Doubles of living people
A living person seen in two places, or a double of them.
Small sample: these figures describe only these 7 stories.
A coma, three selves, and walking with Jesus after a 1980 car crash
A caller who gives their name as [name withheld] describes a December 1980 car accident in which they were thrown through the driver's window and lay unconscious for thirty-three days. They report regaining consciousness in a Utah hospital and perceiving three versions of themselves in the room. The room then darkened, and shadow-like objects seized one of the figures. After that came a bright place in which they walked hand in hand with Jesus Christ. They say they woke up after thirty-three days. Art Bell calls it [quote withheld]
Caller reports seeing their living father walk through the family house
A caller named [name withheld], phoning from Colorado Springs, Colorado, describes a night in the late 1980s, about eight months before they joined the Army in the summer of 1989. They say they saw their living father, who had been living elsewhere for four or five months, walk through the family house in a small Minnesota town at about 9:30 p.m. They followed the figure into their parents' bedroom and felt a presence there. Then they met their brother, who asked whether Dad had just walked by. [name withheld] says their father is still alive. They raise the word doppelganger, and the host offers his own commentary on [quote withheld]
Caller reports seeing husband in a passing car before learning of his death
A caller who gives no name, only their location, Spokane, Washington, tells Art Bell about something that happened in the 1950s. They say that while they were driving, they saw their husband, a miner, smiling and waving from a black sedan. They say they prepared for his arrival and then received a telegram saying he had been killed the day after the sighting. They say they never remarried. They offer no explanation for what they saw.
Caller describes seeing their own spirit during an out-of-body experience
[name withheld] from Auckland, New Zealand, tells Art Bell they often have out-of-body experiences and once saw their own ghost. They say part of them separated while their vision stayed in their physical body, and they saw themselves walking across the room from a third-person view. They report no lasting effect and say they have had more hair-raising experiences.
Letter: Man reports wife’s double at bathroom door while she lies in bed
Art Bell reads a letter he attributes to [quote withheld] The writer describes a night roughly 30 years earlier in a newly bought house in the northwest San Fernando Valley. Half awake in bed, he says he saw his wife standing at the open bathroom door. Then he realized from her reply that she was lying beside him, and the figure vanished. The letter gives no cause.
Figure resembling the writer's wife in a bathroom doorway, Northridge, California
An unnamed letter writer, read on air by Art Bell, describes lying awake in bed in a newly purchased home in Northridge, California. The writer saw what they took to be their wife standing in the lit bathroom doorway. When their wife answered from beside the writer on the bed, the figure vanished. The writer told her what had happened and later guesses that something from the site's past may explain it.
Figure resembling roommate walks past door in Lawrence, Kansas, house
A caller who gives the name [name withheld], from Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood, tells Art Bell that they once lived in a house in Lawrence, Kansas, said to have been haunted. Their roommate had described poltergeist-type episodes there. The caller reports that one night, while sitting with friends, they saw what they took to be their roommate walk past the doorway, but the roommate was not in the house. The call is cut off mid-sentence as the caller begins to describe what later occupants of the house reported.