"I don't know. I really just met hi--it right before you showed up." He had to kill his last doppelganger, no reason to assign it personhood when he might have to do the same to this one. "Have you heard of things like that here before?"

The other monsters were mostly from out in the woods and other wild areas. Maybe this was a normal thing if you went far enough out? Or it was a weird thing like the coffins. But better to see if he could rule that out or not.