The Fugate family was no typical family. After multitudinous generations of inbreeding, the Fugate family was known by doctors throughout the Troublesome Creek area. Speculation flew through eastern Kentucky on why the people were blue. With more and more people talking about the family, doctors started to come in and investigate. Doctors came to the presumption that the family’s blue pigmentation was a result of the blood that was derived from their past generations. The blue skin started with Marvin Fugate and his wife, Elizabeth Smith, this trait was passed down for more than 100 years. Despite the fact that the family never had any critical indisposition,some did feel a psychological illness. Madison Cawein found fascination with the blue
