For years, people have posted images ... region known as Troublesome Creek, east of Louisville, Kentucky, in the Appalachian Mountains, did have a blue hue to their skin. The story of that family ...

In the hills of eastern Kentucky, near a stream called Troublesome Creek, lived a family whose story captured the attention of doctors, scientists, and curious minds across the country.

The idea of blue-skinned people may seem relegated to Smurf Village ... A family portrait of the Fugate family of Troublesome Creek, Kentucky: “We guess you could call them the blues.” ...

Take a drive down the roads that snake along much of the creek’s bank — KY-550 and 476 ... the creek spelled trouble for residents like Smith. For at least 39 people region-wide, the ...

The mysterious 'blue people of Kentucky ... from France who emigrated to Kentucky in 1820 'to claim a land grand on the wilderness banks of Troublesome Creek,' according to a 1982 article ...

"Blue People of Troublesome Creek," was published in 1982 by the University of Indiana's Cathy Trost. The ancestral line began with a French orphan, Martin Fugate, who settled in Eastern Kentucky.

Many were left to wonder why this creek, of all the Appalachian rivulets, got arguably the worst of the torrent. The trouble with Troublesome Creek: How one KY stream became the center of a flood ...