The Whittakers are the best known and most popular congenital and ‘incest’ family in the United States. Their fame stems from the fact that a filmmaker managed to record them for a documentary.
Mark Laita is an American producer and photographer who created the documentary that compiles different episodes about the family in question. Although it was not easy to reach them, he managed to capture their reality, the situation they live in, the way they communicate with each other.
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As Laita points out in one of the episodes of the documentary, When he met these people, he felt like he was witnessing a scene from a horror movie as they all rushed to attack him, as he said in ‘The Sun’.
As Laita explains in her documentary, The first time he tried to approach the Whittakers, several members of this family insulted him, tried to attack him. and they wanted to avoid the filmmaker breaking into their home at all costs. This reaction corresponded to the tendency not to accept foreigners.
In fact, the family is endogamous, meaning that their marriages and unions are between individuals descended from a common ancestor. For this reason, they experience incest, live away from civilization, and are afraid to know the outside world.
However, when communicating with these people, disfigurements could be noticed on their faces, they did not speak an intelligible language.but instead they communicated with barks, howls, and shouts.
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Even one of them,[belgesel yapımcısının]he’d look you in the eye or say something and just yell and run and his pants would drop down to his ankles and he’d run and kick a trash can. This happened. It got out of hand, it was the craziest thing I’ve ever seen,” the producer said on his YouTube channel.
After being convinced, family finally let Laita take picturesAccording to ‘The Mirror’ media, for promising them a portrait to be placed in the coffin of someone they love.
After this initial visit, Laita maintained proper communication with the Whittakers, which allowed her to return there in 2020 and record a documentary called “Inbred family – The Whittakers”, which she released on her YouTube channel “Soft White Underbelly”.
On this tape, it was possible to meet four members of the Whittakers: Apart from Betty, Betty, Lorraine, Ray and their cousin Timmy, who have various physical and mental abnormalities.
According to The Sun, although Laita tried to discover why this family suffered from malformations and mental problems, finding the answer was difficult for her.
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One year later, in 2021, Betty told the filmmaker that her parents were actually related, meaning they were double first cousins.. “Inbreeding was at least partially responsible for the mental and physical abnormalities observed in Lorraine, Freddie, Ray, and Timmy,” Laita said.
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