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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 gonna hear about is totally bizarre,
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Speaker 1: just inexplicable behavior that was documented over and over and
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Speaker 1: over again over many years. And so even if you
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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 spoarding 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 had decided to move
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Speaker 1: here and get a job at a cigarette factory. They
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Speaker 1: were both going to work there and live in the
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Speaker 1: sport house. And it was like a big deal for them.
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Speaker 1: They were, you know, becoming adults, and so for them,
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Speaker 1: they were really excited. But you know, for their dad, Adolphus,
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Speaker 1: it was bittersweet. You know. On the one hand, he
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Speaker 1: was incredibly proud of them for becoming adults, so to speak.
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Speaker 1: But on the other it was you know, sad to
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Speaker 1: see his little girls becoming adults. And so even though
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Speaker 1: they were now you know, off on their own, they
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Speaker 1: were still together, literally living in the sporting house together.
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Speaker 1: And working at the same factory, and so he knew
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Speaker 1: that even though he couldn't be there and neither could
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Speaker 1: their mom, you know, to make sure they were okay,
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Speaker 1: they would have each other, they'd look after each other,
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Speaker 1: and so in a way, he knew they'd be okay.
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Speaker 1: So Bobby and Betty they were not just you know,
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Speaker 1: close siblings. They were actually identical twins. I mean, they
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Speaker 1: had a really really deep bond that likely only comes
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Speaker 1: with being a twin. And even amongst you know, identical
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Speaker 1: twins who are very close with their sibling, it seemed
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Speaker 1: like Bobby and Betty had like a really intense relationship
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Speaker 1: that really went way past whatever was normal amongst identical twins.
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Speaker 1: I mean, they really leaned into being identical twins. So
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Speaker 1: they both were five foot three, they both had sort
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Speaker 1: of round faces and dark hair, and they made sure
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Speaker 1: they always styled their hair exactly the same way. But then,
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Speaker 1: just beyond their physical appearances being obviously very similar and
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Speaker 1: you know, styling themselves to look very similar, they also
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Speaker 1: had very very similar personalities and interests, almost to the
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Speaker 1: point where it was forced. They were both very social,
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Speaker 1: very outgoing, and they both played the piano and they
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Speaker 1: sang in the glee club at school, and they both
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Speaker 1: made good grades. But also they seemed to share things
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Speaker 1: that didn't seem possible really to share. For example, they
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Speaker 1: 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. But as he sat down
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Speaker 1: the last box of their things on the floor and
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Speaker 1: looked at his daughters, who had the same identical excited
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Speaker 1: smiles on, he actually found himself feeling grateful that they
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Speaker 1: were kind of taking this leap in tandem like they
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Speaker 1: always would. He just felt like, you know what, I
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Speaker 1: just feel like this is a good intermediary step. Let
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Speaker 1: them be dependent on each other for now. It's a
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Speaker 1: good bridge into adulthood. So eventually, after a few minutes,
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Speaker 1: Adolphus said, Okay, you know, I'm going to take off now.
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Speaker 1: Best of luck. You know, I love you, be in
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Speaker 1: touch whenever you need to, and then he left and
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Speaker 1: he headed back home. Two years later, Adolphus set the
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Speaker 1: dining room table while his wife finished cooking in the
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Speaker 1: kitchen inside of their home in the small town of
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Speaker 1: per Lear, North Carolina, and Adolphus had just put down
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Speaker 1: the last dinner plate when he heard a knock at
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Speaker 1: the front door. And right away he felt so excited
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Speaker 1: because he knew that, you know, it's the weekend, and
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Speaker 1: my daughter's always come to visit me every weekend. 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 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 1: Bobby said no. And then also Adolphus took stock of
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Speaker 1: the fact that Bobby had some luggage with her and
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Speaker 1: she looked really sad, like depressed almost, and he said,
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Speaker 1: you know, Bobby, what's going on? And she said, you know,
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Speaker 1: I just I hated my job at the factory. I
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Speaker 1: hated it, so I just quit and I'm coming home.
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Speaker 1: And Betty, you know, she doesn't hate her job. She's
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Speaker 1: going to stay. She's going to keep working at the
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Speaker 1: factory and continue to live out there. And for Adolphus,
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Speaker 1: I mean, this really is like a huge shift in
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Speaker 1: their behavior. I mean, this is not something that these
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Speaker 1: twins ever really did. They did basically everything together. You know,
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Speaker 1: even if one didn't necessarily want to do the thing
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Speaker 1: the other was interested in, they would just do the
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Speaker 1: same things again to sort of mimick each other and
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Speaker 1: be similar and just do everything the same. And so
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Speaker 1: the idea that like they're doing such drastically different things,
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Speaker 1: you know, one coming home and leaving the job, the
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Speaker 1: other continuing to live out on her own, was just
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Speaker 1: a huge departure. And then on top of that, you know,
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Speaker 1: Adolphus said to Bobby, He's like, Okay, well, of course
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Speaker 1: you can stay here. Of course you can come home,
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Speaker 1: But where's Betty? Is she gonna be here for the weekend?
