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Recently I uncovered something that most people would believe is supernatural – myself included. That is until about four or five days ago.

You see I’m a plain old vanilla guy. I like cheese, beers, missionary, footy and funniest home videos. In fact I’m even an atheist. The only ‘supernatural thing’ I ever subscribed to was yowies. However round these parts we call them mega-fauna not super-natural.

If you told me that people had been cloned six days ago I would have said you were dreaming. Total nutter.

Yet to my surprise recently whilst traversing my social media platforms I came across exactly that. What I found was a guy who looks like my mate Jules. But he’s older. He’s in India. He cooks eggy bread.

That’s right. Some viral video of a man dunking bread into eggs – a video anyone else would scroll past. For privacy reasons, I have chosen to identify him as JD, or Jules doppelganger. All images used fall under ‘fair use’.

For those who aren’t researchers, a doppelganger is defined below.

a spirit that looks exactly like a living person, or someone who looks exactly like someone else but who is not related to that person

Cambridge Definition of doppelgänger

So who is JD, the little fella from the big country? Well the only explanation is the supernatural. That there are things here on this green earth that simply cannot be explained. Things people will assure you are not real. Things that aren’t missionary.

To give you a little idea of the kind of similarities I am speaking to here, you don’t just have to take my word for it. Have a look yourself:

Perhaps the biggest surprise was when reached out to this, seemingly, complete stranger on the other side of the world, we found he was familiar in way more than just external. It was truly astounding, and in some ways unsettling.

We chatted for about 20 minutes via Skype. The chat was mid, and the (internet) connection was mild. The meat and bones of the conversation was pretty boring and I wont post here (spoiler: it was a heated argument about whether Tendulkar or Smudge was the ‘Best Since Bradman’. Strangely I was saying Tendulkar and he was saying Smudge).

But towards the tail end of the chat I propositioned him. I said “JD, other than Ricky Ponting and other cricket adjacent facts, what can you tell me about Australia, the homeplace of your doppelganger.” To my awe he continued.

I’m going to refrain from delving too deep into what this means. I hesitate to lead the witness, like our mainstream media friends do. But also largely because I think it speaks for itself. But what I will say is this.

For context, my mate Jules is a total yowie head. I remember back in 03′ he cut his hair to look like a yowie, stole his mum’s yowie trousers and climbed up an air vent and terrorised the local St Vinnies. It took 15 cops, 6 firemen, a tub of Vaseline and an FBI negotiator to get him down.

In 07′ when he was released he started a yowie tribute band called Harry Bolsak & the Sapiens.

With that context in mind consider the following.

There is a tripartite of discovery from this quote. Ask yourself. Is it A. Possible for doppelgangers to exist. B. Possible for that doppelganger to also believe in the same niche creature as the original and C. That JD is good at making eggy bread.

If you believe all those three things are true, we should do away with term ‘supernatural’ – let’s call a spade a spade and a yowie a yowie.