Posted on 03/31/2015 4:52:30 PM PDT by beaversmom
When retired priest Neil Richardson, 69, moved to Braintree, Essex he was constantly greeted by complete strangers who insisted on calling him John.
Baffled by their persistence, Mr Richardson thought nothing of it until some time later the reason for the confusion became apparent.
John Jemison, 74, a retired headteacher is the spitting image of Mr Richardson and lives just miles away.
When the doppelgangers finally bumped into each other, they even discovered that they has attended the same college and had both worked as religious knowledge teachers.
Mr Richardson, 69, said: "Complete strangers were coming up to me and saying hello.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
that is a “bit much” isnt it.?
thanks
I think you got some English showing. :)
rightly so that eh?
those two blokes appear to have been separated at birth dont they?
Lol. :)
A DNA test would certainly be interesting, but I think both of them are of an age and time in their life when they’d rather not open a Pandora’s box.
yes Id think that by the time one reached the age when there’s far less left of life than one’s lived already such things arent likely seen as all that important anymore
Had this happen to me I would get taken for a local accountant in a neighboring city. Never met the guy or saw a picture. The clincher was when his sister almost hugged me in a bar one night before realizing it wasn’t him. I kind of pity the poor ugly SOB.
Lol...Did you get to see a pic of him?
Something similar happened to Patrick McGoohan at the end of one of his television series, but I won’t spoil it for those who haven’t seen it : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csfyrCQDVI4
Photos of Unrelated People Who Look Exactly Alike
No. It was pre Internet so finding one wasn’t as easy as now either. Always figured our paths would cross sometime but it didn’t happen.
Thanks. Going to watch video.
All old people look alike..;)
Wow. Most twins don’t look that much alike in their later years.
Thanks for posting!
Then there is totallylookslike.com for celebrity look-a-likes. I still mix up James Coburn and Lee Marvin.
I WOULD do the DNA.
It would not be a Pandora’s box so much as the revealing of bloodlines. Personally, I’d love to know that if I were either of them.
So, now...might be fun for these guys to watch Disney’s Prince and the Pauper together. Or, The Parent Trap, Hayley Mills version;)
Thanks and you are welcome, lp. :)
Really! Or at least see if they have some common ancestor through genealogy.
Those two are pretty close!
And Natalie Portman and Keira Knightley.
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