A doppelgänger is a supernatural double of a living person, especially one who haunts the doubled person. In fiction and mythology and in common parlance, the doppelgänger either is a ghost or a paran
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, How They Met Themselves, watercolour, 1864
Percy Shelley, per Mary Shelley, had claimed to have met his own doppelgänger.
William Wilson and his doppelgänger, in Edgar Allan Poe's story (illustration by Arthur Rackham)
A scene in The Student of Prague, where the student Balduin faces his double
Lake Mungo is a 2008 Australian psychological horror film written and directed by Joel Anderson. Presented in the pseudo-documentary format with elements of found footage and docufiction, it is Anders
Doppelgänger
…one of the stories involves Sasha being tormented and replaced by a doppelgänger she finds in a house of mirrors. In the 2008 psychological horror film Lake Mungo, the film's climax contains a scene in which a young teenager, named Alice, is attacked by her disfigured doppelgänger, meant as a premonition of her…
Theatrical release poster