Some people's stories are so amazing that they are not easy to believe. Have you ever seen people with blue skin?
Two centuries ago, Kentucky was home to a family called the "Blue Fugates" by the locals. The nickname comes from the name of the family's father, whose name was Martin. Now modern scientists can explain the reason for the appearance of such a skin tone, but at that time they were looked at in a completely different way. The reason for the blue skin tint is that the Fugats' blood contained the rare Met-H gene.
Due to the presence of this gene in the blood, the amount of methemoglobin significantly exceeded that of normal people, while the amount of hemoglobin, on the contrary, was quite small. The family members could hardly be called healthy people, but Fugata's people lived for about 90 years.
It is worth noting that members of the Fugat family did not all get a blue skin tone and some had a completely fulfilling life, which was no different from ordinary people. The history of people with a blue tint became interested only in the last century, when technology allowed for the necessary research.
The last representative of the Fugates was born in 1975 and as a child his skin was also blue, but then the skin acquired a natural color. In the modern world, there was a similar case with a man who consumed silver and his skin turned blue.