Woman who freaked out after meeting doppelganger meets another 'twin'

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Thursday, June 11, 2015
Ireland native Niamh Geaney, left, pictured with her "twin" doppleganger Luisa Guizzardi from Italy.
Twin Strangers

A woman who came face-to-face with her real-life doppelganger got the chance to meet another lookalike in Italy.

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Niamh Geaney "freaked out" when she met her first doppelganger Karen Branigan in Ireland a few months ago through her website Twin Strangers, which helps connect people with their real-life lookalikes. Now Geaney has met up with Luisa Guizzardi, another doppelganger who even acts just like her.

"I met with her friend of 24 years before meeting her, and he said Luisa and I had the same presence and aura," Geaney told ABC News. "And when I finally met her in person, it was crazy. She'd scrunch her nose the same way as me, play with her hair the same way, shrug her shoulders the same way and even talk with her hands similarly."

Niamh Geaney with her first "twin" Karen Branigan.
Twin Strangers

Guizzardi got in touch with Geaney after watching a video of Geaney meeting her first doppelganger.

"From there, I was just kind of like, 'Hey, what do you think about me flying over there?' and she was super excited about it, so it was easy to set up," Geaney said.

"The first time around, seeing another girl with my face was a new sensation, but it was so strange for it to happen to me again," she said. "But it was how similar she acted that was the craziest thing about her."

Geaney says that the "twins" plan on keeping in touch, and that she considers Guizzardi a friend for life.

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