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These CREEPY TWINS are straight out of the X-FILES.. · Crime and Horror

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Speaker 1: Today's story is really, really weird. It's basically like a
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Speaker 1: But independent of what you believe in terms of what
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Speaker 1: actually happened here, what you're going to hear about is
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Speaker 1: totally bizarre, just inexplicable behavior that was documented over and
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Speaker 1: over and over again over many years. And so even
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Speaker 1: if you think this is fully rooted in science, I'm
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Speaker 1: into today's story. One afternoon in September of nineteen fifty one,
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Speaker 1: a fifty three year old father named Adolphus Ella carried
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Speaker 1: a large cardboard box from his car toward a boarding
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Speaker 1: house in the city of Winston Salem, North Carolina. He
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Speaker 1: took the box inside and then went down a hallway
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Speaker 1: and then into the room where his twenty one year
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Speaker 1: old daughters, whose names were Bobby and Betty, were busy unpacking. Now,
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Speaker 1: for Bobby and Betty, they were both really excited about
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Speaker 1: moving into the boarding house. They had recently decided to
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Speaker 1: at the same time, move out of the home they
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Speaker 1: had grown up in, which was in a town about
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Speaker 1: an hour away, which is where their dad, Adolphus, and
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Speaker 1: his wife were currently living. They decided to move here
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Speaker 1: and get a job at a cigarette factory. They were
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Speaker 1: both going to work there and live in this sport house,
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Speaker 1: and it was like a big deal for them. They were,
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Speaker 1: you know, becoming adults, and so for them, they were
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Speaker 1: really excited. But you know, for their dad, Adolphus, it
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Speaker 1: was bittersweet.
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Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 1: On the one hand, he was incredibly proud of them
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Speaker 1: for becoming adults, so to speak. But on the other
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Speaker 1: it was you know, sad to see his little girls
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Speaker 1: becoming adults. And so even though they were now you know,
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Speaker 1: off on their own, they were still together, literally living
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Speaker 1: in the spoarding house together and working at the same factory,
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Speaker 1: and so he knew that even though he couldn't be
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Speaker 1: there and neither could their mom, you know, to make
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Speaker 1: sure they were okay, they would have each other, they'd
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Speaker 1: look after each other, and so in a way he
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Speaker 1: knew they'd be okay. So Bobby and Betty they were
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Speaker 1: not just you know, close siblings. They were actually identical twins.
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Speaker 1: I mean, they had a really really deep bond that
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Speaker 1: likely only comes with being a twin. And even amongst
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Speaker 1: you know, identical twins who are very close with their sibling,
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Speaker 1: it seemed like Bobby and Betty had like a really
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Speaker 1: intense relationship that really went way past whatever was normal
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Speaker 1: amongst identical twins. I mean, they really leaned into being
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Speaker 1: identical twins. So they both were five foot three, they
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Speaker 1: both had sort of round faces and dark hair, and
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Speaker 1: they made sure they always styled their hair exactly the
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Speaker 1: same way. But then, just beyond their physical appearances being
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Speaker 1: obviously very similar and you know, styling themselves to look
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Speaker 1: very similar, they also had very very similar personalities and interests,
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Speaker 1: almost to the point where it was forced. They were
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Speaker 1: both very social, very outgoing, and they both played the piano,
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Speaker 1: and they sang in the glee club at school, and
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Speaker 1: they both made good grades. But also they seemed to
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Speaker 1: share things that didn't seem possible really to share. For example,
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Speaker 1: they had a tendency to get sick at the same time,
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Speaker 1: but with illnesses that were not necessarily contagious, Like one
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Speaker 1: time Bobby had developed an abscess on one of her
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Speaker 1: teeth and she was really sick from it, and kind
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Speaker 1: of inexplicably, Betty got an absess in her tooth, like
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Speaker 1: this is not something she could feign. That was like
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Speaker 1: she just developed the exact same thing at the same
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Speaker 1: time as her twin sister. And then any time, although
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Speaker 1: it was pretty rare that the sisters were different in
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Speaker 1: some capacity, often because it was forced on them in
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Speaker 1: some way, the sisters would very intentionally sort of do
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Speaker 1: things to recorrect and become similar again. For example, when
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Speaker 1: Bobby had to get glasses because she had bad eyesight,
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Speaker 1: Betty begged to get glasses herself, despite the fact her
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Speaker 1: vision was much better than Bobby's, but she still got
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Speaker 1: those glasses so they could be the same. And now
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Speaker 1: you know, their big move out of the house involved
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Speaker 1: getting the exact same job at the same factory. And
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Speaker 1: living in the same room in the boarding house, and
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Speaker 1: so it really was just a continuation of the same
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Speaker 1: behavior they had always exhibited. Now there was a part
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Speaker 1: of Adolphus and also his wife that you know, secretly
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Speaker 1: hoped that Bobby and Betty might eventually become more independent
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Speaker 1: of each other, like that seemed like the healthy route
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Speaker 1: for them to eventually take. As he sat down the
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Speaker 1: last box of their things on the floor and looked
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Speaker 1: at his daughters, who had the same identical excited smiles on,
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Speaker 1: he actually found himself feeling grateful that they were kind
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Speaker 1: of taking this leap in tandem like they always would.
