68 years ago, twin brothers decided to marry their children to each other, and these children gave birth to more than 20 grandchildren.
As the years passed, the grandchildren also began marrying among themselves, establishing a family isolated from the world and becoming one of the most genetically interconnected families in America.
According to accounts about the family, some of its members avoided strangers intensely, to the point that they would flee and bark when one approached, and many of them suffered from hereditary diseases and problems.
This is a rare snapshot of one of the first generation members of the family.
Community note
Whittaker family inbreeding started with identical twins in the 1880s, not 68 years ago. Their children married in 1935, had 15 kids. Some members bark, grunt and run from strangers due to genetic issues from inbreeding.
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