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The Gibbons sisters in their younger years
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From the legend of the Chase vault to the tales of the Steel Donkey, Heart Man and many more, ask and I've probably heard about it but this story was something completely new and bone chilling if you really think about it.
I'm referring to the story of twin girls from Barbados but raised in Wales named June and Jennifer Gibbons who were also known as 'The Silent Twins' because they never spoke to anyone besides each other and their younger sibling, Rose. When they did speak to each other in pubic, it was usually in an incomprehensible patois that only the twins understood. As they grew older they became more and more haunted by the existence of the other.
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They wrote strange crime novels and eventually turned to committing violent crimes until finally they were institutionalized at Broadmoor Hospital. Their tumultuous relationship continued even after they finally made a connection with another person, a reporter named Marjarie Wallace, until one day they announced to her that for one to live the other must die and they had already decided on which one it would be.
Soon afterwards, Jennifer dies from unexplained inflammation of the heart on exactly the day that they said she would. June is reported as saying she felt relieved that her sister who she had once described as the "dark shadow robbing me of sunlight" had finally given up her life for her but sad that the person closest to her was gone.
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From left to right: Jennifer Gibbons, Marjorie Wallace & June Gibbons
photo from mirror.co.uk
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Bet you're thinking 'Oh, Really? Fanciful exaggerations.'
Well, stranger things have happened ...
If you haven't got the heebie jeebies from my quick rundown then click here and here for more on this intriguing story.
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