Mystery blue-skinned humans.

In some old beliefs and folklore, blue skin usually refers to the figure of the god. For example, the god Krishna in Hindu belief. Alternatively, Egyptian God, Amon was also described blue-skinned.
Somehow, it turned blue-skinned man was real, as the following story.


In 1820, a French orphan named Martin Fugate received land grants in east Kentucky, known as the troublesome Creek.

Martin later married an American woman, Elizabeth Smith, a red-haired and skinned very white, as white as snow. Fugate family has 7 children and 4 of them are blue-skinned.

This family is increasing in number, as fellow family members Fugate married to each other. Marriage between cousins ​​frequently occur, Fugate family also married with families of their neighbors.

These communities live in remote areas that do not have the infrastructure.
Martin children who eventually married a blue-skinned brother from their mother. Zachariah, a blue-skinned children, married siblings of the mother, and the combination of genes produces a 100 years later be the cause of the birth of Benjy Stacy with blue-purple color!

When the family doctor was astonished at the condition of Benjy, they explained the story of Benjy great grandmother, namely Luna Fugate. Family said Luna was a woman who "very blue", "women bluest ever".

Why crusted Blue?
This disorder is called methaemoglobinaemia or in short: met-H, a condition that reduces the ability to carry oxygen in the blood. As a result, the blood becomes darker than normal color.

Cases in Family Fugate possible because married to neighbors and close relatives that cause genetic disorders continues. Soure