Neil Thomas Douglas encounters stranger with whom he shares an uncanny resemblance on flight to Galway

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A man has spoken of the “total weirdness” of encountering his doppelganger after boarding a flight and finding him sitting in his seat. Neil Thomas Douglas, a photographer from Glasgow, was travelling to Galway via Stansted on Thursday night when he came face to face with the bearded stranger.

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Douglas said: “When I got on the Ryanair flight, there was a dude already on my seat – when the guy looked up, I thought: ‘He looks like me.’ We had a big laugh about it – everyone around us had a laugh, we took a selfie and that was it.”

But the pair were later to encounter a further coincidence when they checked into the same hotel in Galway. Douglas said: “Later that night, I went to the pub and again, there was my twin. Total weirdness. We had a laugh and a pint.”

The selfie was posted on Twitter by Lee Beattie, director of Wire Media:

Lee Beattie (@leebeattie) 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

It has since been retweeted thousands of times.