Two sets of identical twins are reunited with each other after they were separated and switched at birth over 20 years ago. CNN's Brooke Baldwin has more.
How insane must that be though to learn in one day? 1) I was switched at birth. 2) My parents aren't my birth parents 3) My faternal twin isn't my twin. 4) And he isn't biologically my brother. 5) I have an identical twin 6) I have parents and family I have never met 7) My name shouldn't even be my name. 8) I almost lived a completely different life. WOW.
He’s a story teller haha he needs visual aid for himself not others lol.. hence why he brought up more specifics about where they lived. Story tellers need there visual aids.
No that's not what happened. One was searching Facebook to see his own twin (the butcher) and saw that he had a twin brother who looked like his "fraternal" twin brother and that's when they realized they were two sets of identical twins switched at birth. Get it?!
The good thing about the story is that both of them thought each other was brothers but when they finally saw the real brother they all started to live together Now the bond is four strong
At the end you hear the reporters talking about the Jim and Jim twins who grew separated yet had their crazy similarities. If you think they did it for show, look into twin research. Your genetic make-up plays a crazy role in your life choices and experiences. So much so that even growing up in different environments could lead to very similar choices. Your outlook on life might be different, but you'll be surprised how similar twins who were separated at birth grow up to be.
There are so many stories like this about babies switched at birth. It's more than a little disturbing. Either the nurses aren't paying enough attention, or this was done deliberately.
@@afrilS It could be a lot of things, maybe he just happens to look different, mom cheated, or your parents were given the wrong baby at the hospital. A DNA test would solve it. See if you can get him to unknowingly give a DNA sample and test it against your own DNA, to see if both parents are the same. If you think he'll agree, ask him to take the test with you.
That’s why when women give birth they should assign a family member to watch and follow the baby. That person should not worry about the mum, and only focus on the baby. Watch what the medical team is doing and what medication/injections they are giving the baby. Making sure the baby is not switched.
I had my identical twins in a hospital in the United States almost 21 years ago. My twins weighed nearly 6 lbs and their hospital ID bracelets and anklets kept falling off of them. The nurse brought my twins from the NICU to me and she looked at the twins who were in the same hospital baby bed thing together and said she didn't know which baby was which, and just slid the ID tags on them and guessed. And, she was wrong. I knew already how to tell them apart because of identifying markers on them. I can see how this could happen anywhere because of the bracelet ID issues I experienced when I had my own twins.
When I was born and my mom got me back after I was taken for a shower, she was convinced I'd been accidentally switched. Luckily, my dad had noticed a scratch on my toe (that I did to myself before I was born). But I think she was only fully convinced after a few years, when random people kept commenting on how I'm a carbon copy of her. We could never see it ourselves, but I've started to notice some similarities as I age.
The fruit really helped. There was no way I could understand what happened with both sets of identical twins by just photos of them. I needed this situation reduced to differently coloured fruit!
I've heard of hospitals running experiments where they separate twins at birth. But separating twins AND swapping them with another set of twins to pass as fraternal twins? This is so bizarre? And scary. Glad they all found each other
I'm so happy my children stayed in the room with me the whole time. I never understood why a baby would be taken into a room away from mom and put with a bunch of other babies.
I thought they would use say a green apple and red apple, and melon and watermelon or something, so we could distinguish between William and Wilbur etc.
@@Trini2DeBone they tell you if your kids are identical or fraternal before birth. They look nothing a like and they seem to be both identical when you put them with the correct sibling. My babies are identical, I would know if one baby wasn't mine
Wish I could see pictures of them as babies. They must have looked more alike then. Their adult features are so strong, it's hard to believe they could be switched without their parents realizing.
Most babies look like aliens at birth. And even as infants it’s hard to tell if a baby takes after mom or dad until their features come in, which is more towards toddler years. Even then all that baby fat prevents us from seeing more pronounced features. Then there’s the fact that some genes skip a generation or recessive genes, which may explain the one random baby with blonde hair or blue eyes in a family with brunette hair or brown eyes. It’s kind of crazy when you think about it. Unless you conduct a DNA test early on, it can take a few years before you start to realize that baby doesn’t look like either mom or dad. And by then you’ve bonded with the child you’ve raised.
@@_Shinique Having a DNA test at birth does not prevent a switch. Most laboratories usually process the test and get the DNA result ready between 3 to 12 weeks, counting from the day they receive your sample. Meaning if a switch occurs after the sample is taken, then even when the DNA result come back positive, you're still bringing the wrong baby home.
One of them, i think Carlos, took it harder than the others, but he was reassured that he would still be loved by his brother he grew up with so gradually accepted the situation.
I am sssooo glad and happy they are living together! It's as if they are a group of 4 brothers now, with nearly the same birthday. They could have all been born on the same day, as well.
These twins must experience total mind fu@k at first, but then they all gained extra brothers. Hope they don't think of the past and what could've been but look forward to the future and enjoy each other.
Columbia, where the doctors get their degrees and registration off corn flakes boxes. Any doctor on delivering two babies, who can not tell the difference between fraternal or identical twins, deserves to be buried under the hospital. Count the placentas you morons.
