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Dec 13 2005
16:30:39 Dec 13 2005
Read 892 timesSidhe
I am collecting news stories from this past year and thought I would share a few with you for comment.
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Ukrainian vampire drugged children and drank their blood
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/07/03/wukr03.xml
03/07/2005
A vampire has been arrested in Ukraine after luring street children into her home for their blood.
Diana Semenuha, 29, believed that drinking blood could fend off a muscle-wasting condition.
She kept the children intoxicated on drugs and alcohol and bled them regularly, selling the surplus to other black magic practitioners. When that weakened them, she dumped them back on the streets and lured replacements with the promise of a place to sleep and a hot meal.
Police raided Semenuha's apartment in the Black Sea port of Odessa after a tip-off.
Olga Buravceva, a spokesman, said: "The apartment was painted black, with all the windows covered with thick black cloth to stop natural light coming in. The only light came from black candles, and there was a heavy, sickening odour of some sort of incense in the air."
Detectives found seven drugged children strapped to beds and benches, and a large, black knife and silver goblet engraved with satanic symbols.
Ukraine has an estimated 200,000 street children, whose widespread addiction to glue sniffing and alcohol made them easy prey for the woman dubbed the "vampire witch" by local media.
Semenuha's arrest exposed an occult network in the city. Many claimed to have been taught by Semenuha and said that she would cut herself and let them drink her blood.
One of the children, named only as Andrei, told police: "She gave me vodka and I sniffed some glue. But than she came up to me with a syringe and asked me to stretch out my hand. I didn't feel any pain because I was too scared. She drew the blood with the syringe and a needle and than put it in her silver bowl and drank it, murmuring in some strange language."
Semenuha, who when arrested gave her profession as "witch", has admitted holding the children. "I let them sniff glue, but I paid for it and took a small amount of blood in return," she said. "But there was no violence involved, I also fed them and gave them shelter."
Police fear that she could escape prosecution for corrupting minors and plying them with alcohol because the seven children found at her home have since escaped from care and gone back on the streets.
Unlike other bats, vampire bats keep out of trouble by running, Cornell researchers find
http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/March05/Riskin.bats.snd.html
March 17, 2005
vampire bat
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Although most people think of bats as stealthy mammals that flit about in the night sky, at least one species has evolved a terrestrial trot never before seen in bats, according to a recent Cornell University study.
It's known that the common vampire bats of Central and South America behave much more like four-legged terrestrial mammals, in that they like to walk around on the ground; other bat species fumble helplessly when left to walk. But researchers in Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine have discovered that these bats not only walk but run. The unprecedented gait of Desmodus rotundus is described in a brief communication in this week's issue of Nature magazine (March 17, 2005) from Daniel Riskin, Cornell graduate student in zoology, and his adviser John W. Hermanson, associate professor of biomedical sciences.
What seemed like a crazy idea -- challenging these bats on an increasingly speedy treadmill -- revealed a novel ability which the researchers believe evolved independently to facilitate feeding behavior. "What we observed was like a horse going from a walk to a gallop over a very short amount of time," Riskin explains. The researchers kept increasing the speed of the treadmill and, much to their surprise, their subjects broke into a run.
"They just seem to do everything a little differently from the general bat rule," Riskin says about what he refers to as the "cute, adorable, big-eyed and family-oriented" vampire bats.
Not only are vampire bats unusual because they run, but also in the way that they power their gait. "Unlike most animals which use their hind legs as a source of power, these exceptional creatures power their run with their forelimbs," Hermanson explains. Getting most of the push from their long forelimbs -- actually their wings and therefore very strong -- the bats run more like a small gorilla than a comparable four-legged creature like a mouse. They run up to about 2.5 miles per hour. Although many of the 1,100 species of bats are known to walk, the common vampire is the only one so far to pass Riskin and Hermanson's treadmill test and break into a running gait.
With the introduction of large herds of livestock into their native environments of Central and South America, these bats don't need to hurry to catch the cattle from which they extract perhaps a tablespoon of blood at a time for sustenance. They feed while their prey are sleeping, spending perhaps 10 minutes drinking from the small cuts they make. However, running may help them avoid being stepped on, Riskin suggests. More likely, the researchers say, the ability to run evolved long ago, when vampire bats had to prey on faster South American athletes such as the agouti, a rodent about the size of a hare, which might wake up and take a swipe at the nocturnal visitor. It remains unclear exactly what the native prey were before the introduction of cattle, he adds.
The Cornell zoologists plan to go a step further and compare the vampire bat to another species of bat endemic to New Zealand. Riskin explains, "The vampire bat is good on the ground because when you feed on the hoof of an animal that weighs 14,000 times more than you do, it's dangerous." Also, there are and always have been a variety of predators in the Western Hemisphere environment. In contrast, Riskin says, the bats and birds of New Zealand had no predators to keep them flying. Many of the birds became flightless walkers, and the bats walk more than others, as flight is energetically very expensive.
