Finding the Blue Fugate family of Troublesome Creek, Kentucky
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- čas přidán 29. 04. 2024
- In this episode we visit the graves of some of the Fugates, commonly known as the "Blue Fugates" or the "Blue People of Kentucky", are a family living in the hills of Kentucky starting in the 19th century, where they are known for having a genetic trait that led to the blood disorder methemoglobinemia, causing the skin to appear blue.
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I have heard of the Fugate family before, very unfortunate about how other people treated them, but it has been said, people sometimes fear what they do not understand. Thank you very much Leo and Heather, for a very educational video. Take care. 😊
Leo, that’s not the only way to get to be blue! The doctor put me on warfin for very bad blood clots in the lungs. His starting dose was to high so I drove home getting out of the hospital and by the time I was half way home I stopped by the A AND W Root Beer place at the window to pick up my order I seen the employee looking at me with the darndest stare? When I got home and stopped at the bathroom I knew why he was staring at me so !!! I looked like a SMURF laughing at myself 😊 to get sore at my sides😊 called the doctor the next day and he cut my dose from 8 pills to one a day!
This is the best information I've heard about them. And I had not heard of the blue Cherokee. It's simple and to the point. Thanks😊
I read about the, (Blue Fugates of Kentucky) several years ago. Thanks Leo and Heather for the research and explanation of how they came to have various shads of blue.skin. I would never reject them nor be afraid of them. I would love to know them! Fascinating!
Wow, as a kid my mom would tell me the story about this family. 💙 It fascinated me since I was 5. She always said we’re no better than anyone else and people feared what they didn’t understand.
I've never heard of this family until last year when Heather and Leo asked if we had ever heard of "the blue people" I've been waiting for this story so I could learn more about this
Lol 😆 as a 5yr old you probably thought they were related to the cartoon Smerf's 💙 😆 🤣 😂 💙
Your mom sounds like an amazing woman. ❤
Her mom does sound like a very kind and caring woman ❤
Loved this one.
I've never heard of this condition. I'm a little smarter having watched this! Lol. Thanks guys. This is the Bible verse from that head stone.
Matthew 5:8-
Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
Congratulations Leo and Heather 4 time's a charm. I remember hearing about them in school in Chicago. Glad you did this video. Beautiful part of KY.
Thanks you, we get it life happens the challenge you two have traveling and climbing just to get these videos out to us we greatly appreciate it 🙏 Thank you so much and as always be safe out there 😊
Thanks Leo and Heather for the interesting story. I appreciate all you do to bring these stories to us.
These wonderful people are part of my family line. Also, the Landrum person @15:00, is my relative on Grandma's side.
Thanks guys for another great story!!
I loved the book! My co-workers and I read it together and researched the blue people.
That is somewhat of a sad story, but those folks for the most part rose above the issues and went on with life as best they could!
Almost all those States back there are beautiful my husband lived in Kentucky he lived in mccreary county Kentucky down there in strunk Kentucky that is so beautiful so peaceful thank you for sharing your both
I used to live in McCreary County as well. Moved down to Oneida shortly after. Beautiful country down there!
@@Micky1958 my late husband lived in Strunk in Lee Holler
I was in Whitley City. And Earls Market in Pine Knott was the best old store ever.
I read a story a few yrs back of these folks. The name of the book is titled "the book woman of troublesome creek". The main character was one of the Fugate family and she was also one of the women involved in the packhorse library. The mobile librarians would travel all across Appalachia distributing reading materials to the residents. This "pack horse library" was part of FDR' s New Deal and it was organized by Mrs Roosevelt. It's a rather fascinating story.
Thanks for showing my family.
I live in Hazard and my mother in law was a Fugate and she had a brother named Martin!
Thank you for clearing up the myths with facts. Beautiful cemetery.
Very interesting. I stumbled on a cool one today . Rideau lakes wood mausoleum and cemetery in smiths falls ontario. The vault is built into a hill. Very unique .
Yes! I've been hoping for this story!
I’m glad ya’ll was finally able to share the story been anticipating it.
