Top 3 stories that sound fake but are 100% real | Part 3

Sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction and today we will look at three

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that prove it, but before we delve into those

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Also subscribe to our channel and turn on all notifications so you don't miss any of our weekly uploads. Well, let's get into today's stories in October 2002. Mark and his wife Kathy were on their way to a baby shower in Baltimore, Maryland that Kathy's family was throwing for them, it would be a seven hour drive from their home in ohio, so mark and kathy tried to get out the door as early as possible, but one thing led to another and they started pretty late at midnight. They were just an hour away from their final destination, but they both desperately needed a bathroom break, so they stopped at a rest stop in Frederick County, Maryland, which is about an hour from Washington DC.

The parking lot in the area was completely empty except for one car, which was a late model dark blue four-door sedan that was parked right in front of the bathroom marker and Kathy stopped in a spot where there were a few more of the sedan's. that came out. They walked to the bathroom, Mark had finished first, so he waited for his wife outside the women's bathroom while he waited, he turned to look at the sedan that initially, when he first pulled into the parking lot, he thought was empty, but now, while looking. He can clearly see that there are two people in the two front seats, a middle-aged man who is sitting behind the wheel looking directly at Mark and then next to this guy there is a sleeping teenager and immediately Mark felt

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ly scared by these two types.

I mean, they're at this random rest stop in the middle of the night, they're the only ones there and this guy is just glaring menacingly at Mark, so Mark is doing everything he can to not be intimidated, stand his ground, and not act on him. phases. for what's happening right in front of him, but in the back of his mind he's just praying that his wife gets out of that bathroom ASAP so they can get out of here and away from these two creepy guys, finally his wife did. . As he got out, he grabbed her hand and, without any explanation, hurried them back to his car, locked himself in, opened the doors and started backing up, and as he did so, he looked back at the sedan and saw the guy behind the wheel. .

A middle-aged guy was looking at Mark with the same menacing look on his face. Mark also noticed something strange in the trunk of the sedan: there was a fist-sized hole just above the license plate where the key would normally be placed. The whole scene was totally bizarre and after Mark and Kathy sped up and got back on the road, Mark explained to Kathy that there were actually two people inside that sedan and they

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ly scared him and that's why he grabbed her and rushed over to them. He returned to the car and agreed that it was pretty creepy, but by the time the couple arrived at the baby shower in Baltimore they had completely forgotten about their rest stop experience, the baby shower went well and before long Mark and Kathy were back. to home.

In Ohio, about a week later, the couple was watching television at home when a breaking news bulletin appeared showing a reporter standing at the exact same rest stop they had stopped at on the way to Baltimore in County from Frederick, Maryland and behind them was the same late model sedan they had seen parked at that rest stop when the headline of this special news bulletin appeared. If the DC snipers were caught, it would turn out that that middle-aged man was sitting in the driver's seat of the sedan. looking at mark it was none other than john allen muhammad and the guy next to him the teenager who was sleeping was lee boyd malvo these were the two men responsible for the highly coordinated three week long attack that left 10 people dead in the washington dc area , the fist-sized hole Mark saw in the back of their trunk was what they used to shoot at because it allowed them to stay hidden in the trunk while they shot Mohammed and Malvo had been using that

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icular rest stop in the county of Frederick. as a place to hide between their murders, when Mark and Cathy stopped next to them, they were only halfway through their killing spree.

Mark believes the only reason he and his wife weren't attacked is because the killers were most likely trying to keep this up. The rest stop was off the radar because it was their hideout and therefore they would not have risked an attack there, although ironically they would eventually be trapped at that rest stop. Muhammad was executed by lethal injection in 2009 and Malvo is serving a life sentence in 1988. Ivan McGuire, 35, was an experienced skydiving instructor with more than 700 jumps to his name. On April 5 of that year he was working in North Carolina and was tasked with filming other instructors and his students after they jumped out of the plane like this.