It happens all the time. Just wait, in 20 years or so there will some declassified government document admitting they did it on purpose to hundreds of twins and they're really sorry about it now after the fact.
Three Identical Strangers documented how this sort of research has gone on for years, and there are dozens, if not hundreds of people around the world living with the wrong family. It's terrifying. Surely, it cannot be that difficult to keep twins together, with so many 'mistakes'.
shenoir In “Three Identical Strangers”, it was absolutely an intentional separation. The three brothers were born to a single mother who gave them up for adoption. The psychiatrists running the experiment did not tell the families that the babies were actually triplets, and they requested to interview and meet with the children and videotape them as part of their experiment, but they just told the parents that they were doing research on adopted children, not twins or triplets. On a sidenote, it wasn’t mentioned in the documentary, but there were actually four boys, but one of the babies died at birth. When they found out about the experiment, they were furious. One of the adoptive parents talked about how The baby they adopted had intense separation anxiety. He would just sit in the crib and bang his head on the side. They didn’t know why he was doing it, but now they know it’s because he missed his brothers. Truly irresponsible and unforgivable treatment of these children, in the name of science..
The hospital should be sued... for emotional distress and damages, they should not be able to get away with doing something like this...because there are protocols in place for not making a mix-up. This Hospital needs to be investigated because this is probably not the first mix-up.
I'd be so different... Having a sibling with whom you have all the memories but no blood relation and then finding a sibling with whom you have blood relation but no memories. I guess each of them would equally call all four collectively as brothers
umm twins or not, they can switch anyone. I believe twins are less likely to be switched though because if one baby doesn't look like its twin sibling then you'd be able to catch that. although one can never be too careful, either way because it can happen just like in this case and many others ;)
RetroGuy76 it’s not 3rd world. Do you see the technology they have and the nice clothes they are wearing? Plus there is no such thing as third world countries. There are more developed countries and less developed countries.
A'ishah Mehmood hey my son is half Italian & half Black and he popped out white as snow. I told my mom to fallow him all the way to the nursery no matter what. That was 27yrs ago and I wouldn't change a thing.❤👼❤👼
I mean, it wasn't that hard to follow. One set of "fraternal" twins had very English sounding names that started with W and the other had Spanish names.
I’ll be so pissed if I was born into a rich family and end up being raised poor. Hahahah Edit: I am reading these comments, and there are people stating “Happiness “ is more important... Ummm, why do people correlate money with unhappiness? Are all rich people unhappy? Lmao I wonder how many babies ended up with wrong families from this hospital
Wow i was sad for the guy that their mother died before they knew about what really happened. The good thing is they are 4 brothers now and live together .
It was to me when it came to him telling the story of how they meet. Like, namewise. They could of just let the pic with their names run while he explained how they met too.
Listen to it without seeing him use the fruit and then tell me how easy it is to follow. If someone told me that with no visuals, I would keep asking them to repeat who is who.
+Angela Zapata girl something happened in the hospital and twins born on the same day as me and my sister actually got switched and then when we had the DNA test when we were 8 and found my real twin.
univision or whatever needs to pick up this story ASAP because this story is just waiting to be told. ... and gasped, cried, slapped, passed out, and celebrated in spanish
Heartbreaking... This "switch" cost these 4 men so much! Some gained in ways, but they all lost in having their true family all together. I hope they all stay close and make something really amazing out of this, like some sort of business tht uses all of their skills.
I know 3 guys who are identical triplets (4th one was still born) As adults they moved away from each other, they hadn't seen each other for about 3 years and arranged to meet up at a hotel in London, Stephen the last to arrive got a very strange look from the door man, but eager to see his brothers he didn't stop to question it. Once inside he understood the look. Not only were they all wearing the same clothes, they also had the same hairstyle and same moustache.
when I was 12 I had a sister who was just born and I remember my mum being very insistent before labour that the baby should never be left alone and my dad was to keep an eye on it at all times including when they go off to clean the baby. till this day 14 years on my mum tells me and all her 4 other girls never ever leave a newborn alone. makes sense now
I feel so bad for William...he did not get to meet his mother!!!! 😭😭😭 I feel so bad for the mom for not knowing the truth!!! 💔 It's sad that millions of babies are being switched at birth!!!!
@@aleeshasarr actually it is millions of babies millions and millions of babies are being switched at birth and half of the time majority of people don't even know cuz remember a lot of babies were not kept with their mom they were quickly whisked away
It doesn't just happen with twins. Just more with twins. I'm the oldest and I was adopted. From oldest to youngest I have 4 other siblings with my traits. My oldest little brother and I are both ambidextrous and he's a tattoo artist and I'm a sneaker customizer. From the time I was 15 till the time I was 21 I worked in a hair salon my little sister owns her own beauty spa, when I was in highschool I played every sport they had for girls and I played varsity in every one. Softball, tennis, volleyball (not in the same years as tennis), and basketball, my next little brother down plays rugby for Guam. My baby brother almost went to Juliard for the flute and I played the saxophone. We all have something in common. So much that I can talk to each one and really understand their passions. It's amazing. I found them on my son's birthday 2 weeks before my 31st and they lived all the way across the country. Me in NC them in CA.
