S5 Ep24: June and Jennifer Gibbons: The Silent Twins

Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan

True Crime, Society & Culture, Science

4.1 • 10K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Many of us feel misunderstood, but for twins June and Jennifer Gibbons, when no one but themselves could understand them, they retreated into an almost silent world, communicating only with each other. But this fiercely codependent relationship created a dangerous feedback loop that had tragic consequences.

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0:00.0	Just a quick note before we jump in, today's episode makes a very brief mention of rape.
0:07.0	Please take care while listening.
0:12.4	Have you ever been really close to someone?
0:15.7	Maybe you have a sister or a brother who is also your dearest confidant and friend?
0:20.7	Or is there a best friend or partner
0:22.7	whose sentences you finish? Or someone with whom you can communicate with a mere twitch of the eyebrow?
0:29.0	Have you ever had a relationship where you feel you are two halves of the same person? Or maybe
0:34.7	you're a twin and you know what it's like to share absolutely everything.
0:40.2	But how much closeness is too much closeness?
0:48.3	Welcome to Strange and Unexplained with me, Daisy Egan.
0:52.0	I have a sister whom I love dearly and with whom I am close,
0:56.4	but I know that if we were too close, we might end up killing each other.
1:02.1	Recently, I witnessed a set of twin women in their 70s or 80s over the course of a quiet meal.
1:07.9	Correction, I was having a quiet meal. These two women came in exclaiming
1:12.6	about everything at an 11 right away. About a half hour and a couple of glasses of champagne later,
1:18.6	the sisters were screaming at each other about wounds that sounded about as old as they were.
1:24.0	Wrongs they had done to each other over the decades, perceived disrespect and mistreatment.
1:29.2	It was quite a show. And just as I was about to suggest to them that their family grievances were
1:34.5	perhaps not appropriate for the rest of us to be hearing about, the women abruptly stopped and
1:39.8	headed to a bar across the lobby as one of them pleasantly announced, ooh, I haven't had a matinee in ages,
1:46.4	as though they hadn't been screaming at each other for the past half hour.
1:50.7	All night, I wondered what the rest of their evening looked like.
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