"Vampire bats in Latin America are good on the ground because it's a very dangerous place, and bats in New Zealand are good on the ground because it's a very safe place," Riskin says. While New Zealand bats definitely don't run -- they failed the treadmill test -- Riskin wants to compare the walking gaits of the two species.
Vampire Bats Kill 11 People In Brazil
http://www.local6.com/news/4634954/detail.html
June 21, 2005
In less than two months, 11 people have died from rabies transmitted by vampire bats in the northern Brazilian state of Para, according to health officials.
Health officials attempting to catch the vampire bats have nabbed about 300 in the area, according to the report.
Authorities said the victims were bitten near the small town of Augusto Correa, about 1,500 miles northeast of Rio de Janeiro.
Josefa Ferreira has lost five children -- all under the age of 5 years old -- because of rabies caused by bites from the vampire bats. According to her, none of her children received the vaccine.
More than 1,300 people from 20 small communities around Augusto Correa and Vizeu have been vaccinated. And more than 700 cats and dogs have also received the vaccination.
Health officials attempting to catch the vampire bats have nabbed about 300 in the area, according to the report.
Some residents believe that deforestation has driven the bats from their natural jungle habitat and led to the increased number of bites.
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Dec 13 2005
16:43:11 Dec 13 2005
Read 883 timesOpilia
I don't have anything to add right now, but I'll look...
Thanks for the great read! :-)
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Dec 13 2005
16:44:10 Dec 13 2005
Read 882 timesPiNkLuSt
Whoa that first one with the drugged children is pretty creepy. LoL but the thought of drugged up kiddies makes me laugh! o.O
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Dec 13 2005
17:03:51 Dec 13 2005
Read 876 timesAltair
Wow, you learn something new everyday...thanks for sharing!
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Dec 13 2005
17:07:41 Dec 13 2005
Read 871 timesOpilia
No wonder vampire's have such bad reps..
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Dec 13 2005
17:07:48 Dec 13 2005
Read 870 timesdanzig1330
The second one about the walking, running bats was cool
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Dec 13 2005
17:11:28 Dec 13 2005
Read 865 timesStormwind
I remember seeing the first one when it hit the newswires... odd...
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Dec 13 2005
17:16:12 Dec 13 2005
Read 860 timesJason
I have the heeby jeebies reading that first one. Some people are truly twisted...
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Dec 13 2005
17:22:47 Dec 13 2005
Read 854 timesAnnerita
o_O Some strange news indeed... And the vampire bats are truly interesting...
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Dec 13 2005
21:36:00 Dec 13 2005
Read 839 timesvampricdemon
yes the first one is very odd. and the bat's well tis very true indeed. they can walk and run like normal animals.
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Dec 13 2005
22:13:56 Dec 13 2005
Read 830 timesBlooDAngeL11
the first one is odd indeed....... stupid kidds...LOL
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Dec 13 2005
22:20:39 Dec 13 2005
Read 826 timesdaggetb
i think the first story is quite hilarious. The other two are very informative. Thanks for the effort.
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Dec 13 2005
22:23:31 Dec 13 2005
Read 821 timesvampwriter1369
These are very interesting articles. I'll see if I can find anything in the news and send it your way.
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Dec 13 2005
23:33:34 Dec 13 2005
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Dec 13 2005
23:51:01 Dec 13 2005
Read 805 timesxtroublex
Great news, I'm suprised how often Vampire's are in the news for various things.
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Dec 13 2005
23:56:56 Dec 13 2005
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Dec 14 2005
00:30:08 Dec 14 2005
Read 796 timesbloodyfang224
thats such a great idea! hope you get all the info u need
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Dec 14 2005
00:31:51 Dec 14 2005
Read 795 timesdarknessrendsthesoul
Wow....I'd love to have one of those running bats as a pet. It would make for a great conversation piece will taking my bat out for a walk! Wonder if I would need take along a "guano"-scooper......
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Dec 14 2005
00:38:52 Dec 14 2005
Read 787 timesSilverFangs
Awesome!!! You've really been busy!
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Dec 14 2005
01:29:11 Dec 14 2005
Read 779 timesdarkstarladybug
that's really cool...i'll look for some more stories...
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Dec 14 2005
11:13:57 Dec 14 2005
Read 747 timesNeverKnown
i know theres a few local stories, I'll keep it up to date in my journal when i find them
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Dec 14 2005
13:37:52 Dec 14 2005
Read 740 timesdarkomine
thats creepy. thanks for sharing = )
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Dec 14 2005
14:55:32 Dec 14 2005
Read 732 timesrabdos
wow, the news is pretty funny sometimes......very interesting.
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Dec 14 2005
16:09:10 Dec 14 2005
Read 720 timesSiobhan
These aren't from 2005, but interesting reading nonetheless.
http://www.crimelibrary.com/about/special/vampirekillers1.html
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Dec 14 2005
21:31:58 Dec 14 2005
Read 707 timesSidhe
My intent behind this forum post has been to get more people into reading about vampires and the lore surrounding them
It is my hope that you have done so if you find it interesting. If you find something juicey do send it my way.
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