Long before "Big Business", William Shakespeare wrote the story of two sets of identical twins, separated when babies, and reunited as adults. The play is called "The Comedy of Errors", and has a happier ending than this story because they are also reunited with both parents in the end.
Deliciousness so they were all together, both sets of twins got split up and then switched, then the other set moves closer to the other twins and a worker saw one of them that looks like her worker and then she shows him a pic and he searches on fb
I still feel like if I saw myself walking down the street, I'd not recognise myself. I wanna see a story like that where they themselves see each other first
They gained a family beyond anyone’s imagination. They now have an unbelievable bond because they are tied by history, family, strange circumstances and blood.
@@MK-rk4no I think he is saying that he could of believed they were brothers by blood. As when you are with people you adopt similar traits and styles sometimes. I'm assuming he is saying because of this they looked like brothers to him and they were brothers in a way of course
@@MK-rk4no Each parent(s) thought they took home a set of fraternal twins (since they obviously didnt take home twins that were identical), so the pairs of men that grew up with each other believed they were actually "fraternal twins". The commenter was saying that these sets of "fraternal twins" that grew up with each other have more similar style to each other than they do with their actual identical twins.
This is a great story - that would have been SO MUCH better if the interviewer would have just let the guy speak. She evidently had a driving need to interrupt and distract from his very compelling and understandable explanation of what happened. Seriously. Sometimes the best interviewers are those who are smart enough to let the person being interviewed speak.
This is really sad, I really feel a type of way with this story. And I have so many questions. I am glad they both were able to meet each other healthy and alive and I am sorry for the mother that died. This is really a sad story 😞 😔 😢 😪
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How insane must that be though
to learn in one day?
1) I was switched at birth.
2) My parents aren't my birth parents
3) My faternal twin isn't my twin.
4) And he isn't biologically my brother.
5) I have an identical twin
6) I have parents and family I have never met
7) My name shouldn't even be my name.
8) I almost lived a completely different life.
WOW.
It's a head banger....
ShadowGale sounds like a great story for a telenovelas
Very true.
Imagine all of the thoughts listed here and a million other thoughts flying about inside the heads of those two sets of twins.
9) My mom passed away ☹️
I was so confused, thank God he broke it down with lemons.
Sof Bof I hope I can like ur comment twice Lol 😂
this needs more likes
He’s a story teller haha he needs visual aid for himself not others lol.. hence why he brought up more specifics about where they lived. Story tellers need there visual aids.
I understood perfectly until he brought out the fruit, then I got confused.
Holy Shit I didn’t know what they were talking about until they brought the fruit into the picture. What a confusing story ...😶
when your brother’s brother is also your brother’s brother lol.
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Mind blown 🤯
Yeah
My mind imploded for a second, until I took time to visualize it.
Imagine the terror: Searching for your brother's identical twin on facebook and finding your own identical twin 😂
😂😂😂😂😂
🤣🤣🤣😭😭
No that's not what happened. One was searching Facebook to see his own twin (the butcher) and saw that he had a twin brother who looked like his "fraternal" twin brother and that's when they realized they were two sets of identical twins switched at birth. Get it?!
@@ebonyapplepy3906 that's correct
this is proof that stupid people work at hospitals
Now they are 4 brothers!!
Dazzling Chong I love the way you think 😍😊🙃
Yes! Thats exactly what I was thinking!
@@alexanderviolinist lmaoo she's being positive. What a loser you are.
@@samiyakhalif8868 pure emotion again. You kids are just so sensible with internet stories. Pure emotions. You last name haha You know Mia Khalifa?
@@alexanderviolinist did your comment just dissappear then? 🗿
Imagine being separated at birth from your twin, then BOOM! your a full grown lemon.
you’re
Maddy Y you're missing the point buddy, just 🤫
I hate when that happens.
They should sue the gardener.
Lmfao
The parents should have known when they brought them home and one of them was green.
Lol 😂
The nurse and the parents are color blind😂
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Hehe
"Wow you really look like my brother..."
"yeah you too!"
Lol. Crazy
lmfao
That hospital should've been sued for negligence!
"Sue them!" sounds so American :)
mikrokupu stfu please
@@mikrokupu it's all they know
For some strange grammatical reason you can't spell United States without using the letters "L-I-T-I-G-I-O-U-S".
Hell nooo they just can't bill cosby them like that.
I feel so sorry for them, especially the guy who never got to meet his birth mother.
Dorothea Linnaeus and that poor mother died not knowing about her long last son 😢😢 so freaking sad
Sandra Pinock omg
How blessed is he that he has another one!
This section turns dark real quick.
Okay....... the guy may not have known his biologically mother, but he did know his mother; the one who raised him
They are four brothers now. Congratulations! God bless you guys!
The poor guy that lived without running water and electricity, instead of living with his family in the city ! 😭😭
and his mom passed away :(( i feel so bad for him
he still became a manager at a butcher shop where they work he still retained his smart traits
@@ninacarranza5189Manager at a butcher shop is not much 😔
People who have a good education would never consider that. Even as a first job.
