted myself, Zeliglike, into famous a few famous photos. Some of the members said it was similar to what was done in "Forest Gump." Whatever.
Anyway, when I first got the photo and showed it to some friends, they thought that that was what I was doing ... inserting myself into some old picture.
Aug 31, 2023 14:43:48 #
Frayud
Loc: Bethesda,MD
I read somewhere long ago that the the convolutions of the ear are somewhat akin to a fingerprint. Anyway, a picture of your ear taken at the same angle as the ear in the photo may prove interesting.
Aug 31, 2023 14:50:02 #
MosheR
Loc: New York City
Horseart wrote:
To make a long story short...a lady I know went to... (show quote)
Did you ever see the documentary called "Three Identical Strangers?" It's about this guy who had a college experience similar to your friend's high school experience. But he and his lookalike soon met each other through the intervention of friends and realized that they were identical twins who had been separated at birth. Then Life Magazine ran a story about this and, baba boom, there turned out to be a third brother ... they were actually identical triplets. They eventually all got together, opened a restaurant called "Triplets," and unfortunately did NOT live happily ever after.
Aug 31, 2023 14:50:57 #
MosheR
Loc: New York City
Horseart wrote:
Wow, that's about as close as it ever gets. I found a picture (made in Germany) of a little girl about 5 years old that looks just like me when I was 5...so much that, when I saw it, I thought it WAS me. I have tried everything and come up empty. I've even wondered if I AM who I AM. LOL
Maybe you're her and she's you. And I'm one of your horses.
Aug 31, 2023 14:51:42 #
MosheR
Loc: New York City
bcheary wrote:
Interesting story and photos Mel. How the years go by! 
The question is, Brian, when they go by, where do they go??
Aug 31, 2023 14:52:14 #
MosheR
Loc: New York City
Carla J wrote:
I definitely see the resemblance. What an amazing story. Thank you for sharing the story and the photos.
My pleasure, Carla. Glad you found it to be interesting.
Aug 31, 2023 14:53:20 #
MosheR
Loc: New York City
Earnest Botello wrote:
Interesting, Mel, you could be twins, very good find.
But that guy will always "exist" in that moment, and I'll get older and older.
Aug 31, 2023 14:57:50 #
MosheR
Loc: New York City
lnl wrote:
This is a fascinating story and held my interest. When I saw the first photo, I immediately saw the similarity, before seeing your photo of yourself. I see greater similarity of the photos we have seen of you in your travels to the peddler.
In any event, as you have mentioned your eye color before, it is certainly a striking blue. Is that a genetic trait as well?
In any event, as you have mentioned your eye color before, it is certainly a striking blue. Is that a genetic trait as well?
My eyes are as blue as the thumbs of a cross-eyed carpenter.
It must be genetic, Ellen, as is my baldness and the shape of my nose ... prior to the two times it was broken. I didn't really notice them till you pointed it out. My eyes are quite blue, but I think the lighting in that photo makes them appear to be even bluer than they actually are. In reality, as I've always been told, they're sort of the color of Windex, kind of like Paul Newman's, without that handsome face to go around them.
Aug 31, 2023 15:00:51 #
MosheR
Loc: New York City
JBuckley wrote:
Our minds have the (amazing) ability to remember f... (show quote)
I'm really grateful that everything in my body still works pretty well; well enough, at least, for me to be able to function at a reasonably high level. And I'm really happy that you've had a great seventy five years and are aware of just how lucky you have been. Thank you for the nice note.
Aug 31, 2023 15:02:29 #
MosheR wrote:
Maybe you're her and she's you. And I'm one of your horses.
LOLOLOL!
Well, I'd venture to say that my horses were far more pampered than most, more like spoiled children, but I taught them great manners. Every single one was well behaved.
The best horse I ever had was a killer when I got him...I mean, he wanted to wipe out the human population. Didn't take much to make him like a big, loving puppy! He's the one I won all the trophies with.
Aug 31, 2023 15:02:54 #
MosheR
Loc: New York City
AzPicLady wrote:
Amazing resemblance. I see why people who knew about the picture turned their heads when they saw you. I think I would be tempted to do a log of digging!
I did what I could, Kathy. In fact, my daughter was a journalist and several years after my attempt she herself tried and also came up empty handed. Sometimes ... oftentimes ... there are just dead end trails. At least I have some info about the guy.
Aug 31, 2023 15:09:55 #
MosheR
Loc: New York City
Bubbee wrote:
Wonderful story...and I can relate! I loved those pushcart vendors with their yummy potatoes and pretzels that I enjoyed when I visited my Grandparents in Brooklyn back in the 1930`s and 40's. My Zadie was a tailor in a street cellar on McKibben Street in Williamsburg section.
I grew up in Williamsburg, as did my whole paternal family back to my great grandmother, who was born there in 1847 and lived more than long enough to see me ... born in 1942. But we lived on the other side of Lorimer Street from where your folks lived. (Lorimer was the major bus line that went to Ebbets Field). It would have been about a mile from me and was more or less a completely different neighborhood, even though they were both officially in Williamsburg. I don't know if you're aware, but "Billyburg" is now considered to be one of the trendiest areas of New York, with luxury apartments springing up around all the various subway stops.
Aug 31, 2023 15:13:38 #
MosheR wrote:
My eyes are as blue as the thumbs of a cross-eyed ... (show quote)
Stop it! Don't cheat yourself out of this one!!!
He's gone now, but there was a horse trainer who, as a younger man, looked so much like Paul Newman.
As an old woman, I am not one bit too shy to say I'd put you right up there with him and Paul!
Aug 31, 2023 15:26:28 #
MosheR
Loc: New York City
Horseart wrote:
LOLOLOL!
Well, I'd venture to say that my horses were far more pampered than most, more like spoiled children, but I taught them great manners. Every single one was well behaved.
The best horse I ever had was a killer when I got him...I mean, he wanted to wipe out the human population. Didn't take much to make him like a big, loving puppy! He's the one I won all the trophies with.
Well, I'd venture to say that my horses were far more pampered than most, more like spoiled children, but I taught them great manners. Every single one was well behaved.
The best horse I ever had was a killer when I got him...I mean, he wanted to wipe out the human population. Didn't take much to make him like a big, loving puppy! He's the one I won all the trophies with.
It's always the "killers," with humans and, I suppose, horses, who wind up being the winners.
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