Submitted by Fred on

Strangest Situation?

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My granddaughter sends me a weekly question and my responses are accumulated until year end. Then they are bound in a volume for the purpose of memorializing Family History.  

 

If the concept interests you please visit www.Storyworth.com.  

The question this past Monday was: What is one of the strangest things that ever happened to you?

I responded as follows: l was at the 1984 Olympics in LA spectating at the Coliseum. Between events, I decided to wander around in the stands and people watch the worldwide crowd. And, glory be, I came face to face with my doppelgänger. He was my mirror image in every way: facially, body type and complexion.  

The only problems were he didn't speak English and I didn't have a camera. So we just stood and stared at each other and marveled. 

Eventually we moved on from the strangest encounter I ever experienced.  

And you?

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Daniel Schwartz

Tough question. Many odd things have happened I am sure, but the world is full of them, so which to pick? Feeling the presence of a ghost in my old Lynbrook house, several times, was an odd one.
Paul Napolitano

That must have been so surreal! I had a “look-alike“ in high school. One time, some kids from another high school started a fight with him, thinking he was me!

Submitted by Judy_Mauer on Thu, 02/23/2023 - 20:42

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Judy Mauer

In 1998my husband and I went to a Club Med in Columbus Isle where I learned to Scuba dive. There was one dive master I got really friendly with over the course of the week. 5 or 6 years later we went to a Club Med in Tahiti and there was the same dive master. We were overjoyed to reconnect and We have been best friends ever since. We meet up when we can.He now lives in France and last year we met up in Paris. I don’t know if it’s strange….. but what are the odds?
Mike Wiebe

It was the late morning of 9/11/01 and I was walking north home to Sleepy Hollow NY - about 20 miles. By some miracle I flagged down a cab at 46th. At the same time a guy with his hand wrapped in a bloody towel grabbed the other door. He suggested we both get in. All I remember of our conversation is that his hand was hit by glass falling from one of the towers. Otherwise we were both lost for words. The cabbie made us get out at 125th, he hoping to get a train to Stamford CT before they shut down, me to walk some more. We shook hands as we got out (his good hand) and sincerely wished each other good luck - both a little teary eyed. I often think about him and wonder what was his adventure getting home.
Norman Spizz

it was the day of the last high school regents exam. We all stood outside the sweet shop at Lincoln High School. Since there were no more exams we threw our regents books on the ground and started a bonfire with them. As I was on my way to an audition that afternoon, I had my trumpet with me. I took it out and played taps. i went on to the audition and when I came home, my father told me that my brother had died, He passed at the same time that I was playing Taps.
Kelly Welles

Though Byron first coined the phrase, "Truth is stranger than fiction", Mark Twain and Arthur Conan Doyle turned the phase in many a nuance. I most like, Sherlock's comment to Watson: " Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man can invent." For my humble part, the entire phenomenon of life is strange, mysterious and miraculous. Great Question.
Corey Bearak

From time to time I've been told of a look-a-like and I just deny the possibility.

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