Id heard of the silent twins before theres an awesome article on cracked. Jennifer and june gibbons are a set of englishborn twins. The movie is based on the 1986 book of the same name written by. June and jennifer gibbons were twin sisters who hadnt spoken to anyone but each other their whole lives. June gibbons born 11 april 1963 and jennifer gibbons 11 april 1963 9 march 1993 were identical twins who grew up in wales. Chris hunter, a doctor, said no cause had been established.
I found a rare copy of june allison gibbons outsider novel. The silent twins, june and jennifer gibbons angelfire. Welcome back to snap judgment, from prx and npr, the unforgiven episode. Instead, it caught us by surprise and left us uncertain for the few seconds before the curtain call. Since it influences a 5th house, it shows excited, oddball, crazy lightmarsneptune interactions with boys. June and jennifer gibbons june and jennifer gibbons. The book tells the true story of june and jennifer gibbons, identical twins from haverfordwest, who ceased speaking to adults and retreated into their own private fantasy world. Black panther breakout star, letitia wright, is set to play twin sisters, june and jennifer gibbons in the film the silent twins. June and jennifer gibbons, known as the silent twins, have been a source of curiosity ever since their bizarre story made headlines in the 80s and 90s. On the bus, jennifer rested her head on her twins shoulder and said, at long last were out. Jennifer gibbons, 29, silent twin of a study the new. Less than 12 hours later, she was dead of acute myocarditis.
Silent twins june and jennifer gibbons made a pact to cut themselves off from the world, with a secret language to keep them apart. Horrifying facts about june and jennifer gibbons, the. The silent twins, first published in 1986, updated in 1998 and reissued in 2008, explores june and jennifer s complicated history. Buy a cheap copy of the silent twins book by marjorie wallace. The pepsicola addict if you havent read the silent twins 1986 by marjorie wallace then do so its excellent. From childhood, twins june and jennifer gibbons were inseparably linked, bound together as if at the hip in a strange love and obsessive hatred. In the end, june and jennifer gibbons, also known as the silent.
Their local newspaper had a story on the twins but it didnt get much. These studies are well depicted, particularly the study of june and jennifer gibbons, who lived in wales and were victims of racism in their school environment. We are trying to reflect the information printed in the magazine. June and jennifer gibbons, the twins who only talked with each other. Hilton als on june and jennifer gibbons, english twins who retreated into their own world, with its own language, and then went on an arson spree. June and jennifer gibbons the story behind the silent.
The new yorker june and jennifer gibbons withdrew into a. They had speech impediments, and as the years went by, their secret twin language became more unique and less intelligible to outsiders. Dubbed the silent twins because they only communicated with their immediate family, june and jennifer gibbons were born in wales in 1963. Now, 23 years after that fatal day, their older sister greta has broken her silence. Twins jennifer and june gibbons became notorious in the 80s when they carried out a. A british journalist unravels the tale of the twins who. From a very young age they remained largely silent, refusing to talk to anyone but each other, and then only in their own personal cryptophasia or secret twin language. Truly a bizarre story the mixes elements of the supernatural with crime, and, ultimately, death. Jennifer gibbons, one of britains socalled silent twins, whose strange lives became the subject of a book and an opera, died on tuesday. It was an investigative journalist for the sunday times named marjorie wallace who first brought their story to the world.
But for some twins, like jennifer and june gibbons, that unique bond becomes more of a curse. They only spoke to each other, using the few words that. The duo had a bizarre relationship that has been covered on television more than once, and is made for tv movie and other documentaries which depicted the morbid bond between the. Something went terribly wrong, because june and jennifer have. Died of a slit face and susie popegibbons died the same time of a cracked skull. The silent twins by marjorie wallace reading matters. Miss gibbons fell ill just hours after she and her sister, june, left broadmoor hospital. The gibbons sisters top 10 weirdest twincrime stories time.
Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. Letitia wright playing reallife sisters in the silent. Born in 1963, june and jennifer gibbons grew up to be known as the. The twin sisters were inseparable and their particular highspeed patois made it difficult for people outside their immediate family to understand them. They were not as ladan and laleh physically conjoined, but emotionally and psychologically so bound one to the other that they could. Following a conviction for burglary and arson, during their late teens, they were both sent to broadmoor psychiatric hospital. June and jennifer gibbons of wales were twin sisters who never left each others side. The story of identical twins june and jennifer gibbons made a remarkable impact on both viewers and press alike when first shown. Born to barbadian parents, june and jennifer were twins who grew up in the uk. From early childhood through their twenties, they spoke only to each other in a secret langauge, building an elaborate fantasy life. But when police came, they would find only the crazy mute twins that. They would shut themselves away in their bedroom, not coming down for meals, and even when they did they would barely acknowledge thei. The gibbons twins were born 10 minutes apart in a royal air force hospital in aden, yemen, in 1963.
Since infancy the gibbons girls communicated with each other in a strange speededup patoislike. From a very young age they remained largely silent, refusing to talk to anyone but each other, and then only in their own personal cryptophasia or secret twin. While twins are often very close, june and jennifer took their twin bond to a whole new level. The gibbons moved from barbados to the united kingdom in the early 1960s, as part of the windrush generation.
Within moments of release, jennifer collapsed, dead. They wrote works of fiction and later turned to crime. June alison and jennifer lorraine gibbons were born at an r. That is, until journalist marjorie wallace came along and unearthed their inner world. June and jennifer were the daughters of caribbean immigrants gloria and aubrey gibbons. Dubbed the silent twins because they only communicated with their immediate family, june and jennifer gibbons were born in wales in 1963 and grew up as social pariahs who were frequently bullied. This is the astonishing tale of june and jennifer gibbons, identical twins whose silent, antisocial exterior hid a rich, vast, creative life. They created their own secret language and refused to talk to anyone else. June and jennifer gibbons withdrew into a private world, with its own language. The black panther star, 26, is set to play one of the twin sisters june and jennifer gibbons in the film the silent twins, based on the book of. Born in barbados on 11 th april, 1963, but raised in wales, june was the elder twin by ten minutes. Gloria was a housewife and aubrey worked as a technician for the royal air force. Identical twins do everything togetherfrom dressing the same, to finishing each others sentences, to committing the same crimes.
It is written by guest blogger jennifer kathleen gibbons update. Film on the very fascinating true story of the silent. Due to some serious mom commitments, alaina had to step away and it is an ashs spooky time to shine as she covers the bizarre, sad and fascinating case of june and jennifer gibbons aka the silent twins. This is the chilling and mysterious tale of june and jennifer gibbons better known as the silent twins.
Hilton als on june and jennifer gibbons, english twins who retreated. Jennifer gibbons, horoscope for birth date 11 april 1963. First sex 7 june 1981 age 18, same boy as her sister had. I first read about the silent twins late last year and immediately thought that their story could make for an incredible, fascinating film, especially truly unique among black films with the right script and director of course. If you havent heard the story of june and jennifer gibbons, its one you wont soon forget. It is written by an investigative journalist, marjorie wallace, who founded the mental health charity sane on the back of her experiences writing articles on schizophrenia for the times. Silent twins june and jennifer gibbons made a pact to cut. In what should have been the already anticipated climax wed after all waited all of 90 minutes for this june and jennifer gibbons, trapped in a haze of smoke, reported their own crime of arson. Being wildly eccentric, this pair developed their own twin languages that was unintelligible to others, and in the last, one is said to sacrifice her own life for another. They both had a speech impediment, which made it difficult to understand them. This along with being tonguetied caused them to become silent in society. The mysterious case of the silent gibbons twins urbo. Why have the twins refused to speak to adults throughout their lives. Though you may not have heard of june and jennifer gibbons, youll soon learn why they were called the silent twins, and why everyone is fascinated by their story.
June and jennifer gibbons were identical twins born in wales in 1963. Black panther star letitia wright has been tapped to play real life twin sisters june and jennifer gibbons in the film the silent twins, based on the 1986 book of the same name by m. June and jennifer gibbons, known as the silent twins, have been a source of curiosity ever since their bizarre story made headlines in the. Sep 23, 2018 june and jennifer gibbons, were identical twins who only communicated with each other. From a very early age, identical twins, jennifer and june gibbons were insular. Join facebook to connect with jennifer gibbons and others you may know. Jennifer and june gibbons were born on april 11, 1963, in barbados, to gloria and aubrey gibbons, and they grew up in havenfordwest, wales. Here is a list of the most notorious sets of twins.