Growing up in West Virginia, I learned about this in high school science class. I remember my teacher printed out info that redacted the family name and it always made me wonder why until now.. one of the girls in my class was a Fugate! It really is a small world in Appalachia 😂
I have lived in Oregon all my life. I met a family here that also carried this genetic trait and they were really ghostly blue, like silver/white blue skin. I could tell they felt isolated so I tried to just interact with one of the kids that was around my grade in school, without ever bringing it up or asking about it. I bet they dealt with a lot of difficult interactions with other people. it's hard to feel odd ones out.
I do cardiothoracic surgery, and we operated on a patient with the same condition. It looked like he had blue marker smeared all over him, and when we opened his chest, his tissues were blue.
Yes, they can inherit the condition because it is a genetic condition not related to inbreeding. The inbreeding in this case was why more had it, but they had it because both parents carried the gene, but considering recombination in chromosomes, it remains very possible. The first recorded "Blue Fugate" was Martin Fugate from France, he carried the genetic condition without inbreeding. When I was born, my whole left leg was literally black with no reason the doctor could find, but through ancestry searches, I discovered Martin Fugate was one of my many ancestors on my mother's side.
Ok but how do you know that Martin wasn’t a product of inbreeding? Or his wife? These anomalies can be spontaneous, and as you say, they both had the genes for it. But how do we know Martins family history, since he was a French orphan?
I met one once a few years ago at a comedy show in Alabama. It was so cool to chat with her, she was very at ease about her skins and her condition. She was a very happy and friendly woman.
@@randomname5580 is it inbreeding? I bet it’s inbreeding. That’s the only thing that’s coming to mind for Alabama. Also now I’m just trolling mr still not cool. That dude is just mad their dad is their brother/uncle. 💀🤣😂
My dads youth pastor met a blue fugate in the 50’s, he was driving through the area and saw a blue man looking to hitch a ride into town, he was dressed in rags and looked poor and he picked him up and dropped him off, he told the story to the kids cause he thought he was an angel and trying to tell the kids that you never know when your in the presence of power. My dad didn’t have the heart to tell him that it was just bad genetics.
It was also found that the family used silver or colloidal silver which is a natural antibiotic and also has the potential to turn your skin blue. I’m surprised that does not get mentioned.
Yeah, it’s a condition called “argyria”. I was surprised they didn’t say anything about it either. Especially at the end when they explained ways to acquire blue skin without the genetic disorder. There have been a couple higher profile cases of argyria in the last few decades. Even a candidate for the senate from Montana back in the early 2000s, Stan Jones. It’s a real ugly, grayish-blue color too that you get from excessive silver intake. Doesn’t look very pleasant 😬
I'm related to the Fugates and Combs. My dad was Enoch Stacy, his mom was Elizabeth Smith Stacy and his dad was Walter Stacy. His mom and dad were from around the Hazard area but moved to Clay Co before he was born. I wish I could get in touch with some of our kin to learn more about the family
I learned about this condition in college in 1992. It seemed most people didn’t believe me when I told them blue people were real. I finally met someone with this condition last month. I had to introduce myself and ask him where he was from, which was not the Appalachians. However, he said that’s where his ancestors were from.
Even Gargamel couldn’t stand Brainy. I always thought that if the smurfs really wanted to be rid of Gargamel once and for all, all they’d have to do is have every smurf in the village put on glasses like Brainy and invade his house. They’d never see him again.
“Luna” means “moon”. If Luna was blue, she was therefore a blue moon. Her husband, therefore, was only able to impregnate her ..... *“Once in a Blue Moon”* 😆 ha ha
Yes, I had a childhood friend with a serious heart condition. She was very pale and bluish nails and lips. She sadly died young, in her sleep at age 12.
Had a friend in high school who was always yellow from jaundice like bright yellow. She was also battling EDs it was crazy though. She was real sweet and no one ever commented on her eyes skin nails etc being yellow. Thankfully she got help but for the full 4 years she was yellow
Well, I will say this. I know a gentleman, who, at best, had skin that was always a dusky gray blue. He is an older gentlemen, and I knew him for at least thirteen years and we were quite friendly with each other, before I dared to open my mouth to even ask if I _could_ ask a highly personal question of him. He gave permission, and so I asked him. While he admitted others sometimes saw him as a bit dusky or pale, he'd never connected it with 'blue', but seemed amused by it, and was in excellent health, without any heart or lung conditions. I was reluctant to admit I had often thought about it, but never saw it as any of my business overall. I never mentioned the Fugates (too far, I felt), but on a personal level, I felt he just had maybe something a bit similar, since his skin shade makes him stand out immediately in a crowd (left unsaid), at least to my eyes (again, I would never say it). I have never brought it up again since, and he remains as friendly as always. He didn't seem any worse for wear, despite looking as if he has oxygen deprivation. Great guy. I guess we all will know someone with individual quirks as unique in variety as this one.
Not a place where ingesting silver would ever be a common thing. It's known for its coal. The condition was also seen in Pikeville a long time. I only know that because. 1. I have family scattered there and 2. I did some work there (nothing related to family it was generations ago) and ended up learning alot about Kentucky and it's history there. Not saying that they shouldn't have mentioned it because I also was going to comment something about it, but I think the main reason is, that you could easily dismiss that with test and the fact of silver not being prevalent in that area of Appalachia
Because everyone knows that (about silver) and it has nothing to do with the video. Its a blood disorder that is inherited that this family had and it has absolutely nothing to do with ingesting silver.
They would put that silver in nasal sprays. I saw an episode on Ripley's believe it or not about a woman who's skin turned grey from overuse of this product.
Never would have guessed that injecting blue dye would help. My first guess was to think they invested too much silver collide. That will turn ya blue permanently.
This is common to East and Southeast Asian babies in general. They fade as the baby gets older. My sister had several Mongolian spots until she was around 5 years old.
