The beautiful and bountiful hues that decorate the human body range widely. Blue-colored skin is not relegated to the realm of fantasy, as illustrated by the peculiar case of the Fugate family of Eastern Kentucky.
Around 1820, a French orphan named Martin Fugate immigrated to Kentucky to claim a land grant on the banks of Troublesome Creek. According to lore he bore a blue-tinted complexion, and, after marrying a fair-skinned woman, 4 of their 7 children had remarkable blue skin.