Man shares photo with ‘identical twin’ but there’s a huge twist

A tourist posted a picture of himself in a hotel pool – but it is who is in the photo next to him that caused the post to go viral.

A tourist has gone viral after he posted a picture of the moment he met his doppelganger in a hotel pool.

The photo shows two men in a Las Vegas swimming pool – and they not only look identical but are also wearing matching glasses and caps, The Sun reports.

The man, who goes by the name Sean Douglas McArdle on Reddit, captioned the picture: “I wasn’t convinced until now …. we are definitely in a simulation.

“Today I randomly swam past my Doppel‘sean’er at the Flamingo pool in Vegas.”

“I was just swimming by in the pool and a big group of strangers were pointing at me and laughing.

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A tourist has gone viral after he posted a picture of the moment he met his doppelganger in a hotel pool online. Picture: Reddit

“I got really self-conscious, looked back at my friends and they were all pointing and laughing at him. That’s when I saw him.”

“I immediately thought, ‘Holy sh*t, that guy looks like the dude I see in the mirror,’ and my second thought was, ‘He looks cooler than me. Probably has real Club Master Ray-Bans unlike my Zenni knock-offs.’”

The post has since been liked almost 100,000 times, attracting more than 2300 comments from many shocked Reddit users.

Many suggested there are a lot of men who look exactly like the two in the picture.

“There are three of you guys at every brewery,” one person joked.

Another added: “You look like brothers of Seth Rogen,” referring to the US actor.

A number of people suggested that the men could be brothers of the Hollywood star Seth Rogen. Picture: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images

Thanks to social media, people meeting their doppelganger have become increasingly well publicised online, although they are still far from the norm.

These individuals have managed to find their identical lookalikes for an incredible photo – despite not being related at all.

But the chance meetings haven’t always been a cause for celebration.

According to ancient folklore, coming face-to-face with your doppelganger is one of the worst omens of all – it means your death is just around the corner.

Sun Online previously reported how for centuries, folklore and ghost stories told of people being confronted with mysterious apparitions of themselves – and their loved ones.

People worried that doppelgangers wanted to plant sinister ideas in their human version’s head, so it was strongly advised never to trust them or communicate with them under any circumstances.

This story originally appeared on The Sun and is republished here with permission