40 People Who Discovered Their Doppelgangers In Old Family Photos

There’s an entire meme about how some women don’t like to hear that they look “just like” their dads. And let’s face it: these so-called family resemblances are pretty much nonexistent most of the time. We’re all unique snowflakes, right? Well… For the people on this list, it’s undeniable that they’re just chips off the old block. Seriously, these folks have practically found their doppelgangers right there in old family photos.

Funnybones

“Genes are funny,” wrote a reddit user with the handle Disastrous_Party_623 when she posted these pictures on the site. And she’s not wrong! That’s her on the right and her maternal grandmother on the left. They’re basically the same person, right? Yet the poster’s ancestry is pretty varied. Her grandma was Lebanese, her grandpa was Italian, and her dad’s Irish.

Copy and paste

A poster named Shelby went viral after she shared side-by-side snaps of her and her grandma on Twitter. The family resemblance is uncanny! Granted, there’s a little bit of tricksiness going on here with makeup and editing. But almost everyone agreed that these two are basically doppelgangers. “Shelby” is no doubt pleased — as she called her grandma the “coolest woman ever!”

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The guy who shared this startling collage on reddit claimed they were pictures of him and his dad, both at the age of 29. Yet the commenters were pretty sure this was actually some kind of conspiracy. Could they be twins? Could they be clones? No! The real answer must be that there was a time machine involved. Hmm…

DNA discovery

“Spiffy2252” got this picture of her great-grandma after using AncestryDNA to find a fourth cousin. And the connection between the redditor and her ancestor’s more than skin deep. “Spiffy2252” revealed that she hoped to work as a paralegal — and that her great-grandma had been a lawyer back in the day.