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It's a Trap!

The Editor's Note We all love Hallowe'en, don't we? At least, I am fascinated by those jack-o-lanterns, those spooky face paints, the whole eerie feel! Lights. Camera. RCNM. Vowed to bring the Hallowe'en-esque ambience to the digital world. And here we are! Nearing the end of the 'Fortnight Of Terror'. The core object of the project was, excuse the language, to scare the sh*t of out of our readers. Well, we may have missed that mark, we did provide our readers with a spooky experience. Personally, I did enjoy every article, right from the Camping Trip to Taken. They're were incredibly engaging with that supernatural appeal about them. And Rtr Aakash Rathi, the project chairperson along with the whole of Editorials avenue, did surely ensure to cross all boundaries, break all records and celebrate the festival before the world ;) I wonder why I can't sleep peacefully at night yet.. And then a voice hums in the back of my mind.. ' The nigh...

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Doppelgänger You know the famous paranormal phenomenon that people quote often of how there are 7 faces identical to yours in the world. Do you think you have an exact double or doppelgänger somewhere in the world? Pronounced as dop-puhl-ganger, it means an apparition or double of a living person.  Drawn from the German language, its origin walks back to the 19 th century when a lot of superstitions and folk tales were attached to the word. This is a list of German expressions used in English; some are relatively common but most are comparatively rare. In many cases the loanword has assumed a meaning substantially different from its German forebear. In contemporary vernacular , the word doppelgänger is often used in a more general sense to identify any person that physically or perhaps even behaviourally resembles another person. The word doppelgänger is a loanword from German Doppelgänger, consisting of the two substantives Doppel (double) Gänger (walk...