Known as the blue people, the Fugates and others afflicted with the condition lived in the Kentucky hills of Troublesome and Balls Creek through the late 1950s. While most lived to their 80s and ...

Their shocking account was detailed in a 1982 article by the University of Indiana’s Cathy Trost, called “The Blue People of Troublesome Creek,” published in Science 82 magazine. The tale of ...

For years, people have posted ... in a secluded region known as Troublesome Creek, east of Louisville, Kentucky, in the Appalachian Mountains, did have a blue hue to their skin.

The most detailed account, "Blue People of Troublesome Creek," was published in 1982 by the University of Indiana's Cathy Trost, who described Benjy's skin as "almost purple." The Fugate progeny ...

The most detailed account, "Blue People of Troublesome Creek," was published in 1982 by the University of Indiana's Cathy Trost. The ancestral line began with a French orphan, Martin Fugate ...

“The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek” by Kim Michele ... Cussy and her father are one of the few last remaining “blue people”. The color of their skin is blue, which is due to a condition ...

A FAMILY with a bizarre rare genetic condition that turned their skin blue passed it down for centuries due to generations of incest. The Fugate family of Troublesome Creek, Kentucky, lived in an ...

THE BOOK WOMAN OF TROUBLESOME CREEK ... is the last of the Blue People, a clan born with an exceedingly rare genetic disorder, the recessive methemoglobinemia gene, which leaves their skin ...

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek tells the story of Cussy Mary Carter. Cussy Mary Carters skin was blue. Her parents carried ... lives of so many desperate people. As you might expect, the ...

Kelly Smith doesn’t know where he’ll go. But wherever it is, it won’t be around Troublesome Creek, Smith said as he was rifling through the rubble and mud of his little slice of bottomland ...