by Melinda Pillsbury-Foster
On Nov. 27, 2009, ABC News, 20/20,
aired a piece by Denise Martinez-Ramundo and Joan Martelli titled,
“Coming Out of the Coffin: Vampires Among Us.”
Included is an interview from, “a
registered nurse who works in a hospital in Atlanta,” which
reveals there is a solid population which believes they are vampires
and have founded organizations allowing them to support each other.
The article goes on with, “Throughout
the country and all over the world, a hidden subculture of people
believe they are real vampires. They claim to have an "energy
leak," which makes them feel sick and lethargic. To offset this
energy imbalance, they say they need to feed on other people's
energy or blood.
"I try to be very ethical about
what I do. I feed predominantly from crowds, so as not to cause
harm," said Kiera, from Georgia, who is a founding member of
the AtlantaVampireAlliance.com, a group providing ethical practices
for vampires.
Kiera considers herself an ethical
"psychic" vampire, sucking only tiny amounts of energy from
the people around her, but without informing them of her activity.
Tiny amounts of energy from many is also cited as common to
charismatic leaders.
By the evidence, our culture has a
haunting fascination with vampires. The website, VampireRave.com
logs 703 entries for movies featuring vampires and folk
history, around the world, carried into the present stories about
vampires, exhibiting startling similarity.
The Internet also abounds with
information, articles, and books, on the subject. These include the
growing potential of modern technologies to document the theft of
energy and more.
"Psychic Vampires: Protection
from Energy Predators & Parasites," a book by Joe Slate,
provides documentation for the history of vampires along with
profiles of the kind of people who are likely to become psychic
vampires. These are, Slate says, “Children who are either
pampered or who have a cold, distant relationship with either
parent.”
There is a
startling consistency in the material presented, as well as
divergences.
Also found are
lists of symptoms people can look for if they suspect they are being
victimized by an energy vampire. These include weight gain, as the
vampire leaves a toxic residue with feeding, loss of memory,
exhaustion, and long term impact on the victim's health.
All of which raises
the question of how long it will be until the first law suit for
aggravated assault and theft is filed against a vampire?
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