posted by Nk. at 8:37 PM

learned something interesting watching korina sanchez's Balitang K yesterday.

according to her featured report in one of her segments, each one of us has exact doubles. as in a twin. only that this twin isn't something to be happy about. apparently this twin is an evil version of us. (you mean an evil person has an evil-er twin? scaaaary.)

this evil twin is called a doppelgänger. a little browsing in the net says that this creature is a shadow self that is thought to accompany every person. Traditionally, it is said that only the owner of the doppelganger can see this phantom self, and that it can be a harbinger of death. Occasionally, however, a doppelganger can be seen by a person's friends or family, resulting in quite a bit of confusion.

In instances of bilocation, a person can either spontaneously or willingly project his or her double, known as a "wraith," to a remote location. This double is indistinguishable from the real person and can interact with others just as the real person would.

read here for some famous doppelganger stories.