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Episode 118 - The History of Doppelgängers in Folklore

February 05, 2023 The Lunatics Project Season 1 Episode 146

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In this episode, Abby and Alan talk about the history of Doppelgängers, including real-life accounts and mythology.

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Sources for today's episode:

  • The Night Side of Nature by Catherine Crowe (1850)
  • The Doppelganger Wikipedia Entry
  • Research paper called The Vardøgr, Perhaps Another Indicator of the Non-Locality of Consciousness by L. DAVID LEITER.
  • Betty T. Bennett. The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1980. Volume 1, page 245.
  • A listverse.com article by Pauli Poisuo: 10 Disturbing Tales of Doppelgangers
  • Ward Hill Lamon’s Book The Recollections of Abraham Lincoln 
  • Vice Article by Natasha Wynarczyk - The Time When You’re Most Likely to See Your Doppelganger
  • A book called Footfalls on The Boundry of Another World by Robert Dale Owen

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