Nightstalkers

[Destinys...@aol.com]

Bill, I have been meaning to read all the fine posts that you have put
on here. I will see if I can get my oldest daughter Stella (aka
Godzilla) to set up the laptop for me in the bedroom as I am not able
to sit up for very long at the computer. In the meantime..I hope you
enjoy this article I came across..as I hope the rest of you guys enjoy
it as well.
Esther







NIGHTSTALKERS
by Micah A. Hanks

http://gralienreport.com/fortean-phenomena/they-stalk-by-night-vampires-and-ufos/
<http://gralienreport.com/fortean-phenomena/they-stalk-by-night-
vampires-and-ufos/>

Recently while pondering strange objects of esoterica, I came across
a
historical article regarding Elizabeth Bathory, the Hungarian "Blood
Countess", whose grisly crimes against virgin peasant girls (the
blood
of which she believed could be used to preserve her own youth)
secured
her the title of the most prolific female serial-killer in history.
Whether it be due to the fact that Bathory abducted her victims by
the
cover of night, or perhaps for some other less-obvious reason, somehow
I
began brainstorming what kinds of parallels might exist between
modern
Ufology and Vampires (obviously referencing the fact that at least
most
UFO abductions are reported at night, and often in people's homes,
much
like vampires entering a maiden's window under the cover of
darkness).
Initially, I only managed to muster the following points of parallel:

1) Vampires, much like aliens, are indeed known for abducting their
victims

2) Vampires and aliens both tend to prefer operations during the
cover
of darkness

3) Alien-like creatures often associated with UFO sightings (like the
Mothman of Point Pleasant, West Virginia) often bear similarities to
vampires

4) Chupacabras exhibit rather vampiric traits, and are often
associated
with UFOs

Along these lines, I was reminded of a bizarre "vampire" creature
recently reported by Scott Corrales, over at his website Inexplicata,
which is normally devoted to the study of Latin American Ufology.
However, Corrales shares at his blog recent encounters with a
creature
described as a "Man Bat" seen in the vicinity of Cimbraplay, near
Saenz
Guerrero, Chihuahua, said to have been linked to the deaths of
several
sheep at three different ranches. According to sources, all the
creatures had been slain in the same fashion: a large slash to the
neck,
as well as wounds on part of their tails.

Initially, this sounds very much like a Chupacabra, creatures which
are
also often associated with UFO sightings. However, gaping wounds
found
on the necks of victims are only one of many vampiric elements to the
Chihuahuan "Man Bat", also called the Santa Muerte, meaning "Holy
Death." The following was reported recently by a Latin American news
source, El Heraldo de Chihuahua:

"Ivonne (not her real name) is a young mother who dropped off a
friend
in a sector of La Junta after spending time with her at home, near
the
new highway to Guerrero. The time was 9:00 at night when she was
coming
back along the old road that passes by the cemetery.

"It was at that time that it saw an enormous figure at the graveyard
gate. It resembled a long statue and looked like a person covered in
a
blanket or a black cape. She felt a shiver and accelerated her truck.
She thought it was la Santa Muerte and that she was probably going to
die on the road between the graveyard and her home."

Indeed, our Chihuahuan vampire not only attacks the jugular, it lurks
around cemeteries wearing "a long black cape." It's not hard to see
why
this would be of interest to Latin American Ufologists like Corrales,
but the parallels between this phantom humanoid and the traditional
"vampire" are (yet again) greater nonetheless. And speaking of the
references to long black capes, I am reminded yet again of England's
own
version of Mothman (no, not the Owl Man... the OTHER English
Mothman),
the Highgate Vampire.

Years ago I interviewed and became first acquainted with my friend
David
Farrant of London's British Psychic and Occult Society. Living in
North
London at the time, David famously researched the mystery of Highgate
Cemetery's most infamous ghoul back in the 1970s, "The Highgate
Vampire"
when stories of a "caped creep" were making headlines. Interestingly,
many of the same sorts of things that accompanied the Mothman reports
in
Point Pleasant, West Virginia a little less than a decade earlier
were
consistent with reports of Highgate Cemetery's entitiy; the tall,
ghastly frame, glowing red eyes, and even consistency with ley-lines
running amidst the area where many of the sightings occurred,
(EDITOR'S
NOTE: John Bruno Hare of the Internet Sacred Text Archive notes that
Alfred Watkins, first to propose the notion of ley lines, "never
attributed any supernatural significance to leys; he believed that
they
were simply pathways that had been used for trade or ceremonial
purposes, very ancient in origin, possibly dating back to the
Neolithic,
certainly pre-Roman. His obsession with leys was a natural outgrowth
of
his interest in landscape photography and love of the British
countryside. He was an intensely rational person with an active
intellect, and I think he would be a bit disappointed with some of
the
fringe aspects of ley lines today").

Looking back "across the pond" at the Americas for a moment, Mothman,
without question, was reported by witnesses during the height of a
UFO
flap in the area, chronicled in his famous Mothman Prophecies. If one
were to look, would there have been any similar consistency between
sightings of Farrant's Highgate Vampire and UFOs seen over London at
the
time? What other parallels between Earth-light activity, UFOs, or
strange lights in general might have been linked to "vampire"
activity
in the superstitious communities of olden times? Perhaps this is a
notion worthy of further exploration... but in the meantime, it might
be
worth mentioning that Mircea Rusu, mayor of the Romanian village of
Mezoband, is already planning on organizing a UFO festival in the
heart
of "Dracula Country." According to a recent article at the website
All
New Web, "This is by no means the first UFO seen in the area and the
mayor hopes to increase tourism into the area by promoting it as a
Romanian `Roswell'." Writer Michael Cohen mentions that "Ghosts,
witchcraft, magic and remnants of paganism are very much a part of
the
local scene. The entire region is generally regarded as rather spooky
with its very Gothic churches and town as well as its dark mist
shrouded
forests. Visiting Aliens might well be a very 21st century addition
to
this heritage."

Lookout, Drac... the aliens are apparently moving in!