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Speaker 1: He just felt like, you know what, I just feel
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Speaker 1: like this is a good intermediary step. Let them be
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Speaker 1: dependent on each other for now. It's a good bridge
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Speaker 1: into adulthood. So eventually, after a few minutes, Adolphus said, Okay,
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Speaker 1: you know, I'm going to take off now. Best of luck.
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Speaker 1: You know, I love you, be in touch whenever you
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Speaker 1: need to, and then he left and he headed back home.
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Speaker 1: Two years later, Adolphus set the dining room table while
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Speaker 1: his wife finished cooking in the kitchen inside of their
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Speaker 1: home in the small town of per Lear, North Carolina,
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Speaker 1: and Adolphus had just put down the last dinner plate
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Speaker 1: when he heard a knock at the front door. And
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Speaker 1: right away he felt so excited because he knew that,
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Speaker 1: you know, it's the weekend, and my daughter's always come
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Speaker 1: to visit me every weekend.
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Speaker 2: That's them.
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Speaker 1: Bobby and Betty are here. They're here for dinner. They're
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Speaker 1: going to stay for the weekend. And Adolphus and his
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Speaker 1: wife they loved, they really cherished their time with their
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Speaker 1: daughters ever since they had left.
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Speaker 2: To go to the factory.
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Speaker 1: So Adolphus very excitedly heads to the door and he
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Speaker 1: opens it up, and he's really surprised at what he sees.
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Speaker 1: It was Bobby, but Betty wasn't there. And when he said, like,
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Speaker 1: where's Betty is she? Is she in the car? You know?
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Speaker 2: Bobby said no.
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Speaker 1: And then also Adolphus took stock of the fact that
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Speaker 1: Bobby had some luggage with her, and she looked really sad,
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Speaker 1: like depressed almost, and he said, you know, Bobby, what's
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Speaker 1: going on?
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Speaker 2: And she said, you know, I just.
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Speaker 1: I hated my job at the factory. I hated it,
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Speaker 1: so I just quit and I'm coming home. And Betty,
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Speaker 1: you know, she doesn't hate her job. She's going to stay.
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Speaker 1: She's going to keep working at the factory and continue
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Speaker 1: to live out there. And for Adolphus, I mean, this
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Speaker 1: really is like a huge shift in their behavior. I mean,
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Speaker 1: this is not something that these twins ever really did.
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Speaker 1: They did basically everything together. You know, even if one
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Speaker 1: didn't necessarily want to do the thing the other was
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Speaker 1: interested in, they would just do the same things again
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Speaker 1: to sort of mimick each other and be similar and
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Speaker 1: just do everything the same. And so the idea that
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Speaker 1: like they're doing such drastically different things, you know, one
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Speaker 1: coming home and leaving the job, the other continuing to
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Speaker 1: live out on her own, was just a huge departure.
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Speaker 1: And then on top of that, you know, Adolphus said
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Speaker 1: to Bobby, He's like, Okay, well, of course you can
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Speaker 1: stay here. Of course you can come home, But where's Betty?
