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Speaker 1: Appogie Production. Welcome back to Silent Secrets, your gentle guide

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Speaker 1: into the mysteries of our world. Tonight's story is one

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Speaker 1: that's fascinated psychologists, spiritualists and skeptics alike. It's about two

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Speaker 1: little girls in England who might just might have lived

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Speaker 1: once before. This is the strange case of the Polyck twins.

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Speaker 1: So as the day falls away, get comfortable, and if

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Speaker 1: you drift off while we explore this mystery, that's perfectly fine. Hexham, Northumberland,

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Speaker 1: is a quiet market town in northern England. In the

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Speaker 1: nineteen fifties, this was the kind of place where nothing

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Speaker 1: much happened, just green hills, cobbled streets and tight knit families.

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Speaker 1: Florence and John Pollock lived here with their two daughters, Joanna,

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Speaker 1: aged eleven and Jacqueline aged six. The girls were full

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Speaker 1: of energy and love. Joanna was thoughtful and protective and

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Speaker 1: Jacqueline was silly, affectionate and full of imagination. They played

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Speaker 1: together constantly and were deeply bonded. Then tragedy. On May five,

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Speaker 1: nineteen fifty seven, the girls were walking to church when

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Speaker 1: they were struck by a car. Both died instantly. The

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Speaker 1: town mourned their parents were devastated. Nothing could ever replace

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Speaker 1: the daughters they had lost, or so they thought. About

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Speaker 1: A year later, Florence discovered she was pregnant again. John,

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Speaker 1: who had developed an interest in reincarnation, became convinced that

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Speaker 1: Joanna and Jacqueline would return somehow through this new child.

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Speaker 1: Florence was skeptical, and when the doctors said she was

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Speaker 1: carrying just one baby, John was quietly disappointed. But on

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Speaker 1: October fourth, nineteen fifty eight, a surprise, Florence gave birth

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Speaker 1: to identical twin girls, Jillian and Jennifer. Identical in looks, yes,

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Speaker 1: but from the start the girls were noticeably different in personality.

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Speaker 1: Jennifer had a strange birthmark across her forehead in the

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Speaker 1: same spot that his deceased daughter Jacqueline had a scar.

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Speaker 1: She also had a similar birthmark on her waist, exactly

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Speaker 1: like the one Jacqueline had. Even as babies, John insisted

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Speaker 1: that these were the same souls reborn. Florence was uncomfortable

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Speaker 1: with the idea, but soon things got even stranger. As toddlers,

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Speaker 1: the twins began asking for toys that had belonged to

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Speaker 1: Joanna and Jacqueline, toys they had never seen or been

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Speaker 1: told about. They knew the names of their deceased sisters dolls.

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Speaker 1: They asked to play in the park they'd never visited,

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Speaker 1: but described it in detail. They showed a fear of cars,

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Speaker 1: especially Jennifer, who would cry out when one came close,

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Speaker 1: clinging to Florence and saying the car was coming to

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Speaker 1: get her. Even more bizarre, the girls would sometimes role

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Speaker 1: play in which Gillian acted like Joanna and Jennifer acted

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Speaker 1: like Jacqueline, with all the correct age dynamics, preferences and behaviors.

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Speaker 1: When the family returned to Hexham after years away, the

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Speaker 1: twins recognized landmarks they shouldn't have known. They pointed out

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Speaker 1: their old school. They asked about the swing set in

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Speaker 1: the previous backyard, even though it had been taken down

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Speaker 1: before they were born. The case caught the attention of

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Speaker 1: doctor Ian Stevenson, a psychiatrist at the University of Virginia

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Speaker 1: who had spent years studying reincarnation cases. He interviewed the

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Speaker 1: Pollock family multiple times and documented dozens of matching behaviors

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Speaker 1: and memories. Stevenson was careful he wasn't out to prove reincarnation,

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Speaker 1: but he believed the case deserved serious attention. His conclusion,

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Speaker 1: while there was no way to prove reincarnation, the Polyck

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Speaker 1: Twins offered some of the most compelling evidence he'd ever seen.

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Speaker 1: By the time the girls were about seven, their strange

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Speaker 1: memories began to fade. They no longer referred to their

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Speaker 1: past lives. The unusual knowledge and behaviors slowly disappeared. They

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Speaker 1: grew into ordinary, happy teenagers, with no further signs of

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Speaker 1: anything unusual. Some skeptics believe the parents, especially John, must

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Speaker 1: have unintentionally influenced the girls. Maybe they overheard stories picked

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Speaker 1: up on cues, but many of the memories and details

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Speaker 1: were never spoken aloud, not in the house, and not

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Speaker 1: in front of the twins. The Polyck Twins story remains

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Speaker 1: a mystery. It doesn't prove reincarnation, but it makes us pause.

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Speaker 1: If consciousness can continue, if memory can pass through lifetimes,

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Speaker 1: what else might be possible. Maybe it's all coincidence, Maybe

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Speaker 1: it's the mind making patterns, or maybe just maybe love

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Speaker 1: finds a way to return. As you drift off to sleep,

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Speaker 1: let that thought linger gently in your mind. Some things

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Speaker 1: in this world and maybe the next, remain unexplained. Good Night,

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Speaker 1: l The money and