Name: 別れた双子の衝撃的なパラレル (Shocking Parallels of Separated Twins)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T05:15:50.000Z
Duration: 10 min 51 s
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Today we examine the astonishing parallel lives of separated twins.

- In our high school, there were-- - (yelling) Harnett Central!

a set of identical twins, Josh and  Joey Smith. Friends of ours.

I always felt bad for them  when it came to playing soccer.

We were on the same soccer team. When we were sophomores,

we all sat on the bench, and at certain points,

- Coach Brandle would put us in. - I remember.

He would put the Smith Twins  in as a unit every time.

And then they would both stand  up and they would go into

And then he would take them  out of the game-- "Smithereens!"--

- at the same time. - But they got a cool nickname.

But they were never  treated as individuals.

You know, I always think, I'm pretty sure  twins want to be treated as individuals.

- You can safely say that. - But my question is, if twins

were individuals, let's say they didn't  know that the other one ever existed,

Would they actually have  expressed individualism,

or lead weird parallel  lives of anti-individualism?

I think I'm gonna say both, because  we've got some evidence of that, Link.

We're gonna be exploring some twins that met later in life as adults and had

- some incredible, incredible parallels. - Okay.

I don't think it means that they  weren't individuals, just so you know.

I just think it means it's pretty crazy, when you're the same genetically,

Let's start with Paula Bernstein  and Elyse Schein.

They didn't meet until  they were 35 years old

and through a certain set of circumstances they learned that they had actually been

the subjects of an experiment where  they were separated at birth

but there was actually a study  that was later basically covered up.

Yeah, that can't... that doesn't  sound right. That can't be legal.

I don't know the specifics of the  circumstance, but there was probably

an adoptive mother that was giving up kids and they were like, "Hey, let's go and

talk to these adoption agencies  and let's track these kids and see...

But it seems like there's  some ethical questions involved.

Clearly. And that's the reason why  this was never found until 35 years later.

It was actually stashed away in a  Yale University archive, but it was found.

The guys who did the  study were ashamed of it.

They didn't want to release it because they knew they'd be criticized.

But when they finally met, they found out some incredible things, like

they both had edited  their high school newspaper,

they both had studied film in college, they both became writers,

and then they wrote a book  together called "Identical Strangers."

But they wrote the book  together after being reunited.

They both started independently writing  a book called-- No, that didn't happen.

Once they met each other, they had  so many amazing parallels they said,

"Hey, let's write a book together.  We're both authors, let's do it!"

I don't know that you  need to be perpetuating

the facts of their parallelism, given the  way that the whole thing started.

- I think we should move on. (laughs) - (laughs) Okay. Not a problem.

All right, I got Emilie Falk  and Lin Backman.

Twin sisters born in Indonesia, separated at birth.

Here's the first weird thing: They were  both adopted by families in Sweden.

Those Swedish people love  adoption. I've always said that.

They were both taken back to  Sweden. At almost the age of 30,

they were reunited thanks to Facebook and some other cross-referencing.

Here's a thing that they found out: They lived their 30 years of life

Within 25 miles / 40 kilometers of each  other in the southern part of Sweden.

They probably shopped at the same Walmart, whatever the Swedish Walmart is.

Crossed paths. Just think about crossing  paths shopping. You think you're going

- in front of a mirror, but it-- - Yeah. Ikea.

- but wearing a different outfit. - That's me at Ikea, but it's not me-ah.

They also were both teachers;  they got married on the same day.

- Still pretty awesome. - But! One year apart, same day,

they danced to the same wedding  song, "You and Me" by Lifehouse.

(singing) You and me and all of  the twins who don't know they exist

- and can't take their eyes off of you... - Okay, that's enough. (laughs)

Funny thing was, that was  my wedding song as well.

- Yeah! And mine and we're not even twins. - And yours.

Okay, those are pretty interesting,  but they're not exactly shocking

like Barbara Herbert and Daphne Goodship.

If it was Herbert Barbara,  that'd be a man.

Yeah, Herbert Barbara. It's not, though,  thankfully. It's two women.

- Typically Barbara is a woman.  - It's a Barbara Herbert.

They were born in Finland. They were both adopted by different families in London.

They didn't meet until 40 years later when Barbara convinced adoption officials

- to basically release these records  - Okay.

so she could meet her sister. They  showed up at a train station to meet

and they were both wearing a beige  dress and a brown velvet jacket.

That's a pretty specific outfit to show  up in, but it gets weirder from there.

They discovered that they both  fell down stairs at 15 years old

and weakened their ankles. So they  didn't just fall down, but they both

weakened their ankles. "Yeah, I remember  my ankle getting weakened from that fall."

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