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Speaker 1: Is she going to come home and visit with you? You know,
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Speaker 1: like she can keep working there, but is she Is
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Speaker 1: she visiting this weekend? And Bobby was like, no, she's
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Speaker 1: gonna stay. She's actually not coming home this weekend. She's
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Speaker 1: decided to stay and so again it just felt like
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Speaker 1: what's going on here for Adolphus and his wife, Like
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Speaker 1: this is a crazy, big shift. But you know, very
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Speaker 1: quickly Adolpha said, look, just come on in, have dinner,
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Speaker 1: you know, get situated. You know, we'll talk about this,
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Speaker 1: we'll figure out, you know, what your next steps need
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Speaker 1: to be. But of course you can stay here and
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Speaker 1: everything will be fine. And so Bobby, she picked her
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Speaker 1: stuff up, she came inside, but then she quickly said
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Speaker 1: she was not hungry and did not want to eat
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Speaker 1: with them, And then she just went up to her bedroom,
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Speaker 1: brought her stuff inside the room, shut the door, and
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Speaker 1: didn't come out again. And over the next two years,
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Speaker 1: Bobby continued to basically just stay in her bedroom. She
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Speaker 1: rarely left her room. She just closed herself in there
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Speaker 1: and shut down almost entirely. She never talked to her
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Speaker 1: parents about really why she left the factory or what
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Speaker 1: she hated so much about the job that forced her
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Speaker 1: to quit. You know, she didn't talk about anything. She
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Speaker 1: didn't reconnect with old friends or seek out new ones.
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Speaker 1: In fact, she became incredibly introverted, whereas before, you know,
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Speaker 1: when she and her sister were both living under this roof.
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Speaker 1: They both were very extroverted. They were always out doing
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Speaker 1: social things, and now you know, Bobby is like a
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Speaker 1: recluse in the room. She also was not showing any
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Speaker 1: sign of making moves to change her current situation, like
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Speaker 1: she wasn't seeking a job, she wasn't looking for new opportunities.
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Speaker 1: It was like she sort of had just declined to
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Speaker 1: the point where she just was going to stay in
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Speaker 1: her bedroom perpetuity. But over the course of those two
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Speaker 1: years that Bobby was home, there were several moments where
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Speaker 1: she would sort of snap back and be herself again,
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Speaker 1: these sort of extroverted, happy, social, normal version of Bobby
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Speaker 1: that her parents were used to, and that was when
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Speaker 1: Betty would come home from the factory to visit on
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Speaker 1: the weekends. 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. It was like everything went back
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Speaker 1: to normal. And then Betty would leave to go back
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Speaker 1: to the factory and Bobby would go back to her
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Speaker 1: room and shut the door. And so for Adolphus and
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Speaker 1: his wife, you know, part of them had always hoped
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Speaker 1: that these two, you know, would eventually separate and kind
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Speaker 1: of learn to live independently. But even though Betty, who
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Speaker 1: was staying out at the factory and living on her own,
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Speaker 1: appeared basically to be doing okay on her own, it
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Speaker 1: just seems sort of obvious that Bobby was just completely
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Speaker 1: falling apart without her sister. She was utterly dependent on her.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it was so clear, and so Adolphus really
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Speaker 1: didn't know, you know, how this was going to play out.
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Speaker 1: It just sort of seemed like over time this was
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Speaker 1: definitely getting worse, certainly for Bobby. But around the time
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Speaker 1: that Adolphus and his wife are sort of trying to
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Speaker 1: figure this out what to do about Bobby, you know,
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Speaker 1: two years in to her being home, right around that
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Speaker 1: same timeframe, so two years in, Betty sort of inexplicably
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Speaker 1: came home one Friday and said, you know what, I
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Speaker 1: quit the factory too, and I'm going to live here
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Speaker 1: as well. And in a weird way, you know, Adolphus
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Speaker 1: and his wife were relieved because it meant that realistically,
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Speaker 1: the daughters would almost certainly fall back and step with
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Speaker 1: each other and return to their normal selves. And really,
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Speaker 1: for Bobby's sake, it seemed like this would be an
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Speaker 1: enormous you know plus in her life. I mean, she
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Speaker 1: really was falling apart here, and they had seen how
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Speaker 1: happy she was every time Betty came home to visit
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Speaker 1: over those two years, and so there was a relief
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Speaker 1: that Betty was But there was also like a it
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Speaker 1: didn't really make sense that Betty was quitting her job.