@@revinaque1342 My Dad is from the Philippines, and all my siblings and I had a significant blue spot at the base of the tailbone/ far lower back ; nowhere else, just there, and sure enough, they all eventually faded away. My Dad told us that that means we're descendants of Ghangis Khan, but I've heard mixed opinions on whether or not a blue mark at the base of the spine is a definitive sign of that or not 🤷♀️
Yo, listen up here's a story About a little guy That lives in a blue world And all day and all night And everything he sees is just blue Like him inside and outside Blue his house With a blue little window And a blue corvette And everything is blue for him And himself and everybody around Cause he ain't got nobody to listen to listen.
I had a neighbor when I was growing up in the 1960's, that was called a "blue baby", he was quite old, but could do nothing but play with kittens because his blue skin came from a literal hole in his heart. When I was a teen ager, my friends had a baby, she also was a "blue baby" having a hole in her heart. She eventually got surgery and was alright. But the man was born in the 1800's and had died by the time the first heart transplant was performed. That boy was kipp Kerr, a boy in my home room school class. He was the first successful heart transplant and it was in the elementary school in Hanover Michigan in the 1960's.
South African Surgeon Christiaan Barnard 1967 pioneered heart surgery - he was the 1st to carry out a full heart to heart transplant - there's a documentary etc. The USA was 1968 at Standford University
In the town where I live there was a Man who had blue skin because he had taken way too much colloidal silver in an effort to kill off Lyme disease. So… Colloidal silver will do the trick. That is a fairly well-known fact
Yes, that story Betsy d described is true. I have researched it because I did not believe it at first either...research it yourself...Oprah did a story of a real blue man after ingesting silver for a while....
I learned about this family a couple years ago I want to say. Always wanted to know more. Thanks for posting this and reminding me that I was interested!
The mention of genetic defects from inbreeding sometimes makes me wonder about myths from religions, folktales, and fairytales, because many of these types of stories are about a hero who stands out as special because they are different in some way from the average joe, often being the child of a god or spirit being in many religious stories. This makes me wonder if any of the heroes in these myths/stories were based on real-life people who just happened to have a genetic defect. Besides gods or spirits, another example I can think of is so-called "were-wolf syndrome", which may be the origin of the actual myths about werewolves. A second example that comes to my mind are mythical heroes like Hercules (Greco-Roman mythology), Samson (the Bible), Sigurd (Norse mythology), Kintaro (Japanese folklore), Gilgamesh (Mesopotamian mythology), etc.; they all had super-human strength, so perhaps they were based on real people with just an abnormal amount of muscle mass or perhaps a form of gigantism. I find it really interesting to think that all these gods, spirits, monsters, and heroes in world stories were actually based on real people with genetic defects. There's something very fascinating about that thought.
Dont most religious books warn against inbreeding? I know royal families since ancient Egyptian times would marry their own siblings and the European royal lines would marry aunts , uncles and cousins ..
Changlings were believed to be humanoid creatures; trolls, goblins, etc. people believed that those creatures would kidnap human babies and replace them with their own. Many historians believe today that those children were most likely autistic….based off the “symptoms” old reports say.
@@annaverano5843 Sorry for responding so late, but I think genetic defects can go with religion. What I mean is how I mentioned some religious characters like Gilgamesh from Mesopotamian mythology, who was the king of Uruk and whose father Lugalbanda was a king of Uruk, and Heracles who was the son of Zeus, king of the gods in Greek mythology/religion. Both these characters had super-human strength, which, if they were real people, may have been due to a genetic defect that maybe they inherited from their royal parents i.e. Gilgamesh's father the king of Uruk Lugalbanda, and Heracle's father the king of the gods Zeus.
I am a direct descendant of Martin Fugate. He is my Great-Great-Great- Great-Grandfather. Though the medical facts of this video are acurate, the trivial nature of it is very offensive. Almost every other "fact" given about our family history is ridiculous. There was ONE instance of incest in my family tree, between step-siblings. That's it. As for the relationships between the Stacys and Combses, my Paternal Grandmother was a Stacy, and I can assure you that both of those families also are offended by the joking manner in which our unique history is regarded and told. Our blue ancestors were not freaks.
I find all of these videos to be inaccurate and you are correct and right to be offended. What worries me more is that too many people actually believe them to be true.
Do you have a better explanation for a rare recessive gene to be actively circulating within a small group of related people? A copy from both parents must be there for it to be doing something.
I came up with a few gaits but nothing to hold your breath for, couldn't iron it out, surprised their not royallity being true blue bloods, ...lookout I'm walking here...
I was born what was called a blue baby by UK medical staff at the time. The reason was that my heart was the wrong way around and I had 2 holes in my heart. It caused my blood to flow the wrong way through my veins. Therefore the deoxygenated blood was flowing through veins closer to the skin. This was fixed at 7 years old by open heart surgery.
@@Hidingfrompeople no, I’m not lying. But being a blue baby did not mean the same as bright blue. ruclips.net/video/SBuNJOKYvO0/видео.html this explains it better than I can. In all I’ve had 3 open heart surgeries for valve replacement and leak repairs. I now have a pacemaker also. But medical science in this field has progressed to where my generation was the first with these problems to be able to have children. However I was only allowed to have one (my pride and joy) but it meant I had to stay in hospital for the last 4 months of my pregnancy.
You guys have never disappointed. I love your work. I have watched the channel grow from 1200 subs. I love you guys. “I wish you can make me a video about Lawrence of Arabia”
I was surprised that no one mentioned Colloidal Silver…I’d been told by the owner of our Appalachian health food store that folks who overtook an older version of this remedy would develop blue tinged skin, and that some have even silvered their way blue intentionally.
For a moment I was feeling a little blue but not "turns your skin into a blue hue" blue. My favorite color is blue but I would never want to be actual blue.
Once while I rode a train in Manhattan one of the other passengers was totally blue and from what i could see it was natural. He was an older man in his 60s and looked sick.
I had a Teacher in College who was a very dark GREEN….in this case it was caused by a reaction to medication….and when I say green….it wasn’t just a hue….she was very dark green….
