The beards, the teeth, the hair colour, we are identical, but we are complete strangers. We met for the first time when we found ourselves next to each other on a Ryanair flight, much to our amusement, as well as the people around us.
UK photographer Neil Thomas Douglas took a Ryanair flight to Galway, Ireland Thursday night to photograph a wedding. Upon boarding, he found his near-perfect twin sitting right next to him. ‘I couldn’t believe it!’ he told an international website.
Lee Beattie, a friend of Douglas’ wife, then posted the photo on Twitter, where it swiftly went viral. The two men had never met before the flight and they’re not related, she told HuffPost Thursday.
‘There was a dude already on [Douglas’] seat. He asked him to move and when the guy looked up, he thought, ‘Holy shit, he looks like me.’ They had a big laugh about it — everyone around them had a laugh, they took a selfie and that was it,’ Beattie said.
But then things got even stranger after the flight: The men found themselves checking into the same hotel, and eating in the same food court.
