The Blue People of Troublesome Creek, Kentucky...

[Mister Obvious]

The Fugates, a blue skinned family of the Appalachians:


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Fugates

https://owlcation.com/humanities/Blue-Pe...-Blue-Skin

http://www.indiana.edu/~oso/lessons/Blues/TheBlues.htm

[zenba]

i don't understand this.

that santa lookin dude i've seen many times before, but not for having natural blue skin. it was due to him using silver salts, which accumulate subcutaneously  and react to UV light tinting his skin blue. this was widely used as misinformation regarding the safe use of colloidal silver, which is not in a salt form.

there's a vid of him from the oprah show. he doesn't claim to have been born this way.



i know the blue skin race is a legit thing, they were widely covered in hindu works.

[Mister Obvious]

Yeah whoever made that specific video was trying to be smart about YouTube clickbait... they basically just gave it a title they thought would get clicks (mentioning blue bloods) and the pic of that dude which everyone's seen as a thumbnail. Video has nothing to do with him. The video is good even though the narrator kinda sucks... it raises some points the second video didn't.

[Mister Obvious]

A bunch of idiots in the YT comments talking about the colloidal silver/turning blue crap... that's not what happened to these people.

[zenba]

i hate it when people do that, or add unnecessary video effects and soundtracks. that puts the video into a very poor light for me.

[Mister Obvious]

Yeah it's lame and gay.

I used to know somebody locally around here whose grandma had actually met one of these people.

Apparently the Fugates stopped inbreeding and moved away...

[Guest]

My boss in Oklahoma was named Fugate. He was half Japanese. Normal looking guy.