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Is This The Same Dude? The Curious Case of Buster Crabb 🦀

Here’s a 100% original conspiracy theory for you my sweet Lords and Ladies of The Unbelievability!

I maintain a dossier of people I suspect of being “eternals”. These are people who look alike and have the same name across more than one lifetime. Both men named Buster Crabb were born only a year away and exercised functions that saw them swim… but the thrid guy he’s the champion of the Plus Ultra procreation program having perfected the science of embryo transfer in the 1980s.


Born on February 7, 1908
(1908 - 1983)

Buster Crabbe

Swimmer

Born on January 28, 1909
(1909 - 1956)

Lionel "Buster" Crabb

MI6 diver whose story inspired the James Bond Film Thunderball

Born on July 18, 1941

John Buster

American physician who, while working at the University of California at Los Angeles School of Medicine, directed the research team that performed the first embryo transfer from one woman to another resulting in a live birth

20 More People Who Look The Same…

I track 9,188 doppelgängers out of 21,283 people in my custom software, specializing in look alikes who were born in the same week in history.

Born within 280 days in 1924


Born on March 11, 1925

Peter R. Hunt

British director, editor and producer of film and television, best known for his work on the James Bond film series

Born on June 4, 1924
(1924 - 2006)

Dennis Weaver

American actor and president of the Screen Actors Guild, best known for his work in television and films from the early 1950s until just before his death in 2006

Born within 2258 days in 1978


Born on March 29, 1972

Ernest Christy Cline

American writer known for Ready, Player One

Born on June 4, 1978

Scott Cawthon

American video game developer, writer, and producer

Born within 3904 days in 1977


Born on March 26, 1967

Jason Chaffetz

American retired politician who served as the U.S. representative for Utah's 3rd congressional district from 2009 until his resignation in 2017

Born on December 2, 1977

Robert Garcia

American politician serving as the U.S. representative for California's 42nd congressional district since 2023

Born within 1758 days in 1925


Born on February 26, 1921
(1921 - 2007)

Betty Hutton

Betty Hutton was an American stage, film, and television actress, comedian, dancer, and singer

Born on December 20, 1925
(1925 - 2016)

Nicole Maurey

French actress, who appeared in 65 film and television productions between 1945 and 1997

Born within 2 days in 1956


Born on November 4, 1956

John Paul Getty III

Gandson of the American-born British oil tycoon J. Paul Getty Sr.

Born on November 6, 1956

Marc Dutroux

Belgian convicted serial killer, serial rapist, and child molester

Born within 17752 days in 1912


Born on October 12, 1960

George Webb

Investigative journalist focused on espionage and the Deep State

Born on March 6, 1912

George Webb

British Actor known for Keeping Up Appearances.

Born within 5 days in 1904


Born on February 16, 1904
(1904 - 2005)

George Frost Kennan

American diplomat and historian and advocate of a policy of containment of Soviet expansion during the Cold War

Born on February 11, 1904
(1904 - 1983)

Keith Holyoake

26th prime minister of New Zealand

Born within 2 days in 1903


Born on October 30, 1903
(1903 - 1949)

Leonarde Keeler

Co-inventor of the polygraph

Born on October 28, 1903
(1903 - 1933)

Hugh Trevor

American actor whose short career began at the very end of the silent era in 1927

Born within 769 days in 1909


Born on August 19, 1911
(1911 - 1963)

Constance Worth

Australian actress who became a Hollywood star in the late 1930s

Born on July 11, 1909
(1909 - 1963)

Diana Churchill

Eldest daughter of British statesman Winston Churchill and Clementine Churchill.

Born within 2 days in 1967


Born on February 12, 1967

Hermione Norris

English actress

Born on February 10, 1967

Laura Dern

American actress

These people should look more different!

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