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16th Dec 2015

VIDEO: This Irish student meets her Swedish doppelgänger for the first time

When Shannon met Sara

Tony Cuddihy

2015 was definitely the year of the doppelgänger discovery.

Earlier this year, journalist Niamh Geaney managed to track down not one but two people who looked exactly like her by using the website TwinStrangers.com.

Remember this?

Niamh

Well, now we have another case of two completely identical strangers coming across each for the first time.

Shannon, from Ireland, and Sara, from Sweden, really do look like identical twins.

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Image: TwinStrangers.com

You can see the resemblance even more clearly here…

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Image: TwinStrangers.com

“I gave her a hug and then we just stood there like ‘Oh my God, this is so weird’,” said Shannon. “Our noses, our eyes… we have the exact same ears… lips, expressions, pout, smile… it’s just weird.”

This video shows the reaction of the pair as they meet for the first time.