Facts And Stories About the Blue Fugates
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Date: 2022-12-29
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MissCricket527
I had blue skin as a child. It eventually got more normal. Several generations back my family on both sides are from Appalachia and neighboring mountain regions including Kentucky and lots of distant kin come up with Fugates in their trees. I have severe Asthma and saw a lot of doctors as a kid anyhow. I am sure I was tested. I got a lot of blood tests often. Some of the shots probably had to do with my skin color besides my asthma. I just know it faded over time and my skin took on more normal skin tone. A classmate made fun of my skin tone saying I looked like the nurse on a poster. Blue skin and white hair. First or second grade. The poster was printed in shades of blue with black lettering. Promoting some kind of health info to us kids. So the nurse had light blue skin. It was the first I realized I was blue and others were not. My mom just said I was anemic and had to take supplements. It was a liquid and tasted awful.
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I had blue skin as a child. It eventually got more normal. Several generations back my family on both sides are from Appalachia and neighboring mountain regions including Kentucky and lots of distant kin come up with Fugates in their trees. I have severe Asthma and saw a lot of doctors as a kid anyhow. I am sure I was tested. I got a lot of blood tests often. Some of the shots probably had to do with my skin color besides my asthma. I just know it faded over time and my skin took on more normal skin tone. A classmate made fun of my skin tone saying I looked like the nurse on a poster. Blue skin and white hair. First or second grade. The poster was printed in shades of blue with black lettering. Promoting some kind of health info to us kids. So the nurse had light blue skin. It was the first I realized I was blue and others were not. My mom just said I was anemic and had to take supplements. It was a liquid and tasted awful.
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Karen
Recessive genes will very possibly crop up again, though unlikely to be passed down for successive generations. Though with Ancestry DNA testing maybe they could look for people who carry the gene? (If it's even been isolated yet )
The first such couple accidently coming together today may have no idea of their family history, resulting in a blue child or two. Their children would not likely to marry within the family. So back into recessive hiding the gene goes.
A second possibility is whatever genetic mutation that happened before could happen again, at random. Back into the gene pool to meet up with a carrier. I just hope if or when it does happen to come back in person, we have evolved enough in society to accept them and not treat them with prejudice stigmatism as the blue people were in the mid 20th century!
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Recessive genes will very possibly crop up again, though unlikely to be passed down for successive generations. Though with Ancestry DNA testing maybe they could look for people who carry the gene? (If it's even been isolated yet )
The first such couple accidently coming together today may have no idea of their family history, resulting in a blue child or two. Their children would not likely to marry within the family. So back into recessive hiding the gene goes.
A second possibility is whatever genetic mutation that happened before could happen again, at random. Back into the gene pool to meet up with a carrier. I just hope if or when it does happen to come back in person, we have evolved enough in society to accept them and not treat them with prejudice stigmatism as the blue people were in the mid 20th century!
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Maureen
I had a neighbor when I was growing up in the 1960's, that was called a blue baby, he was quite old, but could do nothing but play with kittens because his blue skin came from a literal hole in his heart. When I was a teen ager, my friends had a baby, she also was a blue baby having a hole in her heart. She eventually got surgery and was alright. But the man was born in the 1800's and had died by the time the first heart transplant was performed. That boy was kipp Kerr, a boy in my home room school class. He was the first successful heart transplant and it was in the elementary school in Hanover Michigan in the 1960's.
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I had a neighbor when I was growing up in the 1960's, that was called a blue baby, he was quite old, but could do nothing but play with kittens because his blue skin came from a literal hole in his heart. When I was a teen ager, my friends had a baby, she also was a blue baby having a hole in her heart. She eventually got surgery and was alright. But the man was born in the 1800's and had died by the time the first heart transplant was performed. That boy was kipp Kerr, a boy in my home room school class. He was the first successful heart transplant and it was in the elementary school in Hanover Michigan in the 1960's.
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Joshua
Inbreeding was actually very common in Appalachia. It's an unfortunate stereotype that's followed people from the area for a long time. My family is from the area of the fugates and it wasn't uncommon for people there to marry their cousins. My grandparents were actually 4th cousins with the same last name. Back before mas transit and automobiles it was the only way for populations to sustain themselves. It's actually pretty interesting when you look into the history of the area.
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Inbreeding was actually very common in Appalachia. It's an unfortunate stereotype that's followed people from the area for a long time. My family is from the area of the fugates and it wasn't uncommon for people there to marry their cousins. My grandparents were actually 4th cousins with the same last name. Back before mas transit and automobiles it was the only way for populations to sustain themselves. It's actually pretty interesting when you look into the history of the area.
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Wilderness
My dads youth pastor met a blue fugate in the 50s, he was driving through the area and saw a blue man looking to hitch a ride into town, he was dressed in rags and looked poor and he picked him up and dropped him off, he told the story to the kids cause he thought he was an angel and trying to tell the kids that you never know when your in the presence of power. My dad didnt have the heart to tell him that it was just bad genetics.
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My dads youth pastor met a blue fugate in the 50s, he was driving through the area and saw a blue man looking to hitch a ride into town, he was dressed in rags and looked poor and he picked him up and dropped him off, he told the story to the kids cause he thought he was an angel and trying to tell the kids that you never know when your in the presence of power. My dad didnt have the heart to tell him that it was just bad genetics.
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CherokeeIrishman
And you know this video is really helping the family! If you know they want to be left alone. then.
