If you’ve ever come across the wild stories of the Whittaker family from Odd, West Virginia, you know their reputation precedes them.
Famously dubbed America’s most inbred family, the Whittakers have been documented by filmmaker Mark Laita for nearly 20 years — and now he reveal’s the ‘craziest thing’ he ever saw them do.
The Whittakers don’t speak like most of us. Instead, they grunt, bark, and use gestures to communicate — a stark reality that filmmaker Mark Laita first encountered in 2004 when he met family members like Ray, Betty, Kenneth, Timmy, and Lorene.
But getting close to the family wasn’t easy. Laita recalls: