Inside 'America's most inbred family': a photographer has captured the poignant home life of the Whittaker siblings, who live in squalor in rural West Virginia and 'communicate in grunts'
Mark Laita, who runs the Soft White Underbelly YouTube account, said the Whittaker family would bark at visitors, make animal noises at each other in lieu of conversation, and would often flee from people who came to see them.film themThe family is made up of three siblings called Lorraine, Timmy and Ray, whose parents were first cousins.The Laita siblings live in rural West Virginia.He said on the Konkrete podcast: "It was out of control.
"And [this] one guy, you'd look at him in the eye or say anything and he would just scream and go running away and his pants would fall around his ankles."But the local people are very protective of the Whittakers, he warned - a challenge he had to overcome himself when he came to film them.The first time he approached them in 2004, he was met by "protective" neighbours wielding a shotgun.
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