The Silent Twins: Separating Fact from Fiction | 310
Hysteria 51
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🗓️ 7 December 2022
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Kids are creepy. It just comes with the territory. But everyone once in a while there are kids that do stuff that defies logic and even their own well being. Case in point The Silent Twins, Jennifer and June Gibbons who spent their childhoods and most of their adult lives locked in silence, only speaking to one another and shutting the world out. Then came the crimes. Theft. Fighting. Arson. So, institutionalism it was. And their lives got weirder and weirder until one died under very odd circumstances. We talk their lives, one's tragic death, and what it is like being locked in a silent life. That's all this week on Hysteria 51
Special thanks to this week’s sources: VideosSilent Twins: Without My Shadow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98WtP1qC61sThe Silent Twins: A Journey Into Madness - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi1_S95620k&t=34sThe Silent Twins - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11052678/WebsitesWikipedia - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_and_Jennifer_GibbonsAll That’s Interesting - https://allthatsinteresting.com/silent-twins|Bajan Creole - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bajan_Creole Cryptophasia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CryptophasiaBroadmoor Hospital - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadmoor_HospitalThe Netline - https://thenetline.com/june-gibbons-now/Essence - https://www.essence.com/entertainment/letitia-wright-the-silent-twins/Myocarditis - https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/myocarditis/symptoms-causes/syc-20352539Email us your favorite WEIRD news stories:weird@hysteria51.comSupport the ShowGet exclusive content & perks as well as an ad and sponsor free experience at https://www.patreon.com/Hysteria51 from just $1
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, this is Kevin from The Sad Times Podcast. |
| 0:09.8 | On Sad Times each week, we invite guests on to tell stories about some of the most difficult |
| 0:14.3 | times in their lives. |
| 0:16.2 | Our goal is not to solve, diagnose, or fix the difficulties, but to have real, sometimes |
| 0:21.2 | humorous, as much as possible, conversations about the sad times we all share. |
| 0:26.8 | We'll not always discuss these times remain universal, and we hope in here in the stories |
| 0:31.9 | of others you find yourself feeling a little less alone. |
| 0:34.6 | Please come join the conversation at sadtimespodcast.com or wherever you get your podcast. |
| 0:40.9 | That's Sad Times Podcast, a subsidiary of Omni Sad, brought to you by the human condition. |
| 0:47.7 | In April of 1963 at a military hospital in Yemen, a pair of twin girls were born. |
| 0:52.8 | These births were not unusual nor were their actions and lies as infants, but soon enough |
| 0:56.8 | their parents began to see that June and Jennifer Gibbons were not like other girls. |
| 1:01.5 | And the life of the women known as the silent twins had begun. |
| 1:06.1 | Almost 30 years of hardships, crimes, and institutionalization would pass before one of the twins met |
| 1:11.7 | her on timely death. |
| 1:13.8 | That sparked a change that would bring about a sense of normalcy in a life of her sister |
| 1:18.0 | and the silence was broken. |
| 1:19.6 | Who were they? |
| 1:21.2 | Why the silence and why the change? |
| 1:23.8 | Call that and more this week on the Stereo 51. |
| 1:26.6 | They say I'm disturbed. |
| 1:28.6 | From city to setting an incredible hysterical panic spread. |
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