How would you react if you saw your doppelganger out on the street or seated right next to you on a public bench? Would you run away or have a good laugh? Let’s read about the doppelganger pair who seemed to have a good time when they met on a Ryanair flight.

Red-headed Neil Thomas Douglas met his ginger doppelganger Robert Stirling on a Ryanair flight to Ireland.

Guy on right is the husband of my friend @elrottencrotch. Guy on left is a STRANGER he met on a flight last night! pic.twitter.com/kwBFOOEoMc

— Lee Beattie (@leebeattie) October 30, 2015

A photo posted on X showed two men—who one would assume to be twins—sitting side-by-side on a Ryanair flight from Stansted, London, to Galway, Ireland, on 29 October 2015.

In the photo, the two bearded red-heads have the same bright smiles, peeking through a cloned set of a bushy mustache and beard, revealing similarly aligned teeth. The smiles light up their eyes and make them squint identically. They are undoubtedly twins—but they are not.

Neil Thomas Douglas from Scotland and Robert Stirling from London were strangers until they met on the fated flight.

When Neil walked up to his seat in the craft, he found his seat taken by another passenger. As soon as the passenger turned around, Neil was taken aback by what he saw. Robert Stirling, the man in his seat, was a spitting image of him.

The two had a good laugh, joined in by their co-passengers, and clicked the selfie that was later shared online by a friend.

With almost identical facial features, they happened to fly on the same day, to the same destination, on the same flight.

The entire situation became a bit too bizarre when, upon arriving, the duo realized they had booked the same hotel for their stay in Galway.

Such stories make one wonder how two people with no blood connection can look so identical. And before you justify the logistics of such a convenient meeting as a one-time coincidence in the universe’s lifetime – well, we have two more encounters of twin strangers for you to read.

1 Two strangers who look identical, also share the same name, live in the same area, and have the same number of children.

Imagine boarding a flight, and looking over at the person next to you… who looks like you, has the same full name as you… and even shares a friend with you 🤯

58 year old Mark Garland was flying from London to Bangkok, Thailand just a few days ago when this took place. pic.twitter.com/WifFx0IHSg

— Breakfast Television (@breakfasttv) March 8, 2024

While checking in for his flight from London to Bangkok, 58-year-old Mark Garland was met with puzzled gate agents who insisted he had already checked in.

After a 40-minute wait, check-in employees realized there had been a mix-up. Another passenger, also named Mark Garland (68 years old), was erroneously checked in under his reservation.

The two strangers finally meet at the boarding gate, and what follows for the duo is the surreal experience of seeing your body double, standing right in front of you.

In a baffling coincidence, both men not only share the same name, Mark Garland, but also have nearly identical faces.

The similarities do not end here.

After an 11-½ hour flight seated next to each other, the Mark Garlands discovered they both have four children and live close enough in Southwest England to surely have crossed paths before. The older Mark Garland was even confident he had been on the bus driven by the younger Mark Garland.

Uncannily, it’s not just the everyday mundane details that match. Even their favorite holiday destination is the same. While Mark Garland, the construction worker, has been to Thailand 13 times, his doppelganger bus driver has visited the exotic country 83 times!

2 Doppelgangers Geaney and Adams took a DNA test to check if they shared an ancestor down the line, and the results shocked them.

Niamh Geaney, 27, met two of her doppelgangers since creating Twin Strangers, a web application that helps you find your look-alike using facial recognition technology.

Geaney found her third doppelganger, 28-year-old Irene Adams, in November 2015 through people in Adams’ social circle who had seen Geaney on the news.

The two met, and Geaney soon realized it was not just Adams’ face that was identical. Her facial expressions, hand movements, and mannerisms, in general, very closely mirror hers.

The twin strangers looked so much alike that people suggested they could be related somewhere down the line. It is the first logical reasoning people assume when reading stories about doppelgangers.

So the duo took a DNA test at DNA Ireland, expecting a connection and a crossover at some point in their lineage, but the results were not as expected. The two were shocked to learn that there was only a 0.1% chance they shared a parent. In fact, their ancestry didn’t link up, even as far back as 20,000 years ago.