Real
Vampires Amongst Us
A
convicted hotel bomber from California
who modeled himself on a fictional
vampire the highgate vampire, notable
cases of vampire entities in the
modern age, the chupacabra ("goat-sucker")
of Puerto Rico and Mexico is said
to be a creature that feeds upon
the flesh or drinks the blood of
domesticated animals, leading some
to consider it a kind of vampire.
The "chupacabra hysteria"
was frequently associated with deep
economic and political crises, particularly
during the mid-1990s.
In
Europe, where much of the vampire
folklore originates, the vampire
is considered a fictitious being,
although many communities still
believe the undead walk the earth...
In some cases, especially in small
localities, vampire superstition
is still rampant and sightings or
claims of vampire attacks occur
frequently. In Romania during February
2004, several relatives of Toma
Petre feared that he had become
a vampire. They dug up his corpse,
tore out his heart, burned it, and
mixed the ashes with water in order
to drink it.
So
you must ask. Does the real Vampire
exist today in the form of what
old legends tell? Cities in america
like New Orleans host many Vampire
cults and also host a few vampire
tours. Since hurricane Katrina on
August 20, 2005 the actual cult
has supposedly dwindled to a handful
of die hard undead's.
Vampire
communities and many practiced Vampyre
life stylers exist today in many
states and cities and sites about
it are frequented on the internet.
Also you can find out where to buy
your fangs, coffins and get your
Blood fix. Any search online can
pull up a Vampire Directory, and
find many real Vampire Support groups.
Their are even sites that will tell
you how to perform Safe Bloodletting
& Feeding, Tips on dealing with
the hunger and cravings, blood substitutes.
Cooking with Blood, Various methods
of avoiding discomfort from the
sun & bright lights. Even how
to come out of the casket in the
sense of letting friends and family
know your a blood sucker. For a
thorough examination of traditional
vampire folklore, see the works
of Montague Summers and Anthony
Masters.
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-- Established Spring, 1997.
This site, excluding the Teen Vampires
section, is intended for mature
viewers 17 or older. This web
site is dispelling many of the the
myths about vampires and other real
vampire topics.
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Also:
Vampires
Vampirism
is the practice of drinking blood
from a person or animal. In folklore
and popular culture, the term refers
to a belief that one can gain supernatural
powers by drinking human blood.
The historical practice of vampirism
can generally be considered a more
specific and less commonly occurring
form of cannibalism. The consumption
of another's blood (or flesh) has
been used as a tactic of psychological
warfare intended to terrorize the
enemy, and can be used to reflect
various spiritual beliefs.
In
zoology and botany, the term vampirism
is used in reference to leeches,
mosquito's, mistletoe, vampire bats,
and other organisms that subsist
on the bodily fluids of other hosts.
Tales of the dead craving blood
are found in nearly every culture
around the world, including some
of the most ancient ones. Vampire-like
spirits called the Lilu are mentioned
in early Babylonian demonology,
and the even more ancient bloodsucking
Akhkharu in Sumerian mythology.
These female demons were said to
roam during the hours of darkness,
hunting and killing newborn babies
and pregnant women. One of the demons,
named Lilitu, was later adapted
to Jewish demonology as Lilith.
Highgate
Vampire
Many
popular books on ghosts mention
a vampire which purportedly haunted
Highgate Cemetery in the early 1970s.
The growth of its reputation is
a fascinating example of modern
legend-building, which can be traced
through contemporary media reports
and subsequent books by two participants,
Seán Manchester and David
Farrant. The most academic account
is given by a folklore scholar,
Professor Bill Ellis, in the journal
Folklore [1]. He writes from the
viewpoint of sociological legend
study; this concerns public perceptions
of a real or purported event, and
how these are shaped into a narrative
by processes of rumor, selection,
exaggeration, stereotyping etc.
Other
narratives which treat these purported
happenings as fact are available
in the books and web sites of Seán
Manchester and David Farrant.
The
publicity was initiated by a group
of young people interested in the
occult who began roaming the overgrown
and dilapidated cemetery in the
late 1960s, a time when it was being
much vandalized by intruders . On
21 December 1969 one of their members,
David Farrant, spent the night there,
according to his account written
in 1991. In a letter to the Hampstead
and Highgate Express on 6 February
1970, he wrote that when passing
the cemetery on 24 December 1969
he had glimpsed "a grey figure",
which he considered to be supernatural,
and asked if others had seen anything
similar. On the 13th, several people
replied, describing a variety of
ghosts said to haunt the cemetery
or the adjoining Swains Lane. These
ghosts were described as a tall
man in a hat, a spectral cyclist,
a woman in white, a face glaring
through the bars of a gate, a figure
wading into a pond, a pale gliding
form, bells ringing, and voices
calling . Hardly two correspondents
gave the same story (a common feature
in genuine folk traditions about
eerie places).
