Australian TV interviews twins after carjacking and their 'twin energy' is completely freaking people out

An Australian carjacking led to a frightening standoff on the Sunshine Coast, but it wasn’t the violence or the chaos that caught global attention — it was the way two sisters recounted it. Bridgette and Paula Powers, known across Queensland for running Twinnies Pelican and Seabird Rescue, spoke to 7News Australia after their mother found herself caught in the middle of an armed carjacking on April 21. The sisters had witnessed the aftermath and were interviewed on the scene.

In the clip, both women appeared in matching outfits and spoke in perfect rhythm, repeating entire lines word-for-word, gesture-for-gesture. "One guy, he was up there with our mom. And he goes, 'Run, he’s got a gun!' And our hearts started to pound. And I said, 'Oh, mum, where’s mum?' And poor mum was stuck up there," one said, with another echoing the exact same words and cadence. According to the twins, their mother kept her composure even when the armed man approached her. They recalled, "Apparently our brave mum, she goes, 'Are you alright?' Because he had blood all over his face. And he goes, 'I’ll shoot you.' She goes, 'Hey, I’m here to help.'"

"Mum distracted him to make him look the other way, and he looked the other way, and Mum ran into the bush behind the fence. The guy goes, 'I’ll find you and I’ll shoot you,'" they continued. The man, later identified as a 41-year-old from Tewantin, had allegedly caused a multi-vehicle crash on the Bruce Highway before carjacking a second vehicle and shooting its driver in the arm. A female passenger from another car died as a result of the crash. The suspect was eventually arrested and charged with 15 offences. Bridgette and Paula said they were thinking the same thing during the ordeal, "I hope he doesn’t fire."

Although the entire family made it out safely, the interview took on a life of its own online. Shared by 7News Queensland on X (formerly Twitter), the video gained even more attention after it was reshared by X user @DiabolicalSpuds, who wrote, "Holy sh**, there is nothing that can prepare you for when they cut to the interview." Reactions poured in from people both baffled and fascinated by the twins’ uncanny synchronicity.

@myacatt51 wrote, "That's wild. I wonder if they've been doing this since they were children." @CHRISDBRAND suggested, "I mean this with absolute sincerity — we should study these two women. They could legitimately help us answer questions about the nature of fate, determinism, possibly 'psychic' connections between humans." @LeadToday added, "I’ve heard of twins being able to finish each other's sentences, but this is totally next level." @ctate1906 commented, "Talk about finishing each other's sentences. Lol." @Martin_Adams penned, "I think we found our first quantum entangled humans!"

The Powers twins are no strangers to the spotlight. They were featured on Good Morning Britain in 2016, where they left hosts Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid visibly stunned by their synchronized answers. They’ve attributed their twin "telepathy" to growing up in the same room, sharing everything from clothes to a single phone line. Speaking to the Australian Broadcasting Company (ABC) in 2021, they said, "Our brains must think alike at the same time," admitting that "it’s weird." "We do annoy a lot of people," they added. But despite that, changing the way they talk just doesn’t feel natural to them. "We just love one another to pieces. We never get sick of one another."