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Speaker 1: Is she gonna be here for the weekend? Is she
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Speaker 1: going to come home and visit with you? You know, like
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Speaker 1: she can keep working there, but is she Is she
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Speaker 1: visiting this weekend? And Bobby was like, no, she's gonna stay.
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Speaker 1: She's actually not coming home this weekend. She's decided to stay.
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Speaker 1: And so again, it just felt like what's going on
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Speaker 1: here for Adolphus and.
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Speaker 2: His wife, Like this is a crazy big shift.
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Speaker 1: But you know, very quickly Adolpha said, look, just come
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Speaker 1: on in, have dinner, you know, get situated. You know,
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Speaker 1: we'll talk about this, we'll figure out, you know, what
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Speaker 1: your next steps need to be. But of course you
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Speaker 1: can stay here and everything will be fine. And so Bobby,
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Speaker 1: she picked her stuff up, she came inside, but then
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Speaker 1: she quickly said she was not hungry and did not
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Speaker 1: want to eat with them, And then she just went
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Speaker 1: up to her bedroom, brought her stuff inside the room,
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Speaker 1: shut the door, and didn't come out again. And over
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Speaker 1: the next two years, Bobby continued to basically just stay
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Speaker 1: in her bedroom. She rarely left her room. She just
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Speaker 1: closed herself in there and shut down almost entirely. She
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Speaker 1: never talked to her parents about really why she left
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Speaker 1: the factory or what she hated so much about the
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Speaker 1: job that forced her to quit. You know, she didn't
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Speaker 1: talk about anything. She didn't reconnect with old friends or
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Speaker 1: seek out new ones. In fact, she became incredibly introverted.
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Speaker 1: Whereas before, you know, when she and her sister were
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Speaker 1: both living under this roof, they both were very extroverted.
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Speaker 1: They were always out doing social things, and now you know,
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Speaker 1: Bobby is like a recluse in the room. She also
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Speaker 1: was not showing any sign of making moves to change
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Speaker 1: her current situation, like she wasn't seeking a job, she
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Speaker 1: wasn't looking for new opportunities. It was like she sort
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Speaker 1: of had just declined to the point where she just
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Speaker 1: was going to stay in her bedroom perpetuity. But over
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Speaker 1: the course of those two years that Bobby was home,
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Speaker 1: there were several moments where she would sort of snap
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Speaker 1: back and be herself again, these sort of extroverted, happy, social,
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Speaker 1: normal version of Bobby that her parents were used to,
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Speaker 1: and that was when Betty would come home from the
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Speaker 1: factory to visit on the weekends.
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Speaker 2: It was like when Betty walked in the door.
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Speaker 1: Bobby became reanimated and became her old self, and the
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Speaker 1: two just immediately fell into rhythm as if no time
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Speaker 1: had passed, like there's no ill will towards each other
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Speaker 1: about the fact that they're not working at the factory
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Speaker 1: or living together anymore.
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Speaker 2: It was like everything went back to normal.
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Speaker 1: And then Betty would leave to go back to the
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Speaker 1: factory and Bobby would go back to her room and
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Speaker 1: shut the door. And so for Adolphus and his wife,
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Speaker 1: you know, part of them had always hoped that these two,
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Speaker 1: you know, would eventually separate and kind of learn to
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Speaker 1: live independently. But even though Betty, who was staying out
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Speaker 1: at the factory and living on her own, appeared basically
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Speaker 1: to be doing okay on her own, it just seems
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Speaker 1: sort of obvious that Bobby was just completely falling apart
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Speaker 1: without her sister. She was utterly dependent on her. I mean,
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Speaker 1: it was so clear, and so Adolphus really didn't know,
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Speaker 1: you know, how this was going to play out. It
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Speaker 1: just sort of seemed like over time this was definitely
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Speaker 1: getting worse, certainly for Bobby. But around the time that
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Speaker 1: Adolphus and his wife are sort of trying to figure
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Speaker 1: this out what to do about Bobby, you know, two
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Speaker 1: years in to her being home, right around that same timeframe,
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Speaker 1: so two years in, Betty sort of inexplicably came home
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Speaker 1: one Friday and said, you know what, I quit the
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Speaker 1: factory too, and I'm going to live here as well.
