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Liam Buckler

Incestuous family were so inbred their skin turned BLUE and was passed down generations

An incestuous family were so inbred their skin turned blue after a rare genetic condition was passed down to generations.

The Fugate family, from Troublesome Creek, Kentucky, were regularly inbreeding with their relatives as they lived in an isolated rural community.

The inbreeding began in 1820 when Martin Fugate and his wife Elizabeth Smart got together in the secluded area of Appalachia, which is in Perry County Kentucky.

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