This is going to sound insane, but I need to get it off my chest. I’m not saying I believe in ghosts or anything supernatural, but what happened last night really shook me.
So, I went out around 9:40 PM to buy something from the convenience store a few blocks away. It’s a walk I’ve done a hundred times before. The streets were quiet, a little damp from earlier rain, just the usual hum of streetlights and the occasional passing car.
On my way back, maybe halfway home, I noticed someone walking ahead of me. They were wearing a black hoodie and jeans almost exactly what I was wearing. I didn’t think much of it until I noticed something strange: the way they walked.
Same pace. Same shoulder tilt. Even the way I adjust my bag strap every few steps. It was like watching a recording of myself from behind.
I slowed down a bit. They slowed too.
At this point, I felt this weird mix of curiosity and unease, so I crossed the street to get a better look from the side. When I did, the person turned their head slightly and I froze.
It was my face.
Not “someone who kind of looks like me.” I mean exactly me down to the hairstyle, the small scar above my eyebrow, even the same tired expression I always have after work.
I didn’t move. I didn’t say anything. I just stood there, staring. And then they smiled.
It wasn’t a creepy smile, just a small, polite one but it felt wrong because I knew I wasn’t the one smiling.
Before I could even react, a tricycle passed between us, and when it moved on, the person was gone. Completely gone. No footsteps, no sound, nothing.
I walked home as fast as I could. I didn’t even look in the mirror when I got inside. I kept trying to come up with logical explanations maybe a reflection, or someone who just looked freakishly similar. But the scar, the jacket, the way he moved... I can’t explain that away.
Then this morning, my friend messaged me:
“Bro, you walked past me near the store last night. I called your name twice, but you didn’t even look at me.”
I checked the time on the message 9:55 PM.
At that time, I was already home.
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