The Truth About The Astonishing The Twin Town Village Kodinhi, Kerala

Twins are in no way not creepy. They can very much freak you out from time to time. Imagine what happens when you get in an area, perhaps a small village where, no matter which direction you look in, you will get to see twins! Isn’t that going to make you feel that you have gone nuts? Well, this is not any fantasy story we are narrating. India, which has a very low rate of twinning in world has one small village known as Kodinhi which far surpasses the world average of twins born in a year. It is because of this, Kodinhi has been given the title of Twin Town.

Kodinhi, popularly known as The Twin Town is a small village in the district of Malappuram in Kerala, India. The village of Kodinhi is located about 15 miles from the city of Malappuram. It has one of the highest birth rates of twins in the world. Kodinhi has an unusually high number of twins born there every year. For a village with only 2000 people, there are more than 200 pairs of twins, with about 15 pairs being born every year. Approximately 10% of the town’s populations are twins. What’s better than seeing for yourself by giving this town a visit? Not only would it help in Kerala Tourism, but you’ll be amazed to see this mysterious phenomenon.

For every 1,000 births in Kodinhi, 45 are twins. Compared to the rest of India where the twin birth rate is 4 out of every 1,000.The phenomenon has fascinated researchers, but they still haven’t found a cause for it. According to villagers the twin phenomena has only been happening since 1949.Women who marry men from outside Kodinhi, and men who marry women from different villages, still report high rates of twin births. In Kodinhi there are twins of every age.

Kodinhi, Looks like one happy village. Nobody knows why or how this phenomenon originated!!!

The Kuldhara village we spoke of earlier is spooky and eerie but this Twin Town is seriously amazing. Scientists are trying to figure out the reason for this high twinning rate in this village but so far, they have not really succeeded. The oldest twin pair that lives in the village today were born in 1949. This village has what is known as ‘The Twins and Kins Association’. It is actually an association of twins and is the first of its kind in the entire world.

What’s really spooky about the whole thing is that women of the village who have been married off to far away lands (we mean far away villages) have actually given birth to twins. Also the reverse is true. Men who have come and started living in Kodinhi from other villages and married a girl from Kodinhi have been blessed with twins. In this Twin Town, of every 1,000 births, 45 are twins. This is an extremely high rate compared to entire India’s average of 4 out of every 1,000. A local doctor named Krishnan Sribiju has studied the twinning phenomenon of the village for quite some time now and found out that twinning rate in Kodinhi is actually increasing.

Scientists have considered almost every factor that can possibly lead to high rate of twins. They have considered  strange and wonderful phenomena of extra-ordinary concentration of twin births in this village continues things like, an in-depth study on the various factors to find out its causes has become highly essential. climatic conditions, heredity, molecular factors, biological factors and even genetic factors but failed to get an answer that properly explains the phenomenon in the Twin Twon. According to Sribiju, high twinning is caused by something that the villagers are drinking or eating. Whatever is causing this, the bottom line is that more than 200 pairs of twins in a population of 2,000 is outright bizarre.