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Ryan Fahey

Filmmaker who visited 'world's most inbred family' returns to home 22 years later

A filmmaker who documented the lives of an inbred family has returned 22 years later - with the group revealing that two of them sleep in same single bed.

Donors have raised thousands in the hopes of lifting the family from the abject squalor of their back-country shack.

The Whittaker family lives in an isolated rural area of West Virginia and have been largely cut off from civilisation.

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