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21 mar 2023 · For nearly 200 years, the Fugate family – known as the “Blue Fugates” – passed their blue skin on for generations as they remained isolated from the outside world in the foothills of eastern Kentucky.
6 mar 2023 · Collectively they were called the blue people of Kentucky. For more than a century, these Appalachian families passed along an exceedingly rare genetic blood condition that turned their skin a disarming shade of blue .
5 sie 2023 · The Blue Fugates’ story has permeated popular culture with fictionalized accounts in books and TV shows, but real-life instances of blue skin can also arise from external factors like certain chemical exposures.
The Fugates, commonly known as the "Blue Fugates" or the "Blue People of Kentucky", are an ancestral family living in the hills of Kentucky starting in the 19th century, where they are known for having a genetic trait that led to the blood disorder methemoglobinemia, causing the skin to appear blue.
12 sie 2022 · We'll start by saying that, yes, the Fugate family line that originated in a secluded region known as Troublesome Creek, east of Louisville, Kentucky, in the Appalachian Mountains, did have a...
22 wrz 2016 · Most stories about the blue people of Kentucky include an eerie, compelling drawing of a family, with the stark faces of 5 of the 9 members a striking bluish-gray, due to an inherited disease. Most stories also borrow heavily from a terrific article by Cathy Frost from Science 82, a long-gone magazine that I quite liked.
The "Blue People of Kentucky" are not a myth. They are members of the Fugate family, who carry a rare, recessive gene that makes their skin appear blue.
