A woman who had been searching for her twin brother for more than five years found him in the most unexpected place: a stranger’s TikTok video, filmed thousands of miles from home. According to Scoop Upworthy on 14 October 2026, Evi Pauline spotted her long-lost twin, Paul, in a video posted by creator Prophet Prince on 27 September 2026. The creator had thought he was filming random content with a homeless man. A day later, Pauline commented, asking him to reach out so she could reconnect with Paul. The video has since reached 1.2 million viewers, with 136,900 likes and 2,008 comments.
Recognised in a stranger’s video
Paul identified himself in the video as 30 years old and said he had been in Italy for quite some time. Pauline commented that this was her twin brother, that they had been looking for him for over five years, and that they were from Delta and Edo, with a birthday just passed on 25 September. The last time she had heard from him, she said, he was in Italy, studying, having entered Italy through Libya. She shared the last photo Paul had sent her five years earlier in the comments to show it was truly him, and asked the creator to respond so she could reconnect with her twin.
A video call that ended the search
In a follow-up moment captured in coverage, Paul is seen looking at Pauline on the phone, saying words to the effect of: who is this — this is my sister, this is my twin sister. After five years of silence, a phone screen became the place where a family began again. Pauline’s story is a reminder of how social media can function as a missing-persons network, for better and for worse. A video made for entertainment became, by chance, the missing piece in a family’s search — because a sister was watching, recognised a face, and refused to scroll past it.
