Webthe whittakers, dubbed america's most inbred family , live unusual lives residing in the town of odd, west virginia. But the family's unconventional and remote lifestyle was. Webapr 3, 2023 · photographer mark laita has gone viral after documenting the lives of the whittakers, a heavily inbred west virginia family that only communicates in grunts and barks at passersby. Webjun 3, 2008 · how’d west virginia get a reputation for inbreeding? In the 1880s and 1890s, writers such as mary noailles murfree and john fox. Webjul 13, 2023 · a documentary filmmaker has said that america's most inbred family called the whittakers, who have no education and live in squalor in west virginia, were 'like a. Webthe family's inbreeding saga began with identical twin brothers, henry and john whittaker, whose descendants married each other. Henry and john’s children, including harry and.