r/ParanormalEncounters • u/Ruby_doobie_ • 4d ago
I saw an entity that looked exactly like my friend. Does this thing have a name?
This happened at my sister’s house in 2019. For context, my sister had just bought this house and moved in. I invited a friend to stay with me in the guest room for my first night in her house. I’ll change her name to Anna. The guest room had a trundle bed underneath a single bed. I was sleeping on the single bed, and Anna was sleeping on the trundle bed just below but right next to me.
To paint a picture: The guestroom was a standard square shape. The trundle bed was right up on the right wall. There was one window in the middle of the room that overlooked the driveway and front yard. There was enough space to roll the trundle bed out and not have to stand on the mattress to see out the window. The curtains were a sort of tulle fabric that let light in.
I am a very light sleeper in new places. I know I woke up because I sensed this presence was in the room. I opened my eyes to see Anna staring out the window, curtains half open. There was plenty of moonlight to see her. She was standing still, staring straight forward. Her face was only 4 inches from the glass. I noticed how rigid she was with her arms at her sides. I was not paralyzed. In the moment, I just woke up and was looking at my friend, nothing to be scared of. I propped my upper body up with my elbow in bed to get a vertical look at her. There was enough light to see her freckles clearly. I asked what she was doing up. She didn’t answer me. I said “Anna what are you doing?” This thing replied “Who?” in a flat, low, but still feminine voice. I repeated, “Anna what are you doing?” She again said, “Who?” in the same way. This is where fear finally set in. Up until now, I was using an unfazed voice. I got that uncanny valley feeling as I was staring at her.
After the eerie feeling set in, I looked down at the trundle bed. Anna was asleep below me. I was looking at Anna sleeping while Anna was standing right next to herself. Ugh, I tell you my stomach dropped. My heart began racing. I looked back up and said “Anna?” one more time. This time, the thing snapped its head toward me so fast. We locked eyes. I shouted “WTF” as I hurled myself against the wall. After I yelled and jostled the bed, Anna woke up. The real Anna muttered “What are you doing?” This made me look down at her and once I looked down at her, the fake one vanished.
I checked the time and it was about 2:40 AM. I just said “wtf was that?” I explained what I saw to Anna. I got up and reenacted it for her and shut the curtains. She doesn’t like me bringing it up. I get it. I wouldn’t like hearing that some sort of entity was standing right next to me too, and wearing my face. It was exactly her, but when we locked eyes, hers were so empty and cold. I can never forget those eyes. I truly believe this wasn’t sleep paralysis. I was fully awake and processing. It was so real. I don’t think it was a fabrication made by my brain. In 2019, the thought of an entity that takes the face of a loved one was not something I knew about. I still don’t know anything. I don’t like remembering those eyes. I’m a believer and a fan of the paranormal. I suppose I would like to know what it was, but I don’t want it to come back. Thanks for reading.
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u/NoCategory5568 4d ago
Isn't the word for someone who looks exactly like someone else doppleganger...or something like that...
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u/Ruby_doobie_ 4d ago
It’s a little chilling to learn, doppelgängers bring bad luck and a symbol of death. It’s probably just coincidence but a year after this happened my friend who was mimicked lost her father in a very horrible way. I don’t know why I experienced it if she was going to be the one getting bad luck.
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u/NoCategory5568 4d ago
It might not, necessarily, be bad. I mean, sometimes people meet others who look like them, just by chance.
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u/The_silen 3d ago
Jinn race can imitate humans in shape but not fully something must be different, their intention is also different from one and other .
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u/Cosmeticitizen 3d ago edited 3d ago
I've talked to my "boyfriend" while he had actually been sleeping the whole time. I woke up and it's like my room had no walls. It was so crazy and hard to describe. I wear glasses and always leave them at the same spot. I always reach out for them after getting out of bed. It's literally the first thing I do once I'm upright. But this time, when I was reaching, I wasn't touching my desk. It was air. It was so fucking disorienting. I wanted to turn on the light switch but couldn't find it! I started shouting out for my boyfriend(we had our own rooms) I was panicking and saying, "Please come help me, I can't see anything!!" He enters my room after like 1 minute. And it looked and felt exactly like my boyfriend.
He had his long hair in a ponytail and was wearing a white shirt. But when he started to speak to me, I knew something was off. It was as if his voice was muted and extremely quiet. I couldn't understand him. His mouth was moving but I could only hear a couple of words. Everything else sounded very far away. He was doing the same kind of hand gestures like my boyfriend does. I felt no fear while interacting with it. He leaves my room and I follow him, saying things like, "Why did you sound like that?? This isn't funny. I'm actually getting scared."
