America's Most Isolated Family: The Whittakers

30 Morbid Minutes

Society & Culture, True Crime, History

4.8 • 731 Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Who are the Whittakers, and why has the world become so fascinated with them and their isolated West Virginia way of life? We take a look at their insular family tree, and the genetic fallout that can occur with inbreeding. Leave us a review -- it helps the show! :) Follow Us ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠30MorbidMinutes⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Elyse Willems⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Jessica Vasami⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Music by Casey Edwards Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This podcast covers mature, intense, morbid, and sometimes just scary stuff.
0:04.2	Listener discretion is advised.
0:06.2	They've been called America's most inbred family.
0:09.2	But who are the Whitakers really?
0:11.1	And why has the world become so fascinated with them?
0:14.3	Find out on 30 Morbid Minutes. This is the podcast where we cover topics, people, places, history, events, and more of a morbid macabre, dark, and downright
0:39.5	grizzly nature.
0:40.6	I'm Elise Willems.
0:41.7	And I'm Jessica Vasami.
0:43.1	There's a little town in Raleigh County, West Virginia, called Odd.
0:47.2	And yes, that is actually the name, Odd.
0:49.6	Population, it's a few hundred tops.
0:52.2	Picture winding roads, dense forests, leftover coal country, deep in the Appalachian Mountains.
0:58.3	I know we just talked about this.
0:59.7	I didn't, it's funny how there's a lot of, you know, Appalachian, Appalachia, Appalachian Mountains.
1:10.1	Take me home.
1:11.2	Country Road.
1:11.7	Yes, yes.
1:12.7	And it's one of those places where everybody knows everybody and privacy is usually
1:16.7	pretty sacred.
1:17.8	Yeah, we talked a little bit about those mountains and how kind of spooky they are.
1:23.2	Everyone knows everyone, except not one family.
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