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Speaker 1: I mean, really, it seemed like she liked her job.
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Speaker 1: She seemed to be doing well on her own. Adolphus
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Speaker 1: couldn't necessarily prove this, but he believed that ultimately, what
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Speaker 1: Betty must be doing here is what she and her
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Speaker 1: sister always did, which is, we will do the same things,
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Speaker 1: even if we don't necessarily want to. Like Betty basically
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Speaker 1: was sacrificing her independent life to come back home and
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Speaker 1: be with her sister and sort of fall into step
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Speaker 1: like they always did. That's what it seemed like. But
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Speaker 1: again it seemed like the silver lining was, at least
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Speaker 1: our daughters will be normal again. They'll be happy and
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Speaker 1: healthy again. But that is not what happened once Betty
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Speaker 1: came back home, you know, she quit the factory and
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Speaker 1: she and Bobby are now living once again under the
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Speaker 1: same roof. They absolutely did fall back and step with
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Speaker 1: each other like they always had done, but their connection
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Speaker 1: to each other, their dependence, their attachment on each other
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Speaker 1: was so extreme, way more than and before it was
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Speaker 1: already extreme, So this is like way beyond what's reasonable.
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Speaker 1: They basically went into the bedroom where they both were living,
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Speaker 1: which was Bobby's bedroom, now Betty was living in there
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Speaker 1: as well. They went into that bedroom and just shut
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Speaker 1: the door and just stayed in there together basically twenty
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Speaker 1: four to seven. So they did not, you know, become
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Speaker 1: the extroverted girls that they used to be. They became introverted.
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Speaker 1: But together they didn't seek out jobs. They certainly didn't
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Speaker 1: show any interest in getting jobs. They again were not socializing.
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Speaker 1: They just stayed in that room basically twenty four to seven.
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Speaker 1: They slept in the same bed, and then in the
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Speaker 1: rare times that they would leave the bedroom, they would
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Speaker 1: walk side by side like they were touching shoulders. Like
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Speaker 1: everywhere they went they had to basically be on top
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Speaker 1: of each other. And they also moved almost like in sync,
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Speaker 1: like robots. They were just doing the exact same thing.
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Speaker 1: And then anywhere they went they could not separate. Like
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Speaker 1: any room they went to in the house they were together.
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Speaker 1: Go to the bathroom, they're going together. I mean, everything
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Speaker 1: was together. It was a level of attachment that the
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Speaker 1: parents had never seen before. Now, of course, Adolphus and
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Speaker 1: his wife were concerned about this. They didn't really know
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Speaker 1: even what to call what they were seeing. It just
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Speaker 1: seemed like codependency to a fault. But they were sort
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Speaker 1: of hoping that, you know, eventually the girls would kind
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Speaker 1: of level out again and they'd get their lives back
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Speaker 1: on track, even if they retained that really intense bond.
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Speaker 1: But then it got worse. In addition to basically shutting
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Speaker 1: themselves in this room all the time and you know,
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Speaker 1: never being apart from each other, they also stopped eating.
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Speaker 1: At first. It just seemed like they were, you know,
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Speaker 1: just not interested in dinner. You know, Adolphus would go
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Speaker 1: up to the bedroom and he'd knock on the door
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Speaker 1: and it would open a crack, and both Bobby and
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Speaker 1: Betty's faces would come to the door at the same time,
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Speaker 1: and 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
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Speaker 1: behaviors or their anomalous behaviors, in particular they're not eating,
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Speaker 1: and their codependency, the psychiatrists believed, could basically be explained
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Speaker 1: by schizophrenia, and so ultimately the psychiatrists prescribed Bobby and
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Speaker 1: Betty some anti psychotic medication and promised a. Dolphus that
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Speaker 1: if they'd take these meds they'd be okay. But even
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Speaker 1: though Adolphus and his wife ensured that Bobby and Betty
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Speaker 1: took their medication exactly as they were supposed to every
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Speaker 1: single day, the twins did not seem to get any better.
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Speaker 1: If anything, they actually continued to get worse. They spent,
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Speaker 1: if anything, more time locked in their bedroom, and they
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Speaker 1: became more frail, and they continued to barely eat, and
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Speaker 1: they also began showing signs of being very paranoid around
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Speaker 1: anybody that was not their other sibling, even their own parents.
