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Man stunned after bumping into his doppelgänger in chance encounter while on vacation

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Published 16:40 4 Jan 2025 GMT

Man stunned after bumping into his doppelgänger in chance encounter while on vacation

This would either be hilarious or terrifying

Gerrard Kaonga

Gerrard Kaonga

A man was left utterly bamboozled when his friends spotted his exact double while they were vacationing in Las Vegas.

It's a good thing what happens in Vegas doesn’t stay in Vegas, otherwise the world wouldn’t know about this bizarre encounter one man had on a birthday party trip.

Kent State University professor Sean Douglas McArdle, from Ohio, US, met the most interesting man out on a trip for his friend’s 40th in the Nevada city of sin... himself.

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We aren’t talking about introspection here... he met another man who looked scarily similar to himself, in complexion, build facial structure and even attire. Check it out:

McArdle shared a photo the two of them took together and, as you can imagine, the image went viral on social media. It quickly garnered over 100,000 upvotes back in 2022 when it was posted on Reddit.

Speaking to TODAY, he explained the wild scenario and how it unfolded.

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He said: "Everybody on the opposite side pointed at me laughing and I just got a little embarrassed.

"I look back at my friends and they're pointing at some other dude and laughing. I look over and it was like looking in the mirror. I've seen guys who've had similarities to me, but man, this guy just looked just like me. It was pretty surreal."

What do you think? Twins or just vaguely similar? (Seandouglasmcardle/Reddit)
What do you think? Twins or just vaguely similar? (Seandouglasmcardle/Reddit)

To make things even funnier, McArdle had been told he looked like Seth Rogen over the years, so he tied that into his opening line to the stranger.

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He swam over to him and simply asked ‘are you Seth Rogen’ to which his double chuckled.

If it wasn’t surreal enough, the pair were wearing similar hats, had similar facial hair and even appeared to be wearing identical glasses.

McArdle also found it funny how similar their glasses were and said: “I was the only person in the whole pool wearing glasses. I get weirded out if I can't see and I'm around a bunch of strangers, so I just kept my glasses on in the pool. He did, too."


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McArdle, a dad to two teens, said his children found the whole thing quite amusing and he was finally able to get one over her.

He added: "My youngest thought it was pretty funny. I finally have something that has more views than she does from TikTok. She gets millions of views on goofy things she posts on TikTok.

"So, a little bit of a competition there."

Let us hope we can all find ourselves as easily on our next vacation, eh.

Featured Image Credit: Reddit/Seandouglasmcardle

Topics: Reddit, News, US News

Gerrard Kaonga
Gerrard Kaonga

Gerrard is a Journalist at UNILAD and has dived headfirst into covering everything from breaking global stories to trending entertainment news. He has a bachelors in English Literature from Brunel University and has written across a number of different national and international publications. Most notably the Financial Times, Daily Express, Evening Standard and Newsweek.

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