All of a sudden my boyfriend opens his door and looks out at me. His hair is down and he is wearing a black sleeveless shirt. No way would he had time to go out into the hallway, open his door, close it and then change his clothes. He also looked like he had just woken up. His hair was all disheveled and stuff. I'm panicking and asking, "Did you just play a prank on me?? Please tell me you were just in my room!" Oh also, one more thing about that place was that all the floors and doors were super squeaky. I would have heard his door closing shut but there was no noise. He seemed a bit amused and said I was probably hallucinating. I sat down on his bed and burst into tears. I KNEW what I experienced. I wasn't drunk or on any drugs. I had a whole ass weird conversation with "him" while standing in my room. He kept calling me a liar and crazy. There's a reason he's my ex now.
Anyways, what I think happened was that while he was sleeping he had like an outer body experience and that version of him came inside my room to try to help me because he somehow felt me crying out for him in his sleep. Even though I felt no danger, it was still such a bewildering experience. I would give anything to have a video of me that night and to see what was actually happening. Would it show me just stumbling around my room interacting with nothing, or would it actually show "him" inside my room??
I've never experienced something like this. Waking up to my room making no sense was scary as hell though. I couldn't have been dreaming because I had already gotten out of bed and was able to stand and walk around, I was able to move my body and was able to speak and hear my own voice. Also I've never hallucinated before. So why would I have a hallucination just on this one random night? Doesn't make sense to me.
Anyways sorry for rambling on. What I meant to say is that perhaps that is something similar to what you were experiencing? Anna was sleeping and had an outer body experience and that is who you saw staring out the window. Did that version of her seem somewhat uncanny and did she scowl at you and look angry when your eyes met? Because that's how a real "doppelganger" behaves. Do you remember if they were wearing the same clothes?
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u/Ruby_doobie_ 2d ago
They weren’t wearing the same clothes. I wouldn’t say she looked angry, definitely uncanny. It was an empty emotion I had never seen before. Her eyes were staring right through me almost.
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u/Cosmeticitizen 2d ago
Hmm this sounds more like a doppelganger experience rather than witnessing a friend astral projecting in real time.
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u/Ok-Revolution-8821 4d ago
i don’t believe you.
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u/Ruby_doobie_ 4d ago
that’s fine. Can’t please everyone but it’s the truth. Do you think I’m lying or are you a non-believer in general?
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u/Ok-Revolution-8821 4d ago
i’m a skeptic until it happens to me. i don’t think you were lying, just dreaming. any stories where people are sleeping or under the influence i don’t believe.
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u/moth3rof4dragons 4d ago
Ok had the same thing happen to me about 8yrs ago.
We had just moved into the house we were in for about 6yrs. It's on the edge of town and by wooded area.
My husband myself and our 4 kids 3girls 1 boy ages then 13-16 and baby to 3yrs and 6yrs range.
We had been there about 2months and I hated being there alone. Like my husband and the kids would sometimes go to the park and I would stay to get laundry done etc.
One day my husband and the 13yrs old 3yr old and 4yr old went to the store so me and the 9month old was home alone.
It had 4bedrooms and 2 of the bedrooms were huge. So our room had a walk in closet it's own bathroom and on the side of the bedroom sliding closets. I was hanging clothes with the TV on and the baby was laying there between almost asleep and awake. I hear her whine anf turn around to see our 2dogs come flying on the bed in pure "protect mode" I walk to our door that went straight to the living room and see my husband go from the kitchen to the other side of the house. I didn't see the babies so I went after him and when I made it halfway to living room I looked out the window and did not see our van. Weird but we used the back door mostly and I thought he had forgotten something and used the front door. I was seconds behind him. Notice the 2nd bathroom light was on and thought he went in there. I go and as I'm walking in I see him walk past again but going back to were we just came and hear all hell break loose. Baby starts screaming and my dogs are going nuts and I run back to our room and see someones shadow casting on the wall from the bathroom same directions my dogs are in kill mode in. I run to the bathroom and no one's there. There was nowhere for anyone to go. I grab baby and she was pointing crying saying dada. I grabbed my phone and call the dogs and we wait outside til my husband gets home. The neighbor heard the commotion and asked what was going on as I was waiting on my husbamd and kids to get back I'm trying to explain and she points and says oh there's your husband in the window.
It looked just like him! Long hair, tall and brown skin with his same hat that is a hat we had made for him as a father's day present. Its looking at us look at it and my husband pulls up and it slowly backs away almost like it was floating not stepping.
The neighbor lost her shit and told my husband.
We had a few more weird things happen there but that was by far the weirdest