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Speaker 1: It was like the only person either Bobby and Betty
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Speaker 1: could be around was the other. They couldn't be a
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Speaker 1: anybody else. They just kind of hid themselves away basically
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Speaker 1: twenty four seven, and so pretty quickly Adolphus came to
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Speaker 1: the realization that these antipsychotic meds are not doing enough,
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Speaker 1: or maybe they're not doing anything at all. But at
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Speaker 1: the same time, Adolphus did not think that, you know,
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Speaker 1: the 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 looked after, so pretty quickly
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Speaker 1: they got better. And also the girls were allowed to
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Speaker 1: stay in the same room together. They really never separated them,
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Speaker 1: which was an important part of their recovery, as they
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Speaker 1: had each other. And so after several weeks in the hospital,
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Speaker 1: they were deemed you know, healthy and back to normal,
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Speaker 1: so to speak, and they were discharged. But pretty much
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Speaker 1: immediately once they got back to their family home, they
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Speaker 1: regressed right back to being you know, secluded in the bedroom,
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Speaker 1: not eating, and being completely introverted and completely not normal,
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Speaker 1: not healthy. And so again they were committed. And again
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Speaker 1: they got better while they were at the hospital, but
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Speaker 1: then once they were discharged and back home, they got
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Speaker 1: worse again, over and over and over again. For over
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Speaker 1: a year, it was like they were in and out
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Speaker 1: of the hospital. It just didn't seem like they were
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Speaker 1: making any real progress. And so eventually Adolphus and his
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Speaker 1: wife and several doctors and nurses that had treated the
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Speaker 1: two girls over the past year during their numerous hospital stays,
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Speaker 1: eventually they all kind of came to the conclusion that
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Speaker 1: it could be possible that what was happening here is
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Speaker 1: these girls had schizophrenia and that was kind of the
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Speaker 1: root cause of all their issues, or maybe it was
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Speaker 1: just their intense dependency on each other that was effectively
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Speaker 1: causing all their problems. That what could have been viewed
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Speaker 1: as like this timeless bond between siblings was actually like
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Speaker 1: a really deeply unhealthy codependency where they were so enmeshed
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Speaker 1: in the other that like they couldn't grow as people
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Speaker 1: and become independently functioning adults, that they were kind of stuck,
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Speaker 1: and that unless drastic action was taken, they would continue
18:36
Speaker 1: to be stuck and continue to decline or at least
18:39
Speaker 1: spiral the way they had been. And so a decision
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Speaker 1: was made to without asking the girls, to forcibly separate
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Speaker 1: them and see if that made a big difference. And
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Speaker 1: so on April eleventh, nineteen sixty two, Bobby and Betty
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Speaker 1: were both once again committed to the hospital, except this time,
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Speaker 1: for the first time time they were separated. They were
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Speaker 1: put in literal opposite ends of the hospital, in totally
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Speaker 1: separate warts, and they completely lost their minds. The girls
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Speaker 1: begged and screamed and demanded to be kept together, but
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Speaker 1: the staff said, nope, it's for your own good a
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Speaker 1: few hours after the girls had been separated at the hospital,
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Speaker 1: so this is the first time they're being kept apart.
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Speaker 1: This is like one am on the morning of April twelfth.
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Speaker 1: Adolphus was at home a sleep when his phone rang,
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Speaker 1: and he was confused because it's the middle of the night,
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Speaker 1: like who's calling him? But when he picked up the phone,
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Speaker 1: he heard a hospital doctor's voice on the other end,
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Speaker 1: and the doctor sounded completely frantic, and he tried to
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Speaker 1: explain to a dolphins what was going on. You know,
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Speaker 1: Adolphus was aware of the fact that the girls were
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Speaker 1: going to be separated, but everything the doctor was saying
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Speaker 1: about what had followed after the separation just didn't make
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Speaker 1: any sense, and he was trying to clarify, like what
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Speaker 1: are you talking about? But the doctor find he just
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Speaker 1: paused and then just clearly stated basically the disaster that
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Speaker 1: had unfolded after the separation, that something they could have
20:08
Speaker 1: never planned for has happened, and even the doctor didn't
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Speaker 1: really know what to make of it. And when Adolphus
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Speaker 1: heard this, he just sat there on the phone, completely frozen,
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Speaker 1: having no idea how to react. Over the next few days,
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Speaker 1: doctors at that psychiatric hospital tried to come up with
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Speaker 1: a rational, scientific explanation for what happened on the night
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Speaker 1: that Bobby and Betty were separated, but they couldn't figure
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Speaker 1: it out. So in an effort to figure it out,
20:34
Speaker 1: they called in the North Carolina State Board of Investigators
20:37
Speaker 1: for some help, but they couldn't figure it out, and
20:40
Speaker 1: so they called in the FBI, and the FBI couldn't
20:43
Speaker 1: figure it out either. Nobody had any idea how this
20:47
Speaker 1: could have happened or why. And so as this story
20:50
Speaker 1: naturally began to leak out to the press and began
20:53
Speaker 1: circulating in newspapers all over the country as like this
20:56
Speaker 1: unbelievable mystery, a lot of people, as they saw this story,
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Speaker 1: began to wonder if maybe the explanation for what happened
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Speaker 1: after these girls were separated is not rooted in science.
