Dark Twinning
True Weird Stuff
Now! Media
4.9 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2024
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Today's True Weird Stuff - Dark Twinning
Stewart and Cyril Marcus were identical twin gynecologists. Though regarded as brilliant men in their profession, the Marcus twins' personal lives were shrouded in darkness. In 1975, the 45-year-old brothers' partially-decayed bodies were found inside a locked apartment littered with garbage and pharmaceuticals. An investigation led to the discovery of lives that had been just as mysterious and tragic as their deaths.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, true weirdos. We just wanted to take a minute and thank you so much for your support. |
| 0:06.5 | True Weird Stuff has won Best History Podcast in the Women and Podcasting Awards. |
| 0:12.2 | And we have also won a Signal Award in the paranormal category. |
| 0:17.7 | And that has only happened because of you our fellow strange people stick around if you |
| 0:22.8 | want after the episode for a little bonus content and conversation of all the trippy and |
| 0:30.7 | uncanny and wondrous things in this world identical twins are high on the list two human human beings, each a near-perfect mirror of the other. |
| 0:42.2 | Most of us have a womb all to ourselves. We're born into this life entirely alone. |
| 0:48.5 | How can we ever really understand what it means to share our world with the perfect doppelganger, to have a bond so |
| 0:56.6 | profound with another human soul that it may feel nearly impossible to know where you end and your |
| 1:03.7 | twin begins. This is a story about twin brothers who grew up to be acclaimed doctors, leaders in their field, brothers who found |
| 1:14.0 | themselves objects of fascination from the very beginning, brothers whose identity rested as much |
| 1:21.0 | on their twinship as it did on their accomplishments, twin brothers who led what looked to be dazzling lives, but whose deaths were shrouded |
| 1:31.5 | in strangeness and mystery. The posh apartment, a wreck of trash and garbage, the door locked |
| 1:39.2 | from the inside, and no sign of forced entry or foul play what in the world happened to the marcus twins |
| 1:49.7 | and they got a small beam of light against the mirror True. Weird weird. Weird stuff. |
| 2:15.9 | Twins play a huge part in the mythology of cultures all around the world, |
| 2:21.2 | like in ancient Egypt, nut and gab, twin gods of the sky and the earth. |
| 2:27.0 | In ancient Greece and Rome's, the twins Castor and Pollux and Romulus and Remus and Artemis and Apollo. And that's just the tip of the mythological |
| 2:38.0 | twin iceberg. So, so, so many twins in our mythology. Twins make a handy, symbolic shortcut |
| 2:45.3 | when it comes to understanding duality. Night versus day, good versus evil, creation versus destruction, the true object |
| 2:55.5 | versus the shadow it casts. The ancients were fascinated by twins, and so are we moderns. We smile at |
| 3:04.3 | how the ancients believed that like Apollo was the god of the moon and his twin |
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