They got some blue-ins deep in the heart of Appalachia.
Ha ha ha!
Here's a story for ya:
The year is 1820 and a French orphan called Martin Fugate has just arrived in Troublesome Creek, a remote and sleepy settlement in eastern Kentucky. It is here he plans to start a family with his new wife, a red-haired woman called Elizabeth Smith, described as being as pale “as the mountain laurel that blooms every spring around the creek hollows”. The thing is Fugate isn't like any of the other men in the area. He has a rare genetic condition that has turned his skin a striking indigo blue.
The couple went on to have seven children and four of them, like their father, had blue skin.
Fast forward to the seventies and Benjamin Stacy has just been born. Stacy is the great-great-great-great-grandson of Martin Fugate and Elizabeth Smith – but by this point, the blue people of Kentucky are just a memory.
Yet, to the surprise of his parents and the hospital's staff, Stacy inherits the family's distinctive blue coloring.
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The Science Behind The Mysterious Blue People Of Kentucky