I went to a Benefit Basketball game where retired Raider players would play against the High School teachers in Oakdale Ca. some years ago. It was very crowded in line when a woman went into labor, her husband was yelling for people to move so they could get back outside for an ambulance. One guy just stood there and didn't move. It was the only time I ever saw someone actually turn green, and then HE collapsed.
U really did sound like u just about believed ur ass urself!!! Just remember that sometimes facts are just lies that were told convincingly enough times to just the right ppl before they became factual reality 🤣🤣🤣
@@tinamarie7568 but there were more than 1 blue female Fugate they were saying that the one woman in particular was the BLUEST and actually, the smurfs ended up with the little red head FEMALE too, somehow but I think that was more of an 80s add on which is why it sticks out to me....my old ass was watching it then!! 🤣
As a nurse I took care of a woman and her sister, One of the had bluish skin, the shoes of her eyes were blue, she was a delightful lady, had owned her own business, Her sister didn't have the condition, I don't know where the were born, and I always thought she had a heart condition, but she was in her 70's when I cared for her.
@@MerkhVision It means my Kindle took it upon its self to change words. The woman's eyes were a pale blue, Her sister was normal and she told me it had always been that way as I thought heart defect, but her records did not indicate it.
Growing up in Kentucky we learned about this family in school and I for one found it very interesting. It was almost another reason to love Kentucky, we had something rare that no one else had. We did not learn about the inbreeding part. But hay, 150 years ago everyone married their cousin. Even Albert Einstein married his cousin Elsa. I am so glad I live in Orlando where the gene pool is very mixed.
About 7-8 years bavk I was in a walmart up past boone NC near the Tennessee border and I saw a older lady with blue tinted skin I was baffled I had no idea what was wrong or why she was blue then I watched one of your videos a few years back and that gave me my answer.
The Fugates are actually my distant relatives, and one my friend is closer related to them and she still has a blue tint to her skin, and here in Eastern Kentucky at least in my area they are not talk about unless in school
I was born blue, my father almost passed out when he saw me. Tbh, maybe a lack of O2. I turned normal color but my mom never told me how long it took. Now I'm just regular color.
Back in the 1990s I worked at a store and I had a regular customer who was blue. She was an elderly lady, and the first time I saw her it was startling (although I didn't show it.) I always wondered why her skin looked blue. Now I guess I may have found answer!
I know that it would suck to have to deal with the stigma of a condition like this, but at the same time I can’t help but think about how cool it would be to be blue.
Others here have mentioned a novel called "The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek", by Kim Michelle Richardson. I have just finished reading it - an amazing and heartbreaking story. The blue people were ostracised and endured hatred and racial violence, along with extreme poverty.
I wonder if the reason they didn't suffer any of the more severe symptoms was down to lifestyle and diet? If they were all working manually, getting daily heavy exercise from working outdoors improved circulation? In combination with eating what they farmed, all fresh produce and meat this may be why the were okay?
I'm surprised you didn't mention argyria! ;-D But seriously, while inbreeding increases the chances of recessive traits emerging, unrelated people who are heterozygous for the same rare trait can marry and have children with that autosomal recessive condition. The very fact that the blue people started outbreeding means that it's almost inevitable that some children will be born with methemoglobinemia. Of course, with modern medicine they'll probably be quickly diagnosed and treated, and live a basically normal life, marry and have carrier offspring, one of whom will eventually marry another unknowing carrier. Recessive traits are sneaky like that. Just sayin'. Of course, the fact that people have fewer children per family than they used to increases the likelihood that the "chain" will be broken by the carrier couple's one child (or two children) having by pure chance only gotten both "good" alleles, and thus lowering the incidence of methemoglobinemia in the gene pool. If methemoglobinemia does completely disappear, I think this is a much more likely mechanism than just everyone now knowing that inbreeding is bad. Again, just sayin', not hatin'.
I've always been so interested in this family because I live in Eastern Kentucky Oh, and btw is not pronounced few-gate, it's few-gut. And there's no pause between the two syllables. We just say it all together around here lol
Can you guys do a story on the origins of factor 5 disorder (Parahemophillia?) I think that's how you spell it. My family carries this genetic disorder but despite having this condition in my family including my mother and two of my sisters we know very little about where it comes from. I'd love to see what you guys can find :)
I met a number of people like this from a sleepy costal town while I was on a tour of New England as a 21 year old student. Really odd people with some slightly superstitious overtones, town was run down and smelt mostly of dead fish. The hotel was a real drag too. Happy to get out of there.
At my father's funeral there was a cousin that I had never met, his lady friend was blue. She looked and seemed to be perfectly healthy. She also seemed to be comfortable among strangers possibly because she was as beautiful as a character, I'd seen years before on Star Trek. Her surname was Fugate. I had known several people with that surname but she by far was the best looking,
I thought this was going to be about people who ingested colloidal silver. Silver can actually be very beneficial to your health, which is why some people ingest it, but colloidal silver can also make your skin blue.
Not at all where I thought you were going with this! I can't remember his name off the top of my head, but I was expecting the guy that took colloidal silver daily for like 50 years and turned blue because of that. Which I guess is similar to what you described in the end of the video? Or is that the end thing? I don't have enough chemistry knowledge to answer that myself
I've seen blue people. A couple in a Wal Mart. It will stop you in your tracks, I guarantee it. I'm guessing it was from colloidal silver. The wife was almost purple.
I really wanna know who created this and where exactly they got their facts/resources from 🤔 btw I am a Fugate and also one of the many descendants of the late Daniel Fugate. My great great grandfather...
I live in Kentucky and a few years ago I attended a Chess competition with a player named Fugate. I was looking at the chess board so closely that he could have had blue skin and I would not have noticed.
There is an old man in my neighborhood that I see around with blue skin like this. I’ve often wondered why he has this skin. This is in Pittsburgh PA. ETA: interesting that some were treated with vitamin C and baking soda and it worked temporarily. I wonder why 🧐
WOW! My late mom and her family were long time residents in the Hazard, Ky area (Viper); we're closely related to both the Combs and the Ritchies but I had never heard of this!