What worked is that Ivan would get on the plane with the instructor and his student and Ivan would be the first to jump off the plane, he would roll onto his back and film up towards the plane and capture the student and the instructor jumping. and Ivan would continue filming them until they removed his footage, at which point he would remove his, now in 1988. The film equipment Ivan was using was much larger and more cumbersome than something you would use today. He had a voice activated camera attached. his helmet and then from there there was a cable that went to this big, heavy VHS platform that he kept in a backpack, but despite the team's annoyance, Ivan went up with the first student and instructor and successfully filmed his jump when he returned to the On the ground Ivan approached the riggers and gave them his parachutes, they could pack them for him and then Ivan walked over to a bench and started fiddling with his camera equipment, it was clear he was frustrated with the way he was doing. set up and was making all kinds of adjustments when it was time for Ivan's second jump of the day with a new instructor and a new student, he was so preoccupied fiddling with his camera that he forgot to grab his parachute, so he ran to the plane and He was about to go up and they say hey Ivan, you don't have a parachute and he says, oh my God, you're right, he runs back, takes his parachute, loads it on the plane, climbs to altitude and then jumps. he films the instructor and the student everything is going great he reaches the ground and his second jump is a success and just like after the first jump of the day ivan takes off his parachute he gives it to the riggers and then he goes and sits on a bench and He continued to fidget and fiddle with his camera equipment when it was time for Ivan's third jump of the day with another new instructor and student, this time he grabbed his parachute, put on all his gear and ran towards the plane he jumped off. on board and took off once they reached his jump altitude which was 10,500 feet, Ivan turned on his camera and the footage shows the instructor and the student gathering their equipment sitting in front of him on the plane towards the jump master .

The front of the plane opens and the side door opens. Ivan, who will be the first out, heads to the edge. He turns around and basically sits with his back outside the plane. He makes sure the instructor and the student are right. on top of him, ready to jump immediately afterwards, once they are ready, Ivan falls back and continues filming. He sees the instructor and the student jump right after. Ivan continues filming them as they go down. They are in free fall for a few seconds and then you see the instructor and the student pull their parachutes, at which point Ivan reaches back to pull his but he can't find it for a few seconds, he flails and you can see his hands coming out in front of the camera and He's trying to reach his ripcord and then he realizes what happened.

That parachute he grabbed before getting on the plane was not a parachute. He grabbed his heavy backpack that had that big VHS deck and when he put it on, he was confused. he reaches for the parachute and now he's falling at terminal velocity with no way to stop, he starts screaming oh no, oh god no and keeps reaching back like he's going to find this cable but there's nothing there and after a few agonizing seconds, He sees the ground getting closer and closer and then it cuts off. Ivan's body was later found approximately a mile and a half outside the drop zone in the woods.

His camera and video tape were severely damaged, but they were able to piece them together and that's it. why we know what happened in his final moments an investigation into his death showed that the pilot made the same mistake ivan made when he saw ivan with that backpack on he assumed it was a parachute and ultimately ivan's death It was ruled an accident, a fair warning if you look at this case and you are sure to come across the actual footage of Ivan's final jump in 1980. Bobby Shafran was on his way to Sullivan County Community College, which is two hours from the city of New York, to start his freshman year even though he was from the area he didn't know anyone who went to this

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icular school so he was pretty nervous about it, plus he wasn't that popular in high school and had a hard time a lot of making friends when he pulled into a parking spot at school. school, he saw a sea of ​​people getting out of his parents' cars and carrying boxes to their dorms, so he took a deep breath, jumped out of his car, grabbed his backpack, and started walking across the grass towards the dorm building on his way.

Bobby was surprised when he felt all these strangers on the lawn looking at him like they knew him and a couple of people yelled at him and said "hey, it's good to have you back here" and a girl ran up to him and kissed him. He hit her on the cheek and said oh my god I'm so happy you're back and Bobby said "I think she got the wrong person. I don't know you and she laughed and just ran away so Bobby is totally baffled by This is because he doesn't know anyone, but everyone seems to know him, so he goes up the stairs and enters the dorm building and as he walks down the hall, people high-five him and pat him on the back and then just as he He's about to turn the corner into his actual bedroom, someone behind him in the hallway yells, hey, Eddie, what's going on?

The man and Bobby knew who it was that was yelling at him because this whole situation had been so? Strange that he felt like it had to be a case of mistaken identity, then Bobby turned around and saw at the other end of the hallway another student he didn't know clearly waving at him and yelling: Hey, Eddie, come here, what's going on? So Bobby walks up to him and says hey, I'm not Eddie, I don't know what's going on, but everyone thinks I'm someone I'm not, but I'm not Eddie, who is Eddie? and the guy said yeah, okay, Eddie, it's good to have you back here, man. and then he's gone and bobby likes what's going on here and then bobby turns around and goes back to his bedroom and walks in and closes the door and thinks I just want to be left alone for a second because this is just this is not right , that's not how a freshman who doesn't know anyone is welcomed at any school or anywhere in the world.

This is totally unusual, just a couple of minutes after being inside his bedroom, he hears a knock. the door and Bobby says, "Oh, great, who is this now? Who thinks I'm someone I'm not?" So he opens the door and there's another student who doesn't know standing there and this guy's face is empty. ". color and starts shaking when he sees Bobby and they both look at each other like it's happening here and the student says to Bobby if you were adopted and Bobby said yes and then the student said it's your birthday on July 12th and Bobby said Yeah.

