Man Meets His Exact Lookalike On A Plane, Takes The Happiest Selfie

Most travelers can't wait for their airplane seatmate to stop talking . But if you found yourself seated next to your exact doppelganger, you'd probably never want to stop bonding. 

U.K. 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 HuffPost.

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 later, drinking at the same bar.  

"I went for a pint in a lovely bar in Galway called The Quays, and bumped into him again," Douglas said. "We had a few pints and listened to the live band."

Not long after Beattie's post, another doppelgänger chimed in f rom Twitter. Then another , and another. Three red-bearded men have so far claimed to resemble those on the plane: 

And this, dear friends, is the magic of travel . You never know whom you might meet:

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