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Speaker 1: Maybe what happened is something that we as humans we
21:13
Speaker 1: can't really understand, but it doesn't make it any less real.
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Speaker 1: It would turn out, at twelve fifty five am on
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Speaker 1: the night or early morning that Bobby and Betty were
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Speaker 1: separated in the hospital, a nurse in the ward where
21:27
Speaker 1: Bobby had been moved to was doing her regular rounds,
21:30
Speaker 1: and when she got to Bobby's room, she found Bobby
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Speaker 1: lying in her bed on her side, and she was dead.
21:37
Speaker 1: About five minutes later, at one am, a doctor went
21:40
Speaker 1: to check on Betty in the ward where she was
21:42
Speaker 1: on the other end of the hospital, and this doctor
21:45
Speaker 1: found Betty was also dead in her bed, lying in
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Speaker 1: the exact same position that Bobby was. But the strange
21:52
Speaker 1: thing was is there was no obvious sign of what
21:57
Speaker 1: killed them. There was no sign of illness, there no
22:00
Speaker 1: sign of self harm, there was no sign of violence
22:03
Speaker 1: or foul play. It was like, inexplicably, both of these
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Speaker 1: girls were just dead. And then even after doing multiple autopsies,
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Speaker 1: nobody could figure it out, Like there wasn't a reason
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Speaker 1: that they died, forget foul play, forget how it happened.
22:18
Speaker 1: There wasn't a medical diagnosis for what killed them. They
22:23
Speaker 1: just suddenly died, And so the only real conclusion they
22:26
Speaker 1: had was that somehow the twins had died from no
22:30
Speaker 1: apparent cause. At almost the exact same time, the twins'
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Speaker 1: cause of death was officially listed as ill, defined and unknown.
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Speaker 1: The only theory that anyone has been able to come
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Speaker 1: up with about what happened came from one of the
22:45
Speaker 1: doctors who treated Bobby and Betty in the hospital. He
22:48
Speaker 1: believed that the twins were so distressed about being forcibly
22:52
Speaker 1: separated that they found a way to reunite by quote
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Speaker 1: willing themselves to die. Basically, the twins need the spiritual, physical,
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Speaker 1: emotional need to be with the other, and having that
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Speaker 1: taken from them was so strong, so powerful, that they
23:10
Speaker 1: basically forced themselves to shut down and die in hopes
23:14
Speaker 1: that their spirits could reconnect. But as crazy as that sounds,
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Speaker 1: there's actually one more very strange detail about the way
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Speaker 1: they died that seems to add a layer of credibility
23:26
Speaker 1: to the idea that whatever happened here is bigger than science.
23:30
Speaker 1: It's something paranormal, it's something supernatural, it's something else. And
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Speaker 1: that was that when they found Bobby and Betty's bodies
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Speaker 1: just five minutes apart from each other on opposite ends
23:41
Speaker 1: of the hospital, they weren't just laying in bed in
23:44
Speaker 1: the same position as the other. No, it seemed like
23:47
Speaker 1: they were positioned sort of awkwardly on their bed. If
23:51
Speaker 1: you think about how a bed works, it's a rectangle
23:54
Speaker 1: and you lay vertically along the bed. The girls were
23:57
Speaker 1: found sort of a little bit at an angle on
24:00
Speaker 1: their respective beds, like they were sort of positioned in
24:03
Speaker 1: a non natural, non parallel way with their bed. They
24:06
Speaker 1: were sort of almost perpendicular to the flow of their bed.
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Speaker 1: And at first it was just an anomaly about how
24:12
Speaker 1: they were found. They died, and they sort of got
24:14
Speaker 1: into this position. But then somebody realized, if you removed
24:18
Speaker 1: all the walls, just in your mind, if you removed
24:21
Speaker 1: all the walls between each of the rooms they were in,
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Speaker 1: the way they were laying on the bed made sense
24:27
Speaker 1: because the girls, in their own way, positioned themselves to
24:31
Speaker 1: be looking exactly at each other when they died. Thank
24:42
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