Josh and Justin Thorington, a pair of 33-year-old twins

Some say twins have special connections unlike any other. That’s always been especially true for Josh and Justin Thorington, a pair of 33-year-old twins, whose eerie link can be traced back to even before they were born. When their mother was pregnant with them, she was convinced she was bearing twins before the doctors knew.

This week, things for the brothers, who live just a stone’s throw away from each other in Northern Michigan, got more strangely synchronous, as both welcomed their first babies on the very same day.