@@zenwilds2911 what she’s saying is that he did ok with himself and probably values everything he has more because of it
The good thing about the story is that both of them thought each other was brothers but when they finally saw the real brother they all started to live together Now the bond is four strong
Indeed
Ikr
Quadruplets at this point. They gained brothers. 💪🏽❤️
This was most likely done on purpose in the hospital to study them
@@lise2501 It has happened in almost every country
I like how those twins had same style of facial hair.
CrazyStarN I think they did it on purpose for the pictures in the magazine.
@@frankeinstein719 maybe
At the end you hear the reporters talking about the Jim and Jim twins who grew separated yet had their crazy similarities. If you think they did it for show, look into twin research. Your genetic make-up plays a crazy role in your life choices and experiences. So much so that even growing up in different environments could lead to very similar choices. Your outlook on life might be different, but you'll be surprised how similar twins who were separated at birth grow up to be.
Funny that , almost like they’re identical twins!
Isnt it said that twins that grown up separately lives life similarly?
There are so many stories like this about babies switched at birth. It's more than a little disturbing. Either the nurses aren't paying enough attention, or this was done deliberately.
@@markymarksthirdnipple8305 Or just do your job and stop playing God with peoples LIVES!
Ikr. I have a doubt about my youngest brother because he doesn't look like the rest of us.
@@afrilS It could be a lot of things, maybe he just happens to look different, mom cheated, or your parents were given the wrong baby at the hospital. A DNA test would solve it. See if you can get him to unknowingly give a DNA sample and test it against your own DNA, to see if both parents are the same. If you think he'll agree, ask him to take the test with you.
@@hiphopjewels Yeah. Great advice.
I hope they will take it.
That’s why when women give birth they should assign a family member to watch and follow the baby. That person should not worry about the mum, and only focus on the baby. Watch what the medical team is doing and what medication/injections they are giving the baby. Making sure the baby is not switched.
I had my identical twins in a hospital in the United States almost 21 years ago. My twins weighed nearly 6 lbs and their hospital ID bracelets and anklets kept falling off of them. The nurse brought my twins from the NICU to me and she looked at the twins who were in the same hospital baby bed thing together and said she didn't know which baby was which, and just slid the ID tags on them and guessed. And, she was wrong. I knew already how to tell them apart because of identifying markers on them.
I can see how this could happen anywhere because of the bracelet ID issues I experienced when I had my own twins.
Glad she told you about it. Sometimes mom's can't tell that soon
Clearly, that's a horrible system. Good thing you figured it out!
When I was born and my mom got me back after I was taken for a shower, she was convinced I'd been accidentally switched.
Luckily, my dad had noticed a scratch on my toe (that I did to myself before I was born).
But I think she was only fully convinced after a few years, when random people kept commenting on how I'm a carbon copy of her.
We could never see it ourselves, but I've started to notice some similarities as I age.
That's shocking
@@S_Carol you can scratch yourself in the womb?? That’s so interesting!
Plot twist, the parents doesn't know which one is their set of twins
Lol
dna test joined the conversation
@@asd-wn7bb 😂😂😂
Lol
I was thinking the exact same thing 😂
The fruit really helped. There was no way I could understand what happened with both sets of identical twins by just photos of them. I needed this situation reduced to differently coloured fruit!
Lol riight?!
Peter Steman 😂👍🍋🍈
Peter Steman lmao!!!
Lmbo...
Lmao
This why I never let my babies OUT OF MY SIGHT when they were born.
And I wouldn’t ever after this. Thankfully my son looked like his dad right from day one!!! They had identical baby photos. lol
I've heard of hospitals running experiments where they separate twins at birth. But separating twins AND swapping them with another set of twins to pass as fraternal twins? This is so bizarre? And scary. Glad they all found each other
Airplane right?
“Are they bitter?” She missed the perfect opportunity to ask if they were sour with that lemon comparison.
Sarah 😂 LOL
VeryNice (borat meme)
Hahaha 😂
666? The Debbil hisself made you say that!
@Libert Fortem r/woosh
You should have called me for better comparison 😑😑😑
Orange lol
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Lmfao calm down 'range, next time bud
Orange juice did u actually change your pfp and name just for this comment? 😂😂
@@dleenedouglasdd it's my real dp and username from the beginning.
Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin have shot a film called "Big Business" in 1988, exactly the same story, only the sexes are different.
LOVE that movie. Jupiter Hollow and New York City....
Not the same if the set of twins are the opposite sex the guy would be using grapes to demonstrate.
Was thinking this too...
@@jamesalexander2775 She means it was about girls not boys
Great movie!
I'm so happy my children stayed in the room with me the whole time. I never understood why a baby would be taken into a room away from mom and put with a bunch of other babies.
Never got that either.
Color blind people are extremely upset that you used two fruits similar in size and shape.
😂😂😂😂
Aha! The doctors and nurses were colorblind! 😂😂😂
Mel B is that you sporty spice?
Why....? Do you wanna be my lover? 😂
I promise i just laughed out loud 😂
I still don't understand, please explain using oranges. I'm used to oranges.
I think it would have been better for them to use apples and bananas I I mean opples and banonos
lmao!!!!