A second local man, Seán
Manchester, was just as keen as
Farrant to identify and eliminate
what he and Farrant believed was
a supernatural entity in the cemetery.
The Hampstead and Highgate Express
reported him on 27 February 1970
as saying that he believed that
'a King Vampire of the Undead',
a medieval nobleman who had practiced
black magic in medieval Wallachia,
had been brought to England in a
coffin in the early eighteenth century,
by followers who bought a house
for him in the West End. He was
buried on the site that later became
Highgate Cemetery, and Manchester
claimed that modern Satanists had
roused him. He said the right thing
to do would be to stake the vampire's
body, and then behead and burn it,
but regrettably this would nowadays
be illegal. The paper headlined
this: 'Does a Wampyr walk in Highgate?'
(Manchester
has claimed, however , that the
reference to 'a King Vampire from
Wallachia' was a journalistic embellishment.
Nevertheless, the 1985 edition of
his book also speaks of an unnamed
nobleman's body brought to Highgate
in a coffin from somewhere in Europe.)
In
his interview of 27 February, Manchester
offered no evidence in support of
his theory. The following week,
on 6 March, the same paper reported
David Farrant as saying he had seen
dead foxes in the cemetery, 'and
the odd thing was there was no outward
sign of how they died.' When told
of this, Manchester said it seemed
to complement his theory In later
writings, both men reported seeing
other dead foxes with throat wounds
and drained of blood.
Farrant
was more hesitant in identifying
the phenomenon he had seen. In some
interviews he called it simply a
ghost or specter, sometimes he agreed
that it might be vampirism. It is
the 'vampire' label which has stuck.
The Mass Vampire
Hunt of March 1970
The ensuing publicity was enhanced
by a growing rivalry between Farrant
and Manchester, each claiming that
he could and would expel or destroy
the specter. Manchester declared
to his associates that he would
hold an 'official' vampire hunt
on Friday 13 March -- such Fridays
are always ominous dates in British
and American superstition (Friday
the Thirteenth), and are frequently
chosen for items on occult matters
in the media. ITV then set up interviews
with both Manchester and Farrant,
and with others who claimed to have
seen supernatural figures in the
cemetery. These were broadcast on
ITV early on the evening of the
13th; within two hours a mob of
'hunters' from all over London and
beyond swarmed over gates and walls
into the locked cemetery, despite
police efforts to control them.
Manchester's exorcism claims
In later years, Manchester wrote
his own account of his doings that
night (The Highgate Vampire 1985;
2nd rev. ed. 1991). According to
his narrative, he and some companions
entered the cemetery, unobserved
by the police, via the damaged railings
of an adjoining churchyard, and
tried to open the door of one particular
catacomb to which a psychic sleepwalking
girl had previously led him; but
try as they might, it would not
budge an inch. Failing in this,
they climbed down on a rope through
an existing hole in its roof, finding
empty coffins into which they put
garlic, and sprinkling holy water
around. .
Some
months later, on 1 August 1970 (Lammas
Day), the charred and headless remains
of a woman's body were found not
far from the catacomb. The police
suspected that it had been used
in black magic. Soon after this
incident, there was a noticeable
surge in both Farrant's and Manchester's
activities. Farrant was found by
police in the churchyard beside
Highgate Cemetery one night in August,
carrying a crucifix and a wooden
stake. He was arrested, but when
the case came to court it was dismissed
.
A
few days later Manchester returned
to Highgate Cemetery, but in the
daytime, when visits are allowed.
Again, we must depend on his own
published book for an account of
his actions, since neither press
nor police were present. He claims
that this time he and his companions
did succeed in forcing open, inch
by inch, the heavy and rusty iron
doors of a family vault (indicated
by his female psychic helper). He
lifted the massive lid off one coffin,
believing it to have been mysteriously
transferred there from the previous
catacomb. He was about to drive
a stake through the body it contained
when a companion persuaded him to
desist. Reluctantly, he shut the
coffin, put garlic and incense in
the vault, and came out from it.
A
later chapter of Manchester's book
claims that three years afterwards
he discovered a vampires corpse
(he implies that it was the same
one) in the cellar of an empty house
in the Highgate/Hornsey area, and
staked and burned it.