And then the student says, "Okay, my name is Michael and I'm best friends with a guy named Eddie Galland and you're his clone. You have to be his identical twin right now for Bobby." This almost made sense, but it was crazy to imagine." have an identical twin that he didn't know, so Bobby asked Michael if he could go meet Eddie because he had to be a student here and Michael said, well, actually, Eddie decided not to go back to school this year, which probably It's the reason why everyone I talked to was so excited to see you because they love Eddie and they thought you were him and that's why they're excited to have you back.

After talking for a couple of minutes, Michael tells Bobby that they have to go call Eddie and they have to fix it. set up a meeting so Bobby can meet Eddie and vice versa, so Michael and Bobby run out to a public phone booth, they go in, they're crammed in there and they call Eddie and as soon as Eddie answers, Bobby grabs the phone and just says . Hi Eddie, my name is Bobby andeveryone thinks I'm you and then Eddie says yeah, I've been getting a lot of calls about that too and Bobby would later say that when he first heard Eddie's voice, he said it

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ed like his own voice was coming. through the phone and finally eddie invited bobby and michael to come to his house so that eddie and bobby could see if it was really true that they were twins and then michael and bobby got into bobby's car and sped two hours to Bobby's house. eddie and when they arrived it was midnight and Eddie's house is the only house in this quiet suburb that has all the lights on and Michael and Bobby walk down the path towards the front door of Eddie's house and just as Bobby is about to knock on the door, it bursts open and standing in front of Bobby is his exact clone, it's Eddie and Eddie is looking at Bobby and he can't.

I believe what you are looking at, they are definitely identical twins and they both immediately saw what Michael would say after Bobby and Eddie stared at each other for about a minute and started laughing, it was like they were complete strangers but at the same time they had this connection they immediately knew they were related and they laughed and hugged and just looked at each other and michael said that every time bobby tilted his head, eddie followed suit and vice versa, it was like they were looking in a mirror shortly after this. The story of these two long lost brothers reconnecting reached Newsday, which was a prominent local newspaper in New York, and they decided to investigate it to see if it was really true or not, so one of the editors blew up a junior reporter.

I went out and saw Bobby and Eddie face to face and checked to see if it was really true that they were actually identical twins and as soon as this journalist saw them, he knew immediately that yes, they were related, so Newsday published this totally fairy tale touching. story about these two long lost brothers who reconnected after all these years just by a chance meeting in college and everyone loved it but this is where the story went from amazing to truly amazing friends of another young man living in the New York area named David. Kellman started telling David that he had to read this newspaper article about these long lost twins because these two twins look exactly like David, specifically they said you have to look at these guys' hands, they're just like yours.

David David was known for having these huge hands. and a lot of the photos of bobby and eddie in the news showed his hands and they were huge too so david finally picked up a newspaper and looked at a photo of bobby and eddie and sure enough he was shocked because they looked exactly like him and then when he read The article showed that his birthday was July 12th, the same as his, and they were born in the same hospital he was born in, so he's thinking there are too many coincidences, they have to be my brothers and that's why David called Eddie's house.

Phone number and Eddie's mother answered and asked who was calling and David said hello. My name is David Kellman. I was born on July 12, 1961, and I'm looking at a newspaper article about two identical twins who look like me and one of them. It's your son, I think I'm the third missing twin. After hearing this, Eddie's mom apparently dropped the phone and yelled that they were going to come out of nowhere, so Eddie and Bobby went to David's house and as soon as They went in and saw David. They knew immediately that he was one of them, that he was the third twin, and apparently within minutes of meeting each other they were fighting and laughing hysterically on the floor.

It was as if, even though they were strangers, they somehow already knew each other and had a connection. snapshot. David's family members who witnessed this first interaction said it was the most incredible thing they had ever seen. It was wonderful to see these long-lost siblings finally reconnected after all these years, shortly after David realized he was the third missing twin. another story that talks about how there were actually three missing twins that had been reconnected and once again it was just this amazing Cinderella story and now this story spread all over the world, they were on the cover of every magazine, every newspaper, they were in every talk. show and they all had the same question what similarities did they discover and they said well we all struggled in high school in high school we all smoke the same cigarettes we like the same food we have the same taste in women and on the talk shows when they answered these questions , it was immediately clear that they all shared the same mannerisms and on the show routinely interrupted each other and finished each other's sentences, it really was as if they were the exact same person despite having been raised completely separate from each other. the boys loved the attention they received they had become international rock stars overnight and the three of them immediately became so close that they became best friends immediately they moved into an apartment together they partied they met madonna was just this incredible moment in their lives and so they weren't asking questions about why they had been separated in the first place, but her parents were asking a lot of questions because the adoption agency hadn't told them that the child they were adopting was actually two identical brothers.

