Nick Redfern On Vampires & Werewolves In The World's Weirdest Places!

Nick Redfern takes us on a dark safari with ‘The World’s Weirdest Places

Okay lets get to the vampires and the weird place that they live. What location are some vampires hiding out at lore wise?

Nick Redfern: As I note in the book, the ancient Romans and Greeks lived in deathly terror of the vampire-like Striges, and Norse mythology tells of the horrific Draugr. Madagascar is home to the rampaging Ramanga. And the Tagalog haunts the jungles of the Philippines. While certain characteristics and traits may change according to region and century, all of the above entities have one thing in common: they are supernatural creatures, sometimes – but not exclusively – the dead returned from the grave, and all driven by a voracious and violent need to feed on copious amounts of human blood. I also talk about the Morana of the Caucasus Mountains – which also happens to be the very same title applied to a blood-sucking monstrosity that haunts the Dalmatian area of Croatia. For the people of the little towns of the mountains, the Morana exclusively appears in the guise of a beautiful maiden. She is not an example of the dead returned, however. No: the she is actually an it; nothing less than a supernatural shape-shifter whose real form is definitively devilish.

Werewolves oh my! How about the werewolves what vacation spot are they inhabiting these days in our weird world?

Nick Redfern: I have a particular interest in werewolf stories, and in 2007 there was a spate of sightings at a cemetery in the woods of England’s Cannock Chase, situated only about a 15-minute drive from where I grew up. It all began in April 2007, when a local, well respected group of paranormal investigators – the West Midlands Ghost Club – traveled out to the area to investigate newly-surfaced reports of what witnesses described as a large, hairy creature very much resembling a wolf. But, there was something extremely weird about this particular wolf: as well as walking like any normal wolf might, this one had the amazing and uncanny ability to rear up onto its hind limbs, which it invariably did when anyone had the distinct misfortune to cross its malevolent path. One of those whose encounter caught the attention of the club was a mailman who was riding past the cemetery on a motorbike when he became spellbound by the sight of what, at first, he assumed was a large, wild wolf on the loose. This would be extraordinary enough in itself, as the wild wolf is generally acknowledged as having become extinct in the British Isles centuries ago. That the creature was no mere normal wolf, however, became very obvious to the shocked man when it caught his eye, raised itself upwards on its back legs, and bounded away into the countless trees that envelop the cemetery.

FOR MORE QUESTIONS WITH NICK REDFERN ON HIS NEW BOOK THE WORLD’S WEIRDEST PLACES PLEASE VISIT MY ARTICLE INTERVIEW WITH HIM AND BY DOING SO YOU HELP ME OUT TREMENDOUSLY PLUS HE GETS INTO SO MUCH MORE! THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!

http://www.examiner.com/article/nick-redfern-takes-us-on-a-dark-safari-with-the-world-s-weirdest-places?cid=db_articles