10 incredible true stories about twins

No one will deny that gemini is cool. They are adorable in their little identical outfits, and isn't it funny to watch them when they are desperately looking for ways to distinguish themselves from their "partner"? There are many amazing stories about twins, and for the next list we have selected ten of the most interesting.

1. Edith and Joana Casas

22-year-old Edith Casas fell in love and wanted to marry the man of her dreams. Unfortunately, in the eyes of the rest of her family, this choice was just a nightmare. And all because Edith was going to marry a man who two years earlier had been sentenced to thirteen years in prison for the murder of her twin sister Joan. Victor, the alleged killer, also had a sexual relationship with Joana, who was a model.

Victor was firmly convinced that his relationship with Joana was "accidental", and that he really loved Edith. But her parents, of course, intervened, and the wedding had to be postponed so that Edith could undergo a mental assessment to find out whether she could make such a decision. She eventually married Viktor on February 14, 2013, when he was still in custody on charges of murdering her twin sister.

2. The twins avoided prison

In 2009, a talented jewel thief stole $6.8 million worth of jewelry from a luxury store in Germany. The culprit according to the DNA scan was either Hassan O. or Abbas O. (the names were not made public according to German law), but both twins were released after the courts could not find out which of the twins actually committed the crime. Similar results have occurred in rape cases, and one man even managed to avoid the death sentence in Malaysia because of the protection of his twin.

3. Twins who lead the same life after they were separated at birth

Jim Lewis and Jim Springer were separated at birth when they were given up for adoption in 1940. They first met when they were thirty-nine years old. It turns out that each of them, independently of each other, was given the name Jim by their adoptive parents – and this is just the beginning of supernatural parallels in their lives.

Both of them are married twice, the first wives were women named Linda, and then women named Betty. Both had dogs named Toy in their childhood. Their sons ' names were James Allen and James Alan. Both worked as sheriffs, drank the same beer, smoked the same cigarettes and drove a Chevrolet. It is not surprising that this story is often used as evidence of telepathy.

4. Imperfections of the paternity test

In 2004, Holly Mary Adams gave birth to a beautiful, healthy baby girl. The child's birth certificate lists Raymond Miller as the father, but he did not agree with the fact of his paternity. The DNA test could not prove that he, and not his twin Richard, is the real father.

This story is not too similar to the story of the theft of jewelry. In that story, only one of the twins participated in the event, and in this case, Holly had sexual relations with both Richard and Raymond on the same day, but neither of the twins knew that she had done the same with the second. Their DNA is more than 99% identical, so there is no way to prove which of them is the father and which is the uncle.

5. Babies of different races

Ryan – born on July 11, 2005-has light skin and blue eyes, while his twin brother, Leo – has dark skin and brown eyes. The father of the two boys is a light – skinned German, and their mother is a dark – skinned woman from Ghana. Such situations have occurred several times: in 2005, twin girls of different races were born to an interracial couple. And in 2006, a mixed-race woman named Kerry Richardson gave birth to light-skinned twins, one of whom became darker with age, and the other – lighter.

6. Twins gave birth to twins

Ashley Spinks and Andrea Springer are twin sisters. When they were 21 years old, they discovered that they were not only pregnant at the same time at the same time, but also both were expecting twin boys (anyway, this was discovered only when the women were already six months pregnant). The twins were born on the same day, December 14, and not on January 1, as predicted. Women swear that they did not use drugs that promote conception, and that twins are simply born in their family.

7. The twins married the twins

Diana and Darlene Nettemeyer are twin sisters. They married identical twins Craig and Mark Sanders, who proposed with rings in the same style on the same day. The sisters wore identical dresses to their double wedding, bought houses next door to each other, and eventually had children on the same day.

8. Another option for a gemini wedding

This is another case when twins separated at birth found each other in later life, but with a less happy ending. The twins in this story, who will remain anonymous, were separated at birth and grew up in different families. They met each other later in life and felt an "inevitable attraction" to each other. They began a romantic relationship, which eventually led to a wedding. Soon after their wedding, it turned out that they were actually brother and sister, after which the courts ruled that their marriage was invalid.

9. Identical and dissimilar

Hannah Kersey from Northam, England, was born with a double uterus-a malformation of the genitals, which led to the fact that she had two wombs. Despite the fact that such a case falls on one out of 3 thousand women, the chances of giving birth to three healthy girls from two separate wombs are 25 million to one. But in December 2006, Hannah did just that.

Identical twins Ruby and Tilly were born from one womb, and their twin sister Grace was born from another. While simultaneous maturation of two children in the womb occurs in women with a double uterus (at least 70 cases have been recorded), a triple birth in the Kersey family was the first recorded.

10. The twins died together

In 2002, a pair of 73-year-old twins died on the road in Finland. This is not unusual at first glance, until we find out that they died separately, with a difference of two hours. The first of the twins was hit by a truck while riding a bicycle on the road, and died. Two hours later, his brother died in exactly the same way. To make it even more strange, the police have not yet had time to inform the second twin about the death of his brother (which means that he did not just try to follow him to the grave).