We’re obsessed. Readers and film goers are, anyway, with the Twilight series, True Blood, and other paranormal books, movies and television shows. But the real question is do vampires, werewolves, and shape shifters really exist?
It’s fairly common knowledge that vampirism exists in the form of what many consider a fetish, however a skeleton found in Venice may be the proof that vampires really do exist. While looking at the graves of plague victims, Matteo Borrini of the University of Florence in Italy found a female skeleton with a brick in her mouth. It was believed at that time if a brick was placed in the mouth, a vampire could not feed. It was also believed that vampires spread the plague by chewing on their shrouds after death, so grave keepers would put bricks in the mouths of suspected vampires to stem the spread of the plague.
But what about werewolves? These photos show what is pruported to show a werewolf captured in a trap, including a footprint that may be evidence of when the beast shifted from human to wolf. However, medical evidence exists that may also support the existence of werewolves. Werewolf-like behaviors have been noted in people who have a condition called hypertrichosis (excessive hair), and a condition called porphyria, which can cause skin lesions, sensitivity to light, and skin discoloration causing the skin to take on a brown pigmentation.
Werewolves, if they exist, a shape shifters who are not necessarily in control of their shifts. But do real shifters exist? In Western Michigan, a prank led to sightings of what may be real shape shifters. Reports of the Michigan Dogman, as well as a black panther-like cat, began pouring in after a joke on a morning radio show, and investigation showed such reports had been made since the 1800s.
So are these things coincidence? Fact? Or are these sightings concocted by people desperate to believe?
Lastly this month, a couple links I found interesting:
Photos of anomalies over Cabo San Lucas in November of 2009
Catherine Wade has been telling stories since she can remember. At age thirteen, she wrote her first novel, locking herself up for hours with her mother’s old manual typewriter. While she kept writing, it wasn’t until after her children were born that she realized this might be a fun way to make a living.
Raised in Wyoming, Catherine currently lives in South Dakota with her husband, three sons, and a menagerie of pets who insist on walking across her much more updated keyboard.
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