The Jim Twins Who Lived the Exact Same Life Apart
Photo: Wikimedia Commons Two baby boys were separated at birth in Ohio, and they did not meet for 39 years. When they finally sat down together in 1979, they discovered they had lived the exact same life. It is the kind of story that makes the hair on your arms stand up. Their names were both Jim. That was only the start of it. They drove the same car, smoked the same cigarettes, built the same wood bench around a tree, and even gave their sons the same name. You hear things like this and you think someone made it up. But scientists tested them for weeks. Every single weird detail turned out to be true. How two babies ended up with the same name The boys were born in Piqua, Ohio, on February 9, 1940. They were fraternal twins, but they looked so much alike people thought they were identical. Their mother gave them up when they were only three weeks old. One baby went home with Ernie and Sarah Springer. They called him James, but everyone called him Jim. He grew up in the sma...