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Speaker 1: And in a weird way, you know, Adolphus and his
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Speaker 1: wife were relieved because it meant that realistically, the daughters
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Speaker 1: would almost certainly fall back and step with each other
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Speaker 1: and return to their normal selves. And really, for Bobby's sake,
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Speaker 1: it seemed like this would be an enormous you know
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Speaker 1: plus in her life. I mean, she really was falling
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Speaker 1: apart here, and they had seen how happy she was
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Speaker 1: every time Betty came home to visit over those two years,
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Speaker 1: and so there was a relief that Betty was But
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Speaker 1: there was also like a it didn't really make sense
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Speaker 1: that Betty was quitting her job. I mean, really, it
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Speaker 1: seemed like she liked her job. She seemed to be
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Speaker 1: doing well on her own. Adolphus couldn't necessarily prove this,
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Speaker 1: but he believed that ultimately, what Betty must be doing
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Speaker 1: here is what she and her sister always did, which is,
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Speaker 1: we will do the same things, even if we don't
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Speaker 1: necessarily want to. Like Betty basically was sacrificing her independent
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Speaker 1: life to come back home and be with her sister
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Speaker 1: and sort of fall into step like they always did.
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Speaker 1: That's what it seemed like. But again, it seemed like
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Speaker 1: the silver lining was at least our daughters will be
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Speaker 1: normal again, They'll be happy and healthy again. But that
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Speaker 1: is not what happened once Betty came back home, you know,
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Speaker 1: she quit the factory and she and Bobby are now
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Speaker 1: living once again under the same roof. They absolutely did
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Speaker 1: fall back and step with each other like they always
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Speaker 1: had done, but their connection to each other, their dependence,
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Speaker 1: their attachment on each other was so extreme, way more
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Speaker 1: than and before it was already extreme, So this is
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Speaker 1: like way beyond what's reasonable. They basically went into the
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Speaker 1: bedroom where they both were living, which was Bobby's bedroom,
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Speaker 1: now Betty was living in there as well.
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Speaker 2: They went into that bedroom and just.
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Speaker 1: Shut the door and just stayed in there together basically
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Speaker 1: twenty four to seven. So they did not, you know,
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Speaker 1: become the extroverted girls that they used to be. They
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Speaker 1: became introverted. But together they didn't seek out jobs. They
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Speaker 1: certainly didn't show any interest in getting jobs. They again
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Speaker 1: were not socializing. They just stayed in that room basically
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Speaker 1: twenty four to seven. They slept in the same bed,
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Speaker 1: and then in the rare times that they would leave
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Speaker 1: the bedroom, they would walk side by side like they
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Speaker 1: were touching shoulders. Like everywhere they went they had to
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Speaker 1: basically be on top of each other, and they also
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Speaker 1: moved almost like in sync, like robots. They were just
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Speaker 1: doing the exact same thing. And then anywhere they went
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Speaker 1: they could not separate. Like any room they went to
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Speaker 1: in the house they were together. Go to the bathroom,
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Speaker 1: they're going together. I mean, everything was together. It was
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Speaker 1: a level of attachment that the parents had never seen before. Now,
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Speaker 1: of course, Adolphus and his wife were concerned about this.
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Speaker 1: They didn't really know even what to call what they
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Speaker 1: were seeing. It just seemed like codependency to a fault.
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Speaker 1: But they were sort of hoping that, you know, eventually
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Speaker 1: the girls would kind of level out again and they'd
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Speaker 1: get their lives back on track, even if they retained
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Speaker 1: that really intense bond.
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Speaker 2: But then it got worse.
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Speaker 1: In addition to basically shutting themselves in this room all
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Speaker 1: the time and you know, never being apart from each other,
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Speaker 1: they also stopped eating.
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Speaker 2: At first.