Growing up in West Virginia, I learned about this in high school science class. I remember my teacher printed out info that redacted the family name and it always made me wonder why until now.. one of the girls in my class was a Fugate! It really is a small world in Appalachia 😂
I knew some in Boone, NC. No one was blue though.
Imagine lying to strangers on the internet to try and seem cool
@@redbloodedamerican2743 have you done that?
Cool!!!
@@redbloodedamerican2743 How do you know if they're lying??
I have lived in Oregon all my life. I met a family here that also carried this genetic trait and they were really ghostly blue, like silver/white blue skin. I could tell they felt isolated so I tried to just interact with one of the kids that was around my grade in school, without ever bringing it up or asking about it. I bet they dealt with a lot of difficult interactions with other people. it's hard to feel odd ones out.
It's hard to overcome our natural feeling of revulsion to something like that. But I'm sure they appreciate people treating them normal
Ben McReynolds No you didn't.
@@Hidingfrompeople There are people with souls out there. Not everyone is a savage. I believe him because l would have done the same .
Am I only one who thinks this sounds concerning and kinda cool
@@BigBangAttack-mt6pz hooking up with a family member doesn't sound cool at all to me but hey bon appetit dude
I do cardiothoracic surgery, and we operated on a patient with the same condition. It looked like he had blue marker smeared all over him, and when we opened his chest, his tissues were blue.
Da bee dee da be dah
You perform surgery?
Sure you do.
@@moniqueengleman873 not sure what you mean by that but ok.
“I do surgery” doesn’t sound like a sentence picked up by surgeons in medical school. That’s all.
@NickyAm She couldn't even form a decent sentence. "I do surgery".
Not a doctor. Just a kid .
Yes, they can inherit the condition because it is a genetic condition not related to inbreeding. The inbreeding in this case was why more had it, but they had it because both parents carried the gene, but considering recombination in chromosomes, it remains very possible.
The first recorded "Blue Fugate" was Martin Fugate from France, he carried the genetic condition without inbreeding. When I was born, my whole left leg was literally black with no reason the doctor could find, but through ancestry searches, I discovered Martin Fugate was one of my many ancestors on my mother's side.
Ok but how do you know that Martin wasn’t a product of inbreeding? Or his wife? These anomalies can be spontaneous, and as you say, they both had the genes for it. But how do we know Martins family history, since he was a French orphan?
That does not seem like the same thing. It is a blood issue; your whole body would be blue, not just a single limb.
@@ZeoViolet True, however to this day my leg has purple patches on the whole leg and hip. So it is something that is not a normal birthmark.
@@moorek1967 Has it affected your health in any way?
@@ZeoViolet No.
I met one once a few years ago at a comedy show in Alabama. It was so cool to chat with her, she was very at ease about her skins and her condition. She was a very happy and friendly woman.
that’s really sweet! thank you for treating her like a person, i know that a lot of people wouldn’t :)
That’s awesome! I would have so many questions, and I love how she’s accepted herself❤️
There’s a Alabama joke in there somewhere
@@randomname5580 We know still not cool to say it
@@randomname5580 is it inbreeding? I bet it’s inbreeding. That’s the only thing that’s coming to mind for Alabama. Also now I’m just trolling mr still not cool. That dude is just mad their dad is their brother/uncle. 💀🤣😂
There was a blueish/purple-skinned kid at my school. He had severe heart problems and ended up dying young because of it.
Sounds like he was cyanotic due to poor circulation.
That's very sad.
😢😢😢😢
That is so sad
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I was thinking this had to effect their health, not enough oxygen to support brain and organ health
My dads youth pastor met a blue fugate in the 50’s, he was driving through the area and saw a blue man looking to hitch a ride into town, he was dressed in rags and looked poor and he picked him up and dropped him off, he told the story to the kids cause he thought he was an angel and trying to tell the kids that you never know when your in the presence of power. My dad didn’t have the heart to tell him that it was just bad genetics.
It was also found that the family used silver or colloidal silver which is a natural antibiotic and also has the potential to turn your skin blue. I’m surprised that does not get mentioned.
Yeah, it’s a condition called “argyria”. I was surprised they didn’t say anything about it either. Especially at the end when they explained ways to acquire blue skin without the genetic disorder. There have been a couple higher profile cases of argyria in the last few decades. Even a candidate for the senate from Montana back in the early 2000s, Stan Jones. It’s a real ugly, grayish-blue color too that you get from excessive silver intake. Doesn’t look very pleasant 😬
Different family. The two conditions are not related.
@@erineddy7999 I know that. I was talking about someone who had argyria from excessive colloidal silver consumption, not what the Fugates had.
So basically the video is horseshit and they were only blue from silver... Sounds about right.
Not sarcasam.
@@BlakeGibbons no the video is correct. The silver is completely unrelated in this case
I'm related to the Fugates and Combs. My dad was Enoch Stacy, his mom was Elizabeth Smith Stacy and his dad was Walter Stacy. His mom and dad were from around the Hazard area but moved to Clay Co before he was born. I wish I could get in touch with some of our kin to learn more about the family
Get in touch, to inbred aye?
@billcombs5656 said in another comment that he was a member of the Combs family.
Late to the party but contact the Clay Co Ancestral and Genealogical Society, they have the records you might need
"The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek" is a wonderful story about a young girl with this condition. When I read it I realized these people existed.
I was thinking that. But the bookwoman's stubborn old mule Junia stole the show for me. I want a guard mule!
I just recently read the book. I'm related to the blue people. Distantly.
It is a very good book, sad though 😭
That is the book I was talking about!!
That is a wonderful book! I have just finished reading it.
I learned about this condition in college in 1992. It seemed most people didn’t believe me when I told them blue people were real. I finally met someone with this condition last month. I had to introduce myself and ask him where he was from, which was not the Appalachians. However, he said that’s where his ancestors were from.
My favorite blue character: Genie.
My least favorite blue character: Brainy Smurf. If I were a Smurf, I'd hand deliver Brainy to Gargamel.
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Me as well!!!