Thank You for another interesting story. Beautiful country side, great place ti be laid to rest.
Great story thanks
Always love what yall bring to light and back from the past ...
My 3rd great grandma was one of the blue people none of us have it thankfully
How wonderful of you. This was so interesting to me medically. Bless you both. Prayers for the dogs🙏❤️🥰
I had heard of this story and about their treatment. So wonderful they found a treatment. I’m from Ky and had heard of this story. Ty for your story of them. God bless you and your family.
Enjoyed this very much, thanks..
GO BIG BLUE!
Very interesting I hope you come back
Thank you for a great start to a happy wonderful evening at home #Hillbilly files. Have a great day to everyone.
You guys are in my relatives part of the country.
My uncle was married to a Fugate...she was normal as far as I know I never met her.
Glad to see ya'll doing a story from Bloody Breathitt !!!
That was another good one different but good I remember hearing that years ago thanks
Wow ! Pretty impressive documentary ! Thanks ❤
I have heard of this family and their bloodline; great explanation for what it’s all about!
Wonderful story!
Great episode guy❤I didn't want it to end 😢😘🥰
Interesting story Thank you Leo and Heather!
Correction. Landrum grave is at 16;25
Great story ! Thanks Leo and Heather !
Hello Leo & Heather ..Looks like a Beautiful day ..As always we enjoy your videos...D & C
This was a very interesting story
Awesome video guys👍
Cool🥶story 🇺🇸
My Ancestors are from Martin Fugate. My Combs line, who were from Hazard. I honestly think this is were my Chronic Anemia and Thalassemia comes from.
Another very interesting story! How sad that they were shunned. You guys do such an awesome job. Thank you!
Thank you so much!
Thanks!
Thank you for the support.
Would be neat if you could find some old pics from the Fugate fun center was operating.
Omgosh I haven't watched this yet but from the title I hope this is what I've been waiting for!!😮
wow, those tombstones are unique! ,
Once again y’all have out done y’all’s self. I don’t remember ever hearing about this. Thank y’all for bringing us all this information. Stay safe. 🤩
Heather and Leo , a very interesting story and I learn something i had know idea could happen to someone . Love yalls dedication to history, the South ,and Speaking the Names of Regular People....Best Regards.
Oddly I'm related to this family via my Napier line. It's a very interesting story.
I heard of this family quite a few years ago. Interesting story for sure. Good job and thanks for doing this
I just bought two books on the fugates.
I;ve seen the blue lady, so they still are here. Haven't been in a while to the place but a year ago when we went a lot she was their.
Yes I'm from Eastern ky iv heard story's never knew it was true thanks
This is my Great Grandmothers side ❤❤❤
My brother was born July 13, and died July 29. It was a bit startling to see those dates on a gravestone.
Mother's somewhat of a geneology buff, or she used to be and her maiden name is Fugett. according to her fugate,fugett and fuggett are all the same family, therefore making me related to the Blue fugates. I've known about them my entire life.
You guys are awesome!!! ❤❤❤
Fascinating!
I have lived in southern Ohio all my life, but I’d never heard of the “blue people” of Kentucky.🤷♀️
The only blue person I’ve ever heard of was the guy who drank all that colloidal silver and turned blue because of it!
Thanks for another great story!
Blessings 🙏
Thanks to you both for your efforts. ☘️🙏💚
What beautiful scenery. Leo and Heather. I have been ro Breathit County many times. Beautiful mountains and hillsides. Beautiful cemetery. Yes, it is a true story. This story of the Fugate family appeared on "Mystery in the Museum." Very unique and interesting story. Thank you for taking me along Leo and Heather.
Fascinating story. Sad about the twins being massacred in an Indian raid -- I'm glad there's a modern stone to mark their place. The old tombstones are unique -- they look like stone coffins above ground.
I love your videos, I love your stories! And I love how you guys go to actual locations!
Glad you enjoy it!
Thanks so much!
