Our creepiest story to date begins all the way back in 1963 with the June and Jennifer Gibbons twins being born in Barbados. Known as the Silent Twins, the creepy duo actually worked on writing fiction novels but hold on tight, this is where it gets interesting. June and Jennifer had only spoken to each other. That's right, NO ONE from the outside world but only each other...
After their reunion, the twins spent the next few years in voluntary seclusion in their room where they performed plays for one another and wrote in diaries. In their diaries they revealed the dark side of their bond.
When the doctors saw the adverse effect of separating the twins, they asked the family to reunite them. After that, the twins spent the next few years isolating themselves in their room.
In the pages of their diaries the twins revealed the dark side of their bond. June wrote, “Nobody suffers the way I do, not with a sister; with a husband, yes; with a wife, yes; with a child, yes, but this sister of mine, a dark shadow robbing me of sunlight, is my one and only torment.”
Inspired by their diaries, they started writing novels about men and women exhibiting criminal behavior. June wrote Pepsi-Cola Addict and Jennifer wrote The Pugilist, Discomania, The Taxi-Driver’s Son and several short stories.
While writing diaries the twin sisters decided to develop writing careers. They took a mail order course in creative writing. Each sister wrote separate novels. The stories in June’s two novels were set primarily in Malibu, California in the United States. June wrote Pepsi-Cola Addict, which was about a high school hero who was seduced by a teacher and later sent to a reformatory where a homosexual guard terrorized him. Jennifer wrote three novels: The Pugilist, Discomania and Taxi-Driver’s Son. She also wrote a radio play called Postman and Postwoman, and several short stories. Their novels and other writings failed to make any serious impression in the literary world.