Fugate family: "Aliens" with blue skin isolated from the world for hundreds of years

Blue people, seemingly only in fiction movies, but those people are completely real, there are very few numbers.  And so far, science has only recorded a mysterious phenomenon in a family in America.

The Fugate family's story began in 1975 when a child named Benjamin Stacy (Benjy) was born, and nurses and doctors were shocked and confused. Benjy does not have the dark red color of most other infants, but instead has a dark blue skin. Initially, the doctors were very concerned about the unusual skin color, so they called an ambulance to take Benjy from the local hospital to the University of Kentucky Medical Center, 187 km away.

After two days of examination, doctors were unable to explain why Benjy's skin was blue. Thereafter, Benjy's grandmother spoke up and was troubled by telling everyone the story of the Fugate family in Troublesome Creek, Kentucky. At this time, Benjy's father Alva Stacy also told the doctors: "My father's grandmother, Luna, is a child of the Fugate family with blue skin, and we are the sixth generation". It can be said that Benjy is the newest child of the Fugate family - a blue-skinned family from Kentucky, USA, they have lived in the Appalachian Mountains of Kentucky for the past 200 years.

In 1820 in the state of Kentucky, public opinion tumbled about an unprecedented phenomenon: A family with blue people. Mr. Martin Fugate, a French immigrant came to settle in Troublesome Creek hill and married Mrs. Elizabet Smith. They have 7 children, of which 4 have the skin of the sky. The Fugate children all developed completely normal intellect and health, with almost no illnesses. Later they also got married, gave birth to children and lived quite a long life (80-90 years old). Researchers at the time predicted that the green people phenomenon could be related to cardiovascular disease or blood disorders, but no one could specify.

Go find answers about people with blue skin

In the 1960s, Madison Cawein, a young hematologist at the Ketucky Academy decided to find a solution to this rare phenomenon. He went to Troublesome Creek area to turn over the file and match the stories of the green family.

Cawein had received the great help of a nurse named Ruth Pendergrass, who for many years directly watched the man. She accidentally discovered a green woman living in the area and persuaded her to come to a medical facility to do tests for research.

Cawein met the woman - a member of the Fugate family. He discovered an interesting thing, she did not suffer from cardiovascular disease and lung disorder as many people have expected.

After eliminating the association between cardiovascular disease, lung disease ... for the skin color of this person, Cawein decided to focus on the genetic disorder of blood. He began his search by rebuilding the Fugate family tree and discovered that the 6th generation of the Fugate family contained 13 blue people.

A blood test shows that a high amount of methemoglobin (MetHb) is the cause of the skin's blue color (because methemoglobin is blue). Red blood cells are cells that contain a lot of oxygen, so its structure is frequently at risk of oxidation and is very sensitive to oxidation processes.Therefore, red blood cells are very susceptible to destruction. To avoid this phenomenon, red blood cells frequently form MetHb, and also regularly reduce MetHb to Hb. This ensures that the peripheral blood methb level is always low. A day, usually about 3% of the hemoglobin oxidizes itself to methb. But the concentration of methb in the blood is just below 1%.

Cawein suggested that in green people, this metabolic disorder produces an abnormal MetHb ratio. Cawein used another method to correct MetHb metabolism. He injected methylene into the vein of a green man named Patrick. The strange thing happened, after just a few minutes, Patrick's blue complexion had turned pink as usual. Thirteen similar people of the Fugate family were given methylene capsules and after a while their skin discolored.

The mystery of the blue person was discovered by the hematologist Cawein due to metabolic disorders of MetHb and Hb in the blood. This is a genetic disorder, and people with it are completely normal.

Luna Pacy, the mother of the boy Benjy mentioned above, belongs to the 5th generation of the Fugate family. She lived until the age of 84 and gave birth to 13 children with blue skin, the last of which was a boy Benjy. The story of the blue people has been featured on the popular TV show about human strange things. The mystery of the Fugate family with blue skin has closed after more than a century of existence.

Blue people no longer appear in the past, which does not mean that the genes causing blue skin have disappeared completely, maybe these recessive genes are still hiding in some people and "stalking. Arab "opportunity to return.

What happened to Benjy?

Within a few months after Benjy was born, the boy's skin color began to return to its normal color. By the time he was 7 years old, he had basically lost all of his blue color, which suggests that he could only have received one copy of the gene from his parents. Benjy's blue color is probably inherited from his father's grandmother Luna. Although Benjy and most of the descendants of the Fugate family have lost their present-day green, when they feel cold or angry, hidden complexions still emerge.