The twin sisters June and Jennifer Gibbons were born in Barbados. They were known as the Silent Twins because they had only talked to themselves but no one in the world. Until today their case was posted on thousands of platforms but no one has revealed the truth behind it.
Let's us know how their lives were and what brought them to crime, and then on to mental institutions. Ultimately, the mysterious death of one of the twins.
Gibbons sisters used to write fictional novels. They devised a special code language that wasn't understandable to anyone but them. As far as their diaries were concerned, they both were very hostile and rude to each other. When they were alone they lashed out physically. Their lives were full of depression. They wrote in their diaries that one of them would have to die in order to lead the other a normal life.
They were sent to many therapists and sent to separate schools hoping that they would talk to the other students. But it made their social disorder even worse. They withdrew themselves from the society totally. At one part of their life, they had immersed themselves in the novel writing and decided to start a writing career. As they decided, they released two separate books. Unluckily their both novels didn't get any notice. So, they became so furious and burned down a building causing 200,000 dollars damage. They were arrested from the arson crime. And the judge gave an order to send them to high-security mental school.
That's where they spent 12 years. When they spent in the school they used to be on the switch mode like one sister ate one day and on the same day, the other one starved. They were both enemies to themselves. Once a journalist came to visit them, June told her that they were going to have a death. On hearing this, Journalist asked why, to this, they said they had decided.
During the trip to Caswell Clinic Jennifer slept in June’s lap with her eyes open. Upon reaching the Clinic, Jennifer laid as unresponsive and was declared dead by the doctors. The cause of death was determined to be a sudden, lethal inflammation of the heart. During a postmortem, doctors did not find any drug or poison in her body. Her death still remains a mystery.
jennifer gibbon, image credit: findgrave.com
A poem was engraved on a headstone of jennifer. The poem was written by June: “We once were two/We two made one/We no more two/Through life be one/Rest in peace.”
Surprisingly, after Jennifer's death, June became normal and living a quiet life in West Wales with her parents.
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