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Feb 23, 2012 · It wasn’t just Ben Stacy’s astonishing arrival in 1975 as a baby with blue skin that shocked doctors. The 37-year-old descended from an extraordinary family in Kentucky - and although the...
Benjamin Stacy, born in 1975, was the last known descendant of the Fugates to have been born exhibiting the characteristic blue color of the disorder, though he quickly lost his blue skin tone, exhibiting only blue tinges on his lips and fingertips when he became cold or agitated.
- United States of America
- 1820
- Kentucky
- Martin Fugate, Elizabeth Smith
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- The Origins of The Blue People of Kentucky
- Why The Blue Fugates Stayed Blue For Decades on End
- Why The Fugate Family Are No Longer The Blue People of Kentucky
The first Fugate in the United States was a French orphan named Martin Fugate, who settled in Troublesome Creek in the hills of eastern Kentucky in 1820. He married a woman named Elizabeth Smith, who was said to be as pale and white as the mountain laurel that blooms every spring around the creek hollows. Unbeknownst to either of them, by some inca...
Over the next hundred or so years, the Fugates continued to live in relative isolation and were accepted by the people of Troublesome Creek. “They looked like anybody else, ‘cept they had the blue color,” said one resident. However, by the early 1960s, some members of the blue Fugateshad begun to resent their cobalt-tinted skin. Not only did their ...
Cawein devised a cure for this disorder: more blue. Counterintuitively, the best chemical for activating the body’s process of turning methemoglobin to hemoglobin is methylene blue dye. The Fugates he treated ingested this dye and within a few minutes, the blue coloration of their skin disappeared, and their skin turned pink. As long as they kept i...
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Aug 5, 2023 · Thus, the descendants of the original Fugate clan began losing their blue color until Benjamin Stacy was born in 1975 at the University of Kentucky Medical Center. Benjamin, or “Benjy,” was born purple.
When little Benjamin "Benjy" Stacy was born in a small hospital near Hazard, Kentucky, he was the picture of health. He was also very, very blue. So blue, in fact, that his skin was the deep purple color of a plum. His doctors were alarmed by the sight and immediately sent him by ambulance to a hospital in Lexington, Kentucky.
Feb 21, 2012 · By ABC News. February 21, 2012, 12:02 PM. Feb. 22, 2012 -- Benjamin "Benjy" Stacy so frightened maternity doctors with the color of his skin -- "as Blue as Lake Louise" -- that he was rushed just hours after his birth in 1975 to University of Kentucky Medical Center.
Jan 28, 2022 · Based on our research, we rate FALSE the claim that an image shows Benjy Stacy from the Fugate family. The image shows Paul Karason, whose skin turned blue after ingesting self-prepared...
