Squealing 'inbred' family whose eyes point in different directions 'like in Deliverance'

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family. "It was like that scene from Deliverance," he said. He was referring to the 1972 survival horror movie about four city-dwelling men who canoe into a remote part of Georgia, where they endure harrowing encounters with some toothless, redneck hillbillies.His comparison, though, is perhaps a tad unfair.Like the simple mountain folk depicted in the film, the Whittakers are thought to be inbred.

They too are uneducated and live in squalor, cut off from civilisation in their backcountry shack. But there is no evidence to suggest they possess the same violent, sadistic tendencies.The Whittakers' story came to light after Laita was granted access to their weird world.

He travelled to the aptly named Odd, a rural hamlet in West Virginia, where a police officer led him down an isolated lane. Speaking on the Koncrete KLIPS podcast, he recalled his first impressions of the family and their environment.“It was like that little scene from Deliverance that everyone knows," he said."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.

It was out of control - the craziest thing I have ever seen."He found three siblings and a cousin living together in a filthy, squalid home with several dogs.