You're hilarious! I'm dying
I thought they would use say a green apple and red apple, and melon and watermelon or something, so we could distinguish between William and Wilbur etc.
BateroCarbon kkkk
"are they bitter?" No, I'd say more like tangy or sour.
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Cute❤
The real question is was this “switch” done on purpose? 🤔
Right like an experiment. I'd be pissed that happen to my babies
Right, I'm mad as hell and want answers and my twins are safe at home watching a movie before bed!
@@TahtahmesDiary I have triplets and I made sure I went home with all my babies 🤣
It never is. It can easily happen if the twins aren't tagged in the birthing room or the tags are taken off and accidentally switched.
@@Trini2DeBone they tell you if your kids are identical or fraternal before birth. They look nothing a like and they seem to be both identical when you put them with the correct sibling. My babies are identical, I would know if one baby wasn't mine
Still confused , next time please add Googly eyes on the lemons or fake hair .. so I can better understand.
😂😂😂😂😂Oh n0 you didn't Sarah
Sarah Otero 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
😂😂😂
Hahahaha 😂😂😂
But don’t make them look the same bc I’ll be confused
Lmao 🤣
just so sad that one of their moms died and never got to meet her other son
michelle brown Big lawsuit
That makes me really sad 😥
Charlie D 😢
michelle brown 😢
michelle brown, so true and so heartbreaking.
So lucky they’ve met their real twins. I love a good warm real life story like this❤️🙏🏼
Wish I could see pictures of them as babies. They must have looked more alike then. Their adult features are so strong, it's hard to believe they could be switched without their parents realizing.
Most babies look like aliens at birth. And even as infants it’s hard to tell if a baby takes after mom or dad until their features come in, which is more towards toddler years. Even then all that baby fat prevents us from seeing more pronounced features. Then there’s the fact that some genes skip a generation or recessive genes, which may explain the one random baby with blonde hair or blue eyes in a family with brunette hair or brown eyes. It’s kind of crazy when you think about it. Unless you conduct a DNA test early on, it can take a few years before you start to realize that baby doesn’t look like either mom or dad. And by then you’ve bonded with the child you’ve raised.
@@SL-lz9jr I honestly think DNA tests should be done at birth, for everyone's sake.
@@_Shinique Having a DNA test at birth does not prevent a switch. Most laboratories usually process the test and get the DNA result ready between 3 to 12 weeks, counting from the day they receive your sample. Meaning if a switch occurs after the sample is taken, then even when the DNA result come back positive, you're still bringing the wrong baby home.
@@hop3106 Yeah but they can at least realize the mistake much earlier, before the babies grow up.
@@SL-lz9jr A lady I know has a daughter who looks nothing like her or her husband, but she bears a strong resemblance to the lady's mother.
This still hard to follow and I’m Mexican, could you use Tamales verdes and rojos??
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So it all started when Jose put his Guacamole into Maria's Taco...
@Andrea Mendenhall not funny
😂😂😂
I'm not Mexican, and I'd like to know myself. It could make everything so clear, and we could eat while we figure out this very confusing situation😋
I imagine that the brothers must be feeling a huge sense that they are betraying their fake-twins when they meet their real twins
I wouldn't think so. They all live together.
I would feel the same like specially if they close like how can I say he isn’t my brother or twin after that many years together
Right! All those years. Now they are all brothers
One of them, i think Carlos, took it harder than the others, but he was reassured that he would still be loved by his brother he grew up with so gradually accepted the situation.
right haha lol
Crazy part is they ALL resemble each other. 😯
Right they all look like brothers
Yeah I thought the same thing too. They definitely look like they could be brothers irl.
@@mjallen1308 You might be racially biased on this one. They look really different from each other.
I am sssooo glad and happy they are living together! It's as if they are a group of 4 brothers now, with nearly the same birthday. They could have all been born on the same day, as well.
Their mother never knew, and died without knowing :(.
She is the one who brought them all together. 💕
@@ItsLaurenBiiTCH1 What a lovely way to think about it.
I would rather it happen that way for me
plot twist she is a researcher who switched her own twin for science.
Oh... trust me, she knew. I wonder how many times she said to herself "he is not my child" or "where does he get that from?" 🤔
These twins must experience total mind fu@k at first, but then they all gained extra brothers. Hope they don't think of the past and what could've been but look forward to the future and enjoy each other.
+seize7days well I just feel bad for the brother that never got to meet his mother.
i agree. that is the saddest part. or that the mother never gets to know.
Columbia, where the doctors get their degrees and registration off corn flakes boxes.
Any doctor on delivering two babies, who can not tell the difference between fraternal or identical twins, deserves to be buried under the hospital. Count the placentas you morons.
Astroflight says the guy who can't even spell the country correctly 😑
One of them missed out on going to uni so it’s a bit hard not looking back
I hope they’ve found more joy in gaining two brothers - than in what they’ve missed out on or lost.
I definitely wanna read this article. Very fascinating story! Glad they eventually found each other
Why do I feel like this was done on purpose for scientific research?