They had no idea, so the child's adoptive parents contacted the adoption agency, which was Louise Wise Services, it is based in New York, it is very prestigious, basically the most powerful and richest people in New York use this agency. adoption if they are going to adopt, etc. The parents came to them and asked for a meeting so they could get some answers about why their children had been separated and then the parents went to New York, walked into this meeting room with the top brass of Louise Wise services and said Know? Did you separate our children at birth on purpose and one of the executives said yes, we did that because it is very difficult to place three children in one home, at which point David's adoptive father lashed out and said that would be absolute nonsense If you had told me that I had two identical brothers, I would have accepted all three, but the agency stood by their decision and said that's the only reason it happened and I'm sorry, that's all we can tell you, so the Parents were very frustrated and felt there was a lot more to the story and in fact felt like the agency was lying to them about why they had separated their children in the first place, but they couldn't get more information so they left the agency. and just as they left, Bobby's father realized that he had left his umbrella inside the meeting room, so he turned around, went back inside, walked down the hall in silence so as not to disturb anyone, opened the meeting room door, he reached out for his umbrella and looked. inside and saw that the people he had just met from Louise Wise services had just opened a bottle of champagne and were laughing and smiling and were clearly toasting each other to a job well done and even though Bobby's father didn't come in over there. and confront them about what they were celebrating, he got the feeling that they were celebrating having dodged a bullet that they had clearly just lied to the families of these three triplets and gotten away with it and then the general feeling among the parents that the The agency was clearly hiding something and then Bobby discovered this champagne toast as soon as they left, the parents decided they needed to contact some lawyers to help them get to the bottom of why their children had been separated and therefore , initially a number of really prestigious New York law firms were excited to take on this case, but shortly after they all contacted the families to say, well, actually there is a conflict and we can't do it anymore and the parents believed that this It was because the adoption agency Louise Wise Services and some of its most prominent and powerful clients were pressuring the lawyers not to delve into this as there was clearly some secret they did not want discovered and therefore Unfortunately the parents reached a dead end and didn't know where else to turn to try to get him out. more information and over time they just accepted that that's the way things are and as for their children, they didn't really care much because the way they saw it, at least now they had each other and so on. over time.

For many years, the boys continued to be very close, starting their own families and having many family reunions. It was a really happy time in all their lives and at some point the boys started doing business together and opened their own restaurant. in New York they were called triplets and the first year was a huge success, generating over a million dollars in revenue, but in the second year the brothers began to fight with each other over how to run the restaurant and in many ways this was his first major conflict. They hadn't grown up together, they'd never really thought about it and now they're fighting about money and how to run the business and things got really bad really fast and they just couldn't come to any kind of compromise and then at some point Bobby left. the business said I don't want to do this with you anymore and apparently his departure completely ruined the dynamic of the three brothers.

Eddie was the most affected by this fracture in their relationships. The only thing he wanted was for his brothers to be truly united and for their families to spend time together and now all of that was in jeopardy and then Eddie began to show signs of severe depression and was eventually hospitalized for three weeks and then shortly after leaving the hospital, he took his own life. Devastating as it was for the two brothers and the rest of their family, around that time a journalist named Lawrence Wright, who had always had a fascination with identical twins, found an obscure scientific article called the Psychoanalytic Study of the Child that detailed a study conducted in New York about identical twins. twins who were intentionally separated at birth and then given to different adoptive families to be studied, although it was unclear what they were actually studying or why they needed identical twins to conduct this research.

In this article, Lawrence discovered all the babies that had been used. in the study came from the same adoption agency, the same one the triplets had come from from Louise-Wise Services in New York, so Lawrence called Bobby and told him that, according to this article, it looks like he and his siblings were used in a scientific program. study, Bobby and David were absolutely furious, they felt they had been treated like lab rats, they also wondered if being separated at birth had a negative impact on their mental health and that this could have contributed to Eddie's depression and to Lawrence's premature death.

She wrote an article about this twin study that she had discovered, and after publishing it, another set of twins discovered that they had been part of the study and discovered that these two women were also struggling with depression, furthering the idea that the study could have led to irreparable damage to their subject's mental well-being at this point, David and Robbie were not expecting anyone to be responsible for this study, but were simply hoping to find out why it was done and what they were testing and what the results were, etc. They began working with Lawrence to try to get those answers.