Even Gargamel couldn’t stand Brainy. I always thought that if the smurfs really wanted to be rid of Gargamel once and for all, all they’d have to do is have every smurf in the village put on glasses like Brainy and invade his house. They’d never see him again.
Mega mind
“Luna” means “moon”. If Luna was blue, she was therefore a blue moon. Her husband, therefore, was only able to impregnate her ..... *“Once in a Blue Moon”* 😆 ha ha
You win the internet.
I like you. 😂
A very successful *Badum tss* to you!
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Finally! Other people who find this fascinating! People never seem to believe that this is a real thing
I had to google it to be honest
I never heard of it ...
I had a friend in college who had the blue skin. His fingernails were purplish. His blood did not circulate well and he was always very tired.
I would get blue lips and ears when I was a kid, they said I was cold we lived in California.
Did he have blue balls too?
@@yankee2666 No but he had a long black dong hanging out his double bubble backside more often than not
Yes, I had a childhood friend with a serious heart condition. She was very pale and bluish nails and lips. She sadly died young, in her sleep at age 12.
@@suzanneolivar1 I'm sorry for your loss
_The Blue Man Group has joined the chat - but they won't be saying anything_
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Had a friend in high school who was always yellow from jaundice like bright yellow. She was also battling EDs it was crazy though. She was real sweet and no one ever commented on her eyes skin nails etc being yellow. Thankfully she got help but for the full 4 years she was yellow
The Fugates: _exists_
Eiffel 65: "Yo listen up! Here's a story..."
I'm blue da ba di da bu dai
"Giving many people's tendency to be, you know, jerks". Internet truth of the day.
Kids have only gotten worse with all these apps
Eastern Kentuckian here (not blue). The correct pronunciation of the surname is "few-gets" not "few-gates".
the fact that you put “(not blue)” lmao
Eastern Kentuckian as well and I second this “few-get” pronunciation. (They’re relatives of mine.)
See my name. I agree with these people.
THank you
As a fellow App-uh-latch-e-un, Tennessean not Kentuckian, also not blue, I came to the comment section to correct the pronunciation
This would have made Tobias Funke’s life a lot easier.
The number of times he blue himself would be substantially less.
It's not his fault he's such a blowhard, guy's 😅😂
With all that inbreeding, you could say the fugates blue themselves
Hello, I was in the comments section when I came across yours.. And I decided to send an email to you, hope you don't mind,
Lol 😂
Well, I will say this. I know a gentleman, who, at best, had skin that was always a dusky gray blue. He is an older gentlemen, and I knew him for at least thirteen years and we were quite friendly with each other, before I dared to open my mouth to even ask if I _could_ ask a highly personal question of him. He gave permission, and so I asked him. While he admitted others sometimes saw him as a bit dusky or pale, he'd never connected it with 'blue', but seemed amused by it, and was in excellent health, without any heart or lung conditions. I was reluctant to admit I had often thought about it, but never saw it as any of my business overall. I never mentioned the Fugates (too far, I felt), but on a personal level, I felt he just had maybe something a bit similar, since his skin shade makes him stand out immediately in a crowd (left unsaid), at least to my eyes (again, I would never say it). I have never brought it up again since, and he remains as friendly as always. He didn't seem any worse for wear, despite looking as if he has oxygen deprivation. Great guy. I guess we all will know someone with individual quirks as unique in variety as this one.
There are some people who have permanently turned blue from ingesting silver colloidal over a period of time. It's not reversible in that instance.
They god Krishna is depicted as blue.
Can't believe you did not mention that ingesting silver, in the right amount and over time, can turn a person blue as well.
Not a place where ingesting silver would ever be a common thing. It's known for its coal. The condition was also seen in Pikeville a long time. I only know that because. 1. I have family scattered there and 2. I did some work there (nothing related to family it was generations ago) and ended up learning alot about Kentucky and it's history there. Not saying that they shouldn't have mentioned it because I also was going to comment something about it, but I think the main reason is, that you could easily dismiss that with test and the fact of silver not being prevalent in that area of Appalachia
Because everyone knows that (about silver) and it has nothing to do with the video. Its a blood disorder that is inherited that this family had and it has absolutely nothing to do with ingesting silver.
@@alicecuriosityoftenleadsto6288 I didn't know that for one, and I'm certainly not the only one, so best not to use a generalization as an absolute.
@@NasikaSakura The blue guy was on the news saying he'd consumed homemade colloidal silver. And also rubbed the solution on his skin.
They would put that silver in nasal sprays. I saw an episode on Ripley's believe it or not about a woman who's skin turned grey from overuse of this product.
This only goes to show how resilient their family is.
Thank you 😊
I agree 💯
Weird how y’all praise a family with 4 generations of inbreeding
I am a Fugate. We learned of the blue people from my grandma
Benjamin fugate and hannah devers are my 7th great grandparents….
Never would have guessed that injecting blue dye would help. My first guess was to think they invested too much silver collide. That will turn ya blue permanently.
Some Chinese People have MONGOLIAN BLUE SPOTS in their skin. Instead of being a brown mole, the mole is actually blue.
This is common to East and Southeast Asian babies in general. They fade as the baby gets older. My sister had several Mongolian spots until she was around 5 years old.
@@revinaque1342 it can also happen to Hispanic and African babies as well!
@@jewelshoolie my son has one too. His has faded, now it's barely there.
Cool
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My Dad is from the Philippines, and all my siblings and I had a significant blue spot at the base of the tailbone/ far lower back ; nowhere else, just there, and sure enough, they all eventually faded away.
My Dad told us that that means we're descendants of Ghangis Khan, but I've heard mixed opinions on whether or not a blue mark at the base of the spine is a definitive sign of that or not 🤷♀️
You should make one of these on the Dionne Quintuplets. They were huge once upon a time
The X-MEN's nightcrawler is my favorite blue character.
Yo, listen up here's a story
About a little guy
That lives in a blue world
And all day and all night
And everything he sees is just blue
Like him inside and outside
Blue his house
With a blue little window
And a blue corvette
And everything is blue for him
And himself and everybody around
Cause he ain't got nobody to listen to listen.
GO BLUE!