Omg that would be so evil I didn't even think about this
It happens all the time. Just wait, in 20 years or so there will some declassified government document admitting they did it on purpose to hundreds of twins and they're really sorry about it now after the fact.
Three Identical Strangers documented how this sort of research has gone on for years, and there are dozens, if not hundreds of people around the world living with the wrong family. It's terrifying. Surely, it cannot be that difficult to keep twins together, with so many 'mistakes'.
Was going to mention Three Identical Strangers as well! It’s a must watch. Really horrible what they did to god knows how many sets.
shenoir In “Three Identical Strangers”, it was absolutely an intentional separation. The three brothers were born to a single mother who gave them up for adoption. The psychiatrists running the experiment did not tell the families that the babies were actually triplets, and they requested to interview and meet with the children and videotape them as part of their experiment, but they just told the parents that they were doing research on adopted children, not twins or triplets. On a sidenote, it wasn’t mentioned in the documentary, but there were actually four boys, but one of the babies died at birth.
When they found out about the experiment, they were furious. One of the adoptive parents talked about how The baby they adopted had intense separation anxiety. He would just sit in the crib and bang his head on the side. They didn’t know why he was doing it, but now they know it’s because he missed his brothers.
Truly irresponsible and unforgivable treatment of these children, in the name of science..
The hospital should be sued... for emotional distress and damages, they should not be able to get away with doing something like this...because there are protocols in place for not making a mix-up.
This Hospital needs to be investigated because this is probably not the first mix-up.
Shut the fuck up, Angela
Dutin No one likes you Toby
@@mikerotchbernz4789 Who hurt you??
Dutin do you need help?
AbdoHGamer22 Micheal
I'd be so different... Having a sibling with whom you have all the memories but no blood relation and then finding a sibling with whom you have blood relation but no memories. I guess each of them would equally call all four collectively as brothers
I pray that they are all well and happy with their life!
5:10 she: are they bitter?
He: no they are sour.
HAHAHAHAHA - that was great! :-)
After reading through the various responses , yours actually was funny and not mean
Hilarious!😆
that's y my husband followed the nurses with our twins .glad they found each other .stupid hospital
umm twins or not, they can switch anyone. I believe twins are less likely to be switched though because if one baby doesn't look like its twin sibling then you'd be able to catch that. although one can never be too careful, either way because it can happen just like in this case and many others ;)
RetroGuy76 the 2nd world collapsed in the 90's there is no such thing as 3rd world countries , only developing ones .
RetroGuy76 it’s not 3rd world. Do you see the technology they have and the nice clothes they are wearing? Plus there is no such thing as third world countries. There are more developed countries and less developed countries.
A'ishah Mehmood hey my son is half Italian & half Black and he popped out white as snow. I told my mom to fallow him all the way to the nursery no matter what. That was 27yrs ago and I wouldn't change a thing.❤👼❤👼
RetroGuy76 3 world did happened lol everyone they have to make sure to look after baby's lol
Imagine if they had the same names and the confusion it would had caused from social media friendship circles.
I thought we are going to get more of the story and then they bring out the lemon and lime.
The lemons actually helped. Imagined if he just kept using their names. We’d be like “who’s William....HUH?!’
🤣🤣🤣The Lemons...!!
He could have used pictures???
I mean, it wasn't that hard to follow. One set of "fraternal" twins had very English sounding names that started with W and the other had Spanish names.
you are right. i first read article about them, and couldn't continue because of severe confusion. LOL.
The picture does break it down pretty easily
I’ll be so pissed if I was born into a rich family and end up being raised poor. Hahahah
Edit: I am reading these comments, and there are people stating “Happiness “ is more important... Ummm, why do people correlate money with unhappiness? Are all rich people unhappy? Lmao I wonder how many babies ended up with wrong families from this hospital
Jamiontae hudson yea but you gotta share everything and you can never have anything to yourself
Christia Napoleon but sharing makes you feel good
this sounds like something out of a old disney movie from the early 2000s 😂
I’d be more pissed if I was born into a happy family, and end up being raised unhappy.
Don't you be worried about money....
But you should be more concerned about your happiness....
It’s kinda obvious Jorge and Carlos have a different style than William and Wilber it’s fascinating
They literally brought lemons for a display. It’s not confusing at all.
Are you new to the internet... half the people watching still dont know what going on... they think they stumbled on the Cooking Channel
not everyone's as witty as u :(
Gosh, this was so hard to follow. I think you would have lost me if it weren't for the fruit. thank god for CNN
sushi ninja I got it straight away and I’m dumb af. Surprised.
Hazel Anna-leigh the fact that you thought this comment was legit proved that you are in fact dumb af
WinWin’s Nonexistent Lines the fact that u thought I was serious shows how dumb u are 😂😂😂😂
I sense sarcasm
But_is_ it_Art_ * and u are right
Plot twist... The guest anchor is the 5th brother
Da da dam
He's the grapefruit
Saumya Kerketta lmfao! I was wondering if I was the only one thinking that. 😂😂😂
You have a point! He looks related !!!🤣😂🤣
Lmao
Wow i was sad for the guy that their mother died before they knew about what really happened. The good thing is they are 4 brothers now and live together .
