Goodbye sister, hello freedom: the inexplicable story of the Gibbons twins (7 photos)

These girls went down in medical history as the Silent Twins. And if twins are, in principle, always of interest both from the position science, and from the side of the inhabitants, then over the solution to the behavior of these The sisters are still working as researchers and scientists in various fields.





June and Jennifer were born 10 minutes apart in 1963 small town in the Arabian Peninsula. Beyond the girls in the family housewives and ship maintenance technicians was still the youngest daughter Rose. Everything went its own way, but parents - Gloria and Aubrey began to notice that babies don't start talking like other kids their age do. They were silent, the world of crumbs was completely focused on each other, and nothing from the outside they were not interested.



Later, they came up with some mysterious system for communication. It sounded more like a bird's chirp than a tongue. But June and Jennifer that was enough. The couple went to the doctors. One of the psychiatrists tried listen to a fast-forward recording of the sisters' conversation. And did interesting conclusion: conversation in English, but very accelerated. And this may be a sign of a high intellectual level.





The twins were bullied at school. However, everyone knows how children can be cruel to anyone who is not like them. A plus skin color also affected. At different times, Gibbons were observed in different doctors, but no one has made an accurate diagnosis.



And then in 1977 the sisters came to Dr. Ann Treharn. That after long observation concluded that one girl - Jennifer - acts as a manipulator and suppresses his sister. June is just obsessed with her. Then they decided to send the Silent Twins to different boarding schools so that they learn to live apart. But the result was unexpected: catatonic shock - a state close to coma. We decided not to take any more risks and return the sisters to each other.



When the Separation Plan Failed, by June and Jen lagged behind. The sisters closed themselves in the room and began to ... create. During self-imposed seclusion, the girls wrote several novels with vivid living characters and a dynamic plot. Although some twists and turns The storylines were very unexpected. Attempts to attach manuscripts to The publisher was not successful. And it's time to protest teenage rebellion: since you did not accept us as good, you will accept us as bad.

The sisters began to arrange petty dirty tricks: bully passers-by, set fires, steal change in stores. As a result, for long 14 years old was sent to a psychiatric clinic. Due to strong drugs they have lost their creativity.



And then the inexplicable happened. It turns out the girls concluded what is called a death contract: one must die. Then the second will be able to speak and live like everyone else. Such is the liberation. During transfer to another hospital in the spring of 1993, Jennifer fell into a coma. And died in the hands of doctors. The autopsy showed myocarditis, although no Prior to this, the 29-year-old woman had no heart problems.

And so it happened. After the death of her sister, which June experienced very hard, she began to speak quite clearly and legibly. AT she explained in an interview that she and her sister had an agreement - not talk to no one, only to each other. And the death of one of them canceled the contract.



June adapted to life, began, albeit with difficulty, but to communicate with people. Even moved for a while to the man with whom she started meet. But then she returned to her parents' house. Now The woman is 59 years old. The riddle regarding the mystical connection between the twins and Jennifer's unexpected death has not yet been figured out by anyone.