LEAVE THEM ALONE!
Im from Appalachia and all we want is to live a normal quiet life. We are labeled as inbred, racist, xenophobic, civil war supporters, & hate mongers and thats so far from the truth. I suggest you try to talk to us and see who we are before you judge
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And you know this video is really helping the family! If you know they want to be left alone. then.
LEAVE THEM ALONE!
Im from Appalachia and all we want is to live a normal quiet life. We are labeled as inbred, racist, xenophobic, civil war supporters, & hate mongers and thats so far from the truth. I suggest you try to talk to us and see who we are before you judge
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Dana
Had a friend in high school who was always yellow from jaundice like bright yellow. She was also battling EDs it was crazy though. She was real sweet and no one ever commented on her eyes skin nails etc being yellow. Thankfully she got help but for the full 4 years she was yellow
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Had a friend in high school who was always yellow from jaundice like bright yellow. She was also battling EDs it was crazy though. She was real sweet and no one ever commented on her eyes skin nails etc being yellow. Thankfully she got help but for the full 4 years she was yellow
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Susan
I was surprised that no one mentioned Colloidal SilverId been told by the owner of our Appalachian health food store that folks who overtook an older version of this remedy would develop blue tinged skin, and that some have even silvered their way blue intentionally.
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I was surprised that no one mentioned Colloidal SilverId been told by the owner of our Appalachian health food store that folks who overtook an older version of this remedy would develop blue tinged skin, and that some have even silvered their way blue intentionally.
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Sophie
My cat had this, it was a serious but brief (unknown cause) it stops the blood from carrying oxygen so I cant imagine now these people lived life in that state with out any effect on their health, even carrying children would have taken a huge toll on the body
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My cat had this, it was a serious but brief (unknown cause) it stops the blood from carrying oxygen so I cant imagine now these people lived life in that state with out any effect on their health, even carrying children would have taken a huge toll on the body
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education
There is a Mayan brown skin family in Guatemala that had 4 Albino children and they have lack of vitamins they so pale and their hair is white and so they have vision problems because they cant see in the daylight because of the sun.
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There is a Mayan brown skin family in Guatemala that had 4 Albino children and they have lack of vitamins they so pale and their hair is white and so they have vision problems because they cant see in the daylight because of the sun.
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Madeline
I thought this was going to be about people who ingested colloidal silver. Silver can actually be very beneficial to your health, which is why some people ingest it, but colloidal silver can also make your skin blue.
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I thought this was going to be about people who ingested colloidal silver. Silver can actually be very beneficial to your health, which is why some people ingest it, but colloidal silver can also make your skin blue.
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Boston
you missed the most likely way of obtaining blue skin: silver exposure. silver absorbed into the body via intravenously or ingestion causes blue skin and happens more frequently than the other ways
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you missed the most likely way of obtaining blue skin: silver exposure. silver absorbed into the body via intravenously or ingestion causes blue skin and happens more frequently than the other ways
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The
I do cardiothoracic surgery, and we operated on a patient with the same condition. It looked like he had blue marker smeared all over him, and when we opened his chest, his tissues were blue.
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I do cardiothoracic surgery, and we operated on a patient with the same condition. It looked like he had blue marker smeared all over him, and when we opened his chest, his tissues were blue.
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Julietta
Now we suspect there may be a portion of the audience who thinks it would be pretty sweet to have blue skin HAHAHAHA I'm one of them and was thinking just that as the narrator said it.
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Now we suspect there may be a portion of the audience who thinks it would be pretty sweet to have blue skin HAHAHAHA I'm one of them and was thinking just that as the narrator said it.
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markw999
I've seen blue people. A couple in a Wal Mart. It will stop you in your tracks, I guarantee it. I'm guessing it was from colloidal silver. The wife was almost purple.
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I've seen blue people. A couple in a Wal Mart. It will stop you in your tracks, I guarantee it. I'm guessing it was from colloidal silver. The wife was almost purple.
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Dustin
We have a blue family here in Oregon, but it's colloidal(sp) Silver, they take for percieved health benefits, there's also a guy that calls himself Papa Smurf.
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We have a blue family here in Oregon, but it's colloidal(sp) Silver, they take for percieved health benefits, there's also a guy that calls himself Papa Smurf.
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Rhonda
I have acquired Met hemoglobin enima. From to much lidocaine and Tylenol. I get an enfusion of methylene blue once a week. This is my 16th year of treatment.
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I have acquired Met hemoglobin enima. From to much lidocaine and Tylenol. I get an enfusion of methylene blue once a week. This is my 16th year of treatment.
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KrysB
Most rapes are from family members. To bad brainless people got rid of Roe V Wade. Now, we'll see an increase in inbreeds and blue people all over again.
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Most rapes are from family members. To bad brainless people got rid of Roe V Wade. Now, we'll see an increase in inbreeds and blue people all over again.
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Miss
Do they know why methyl blue faded the blue colouring from their skin? That would be the most fascinating bit - what caused the blue and what reversed it
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Do they know why methyl blue faded the blue colouring from their skin? That would be the most fascinating bit - what caused the blue and what reversed it
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Centrist
9: 47 'County Tyrin'? it is County TYRONE - the emphasis on the o
And Lurgan is in Northern Ireland
otherwise, good, interesting video
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9: 47 'County Tyrin'? it is County TYRONE - the emphasis on the o
And Lurgan is in Northern Ireland
otherwise, good, interesting video
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