Inside dingy cabin where 'most inbred' family 'who barked at people' lived
dailyrecord.co.ukA filmmaker who was able to document America's most famous inbred family has shared their horrifying secrets. Mark Laita first met the Whittaker family, who are widely recognised as America's most famous inbred family, after being granted access to their peculiar world.The family have little contact with anyone in the outside world and when Laita first attempted to photograph the family, neighbours threatened him.
He revealed that he travelled to the aptly named small village Odd, in West Virginia, where a police officer led him down an isolated lane, The Mirror reports.
His clips have been viewed millions of times and speaking on the Koncrete KLIPS podcast, he recalled his first impressions of both the family and their environment.
He said: “It was like that little scene from Deliverance that everyone knows. "We came around to this road, which turns into a country road, which turns into a dirt road, and we come to this trailer and then a little shack on the other side of the road. "And there’s these people walking around and their eyes are going in different directions and they are barking at us."And then one guy, you would 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, and he would go running off and go and kick a garbage can."And this would happen over and over.
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