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Bedtime Stories

Myths and Legends

Bedtime Stories

Ballen Studios

True Crime

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Story One – America’s Vampires Over the decades, successive literary and cinematic offerings have gradually bastardised the original interpretation of the vampire from that of a terrifying and murderous monster, into a somewhat romanticised and almost comedic caricature. But the reality behind the concept of vampirism is far removed from the fantasy, borne out of a flurry of brutal and truly horrifying murders. In this story, we meet America’s Vampires. Story Two – The Scourge of the Skinwalker For centuries, the most southerly regions of the United States have been plagued by stories of strange beings that travel under the cover of darkness, attacking any human beings they encounter without fear or remorse. In our second story, we explore the Scourge of the Skinwalker. MUSIC Tracks used by kind permission of Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Tracks used by kind permission of CO.AG

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Story 1, America's Vampires

0:05.0

Over the decades, successive literary and cinematic offerings have gradually

0:11.6

bastardised the original interpretation of the vampire

0:14.9

from that of a terrifying and murderous monster into a somewhat romanticised and almost

0:19.8

comedic caricature.

0:21.8

But the reality behind the concept of vampirism is far removed from the fantasy,

0:26.4

born out of a flurry of brutal and truly horrifying murders.

0:30.8

We meet America's vampires. So, So, The earliest references to Vampirism can be found in the folklore of Eastern European and Baltic cultures.

1:22.0

These stories told of nocturnal creatures endowed with

1:25.2

supernatural powers which had the ability to be which and enthrall in order to

1:29.8

drain the blood of those unlucky enough to encounter them. All of that changes are not. the The story achieved international success and acclaim and introduced the world to the most iconic

1:46.1

portrayal of the vampire legend, the enigmatic Count Dracula.

1:51.9

Almost overnight, the vampire ceased to be a cannibalistic forest dwelling entity

1:57.0

and morphed into a charming yet sinister European nobleman.

2:02.0

Successive interpretations of the vampire legend have

2:05.8

almost universally utilized Stoker's source material as the

2:08.8

blueprint to work from. Audiences have been invited to fear this creature, in some cases to sympathise and in others to ridicule it.

2:19.0

But the central message has always been that vampires are easy to detect when you look for the telltale signs and equally as easy to defeat using appropriate techniques.

2:31.0

Whilst the medical ailment of vampirism itself is a work of pure fiction, it does bear striking similarities to some existing diseases.

2:41.4

The maddening psychological effects of rabies on the human body and the need for sufferers of

2:46.6

porphyria to ingest large amounts of hem into their bloodstream have both been identified

2:51.6

as being similar to the core concepts of the vampiric condition.

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