Appalachia's 'Blue Family' whose bodies were discoloured after generations of inbreeding

In the Appalachian Mountains rests a medical oddity so unusual that it at first seems a massive hoax.

Dating back to the early 1800s, an isolated family in eastern Kentucky - who
can trace their roots back to a French orphan - started producing
children who were blue.

As a result of a coincidental meeting of recessive genes, intermarriage
and inbreeding, members of the Fugate family were born with a rare
condition that made them visibly discoloured.




The mystery behind the astonishing
picture of the Fugates, which has been baffling people for years,
appears to have finally been solved.

It began when Martin Fugate, a French orphan, settled on the banks of eastern Kentucky's Troublesome Creek to claim a land grant in the early 19th century.

He married a red-haired American
named Elizabeth Smith - who had a very pale complexion - and their union
formed a genetic mutation that resulted in their descendants being born
with blue skin.

Looking at the portrait, they appear to have been either Photoshopped or made up
to mimic characters from children's cartoon The Smurfs, but science
proves that the condition is in fact real.

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