Inbred Family-The Whitakers

[Music] what are your names I'm sorry he's named right ray I remember ray I photographed you right do you remember years ago and your name is Lorraine Lorraine and Timmy know you guys grew up here in an odd West Virginia how many years have you lived here oh you're uh you guys have been did you go to school you did some of your brother some of your brothers and sisters probably didn't go to school or how much schooling did they get you graduated from what you went to high school Timmy and how about you Lorraine she didn't and come on out can you guys great so tell me about your family now I believe things that we can do to speed up this manifestation sorry what tell me but were you how old are you how old are you eating tonight for dinner sandwich so you you grew up here in odd West Virginia your whole life and your family you lost your brother since I was here last tell me tell you about your brother what was your favorite memory ray do you remember anything about your life and you lost your other brother so you lost your brother Ray's brother Ray and Tim's brother Tim is a nephew but there's one of the brothers that's missing now that's I'm saying who is that Freddie that's right Freddy's gone how long did he die four years how did he die how did he die so tell me about your family your parents tell me about your parents of course yeah they're older now they'd be very old what what can you tell me about your family know you love your parents good family Timmy you hiding so you hear stories about your family that your parents were brothers sisters or cousins or something like that nothing like that but the mental disorder that that Ray has what is that from but he's a bit Freddie and Ray and Timmy you're both kind of have that same and Lorraine too has the same thing what do you suppose that the cause of that might have been Timmy you into high school right yeah Timmy tell me but tell me but but you remember of your of your of your parents can you tell me anything Lorraine what can you remember of your family right do you remember your brother Freddie Freddie your brother right your brother Freddie can you do you remember Hey do you miss him do you miss your brother yeah what's over there Oh Freddie's grave is that Freddie's grave all right well there's interesting seeing you guys again thank you for letting me come by you remember me from about ten years ago yeah I'm sorry about your brother I'm sorry about Freddie Lorraine Timmy thank you for letting me come by ray I'm gonna take off thank you for letting me come by again nice seeing you again you you

Channel: Soft White Underbelly

Views: 11,929,905

Rating: 4.7951236 out of 5

Keywords: soft white underbelly, the whitakers of odd, inbred family, inbreds, whitakers of west virginia

Id: nkGiFpJC9LM

Length: 12min 31sec (751 seconds)

Published: Sat Jul 04 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/your-boy-rozzy]

The guy asking the questions is no Louis Theroux.

[u/Sbudno]

I am at a loss for words. I’m intrigued and taken aback at the same time, I want to watch more, but I also don’t. This made me uncomfortable, more so than most things I’ve seen on reddit but I can’t put my finger on why.

Truly, truly interesting. Thanks for posting.

[u/_intrepid_]

I grew up about 30 minutes from Odd. I lived in the next county over. I also worked at a ski resort really close to Odd. There's not much to do in that country when you're a teen, so we often drove through the hollers in Odd looking for the Whitakers. Sadly, there are a lot of situations like this up there. It's really not that uncommon if you drive far enough away from the highway. The Whitakers were kind of mythological, though. They were said to have split noses and be really physically impressive, as in very large and strong. We found their trailer once and were just saddened by the situation. We gave them a bunch of candy and they let us just kind of sit there for a while. The only remarkable physical thing I can remember is that one of the men was urinating in a ditch right beside of us and had a HUGE penis. Otherwise, it's clear they suffer from significant physical and mental issues. It was night time, so we didn't get much interaction and eventually just felt bad about the whole thing and left. They were nice. They smiled a lot, but didn't speak much. One other time, some friends and I drove down there and left some leftover food from a big work party, but we didn't see anyone home. We just left it on the porch of their trailer. Apparently, the State/County helps them quite a bit and the neighbors try to protect them from being exploited.

[u/haytrublu]

This feels like it was filmed and released for modern day "freak show" purposes.

[u/Souse-in-the-city]

This is exploitative, i understand why the neighbours got involved last time.

[u/vonyron2k]

In high school I saw a documentary about a photographer who took photos of a family in Appalachia as well. His photos seemed exploitative (and arguably so), making the family look like villains. The documentary went on to show what the family thought the photos were - ex. the ‘creepy’ brother holding a knife was just super proud of his knife and wanted to show it off because he used it all the time. It was very interesting. Can’t remember the name though. It always stuck with me how easily images can mean different things depending on who’s looking and why.

[u/dark_star88]

West Virginia really is the state time forgot. Driving through some of the more rural places it’s just a bunch of unincorporated tiny mountain towns that look straight out of the 1950s. I think it makes people uncomfortable because people either forget or don’t realize that there’s people who still live like this in the 21st century.

[u/hopefullynotapanda]

I want to know more about the guy on the right reading the paper!

[u/hagbarddiscordia]

Why does the interviewer keep asking the people who obviously can’t answer him the same questions over and over. Maddening. Who’s the inbred one again?