This story was not hard to understand, so the fruits were unnecessary.
I read this comment just when he introduced the fruits and it literally took me out. LOL! It wouldn't make sense until the fruits come in.
I’d be so mad if someone took one of my limes and gave me a lemon...
Omg
Macafee 🤣🤣🤣
😂 😂 😂
The lemons played an important part in explaining nothing
Ashes ash You are wrong. I understood it better coz of the lemons
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Nah the ppl in these comments are just idiots
@@Klmrc then you are a lemon!
I really enjoy twin stories, it is fascinating. This is 5 yrd old but absolutely amazing. This really should be a documentary not a news segment.
This feels like the kind of “accident” a sociologist would secretly set up in order to create a dream case study on behaviour and genetics lol.
It’s not confusing at all. Fruit not necessary lolol
It was to me when it came to him telling the story of how they meet.
Like, namewise.
They could of just let the pic with their names run while he explained how they met too.
Listen to it without seeing him use the fruit and then tell me how easy it is to follow. If someone told me that with no visuals, I would keep asking them to repeat who is who.
@@MetalChica7 cuz you're an idiot
I really thought that explaining with fruits is an insult to a majority of population.😂
Lol
I know how that feels, I met my twin sister when I was 8 after we were seperated after birth. Now I cant imagine my life without her.
I was never separated from my sister. We have like the strongest bond ever. I can't even imagine realizing that she's not my real twin!
+Angela Zapata girl something happened in the hospital and twins born on the same day as me and my sister actually got switched and then when we had the DNA test when we were 8 and found my real twin.
Gosh. My sister and I are fraternal. It would suck so bad if it was true. Sorry, dude.
+Peter Louis good luck finding one lol
+Angela Zapata me too I could never imagine my sister not being mine but we look very similar to each other so I doubt it
univision or whatever needs to pick up this story ASAP because this story is just waiting to be told. ... and gasped, cried, slapped, passed out, and celebrated in spanish
A novela waiting to happen! I’d watch
Yess
Heartbreaking... This "switch" cost these 4 men so much! Some gained in ways, but they all lost in having their true family all together. I hope they all stay close and make something really amazing out of this, like some sort of business tht uses all of their skills.
I know 3 guys who are identical triplets (4th one was still born) As adults they moved away from each other, they hadn't seen each other for about 3 years and arranged to meet up at a hotel in London, Stephen the last to arrive got a very strange look from the door man, but eager to see his brothers he didn't stop to question it.
Once inside he understood the look. Not only were they all wearing the same clothes, they also had the same hairstyle and same moustache.
It wasn't confusing at all. Why did he demonstrate it with lemons and limes? LOL
Can't it what life gives you
It was to give a visual for people who are visual learners
See, you only thought it wasn't confusing because the citrus fruits WORKED! O.O
I picked it up right from the title. Some people are amazingly slow and sluggish to understand. Why the lemons????
@@murtithinker7660 Intelligence is genetic (as well as personality). So don't blame the people who don't catch on to this as quickly as you.
I was confused at first, thank God he breaks it down and I got it
As an identical twin who lives the exact same life as my sister for 32 years now this is so emotional and heartbreaking
IT IS NOT HARD TO FOLLOW.
+hyacinthdibley Exactly what I said!! Jeez!! Americans are not THAT stupid!!
That's exactly what I was thinking!!! Visuals were definitely NOT needed. People aren't as stupid as they would want us to be.
I know right? It's like they're trying to piece the story together for children.
+BrannRay you won't believe how stupid some are...especially those in government
Wow did a female with such a beautiful name just write that? :-(
They all are brothers now.😊
Amazing story. I look forward to hearing more about this. Almost reminds me of The Three Identical Strangers story.
This guy is a genius bringing lemons and limes.
I would have zero chance following the story without the fruits on the table
when I was 12 I had a sister who was just born and I remember my mum being very insistent before labour that the baby should never be left alone and my dad was to keep an eye on it at all times including when they go off to clean the baby. till this day 14 years on my mum tells me and all her 4 other girls never ever leave a newborn alone. makes sense now
I feel so bad for William...he did not get to meet his mother!!!! 😭😭😭 I feel so bad for the mom for not knowing the truth!!! 💔 It's sad that millions of babies are being switched at birth!!!!
Hehe ✌
Hmm, I don't know if I'd say "millions" of babies are being switched at birth.
Millions is quite an exaggeration
@@aleeshasarr actually it is millions of babies millions and millions of babies are being switched at birth and half of the time majority of people don't even know cuz remember a lot of babies were not kept with their mom they were quickly whisked away
@@FS02012 Oh for Pete's sake. Do you comb the internet for conspiracy theory ideas?
It doesn't just happen with twins. Just more with twins. I'm the oldest and I was adopted. From oldest to youngest I have 4 other siblings with my traits. My oldest little brother and I are both ambidextrous and he's a tattoo artist and I'm a sneaker customizer. From the time I was 15 till the time I was 21 I worked in a hair salon my little sister owns her own beauty spa, when I was in highschool I played every sport they had for girls and I played varsity in every one. Softball, tennis, volleyball (not in the same years as tennis), and basketball, my next little brother down plays rugby for Guam. My baby brother almost went to Juliard for the flute and I played the saxophone. We all have something in common. So much that I can talk to each one and really understand their passions. It's amazing. I found them on my son's birthday 2 weeks before my 31st and they lived all the way across the country. Me in NC them in CA.
