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Just The Gist of… The triplets separated at birth (who found each other BY CHANCE as adults).

4/22/20261 hr 12 min

Imagine walking down the street and bumping into someone who looks exactly - EXACTLY - like you? You each talk to your adoptive parents and find out you were adopted from the same agency, on the same day. Then you find out not only are you twins, but TRIPLETS. Three of you have been walking around, your entire lives, looking exactly like each other, and you only grew up a few miles apart. That's what happened to Bobby Shafran, David Kellman and Eddie Galland, the triplets who later became the subjects of incredible 2018 documentary Three Identical Strangers. But as the doco reveals, there was actually a very dark reason Bobby, David and Eddie had been separated. In a secret collaboration between Dr. Neubauer and the Louise Wise Adoption Agency, the boys were unknowingly part of a psychological experiment designed to answer the ultimate question of 'nature vs. nurture' - an experiment that would end up having horrific consequences. And they weren't the only kids involved. This is just the gist of Bobby, David and Eddie - the triplets separated at birth, and the amazing documentary about them: Three Identical Strangers.

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Three Identical Strangers Official Trailer (Neon, 2018)

Three Identical Strangers (Wikipedia)

Three Identical Strangers doc tells a tale that goes beyond the incredible (Los Angeles Times, 2018)

Three Identical Strangers: the bizarre tale of triplets separated at birth (The Guardian, 2018)

Three Identical Strangers: Where The Triplets Are Now (Screen Rant, 2018)

Interview with Bobby Shafran, David Kellman and Lawrence Wright (YouTube)

Double Mystery (The New Yorker, 1995)


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First 90 seconds
  1. Rosie Waterland· Host0:00

    Beep boop, beep boop, beep boop.

  2. Kate Leaver· Host0:01

    A Just a Network production.

  3. Rosie Waterland· Host0:04

    Beep boop boop. [laughs] [laughs] That sounds good. Kate Lever.

  4. Kate Leaver· Host0:12

    Rosanna Wataland.

  5. Rosie Waterland· Host0:14

    Wait, is your full name Kate?

  6. Kate Leaver· Host0:18

    Yes.

  7. Rosie Waterland· Host0:19

    Oh. [laughs] [laughs] You just said Rosanna instead of Rosie. [laughs] I was like, "Uh-oh. Ca- Katherine?"

  8. Kate Leaver· Host0:26

    My formal full name, Kate.

  9. Rosie Waterland· Host0:28

    Oh.

  10. Kate Leaver· Host0:28

    Mm.

  11. Rosie Waterland· Host0:29

    Well, lovely.

  12. Kate Leaver· Host0:29

    Thank you so much.

  13. Rosie Waterland· Host0:30

    Oh, yeah. Okay, here we go.

  14. Kate Leaver· Host0:32

    Okay.

  15. Rosie Waterland· Host0:32

    It's 1980. A 19-year-old kid called Bobby turns up to his first day of college. As he's walking in, people come up to him like they know him, even though he's never been there before, never met anyone before. Guys are coming up to him saying, "Eddie, good to see you," and he's like, "What? My name's Bobby." Girls are coming up to him, kissing him on the cheek, going, "Eddie, oh my gosh, didn't think you were coming back this term." He gets to his allocated dorm room, and a guy comes and knocks on the door and says, "Eddie, I just heard you were back. I didn't think you were coming back." Bobby turns around, and the guy he's looking at goes white as a sheet and seems to sort of know something's gone wrong. And within a few hours, Bobby would find out that

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