There is a special word for sinister doubles in the German language - Doppelganger. As a rule, doppelgangers represent the dark half of a person, his evil essence, and so on. At the same time, they meet such a double, usually shortly before their own death.
American writer and researcher of anomalous phenomena Brad Steiger is little known to the domestic public, but very popular in the United States. Before his death in 2018, Steiger had published over 175 books and traveled halfway across America.
Steiger himself also encountered anomalous phenomena. And precisely after he began to get involved in them. He had a special theory about this:
One of the strangest phenomena for Steiger was his own counterparts, who participated in various conferences, lectures and other speeches throughout the country and he did not know anything about them. He found out about the double only when people began to assure that they saw him there, where he said such and such things, although Steiger himself had never been in this place and said nothing of the kind.
Steiger began to suspect that an incomprehensible campaign of discrediting was being waged against him, but he was never able to personally find a single double, as well as those who organized such a campaign against him. At the same time, sometimes the doubles performed quite well, in no way denigrating Steiger, and in this case, the existence of the double project itself seemed completely meaningless.
Later, already at the performances of the real Brad Steiger, dozens of men and women began to turn to him with congratulations on the fact that he had defeated Dr. Carl Sagan himself (a popular astrophysicist) in a dispute. Allegedly, he just smashed his conclusions to smithereens, simply "wiped the floor with it."
Steiger didn't understand what these people were talking about. Then they began to tell him that they saw how he collided with Sagan in a certain restaurant and a scientific skirmish took place between them. Among the spectators there were those who had previously attended the double's seminar and they began to incite the debaters.
Even more eyewitnesses turned up at a performance at the Seattle Hall, where Steiger read a message from the Space Brothers. At the same time, according to Steiger himself, he has never been to Seattle and does not know what the message of the "Space Brothers" is about and who they are in general.
Until his death, Steiger did not solve the mystery of his doubles and whether they were doubles. Maybe there was something like the Mandela Effect or something even more sinister.