Eiffel 65 lol
Take my like dammit
I'm blue da ba Dee da ba die
Da ba Dee da ba die
Your a legend
I had a neighbor when I was growing up in the 1960's, that was called a "blue baby", he was quite old, but could do nothing but play with kittens because his blue skin came from a literal hole in his heart. When I was a teen ager, my friends had a baby, she also was a "blue baby" having a hole in her heart. She eventually got surgery and was alright. But the man was born in the 1800's and had died by the time the first heart transplant was performed. That boy was kipp Kerr, a boy in my home room school class. He was the first successful heart transplant and it was in the elementary school in Hanover Michigan in the 1960's.
Something the Lord Made is an HBO movie about a doctor who developed a procedure to save “ blue babies”.
South African Surgeon Christiaan Barnard 1967 pioneered heart surgery - he was the 1st to carry out a full heart to heart transplant - there's a documentary etc.
The USA was 1968 at
Standford University
As a Kentucky Wildcat lifelong fan I bleed blue…but the Fugate’s take it to another level!
Please do the Hatfield and McCoy Feud
They already did.
I'm a ninth gen. McCoy. :)
i used to work in a nursing home and once served a woman with blue skin, it’s interesting to think she may have been a part of this family
In the town where I live there was a Man who had blue skin because he had taken way too much colloidal silver in an effort to kill off Lyme disease. So… Colloidal silver will do the trick. That is a fairly well-known fact
Dude we’ve all seen dr Phil. Nobody is buying your bullshit
@@redbloodedamerican2743 do you mean Dr Oz? not sure which bullshit you are referring to
Yes, that story Betsy d described is true. I have researched it because I did not believe it at first either...research it yourself...Oprah did a story of a real blue man after ingesting silver for a while....
I'd like to learn more about leprosy and it's history. I think that'd be a popular video for you guys to make.
I watched a video once that said eating armadillos can cause leprosy
@@ericlikeshalo was the video you watched graphic ?
@@ericlikeshalo that and eating groundhogs can give you it too. Happened down in Texas a few years back the armadillo story.
@@mello4392 it had some pictures of people’s hands after their fingers fell off
oh Leprosy is very tough on a human.
As someone who lives in South East Kentucky, I'm amazed I've never heard this but appreciate thier obvious love for the bluegrass state
Huckleberry Hound is my favorite blue character.
I learned about this family a couple years ago I want to say. Always wanted to know more. Thanks for posting this and reminding me that I was interested!
Elizabeth was my 2 great grandmother this info is false
It’s not easy being blue.
The mention of genetic defects from inbreeding sometimes makes me wonder about myths from religions, folktales, and fairytales, because many of these types of stories are about a hero who stands out as special because they are different in some way from the average joe, often being the child of a god or spirit being in many religious stories. This makes me wonder if any of the heroes in these myths/stories were based on real-life people who just happened to have a genetic defect. Besides gods or spirits, another example I can think of is so-called "were-wolf syndrome", which may be the origin of the actual myths about werewolves. A second example that comes to my mind are mythical heroes like Hercules (Greco-Roman mythology), Samson (the Bible), Sigurd (Norse mythology), Kintaro (Japanese folklore), Gilgamesh (Mesopotamian mythology), etc.; they all had super-human strength, so perhaps they were based on real people with just an abnormal amount of muscle mass or perhaps a form of gigantism. I find it really interesting to think that all these gods, spirits, monsters, and heroes in world stories were actually based on real people with genetic defects. There's something very fascinating about that thought.
Dont most religious books warn against inbreeding? I know royal families since ancient Egyptian times would marry their own siblings and the European royal lines would marry aunts , uncles and cousins ..
Changlings were believed to be humanoid creatures; trolls, goblins, etc. people believed that those creatures would kidnap human babies and replace them with their own. Many historians believe today that those children were most likely autistic….based off the “symptoms” old reports say.
A lot of vampire myths are said to be based on diseases like rabies and xp.
@@annaverano5843 Sorry for responding so late, but I think genetic defects can go with religion. What I mean is how I mentioned some religious characters like Gilgamesh from Mesopotamian mythology, who was the king of Uruk and whose father Lugalbanda was a king of Uruk, and Heracles who was the son of Zeus, king of the gods in Greek mythology/religion. Both these characters had super-human strength, which, if they were real people, may have been due to a genetic defect that maybe they inherited from their royal parents i.e. Gilgamesh's father the king of Uruk Lugalbanda, and Heracle's father the king of the gods Zeus.
I am a direct descendant of Martin Fugate. He is my Great-Great-Great- Great-Grandfather. Though the medical facts of this video are acurate, the trivial nature of it is very offensive. Almost every other "fact" given about our family history is ridiculous. There was ONE instance of incest in my family tree, between step-siblings. That's it. As for the relationships between the Stacys and Combses, my Paternal Grandmother was a Stacy, and I can assure you that both of those families also are offended by the joking manner in which our unique history is regarded and told. Our blue ancestors were not freaks.
I'm also a decent of Martin fugate ..I agree these facts are false
Your ancestors are proud of you for standing up for the family name.
I find all of these videos to be inaccurate and you are correct and right to be offended. What worries me more is that too many people actually believe them to be true.
Do you have a better explanation for a rare recessive gene to be actively circulating within a small group of related people? A copy from both parents must be there for it to be doing something.
I wonder how were related? hannah devers is my 7th great grandmother. martin “blue” fugate is my 6th great grandfather.
I tried to find a pun with fugates, I found a few gateways into some jokes, but I think I blue it ... 😔
Lol
Lame
I came up with a few gaits but nothing to hold your breath for, couldn't iron it out, surprised their not royallity being true blue bloods, ...lookout I'm walking here...
I took care of a man who had blue skin. I've seen a lot of strange things working at the hospital but I have to say that blue skin tops them all.
Manson 😻
I was born what was called a blue baby by UK medical staff at the time. The reason was that my heart was the wrong way around and I had 2 holes in my heart. It caused my blood to flow the wrong way through my veins. Therefore the deoxygenated blood was flowing through veins closer to the skin. This was fixed at 7 years old by open heart surgery.
