He was describing his first ever encounter with the Whittakers, who reside in the rural mountain town of Odd, West Virginia, which boasts an infamously tight-knit population of around 779 people.

Their lives have been documented online by a filmmaker, who has put the village of Odd, West Virginia on the map. Producer Mark Laita has shone the lens on the clan, focusing on aspects ranging ...

BECKLEY, WV (WVNS) – There are some things in West Virginia that are against the law that you may not know about. Did you know that in West Virginia, if someone swears in public, they can be ...

(WBOY) — 12 News stumbled across an album on Spotify that might have a song about your West Virginia city or town ... including “The Odd Man Who Sings About Poop, Puke, and Pee,” “The ...

The Whittaker family, known as America's most inbred family, live in a small shack in the village of Odd, 75 miles from Charleston, West Virginia. Despite their complicated history with inbreeding ...

The Whittaker family, who live in the village of Odd, 75 miles from Charleston, have a complicated history with inbreeding. Some members of the West Virginian family communicate through grunts and ...

Video taken by Keller shows the odd-looking brown and white creature ... telling the outlet a lemur would not be found in West Virginia — some 9,000 miles from its home in Madagascar — unless ...

Chad Lester, 35, of Odd, West Virginia, was convicted of three obstruction charges after attempting to cover up the death of 37-year-old Quantez Burks in March 2022. He was sentenced Thursday to ...

A former West Virginia prison guard was convicted earlier this week on charges related to the 2022 death of an inmate at Southern Regional Jail in Raleigh County. After a four-day trial, a federal ...