Influencer Buys a Ring While Traveling in France Then Finds Duplicate at Home (Exclusive)

Influencer Becca Bastos bought a small vintage-inspired gold ring with a white stone center while on vacation in the South of France last year. A year later, she found that she had two of the same ring in her jewelry collection — after only purchasing one.

Bastos, 29, posted a now-viral TikTok about the mysterious duplicate ring on Aug. 18. “I don’t usually come on here looking for answers, right?” Bastos began. “But something happened to me that has me turning to the masses.”

She went on to explain, “I mean, I was getting ready the other day, putting on my jewelry, standing right here. Right here. And I got this ring in France last summer, no offense. And I take out the ring and I’m like, what is that?”

Anticipating that the comment section would have plenty of questions, Bastos said, “I only bought one ring. I didn’t have two of these rings, and they’re the exact same ring. This isn’t clickbait. This is just scary. How did this materialize?” she said.

She reiterated that she bought the ring herself and did not receive the ring as a gift. Both rings were adjusted to the same size and bore the same stainless steel marking on the interior side.

“So what’s up? Can any physicists, or anything, anyone comment, and tell me I’m not goddamn f——- crazy? What’s happening, and am I a witch? Okay. ‘Cause I’m freaked out!” she joked at the end of the video.

Bastos tells PEOPLE exclusively of buying the ring originally,  “I truly wish I remembered specific details of the place itself, but the jewelry and gift shops all blur together. I probably wanted to buy it because it’s really pretty and I loved the white stone in the center and its funky shape.”

She goes on to address the common theory that a boyfriend, friend or family member thought it was lost and purchased a replacement.

“A lot of people suggested that my boyfriend dropped it or thought he lost it and bought me a new one — which is my favorite theory because I think it’s really cool when people assume I have a boyfriend,” Bastos says.

She says she turned to TikTok because it seemed like “the only logical explanation to get some answers.”

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Bastos then elaborates, “But personally, I’m choosing to chalk it up to the suggested matrix glitch or that another Becca in an alternate timeline lost her ring and I ended up with both. Those are fun. I just know that I absolutely didn’t buy two, none of my friends have the same one, and I wasn’t gifted it.”

She is keeping her sights on the second ring since it appeared in her jewelry box, thanks to the mystery of its origin. “I have them both sitting next to each other on my dresser on somewhat of an accidental shrine.”

Bastos then quips,  “Sometimes I peek into my room just to make sure they’re both still there and didn’t spawn two more. Though that would be an iconic way to launch a small haunted jewelry business.”