Doppelgangers
(added 8/21/2005)
Description:
A doppelganger is a supernatural double of a living person, especially one who haunts the doubled person. In fiction and mythology and in common parlance, the doppelganger either is a ghost or a paranormal phenomenon, usually perceived as the harbinger of bad luck. A literary example of the doppelganger is the evil twin of the protagonist.
Source: Ellen Rogers
Earliest Encounters:
Izaak Walton claimed that John Donne, the English metaphysical poet, saw his wife's doppelgänger in 1612 in Paris, on the same night as the stillbirth of their daughter.
After further examination of the forensic evidence, oddities were found that point to Prescott’s innocence.
Percy Bysshe Shelley by Alfred Clint
The Jim Prescott Trial:
On July 4, 1998, an accountant named Jim Prescott was arrested and charged after he brutally murdered his wife and children in their sleep. While substantial evidence against him had piled up, including forensic evidence and CCTV footage, Prescott defended himself with a solid alibi that he had not been home at the time.
After further examination of the forensic evidence, oddities were found that point to Prescott’s innocence.
Different fingerprints.
Odd behavior on CCTV (stiff/jerky movements, suddenly standing still, etc).
Mismatched appearance compared to composite sketch.
After this discovery many speculations and theories began to circulate in communities, an infamous one stating that the murder was committed by a doppelganger that was manifested into existence by accident, but the story remains only a rumor.
Other more realistic speculations also circulated, such as the murderer wearing a mask and impersonating Prescott.