That is astounding. I am glad you had the medical help to get this issue fixed. That is amazing.
tezzcan1 Are you lying right now?
@@Hidingfrompeople no, I’m not lying. But being a blue baby did not mean the same as bright blue. ruclips.net/video/SBuNJOKYvO0/видео.html this explains it better than I can. In all I’ve had 3 open heart surgeries for valve replacement and leak repairs. I now have a pacemaker also. But medical science in this field has progressed to where my generation was the first with these problems to be able to have children. However I was only allowed to have one (my pride and joy) but it meant I had to stay in hospital for the last 4 months of my pregnancy.
@@tezzcan1 You have been through a lot!! Thankful for modern medicine. Glad you are well!🥰
@@ariesleorising9421 thank you.
You guys have never disappointed. I love your work. I have watched the channel grow from 1200 subs. I love you guys. “I wish you can make me a video about Lawrence of Arabia”
They were blue dah bo dee dah bo dah
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There is a lovely fictionalized story about this family: The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek.
*blue woman
@@jimdandy3033 It is a novel. The name IS "The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek". Kim Richardson.. It is about the blue people of Kentucky, though. 🤦
I was surprised that no one mentioned Colloidal Silver…I’d been told by the owner of our Appalachian health food store that folks who overtook an older version of this remedy would develop blue tinged skin, and that some have even silvered their way blue intentionally.
Yes! I was wondering the same!
For a moment I was feeling a little blue but not "turns your skin into a blue hue" blue. My favorite color is blue but I would never want to be actual blue.
Once while I rode a train in Manhattan one of the other passengers was totally blue and from what i could see it was natural. He was an older man in his 60s and looked sick.
I had a Teacher in College who was a very dark GREEN….in this case it was caused by a reaction to medication….and when I say green….it wasn’t just a hue….she was very dark green….
A lot of students must of really paid attention to the teacher
Was she Popular🎶?
@@chantalfinn6173 She was fairly introverted….quiet, but ya she was liked by everyone
I did too. She said she always dresses up as a witch for Halloween
I went to a Benefit Basketball game where retired Raider players would play against the High School teachers in Oakdale Ca. some years ago. It was very crowded in line when a woman went into labor, her husband was yelling for people to move so they could get back outside for an ambulance. One guy just stood there and didn't move. It was the only time I ever saw someone actually turn green, and then HE collapsed.
FUN FACT: The Blue Fugates were the real inspiration for the cartoon SMURFS!!!!......nah I'm lying....but it sounds so cool though lol
Wow that sure was a fun and wacky comment
U really did sound like u just about believed ur ass urself!!! Just remember that sometimes facts are just lies that were told convincingly enough times to just the right ppl before they became factual reality 🤣🤣🤣
Makes sense, as Smurfette was the only female
@@tinamarie7568 but there were more than 1 blue female Fugate they were saying that the one woman in particular was the BLUEST and actually, the smurfs ended up with the little red head FEMALE too, somehow but I think that was more of an 80s add on which is why it sticks out to me....my old ass was watching it then!! 🤣
@@bobbisparks53 i know, i was just being silly in the spirit of the comment...and i never watched those newer ones either. Lol
Ohhh, is this why royals are referred to as blue bloods? That would be another reason for heavy makeup & those neck frills....
No.
No, their skin was pale and their veins looked blue in comparison to the tan farmers who actually worked
The heavy make up was more to hide ring worm.
@@briansullivan5908 ☹️
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@@janak7552 Oh, ok. Just sounded plausible...
The people we bought our first house from had the last name of Fugate. I live in the Appalachian mountains too but those of NC.
As a nurse I took care of a woman and her sister, One of the had bluish skin, the shoes of her eyes were blue, she was a delightful lady, had owned her own business, Her sister didn't have the condition, I don't know where the were born, and I always thought she had a heart condition, but she was in her 70's when I cared for her.
“The shoes of her eyes were blue?” What does that mean!? Lol
@@MerkhVision It means my Kindle took it upon its self to change words. The woman's eyes were a pale blue, Her sister was normal and she told me it had always been that way as I thought heart defect, but her records did not indicate it.
Growing up in Kentucky we learned about this family in school and I for one found it very interesting. It was almost another reason to love Kentucky, we had something rare that no one else had. We did not learn about the inbreeding part. But hay, 150 years ago everyone married their cousin. Even Albert Einstein married his cousin Elsa. I am so glad I live in Orlando where the gene pool is very mixed.
Now cover the Melungeon of Tennessee.
Accusing them of inbreeding was more than enough damage, but then while they're down he calls them "Stacys".
About 7-8 years bavk I was in a walmart up past boone NC near the Tennessee border and I saw a older lady with blue tinted skin I was baffled I had no idea what was wrong or why she was blue then I watched one of your videos a few years back and that gave me my answer.
This channel never disappoints! Another awesome video to watch while I pay medical bills 😃
The Fugates are actually my distant relatives, and one my friend is closer related to them and she still has a blue tint to her skin, and here in Eastern Kentucky at least in my area they are not talk about unless in school
A blue kitty! 🐱😺😸🥶
Sha Wujing, Sandy from Journey to the West was 8 feet tall, had blue skin and red hair.
I was born blue, my father almost passed out when he saw me. Tbh, maybe a lack of O2. I turned normal color but my mom never told me how long it took. Now I'm just regular color.
Back in the 1990s I worked at a store and I had a regular customer who was blue. She was an elderly lady, and the first time I saw her it was startling (although I didn't show it.) I always wondered why her skin looked blue. Now I guess I may have found answer!
I live in Appalachia, and one day was walking into a restaurant, and a blue child walked out- blue skin, purple lips!
Ya. Heard about this in high school.
According to a great aunt, we are related.
Welp, your name is proof alone
My bf did not believe their were really blue people. I am so glad I could show him this video.
So weird, I just heard about this family yesterday when researching why Shiva has blue skin, and now this pops up in my recommended.