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Speaker 1: It just seemed like they were, you know, just not
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Speaker 1: interested in dinner. You know, Adolphus would go up to
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Speaker 1: the bedroom and he'd knock on the door and it
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Speaker 1: would open a crack, and both Bobby and Betty's faces
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Speaker 1: would come to the door at the same time, and
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Speaker 1: Adolphus would say, hey, you know, dinner's on the table,
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Speaker 1: do you want to come down to eat? And the girls,
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Speaker 1: without even looking at each other, would say, in perfect unison,
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Speaker 1: were not hungry, and then they would shut the door,
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Speaker 1: and it was like, okay, I guess they just don't
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Speaker 1: want to eat. But then weeks would go by and
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Speaker 1: the girls would just refuse to come out and eat,
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Speaker 1: and so the girls began to lose a considerable amount
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Speaker 1: of weight, like an unhealthy amount of weight, but no
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Speaker 1: matter what Adolphus and his wife did, they just would
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Speaker 1: not eat. And so after a couple of weeks of this,
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Speaker 1: Adolphus and his wife decided that, you know, they clearly
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Speaker 1: were not going to get through to their daughters and
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Speaker 1: get them to change their behavior just by presenting them
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Speaker 1: with logic, you know, hey, you really ought to come
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Speaker 1: down here and eat because you have to eat to survive.
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Speaker 1: Like they're not listening to that. There's something going on here,
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Speaker 1: and it seemed increasingly obvious that it was mental, that
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Speaker 1: these girls were really struggling with some sort of mental illness,
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Speaker 1: at least that was the parent's suggestion, and so they
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Speaker 1: brought their daughters to go see a psychiatrist, and the
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Speaker 1: psychiatrist very quickly actually made a diagnosis. They said that
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Speaker 1: Bobby and Betty both had schizophrenia, which is a very
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Speaker 1: serious chronic brain condition that affects the way you think,
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Speaker 1: the way you behave, you know, basically all the ways
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Speaker 1: in which you interact with the world can be gravely
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Speaker 1: affected by schizophrenia. And so a lot of their strange behaviors,
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Speaker 1: or their anomalous behaviors, in particular they're not eating, and
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Speaker 1: their codependency, the psychiatrists believed, could basically be explained by schizophrenia,
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Speaker 1: and so ultimately the psychiatrists prescribed Bobby and Betty some
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Speaker 1: anti psychotic medication and promised Adolphus that if they'd take.
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Speaker 2: These meds they'd be okay.
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Speaker 1: But even though Adolphus and his wife ensured that Bobby
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Speaker 1: and Betty took their medication exactly as they were supposed
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Speaker 1: to every single day, the twins did not seem to
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Speaker 1: get any better. If anything, they actually continued to get worse.
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Speaker 1: They spent, if anything, more time locked in their bedroom,
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Speaker 1: and they became more frail, and they continued to barely eat,
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Speaker 1: and they also began showing signs of being very paranoid
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Speaker 1: around anybody that was not their other sibling, even their
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Speaker 1: own parents. It was like the only person either Bobby
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Speaker 1: and Betty could be around was the other.
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Speaker 2: They couldn't be a anybody else.
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Speaker 1: They just kind of hid themselves away, basically twenty four
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Speaker 1: to seven, and so pretty quickly Adolphus came to the
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Speaker 1: realization that these antipsychotic meds are not doing enough, or
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Speaker 1: maybe they're not doing anything at all. But at the
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Speaker 1: same time, Adolphus did not think that, you know, the
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Speaker 1: diagnosis was wrong. He believed his daughters did have schizophrenia.
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Speaker 1: The symptoms basically fit, but the treatment wasn't working, and
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Speaker 1: so in Adolphus's mind, he felt like what he needed
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Speaker 1: to do was just get his girls more and better
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Speaker 1: psychiatric help. So in early nineteen sixty one, when Bobby
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Speaker 1: and Betty were both now thirty years old, and Dolphus
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Speaker 1: had them both involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital. And
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Speaker 1: at first it seemed like this hospital stay was exactly
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Speaker 1: what the girls needed, because, you know, they gained weight
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Speaker 1: back pretty quickly because they were being forced to eat,
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Speaker 1: and they were also being monitored effectively twenty four to seven,
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Speaker 1: and they were given proper medication, and you know, they
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Speaker 1: were just kind of comprehensively.
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Speaker 2: Looked after, so pretty quickly they got better.
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Speaker 1: And also the girls were allowed to stay in the
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Speaker 1: same room together. They really never separated them, which was
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Speaker 1: an important part of their recovery, as they had each other.
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Speaker 1: And so after several weeks in the hospital, they were
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Speaker 1: deemed you know, healthy and back to normal, so to speak.