Manchester's
story is full of melodramatic details
mirroring the Dracula mythos: the
sleepwalking girl; the vampire transported
to England in a coffin; a coffined
corpse 'gorged and stinking with
the life-blood of others', with
fangs and burning eyes; his own
role as a Van Helsing figure. If
he did indeed act as he describes,
it can be regarded as a good example
of what folklorists (following terminology
established by Linda Degh) now call
'ostension' and legend tripping.
This means the real-life imitation
of elements from a well-known tale,
often involving role-playing, and
sometimes leading to ritual acts
of vandalism and desecration.
There was more publicity about Farrant
and Manchester when rumours spread
that they would meet in a 'magicians'
duel' on Parliament Hill on Friday
13 April 1973, which never came
off. Farrant was jailed in 1974
for damaging memorials and interfering
with dead remains in Highgate Cemetery
-- vandalism and desecration which
he insisted had been caused by Satanists,
not him. Both episodes kept memories
of the Highgate affair vivid. In
1975 Manchester wrote a chapter
about it in a book edited by Peter
Underwood, a well-known popular
writer on ghost lore. The Highgate
Vampire is now regularly featured
in books and internet sites on occult
subjects.
The
feud between Manchester and Farrant
remains vigorous to this day; each
claims to be a competent exorcist
and researcher of the paranormal;
each pours scorn on the other's
alleged expertise. They continue
to investigate supernatural phenomena,
and have both written and spoken
repeatedly about the Highgate events,
in every medium available, each
stressing his own role to the exclusion
of the other.
Seán
Manchester, former patron of the
Yorkshire Robin Hood Society, claimed[citation
needed] also to have discovered
a vampire by Robin Hood's Grave
on the Kirklees Estate which he
visited in 1991. The "vampire
nun of Kirklees" was assumed
to be the prioress who allegedly
had bled Robin to death.
New
Orleans and the Vampire Lore
Anne
Rice (born Howard Allen O'Brien
on October 4, 1941) is a best-selling
American author of gothic and, later,
religious-themed books. Best known
for her Vampire Chronicles, her
prevailing thematical focus is on
love, death, immortality, existentialism,
and the human condition. She was
married to poet Stan Rice for 41
years until his death in 2002. Her
books have sold nearly 100 million
copies, making her one of the most
widely read authors in modern history.
Rice's
first book, Interview with the Vampire,
in 1973 and published it in 1976.
This book would be the first in
Rice's popular Vampire Chronicles
series, which includes 1985's The
Vampire Lestat and 1988's The Queen
of the Damned. Rice has also published
adult-oriented fiction under the
pen name Anne Rampling, and has
written explicit sado-masochistic
erotica as A.N. Roquelaure.
Her
fiction is often described as lush
and descriptive, and her characters'
sexuality is fluid, often displaying
homoerotic feelings towards each
other. Rice said that the bisexuality
was what she was looking for in
her characters; a love beyond gender
especially with the Vampire Chronicles
because the vampires were not of
human society, therefore did not
go by the expectations of that society.
She also weaves philosophical and
historic themes into the dense pattern
of her books. To her admirers, Rice's
books are among the best in modern
popular fiction, possessing those
elements that create a lasting presence
in the literary canon. To her critics,
her novels are baroque, "low-brow
pulp" and redundant. A critical
analysis of Rice's work can be found
in S. T. Joshi's book The Modern
Weird Tale (2001).
Noted
serial Killers who were related
to Vampires because of their deeds.
"The
Vampire of London" —
John George Haigh, U.K. serial killer
John
George Haigh (July 24, 1909 —
August 10, 1949), nicknamed the
"Acid Bath Murderer",
was an English serial killer during
the 1940s. He was convicted of the
murders of six people, although
he claimed to have killed a total
of nine, dissolving their bodies
in sulphuric acid before forging
papers in order to sell their possessions
and collect substantial sums of
money. He acted under the mistaken
belief that police needed a body
before they could bring a charge
of murder. He was convicted through
forensic evidence and executed.
"The Vampire of Dusseldorf"
— Peter Kürten, German
serial killer
Peter
Kürten (May 26, 1883-July 2,
1931) was a German serial killer
dubbed The Vampire of Düsseldorf
by the contemporary media. He committed
a series of sex crimes, assaults
and murders against adults and children,
most notoriously from February to
November 1929 in Düsseldorf.
"The Vampire of Paris"
— Nicolas Claux (b.1972),
French murderer
Nicolas
Claux (born March 22, 1972, in Cameroon)
is a convicted French murderer and
was a self-proclaimed cannibal.
He is sometimes referred to as Nico
Claux or even the Vampire of Paris.
After his release from prison in
2002, he has been painting portraits
of serial killers and depictions
of crime scenes and murder victims.
