I recently stumbled across a conspiracy theory that has bent my brain. Photos of celebrities and historical figures that bear a striking resemblance to one another. One doppelgänger might be considered a coincidence, but as I tumbled further down the worm hole, the sheer number of side-by-side images sent a tickle up my spine. Here are just a handful of the photos that brought bits and pieces of story ideas to life.
The first picture shows Alec Baldwin on one side and President Millard Fillmore on the other. The resemblance is jarring.
Donald Trump looks an awful lot like Elvis Presley.
Ryan Gosling could easily pass as a close relation of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Robin Williams and TikTokker Uncle Pappy look the same and have the same voice. Many on TikTok fully believe that Robin Williams retired the character of Robin Williams and is living a quiet life as Uncle Pappy until he resurfaces again in Hollywood someday.
So many other photos show current Hollywood elites and politicians who look just like Hollywood elites and politicians of the past.
There are a few running theories in conspiracy theorist circles that try to explain how these seemingly carbon copied faces might be jumping through historical timelines. Some think that celebrities are vampires who remain youthful through terrible means. Others claim that celebrities are nothing more than fallen angels wearing human flesh, immortal and changing identities to avoid letting regular people notice their agelessness. Then, of course, there's the theory that they're being cloned.
If I wanted to write a fantasy suspense, I'd use the vampire theory. At first, the vampire theory seemed to bleed too far into fairytale (pun intended) for the suspense I typically write, but the recent release of the Epstein files and all the horrors they contain make the idea of vampires feel almost reasonable. (Note the resemblance between Jeffrey Epstein and Andrew Jackson above.)
The fallen angel option is an interesting one, too. Like the vampire option, this brings with it the idea of immortality and offers an explanation for why people throughout history have looked alike. Down to the scars on some celebrities' faces, they line up in a scary way. The more I consider it, the more I think it would be fun to run with this idea. Spiritual warfare could play a part and fans of Frank Peretti might like it.
The use of cloning to ultimately explain the doppelgängers would make for an interesting Sci-Fi suspense novel. The thing about Sci-Fi that I don't particularly care for is how much research I'd have to do to understand cloning.
Setting writing aside, these photos still raise questions. I realize all these options are conspiracy theories, but the funny thing about conspiracies is that people think they're crazy until they're proven right. Will we learn someday that fallen angels walk among us or that more cloning is going on than we think?
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