I'd love to get together with you and do a video on Appalachian english, and how even though I only live about 1 hour 45 minutes away from you, and we are still considered Eastern Kentucky how the dialect changes just a little. It amuses me to hear how you pronounce some words and names that we pronounce just a slight bit different. Its actually kind of interesting. Even that the spelling of names changed when people moved to this area from there. You'd have a husband buried here with the last name spelled one way, the wife moved back there and her name on her tombstone is spelled another way. Would make an interesting story for sure. 😊
I saw something on here the other day that was called a tent gravestone. They said that in some instances bodies couldn't be buried 6 feet so in the interest of keeping out animals they placed thicker barriers on top. I wonder if that's why they have ssuch thick markers.
Great job Heather & Leo!
Very beautiful area.
Gotta remember the 'mainstream' was more of a trickle in a lot of places.
This was a very interesting show. Thank y’all
I love Troublesome creek times. I enjoy the channel.
Very interesting ! Glad they found a cure this family! You tell Heather 😂😂
I went to school with some Fugates. They pronounced their last name as “ fu-git “, not Fu - gate. He said inbreeding is why they had the blue color. He had a full man’s beard in the 9th grade. Good half back tho.
What an interesting story! Wasn't there other blue people in Kentucky but the cause was minerals in a mine or in the ground? I could be thinking of something else. Idk lol. I really enjoyed th I s and appreciate the effort y'all put into this.
That is definitely an old cemetery.
I have read a little about the "blue Fugates". Very interesting and very sad.
I remember hearing about the blue people when I was little from my relatives that lived in Kentucky
I've always thought from what I've read, blood is bluish color inside u, till it is exposed to air/oxygen,then it turns red.. great story and very unusual tombstones two of them had but pretty style. They really shaped like a tomb. Thanks for sharin..
Such an interesting bloodline.
I googled the fugate family,interesting story leo and heather
Great Video leo and Heather at frame 14:34 that is waht is called a false crypt the bereal is 6 feet under that it sever as a detroit for grave robber's
What an interesting story thank you for telling it to us
I was wondering if you might be able to tell us the story about the most inbred family
Wow I never knew about a genetic condition like this whereas someone could end up being blue, I remember the non real cartoon, of the Smurfs in the early 1980's.
Hello Leo and Heather
Funny how the surnames change as ppl move. With new dialects in language came new name spellings.. They came to Ohio and became Fugett's. Just like the Lockards moved to Ashland Kentucky and became Lockharts. 😊
Interestingly, I have a cousin who has a Fugate grandmother on her mother's side. (We are paternally related.)
I just went and checked out her DNA test on Ancestry and she's showing 0% as far as any French ancestry. Neither one of her sons are showing any either.
So yep, not French as a grandmother would most likely have left at least a small percentage of French.
The hillbilly files…it’s my family …on my grandmothers side…
I knew a Fugate in Ohio. Very smart kid. He wasn't blue- but he had a cat eye iris where his brother or someone shot him with an arrow when they were young. That was interesting.
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The slabs around a grave was to keep animals from getting the body. Back then a grave didn’t have to be dug as far down as it does today
I don’t know that it’s really a “disorder.” They were healthy, and not medically disordered at all. Their problems were not medical, they were entirely social. It’s a real shame that people are so tribal in nature and suspicious of others who are different in ways like skin color.
"After ruling out heart and lung diseases, the doctor suspected methemoglobinemia, a rare hereditary blood disorder that results from excess levels of methemoglobin in the blood. Methemoglobin which is blue, is a nonfunctional form of the red hemoglobin that carries oxygen."
@@artcflowers I know that, but in order for something to be a medical “disorder,” it has to cause someone problems. Methemoglobinemia does not cause health problems - it just causes people to appear blue. People with methemoglobinemia live perfectly normal lives, as far as their health is concerned. I would call it a “condition” rather than a “disorder.”
No it really was a disorder…it’s my family
If not French, what is the nationality of Fugate? Anyone?
Not only a blood disease but it's also at the beginning of "Rock of Ages" a "Def Leppard song; "Oounta,...GLeebon,...HEMO,.GLOBIN!!😂😅😜"