He is currently residing in Paris.
In 2006, a company in the U.S. began
marketing a 2007 calendar showcasing
Claux's paintings. Demand was so
high that the company is considering
a 2008 calendar and a line of posters.
"The Vampire Rapist" —
Wayne Boden, Canadian serial killer
Wayne
Clifford Boden (c. 1948 - March
27, 2006) was a Canadian serial
killer and rapist active from 1968-1971.
He earned the nickname "the
Vampire Rapist" because he
had the penchant of biting the breasts
of his victims, a modus operandi
that led to his conviction due to
forensic odontological evidence,
the first such conviction in North
America and several years ahead
of another serial killer, Ted Bundy.
"Vesago" — Rod Ferrell,
U.S. murderer
Rodrick
Justin Ferrell (born March 28, 1980)
was the leader of a loose-knit gang
of teenagers from Murray, Kentucky
infamously known as the "Vampire
Clan". In 1998 Ferrell pled
guilty to the double-slaying of
a couple from Eustis, Florida, becoming
the youngest person in the United
States on Death Row. Ferrell told
people that he was a 500-year-old
vampire named "Vesago."
The
tendency of teenagers to be drawn
to this group, and to the charismatic
Rod Ferrell is thought to have been
helped by the presence of a ruined
structure nicknamed "Vampire
Hotel" that sat in the hills
of the Land Between The Lakes National
Recreation Area located in southwestern
Kentucky and northwestern Tennessee.
Following
the murders, the Vampire Hotel was
mostly destroyed and the roads leading
to it were closed off in an effort
to stop its use as a secluded meeting
place. Most of what remains is a
large foundation, resembling a bunker,
that extends out of the steep hillside.
Scattered bottles and charred piles
of wood serve as indications that
visits are still made to the structure,
located on the heavily wooded hillside
overlooking Kentucky Lake to the
west. Graffiti remains as a reminder
of the structure's role in history.
Skulls, pentagrams, cryptic numbers,
and phrases remain, including "Follow
me to death", "Deposit
dead bodies here", "Those
who came to this place fear not
even evil", and references
to the antichrist can still be found
on the approximately 10 foot high
portions of the foundation walls
that remain exposed.
On
November 25, 1996 (the week of Thanksgiving),
Naoma Queen and Richard Wendorf
were found beaten to death in their
Eustis home. While 42-year-old Richard
Wendorf was asleep on his couch,
Ferrell had entered the home and
beaten him multiple times with a
crowbar, fracturing both his skull
and ribs. When Queen had found Ferrell
in the home moments later, he bludgeoned
her to death, bashing her head with
the crowbar. The victims were found
bearing burn marks in the shape
of a V. It was said that the V was
Rod's symbol which he accompanied
with a dot for each person he considered
to be in his vampire cult.
The
victims were the parents of Heather
Wendorf, a long time friend of Rod's
who he was helping run away from
a home that she described as "hell".
Ferrell
and the rest of his clan fled the
scene. After four days of driving
through four states, the group was
found in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
It is believed that Ferrell liked
a video arcade in New Orleans and
they were headed there. One of the
girls placed a call to her mother
in South Dakota. The group needed
money and Remington thought her
mother could help them. But Remington's
mother informed the police about
her whereabouts, and, after negotiations,
Ferrell, Wendorf and the rest of
the teens agreed to be arrested
at a local Howard Johnson's hotel.
The four were held at a Baton Rouge
jail for a week before being extradited
back to Florida where they were
initially booked at Lake County
jail. They were later moved to a
juvenile facility in Ocala.
On
February 12, 1998, then-seventeen-year-old
Ferrell pled guilty to the murders,
claiming that the others travelling
with him were innocent except Scott
Anderson who was simply an accessory.
Anderson was convicted of premeditated
first degree murder, sentenced to
life in prison, while Charity Keesee
and Dana Cooper were convicted of
murder in the third degree.
For
two years Ferrell held the record
as the youngest inmate on death
row until September 1999 when the
Florida Supreme Court reduced his
sentence to life without parole.
Ferrell is serving his sentence
at the Union Correctional Institution
in Raiford, Florida as inmate DC#
124473.
Richard
Trenton Chase
Richard
Trenton Chase (May 23, 1950 –
December 26, 1980) was an American
serial killer who killed six people
in the span of a month in California.
He earned the nickname The Vampire
of Sacramento due to his drinking
of his victims' blood and his cannibalism.
He did this as part of a delusion
that he needed to prevent Nazis
from turning his blood into powder
via poison they had planted beneath
his soap dish.
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