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Speaker 2: And they were discharged.
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Speaker 1: But pretty much immediately once they got back to their
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Speaker 1: family home, they regressed right back to being you know,
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Speaker 1: secluded in the bedroom, not eating and being completely introverted
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Speaker 1: and completely not normal, not healthy. And so again they
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Speaker 1: were committed. And again they got better while they were
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Speaker 1: at the hospital, but then once they were discharged and
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Speaker 1: back home, they got worse again, over and over and
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Speaker 1: over again. For over a year, it was like they
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Speaker 1: were in and out of the hospital. It just didn't
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Speaker 1: seem like they were making any real progress. And so
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Speaker 1: eventually Adolphus and his wife and several doctors and nurses
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Speaker 1: that had treated the two girls over the past year
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Speaker 1: during their numerous hospital stays, eventually they all kind of
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Speaker 1: came to the conclusion that it could be possible that
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Speaker 1: what was happening here is these girls had schizophrenia and
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Speaker 1: that was kind of the root cause of all their issues,
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Speaker 1: or maybe it was just their intense dependency on each
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Speaker 1: other that was effectively causing all their problems. That what
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Speaker 1: could have been viewed as like this timeless bond between
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Speaker 1: siblings was actually like a really deeply unhealthy codependency where
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Speaker 1: they were so enmeshed in the other that like they
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Speaker 1: couldn't grow as people and become independently functioning adults, that
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Speaker 1: they were kind of stuck, and that unless drastic action
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Speaker 1: was taken, they would continue to be stuck and continue
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Speaker 1: to decline or at least spiral the way they had been.
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Speaker 1: And so a decision was made to without asking the girls,
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Speaker 1: to forcibly separate them and see if that made a
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Speaker 1: big difference. And so on April eleventh, nineteen sixty two,
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Speaker 1: Bobby and Betty were both once again committed to the hospital,
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Speaker 1: except this time, for.
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Speaker 2: The first time time they were separated.
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Speaker 1: They were put in literal opposite ends of the hospital,
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Speaker 1: in totally separate wards, and they completely lost their minds.
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Speaker 1: The girls begged and screamed and demanded to be kept together,
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Speaker 1: but the staff said, nope, it's for your own good.
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Speaker 1: A few hours after the girls had been separated at
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Speaker 1: the hospital, so this is the first time they're being
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Speaker 1: kept apart. This is like one am on the morning
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Speaker 1: of April twelfth. Adolphus was at home a sleep when
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Speaker 1: his phone rang, and he was confused because it's the
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Speaker 1: middle of the night, like who's calling him? But when
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Speaker 1: he picked up the phone, he heard a hospital doctor's
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Speaker 1: voice on the other end, and the doctor sounded completely frantic,
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Speaker 1: and he tried to explain to Adolphus what was going on.
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Speaker 1: You know, Adolphus was aware of the fact that the
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Speaker 1: girls were going to be separated, but everything the doctor
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Speaker 1: was saying about what had followed after the separation just
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Speaker 1: didn't make any sense, and he was trying.
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Speaker 2: To clarify, like what are you talking about?
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Speaker 1: But the doctor find he just paused and then just
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Speaker 1: clearly stated basically the disaster that had unfolded after the separation,
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Speaker 1: that something they could have never planned for has happened,
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Speaker 1: and even the doctor didn't really know what to make
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Speaker 1: of it. And when Adolphus heard this, he just sat
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Speaker 1: there on the phone, completely frozen, having no idea how
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Speaker 1: to react. Over the next few days, doctors at that
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Speaker 1: psychiatric hospital tried to come up with a rational, scientific
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Speaker 1: explanation for what happened on the night that Bobby and
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Speaker 1: Betty were separated, but they couldn't figure it out. So
20:33
Speaker 1: in an effort to figure it out, they called in
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Speaker 1: the North Carolina State Board of Investigators for some help,
20:38
Speaker 1: but they couldn't figure it out, and so they called
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Speaker 1: in the FBI, and the FBI couldn't figure it out either.
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Speaker 1: Nobody had any idea how this could have happened or why.
