Identical male triplets

David kellman, Bobby shafran and Eddy Galland, separated at birth, raised by different families, and reunited as teens.

 They shared same quirks, hobbies, and even favorite foods, before discovering their lives had been manipulated for a secret nature vs nurture experiment.

The story of these identical triplets is an extraordinarily unsettling chapter in modern psychology. 

Born in 1961, the brothers separated after birth, were placed with three adoptive families who had no idea other siblings. Each grew up in a different household: one working-class, one middle-class, and one upper-class.

Against incredible odds, the brothers accidentally discovered each other as teenagers. Their reunion was marked by uncanny similarities: they smoked the same brand of cigarettes, wrestled in high school, had the same taste in women and food, and even shared similar mannerisms. The resemblance went beyond genetics

it felt almost surreal.

But behind the reunion hid dark truths.

 Their separation not random, they were part of a secret scientific study on nature versus nurture, orchestrated by researchers deliberately splitting them to observe how environment shaped development. Neither the adoptive parents nor the children were ever told about the experiment.

This revelation sparked outrage, raising deep ethical questions about the exploitation of human lives for research. Their story became subject of documentaries and books, serving as  awareness of the dangers in  unchecked science and the cost of treating people as subjects rather than individuals.

 One I would ask of their parents in all this: their 

Birth mother had a one night stand at prom, got pregnant as a teenager and gave them up for the experiment.

 she struggled with addiction, but followed her children’s life events secretly. the father was never known.