They contacted Louise Wise services, who admitted that yes, this was actually part of a study, but they didn't get any information about what the results were or why they did it, and so they did. They did a little research and found out that the guy in charge of the actual scientific study was a doctor named Peter Neubauer, a very well-known psychologist in New York, so Lawrence managed to get an interview with this doctor, but the doctor basically said, "I don't know." I will do". I am not answering any of your questions and will not give you any information about this study and he never published his findings just before the doctor died in 2008.

He made sure the entire study was sealed within the Yale University archives so that no one would be able to access it until 2066, which has led many people to believe that the reason he said it so far away was to ensure that all of these subjects in this study would have died by the time it was made public, protecting their own legacy and the people who accompanied him. were involved in this study in the recent documentary called three identical strangers personal assistant of dr neubauer a woman named natasha josefowicz was interviewed and they asked her, you know, can you shed any light on why this study was done, what for? were they testing? and what the results were and she would say that she wasn't actually part of the study, that she was born on the periphery, but that she was aware of what they were doing and she said that the goal of the study was to finally put aside whether it was nature or the upbringing they did to the person they finally becamethey became basically is it your environment that ultimately makes you who you become or is it simply your genetic makeup that you are predestined to become a particular person regardless of how you were raised and she said The results were incredible it basically has nothing to do With upbringing, it's about your genetic makeup, we unconsciously tend toward specific behaviors and decisions, but we believe it's free will, we believe we choose to do certain things, but in reality it's basically predetermined. and specifically in the case of the triplets, bobby was intentionally placed in a wealthier home where his father was a doctor and his mother was a lawyer, so they had a very good upbringing and that was his upbringing.

Eddie was placed in a middle class family with his father being a teacher and his mother being a housewife and David was placed in a low income home where everyone was an immigrant. English was their second language and they only had a small shop that they owned and Natasha said. This study showed that even though these children were placed in different socioeconomic levels, it had almost no impact on who they ultimately became. She said she doesn't know why the study wasn't published, but she hopes that one day a doctor will also appear in this documentary. named Lawrence Pearlman, who was actually one of the researchers in the study who actually made visits to each of the children's homes while they were growing up under the false pretense that they were there as part of routine follow-up for the adoption agency and He went on record and said that the study was not just about the effects of socioeconomic class, it was actually about the effects of different parenting styles, he said, in the case of the triplets, each of the children was placed in their respective homes after that home had already adopted another child and that first child they adopted effectively became the guinea pig of In this study, the scientists would go in and study this child under the false pretense that they were there just doing a follow-up for the adoption agency, but they were actually creating a baseline of how these parents parent and then once that baseline was established, then the triplets were sent to their respective homes and the researchers knew very well how each of them were going to be raised, with the adoptive father being the x factor.

Bobby's father, who was a doctor, was rarely present, but he was devoted and affectionate to the father of his son David. The person who owned the store was present all the time and adored his son and loved him unconditionally. Eddie's father was a teacher that he was quite close to, but when he was he was very strict and rough with Eddie and quick to discipline him and rarely showed anything. affection for him and although dr. perlman does not come out and say that eddie's relationship with his father probably had an effect on him becoming depressed and ultimately taking his own life, there are many other people close to this case who believe that is exactly what david did and bobby had a stable, healthy upbringing and eddie didn't, so when faced with the brother separation crisis eddie couldn't handle it, these same people refute what natasha said about the study's findings that everyone was genetically predisposed to becoming one person in particular, they say, if that was the case, then why didn't David and Bobby take their own lives?

But ultimately, because the study was never published, we won't know for sure why what they studied was done and what everyone's conclusions were. What we have is speculation and second and third hand information, but what we do know for sure is that these surviving triplets and their families are furious that this study was done and feel that it ruined their lives after the documentary was released. Three strangers identical to what Bobby and David were. In fact, they were granted early access to the study that was sealed inside Yale University and when they looked at it they expected to be impressed with the results, but it turned out that it was over ten thousand pages of very technical and much of it was very heavy. worded so they couldn't even read most of it, they couldn't deduce what the purpose of the study was in the first place or what it accomplished, it was just all very ambiguous, this study was finally closed permanently in 1980, the same year. the triplets found themselves out as to the adoption agency Louise Wise Services and all the scientists and researchers involved in the study, none of them were responsible for their role in this totally unethical study, so basically everything was swept away under the rug and so Bobby David and All the members of the triplets family were left with a lot of questions and not many answers, so that's it, guys.

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