The Great Unknown From the South
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Researching the unknown myths, paranormal and creatures of the world
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Vampire
"I want to suck your blood!" Famous vampire movies saying, but where did vampires come from, how did it get started? In the beginning, when some thought of blood drinking entities was demons because they are known eating flesh and drinking the blood of their victims. But for vampire myth it originated in the Medieval period, Walter Map a writer and William of Newburgh a English historian had recorded some accounts they had heard about revenants, this is believed to be a corpse that was revived from death to haunt the living. One story they wrote was about a man who fled from York to avoid being arrested from something and he got married. At some point in his marriage he got jealous of his wife, he thought she was messing with another man, so he decided to hide in the rafters in their bedroom to catch her in the act. But it turned to the worse for him, he fell to the floor and died a couple of days later. He was given a Christian burial but was not worthy of it, the day after his funeral, the wife claimed that he came back and tried to assault her for several nights. So, frightened she went to her family to tell them what was going on, but this started terror for her family as well. The consulted with the bishop of Lincoln and the remedy for this situation what they done was dig up the corpse and cremate it. But to the archbishop it was sacrilegious to do that to the body, so they suggested to order a scroll of absolution to be placed on the dead man's chest, which proved for it to be successful.
By The Great Unknown From the South6 years ago in Horror
Bigfoot
Is Bigfoot real or fake? This creature has his own FBI file what does that mean? First let's talk about what people think Bigfoot is. Some classify Bigfoot as a big ape that walks upright, some have said he is a wild man. But whatever this creature is, it has put a big impact on a number of people.
By The Great Unknown From the South6 years ago in Horror