20:48
Speaker 1: And so as this story naturally began to leak out
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Speaker 1: to the press and began circulating in newspapers all over
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Speaker 1: the country as like this unbelievable mystery, a lot of people,
20:59
Speaker 1: as they saw this story, began to wonder if maybe
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Speaker 1: the explanation for what happened after these girls were separated
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Speaker 1: is not rooted in science. Maybe what happened is something
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Speaker 1: that we as humans we can't really understand, but it
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Speaker 1: doesn't make it any less real. It would turn out,
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Speaker 1: at twelve fifty five am on the night or early
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Speaker 1: morning that Bobby and Betty were separated in the hospital,
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Speaker 1: a nurse in the ward where Bobby had been moved
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Speaker 1: to was doing her regular rounds and when she got
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Speaker 1: to Bobby's room, she found Bobby lying in her bed on.
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Speaker 2: Her side, and she was dead.
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Speaker 1: About five minutes later, at one am, a doctor went
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Speaker 1: to check on Betty in the ward where she was
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Speaker 1: on the other end of the hospital, and this doctor
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Speaker 1: found Betty was also dead in her bed, lying in
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Speaker 1: the exact same.
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Speaker 2: Position that Bobby was.
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Speaker 1: But the strange thing was is there was no obvious
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Speaker 1: sign of what killed them. There was no sign of illness,
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Speaker 1: there was no sign of self harm, there was no
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Speaker 1: sign of violence or foul play. It was like, inexplicably,
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Speaker 1: both of these girls were just dead. And then even
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Speaker 1: after doing multiple autopsies, nobody could figure it out, Like
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Speaker 1: there wasn't a reason that they died, forget foul play,
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Speaker 1: forget how it happened. There wasn't a medical diagnosis for
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Speaker 1: what killed them. They just suddenly died, And so the
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Speaker 1: only real conclusion they had was that somehow the twins
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Speaker 1: had died from no apparent cause. At almost the exact
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Speaker 1: same time, the twins' cause of death was officially listed
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Speaker 1: as ill, defined and unknown. The only theory that anyone
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Speaker 1: has been able to come up with about what happened
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Speaker 1: came from one of the doctors who treated Bobby and
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Speaker 1: Betty in the hospital. He believed that the twins were
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Speaker 1: so distressed about being forcibly separated that they found a
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Speaker 1: way to reunite by quote willing themselves to die. Basically,
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Speaker 1: the twins need the spiritual, physical, emotional need to be
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Speaker 1: with the other, and having that taken from them was
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Speaker 1: so strong, so powerful, that they basically forced themselves to
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Speaker 1: shut down and die in hopes that their spirits could reconnect.
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Speaker 1: But as crazy as that sounds, there's actually one more
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Speaker 1: very strange detail about the way they died that seems
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Speaker 1: to add a layer of credibility to the idea that
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Speaker 1: whatever happened here is bigger than science. It's something paranormal,
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Speaker 1: it's something supernatural, it's something else. And that was that
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Speaker 1: when they found Bobby and Betty's bodies just five minutes
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Speaker 1: apart from each other on opposite ends of the hospital,
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Speaker 1: they weren't just laying in bed in the same position
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Speaker 1: as the other. No, it seemed like they were positioned
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Speaker 1: sort of awkwardly on their bed. If you think about
23:51
Speaker 1: how a bed works, you know, it's a rectangle and
23:54
Speaker 1: you lay vertically along the bed. The girls were found
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Speaker 1: sort of a little bit at an angle on their
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Speaker 1: respective beds, like they were sort of positioned in a
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Speaker 1: non natural, non parallel.
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Speaker 2: Way with their bed.
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Speaker 1: They were sort of almost perpendicular to the flow of
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Speaker 1: their bed. And at first it was just an anomaly
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Speaker 1: about how they were found. They died, and they sort
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Speaker 1: of got into this position. But then somebody realized, if
24:17
Speaker 1: you removed all the walls, just in your mind, if
24:21
Speaker 1: you removed all the walls between each of the rooms
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Speaker 1: they were in, the way they were laying on the
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Speaker 1: bed made sense because the girls, in their own way,
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Speaker 1: positioned themselves to be looking exactly at each other when
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Speaker 1: they died. Thank you so much for watching. Let me
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