Long before "Big Business", William Shakespeare wrote the story of two sets of identical twins, separated when babies, and reunited as adults. The play is called "The Comedy of Errors", and has a happier ending than this story because they are also reunited with both parents in the end.
Do you happen to have a link with more information ℹ️? Thanks
it was clear story.... till i get confuced when he started to explain with the lemons hahahaha
Deliciousness so they were all together, both sets of twins got split up and then switched, then the other set moves closer to the other twins and a worker saw one of them that looks like her worker and then she shows him a pic and he searches on fb
hahahahhahahahah ikr
lmao
Deliciousness 😂 yess
With you on that understood anchorlady then he got the lemons out! Yep threw mah weave and lost me!
I can't imagine what would happened if they where apples. My mind is full of questions right now 🤔
😂🤣
Green and red apples maybe?!😜
🤣
@@VmQ2020 Yeah, okay, but what if they were oranges? It's still complicated.
@@harrynac6017 I mean, that would like change the whole thing, my mind would explode. I'm scared to even think about it
Jajajajajajja
This is heart wrenching.😔😔😔
As one half of a pair of identical twins. I am horrified and saddened. These 4 men and their parents are feeling trauma you can't imagine. 😩😩
The mom died three years before,He never got to see her😭.
And she never got to see him 😣
TH-cam algorithm recommending a 2015 video to us now 🤔 Don't question the algorithm I guess lol
Nfs Sid lol😂😂
Yup...dont know how i got here
I'm with u 😄
SAME
And I watched it already when it first came out 🙄
I've watched this over and over...fascinating ..
I’m surprised they all didn’t feel they were missing something in their life. Twins have a connection.
I hear often of single babies switched but this I believe is the first I know of twins being mix matched and switched.
swampzoid You ever wo der if it was intentional ....
@@VASI_LIKI it probably was
That was cruel!
What's with the lemons and limes explanation? Give your audience a little more credit for goodness sake.
they should have used apples and oranges
Andi Amador omg bernie💙💔
Andi Amador I believe they just used the simplest thing to help people follow along. I mean he couldn't even keep the names straight.
Janet Hart I hear you. They probably had to throw the story together quickly.
well, how would you hv explained it
gosh I thought three identical strangers was crazy...this is just insane ...hopefully there will be a movie on their story
This “accidental switch” happened more than we know as a social-psychological experiment by high level (government related) scientists
He should have used broccoli and cauliflower for a better explanation
No..I don't like..broccoli!
😂😂😂
solarlola 9 😂😂
I was thinking more like an egg and beef jerky. Because the yolks on uwe.
Hahahahaha i died laughing 😂😂😂
i can imagine the family members being like “he got your nose!” to the wrong twin-
Lilaxoo’ * lmao so true how people make stuff up
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
😂😂😂😂 wow really
hahhhahhahahaha
Right!!!
I still feel like if I saw myself walking down the street, I'd not recognise myself. I wanna see a story like that where they themselves see each other first
Oh my God this would make the best sitcom ever!!!
I would sue the hospital / government. Their negligence changed their lives drastically from ground zero.
exactly.
Does nobody else think its strange that they felt they had to demonstrate this with citrus fruit?
Anyone think it's strange they had to demonstrate with citrus fruit?* Fixed.
The bitter and the sour part , yeah
people are dumb
I guess it's better than bananas and pineapples.
I think it was a nice idea... especially that we are not used to their names..
How wonderful that they were reunited with their 👯♂️bros & are roommates now 🥰!
They gained a family beyond anyone’s imagination. They now have an unbelievable bond because they are tied by history, family, strange circumstances and blood.
It’s weird because the fraternal twins started to look like eachother like their head shapes and hairstyles
There were no fraternal twins.
Do you even know what a fraternal twin is?
@@MK-rk4no I think he is saying that he could of believed they were brothers by blood. As when you are with people you adopt similar traits and styles sometimes. I'm assuming he is saying because of this they looked like brothers to him and they were brothers in a way of course
I kinda thought the same things
@@MK-rk4no Each parent(s) thought they took home a set of fraternal twins (since they obviously didnt take home twins that were identical), so the pairs of men that grew up with each other believed they were actually "fraternal twins". The commenter was saying that these sets of "fraternal twins" that grew up with each other have more similar style to each other than they do with their actual identical twins.
The sad thing that one mother died before knowing about it 😭
This is a great story - that would have been SO MUCH better if the interviewer would have just let the guy speak. She evidently had a driving need to interrupt and distract from his very compelling and understandable explanation of what happened. Seriously. Sometimes the best interviewers are those who are smart enough to let the person being interviewed speak.
This is really sad, I really feel a type of way with this story. And I have so many questions. I am glad they both were able to meet each other healthy and alive and I am sorry for the mother that died. This is really a sad story 😞 😔 😢 😪