Better be a Tobias funke reference in here
There wasn't :(
We have a weird recessive blood condition in the family also and the fact that my grandparents were cousins might have something to do with it. 😁
Would love to see an episode on the life and times of the Elephant man!
Oh spontaneous combustion! That is such a bizarre and rare thing to have happened to people.
The narrator. I love his voice.
I know that it would suck to have to deal with the stigma of a condition like this, but at the same time I can’t help but think about how cool it would be to be blue.
Da-ba-dee
Da-be-dah
If I was green I would die
Others here have mentioned a novel called "The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek", by Kim Michelle Richardson. I have just finished reading it - an amazing and heartbreaking story. The blue people were ostracised and endured hatred and racial violence, along with extreme poverty.
I wonder if the reason they didn't suffer any of the more severe symptoms was down to lifestyle and diet? If they were all working manually, getting daily heavy exercise from working outdoors improved circulation? In combination with eating what they farmed, all fresh produce and meat this may be why the were okay?
It can happen in non genetic form also.
I knew someone who obsessively drank coloidal silver all the time.
Dude was blue for the rest of his life.
I remember that guy
Was that the guy who got famous?
The Fugates, I’m sure had a feud with Gargamel and Azriel down the road.
I'm surprised you didn't mention argyria! ;-D
But seriously, while inbreeding increases the chances of recessive traits emerging, unrelated people who are heterozygous for the same rare trait can marry and have children with that autosomal recessive condition. The very fact that the blue people started outbreeding means that it's almost inevitable that some children will be born with methemoglobinemia.
Of course, with modern medicine they'll probably be quickly diagnosed and treated, and live a basically normal life, marry and have carrier offspring, one of whom will eventually marry another unknowing carrier. Recessive traits are sneaky like that. Just sayin'.
Of course, the fact that people have fewer children per family than they used to increases the likelihood that the "chain" will be broken by the carrier couple's one child (or two children) having by pure chance only gotten both "good" alleles, and thus lowering the incidence of methemoglobinemia in the gene pool. If methemoglobinemia does completely disappear, I think this is a much more likely mechanism than just everyone now knowing that inbreeding is bad. Again, just sayin', not hatin'.
What if one becomes a sperm donor. Could be interesting
I've always been so interested in this family because I live in Eastern Kentucky
Oh, and btw is not pronounced few-gate, it's few-gut. And there's no pause between the two syllables. We just say it all together around here lol
The “Book Woman of Troublesome Creek” was an excellent book that addressed the fugates that originated from France.
Cue the banjo music at 2:16 when it came to the topic of inbreeding lmao
Can you guys do a story on the origins of factor 5 disorder (Parahemophillia?) I think that's how you spell it. My family carries this genetic disorder but despite having this condition in my family including my mother and two of my sisters we know very little about where it comes from. I'd love to see what you guys can find :)
Really interesting, wish there were more pictures. The family portrait of the Fugates looked like water color.
I met a number of people like this from a sleepy costal town while I was on a tour of New England as a 21 year old student. Really odd people with some slightly superstitious overtones, town was run down and smelt mostly of dead fish. The hotel was a real drag too. Happy to get out of there.
Innsmouth perhaps?
One of these guys went to our church meetings, probably around 2006 ish, I always wanted to ask him about it as a kid. I couldn’t not think about it
I’m glad to see this story of the fugates, I remember reading about them what I think was a history book
At my father's funeral there was a cousin that I had never met, his lady friend was blue. She looked and seemed to be perfectly healthy. She also seemed to be comfortable among strangers possibly because she was as beautiful as a character, I'd seen years before on Star Trek. Her surname was Fugate. I had known several people with that surname but she by far was the best looking,
"I'm in love with a big Blue frog! A big Blue frog loves me! It's not as bad as it appears, He's got rhythm and a PHD!..🎶 old Blues tune. 🇨🇦🥰👍
Ha ha, I remember that one, though not sure who sang it! Thanks for the memory!
Oh yeah, I remember that.
My last Master Chief in the Navy was a Hazard County Fugate. Not blue but vertically challenged and a wicked sense of humor
I bet this is where the term blue bloods really comes from
🙆♀️💙wow 🙂
Yahh!! I read about some blue skin people too 😀
Shiva.. Krishna.. Arjuna..all blue skin people
Can you do one about the Spottsville Monster from Spottsville KY, please?!
I thought this was going to be about people who ingested colloidal silver. Silver can actually be very beneficial to your health, which is why some people ingest it, but colloidal silver can also make your skin blue.
Not at all where I thought you were going with this! I can't remember his name off the top of my head, but I was expecting the guy that took colloidal silver daily for like 50 years and turned blue because of that. Which I guess is similar to what you described in the end of the video? Or is that the end thing? I don't have enough chemistry knowledge to answer that myself
That’s the only way it actually happens. This is a bullshit story from a part of the country that doesn’t even understand the lies they tell.
Silver is unrelated in this case
Yea same here! I thought the guy was on TV and admitted he was taking that and wasn't actually one of those "blue people".
I was gonna mention colloidal silver drinking too. Lots of proof of this online. And Blue Man Group.
I was thinking the same thing.
I've seen blue people. A couple in a Wal Mart. It will stop you in your tracks, I guarantee it. I'm guessing it was from colloidal silver. The wife was almost purple.
I really wanna know who created this and where exactly they got their facts/resources from 🤔 btw I am a Fugate and also one of the many descendants of the late Daniel Fugate. My great great grandfather...
I live in Kentucky and a few years ago I attended a Chess competition with a player named Fugate. I was looking at the chess board so closely that he could have had blue skin and I would not have noticed.
There is an old man in my neighborhood that I see around with blue skin like this. I’ve often wondered why he has this skin. This is in Pittsburgh PA.
ETA: interesting that some were treated with vitamin C and baking soda and it worked temporarily. I wonder why 🧐
WOW! My late mom and her family were long time residents in the Hazard, Ky area (Viper); we're closely related to both the Combs and the Ritchies but I had never heard of this!
Whick, Breathitt County sends it's blessings and greetings.