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Did My Sister Know That?

10 Amazing Stories of Twin Telepathy by Pamela Prindle Fierro

In the opening paragraph of the article, Fierro, the author, states that there exists an idea that twins share a "special connection" with one another. They may have a "supernatural ability to communicate." However scientific research has offered no evidence of this supernatural ability. That being said, Fierro presents eleven stories of twins' telepathic interactions with one another. She provides anecdotes that allows the reader to ponder if these "myths and mysteries surrounding twins" exist. The first story involves two young boys doing homework and one of them knew the answers to the other one's homework without looking at it. In the second anecdote, two identical twins created an imaginary friend and they both knew exactly where he was at all times. In the third story, an identical twin's arm hurt so bad that she had to go to the doctor, but the doctor did not find anything wrong with it. A few days later, the twin found out that her co-twin had fallen and broken the same arm that was hurting the first twin. The two twins were living half way around the world from each other when this happened. The fourth anecdote involves two two year old twins who could not fully communicate with each other yet, but decided, from different rooms in the house, that they were going to play a trick on their mom. In the fifth story, a girl had a vision that her sister had died at the exact same moment her sister had an asthma attack while playing basketball. The sixth story is about a twin who suddenly became sick and had the feeling that her sister had been in a car accident. The twin was right. In the seventh story, one twin needed stitches and developed a scar, and the other twin developed a scar in the same place even though she never hurt herself. The eighth story is about two five year old twins at Disney World. One twin was with the mom and the other was with the dad. The mom noticed the twin she was with get panicked for a few minutes and then settle down. It turns out that the other twin was momentarily separated from the dad at the same time that she panicked. In the ninth story, one twin got bitten badly by a dog on the hand while the other twin was at home with a hand that randomly started hurting a lot. The tenth story involves two twins who had not met each other. One dreamed about a girl on a plane, coming to her town, who looked like her and was carrying a bag that looked like hers. The next day, her foster parents told her that she had a twin and was going to meet her. The girl looked like the same one in the dream, carrying the same backpack. When the twins reunited the girl found out that her co-twin had the same dream only in her dream she saw a girl sleeping. In the last story, one twin had a feeling that the other was hurt just after the other twin fractured her cheekbone.

Prindle Fierro, Pamela. "Amazing Stories of Twin Telepathy - Twin ESP Stories." //About.com Twins & Multiples //. N.p., 29 Apr. 2013. Web. 05 June 2014. .