The success of Bram Stoker's Dracula,
a novel that written by Irish writer named Bram Stoker in 1897, and later adapted
to film by Tod Bowning in 1931 made the figure of vampire becomes famous throughout
the world, especially in horror and dark fantasy films. Many writers were
inspired by the work of Stoker and must thank him. Without the figure of
Dracula, Stephanie Meyer will probably never create Twilight serial or Marv
Wolfwan with his Blade.
For common Dracula or vampire is blood-sucking
creature that exist only in horror movies, novels or fiction, but from a
scientific research since 1972 there are proves this creature really exists.
I find this facts when I’m
looking some supporting web to wrote on The Atticus Institute, which saying the
place was for real, and to start my search I seek for a place that makes weird
research for paranormal activities and eventually led me to the web of a
scientist, who turn out to be the head of a research institute investigate an
odd assortment of things done in the Atticuss Institute...
Based on research psychiatrist
named Dr. Stephen Kaplan, who was Heads of Research Institute of Dracula
(Vampire Research Center of America) in New York, USA there are recorded the
hypothesis that the royal family has ever seen anywhere in the world, among the
offspring of the great potential of blood sucking.
This was correlated with their belief in paganism and ancient religion which belief that drinking blood can make man keep young. There’s always been an outpouring of blood from the Aztec and Maya belief in the past era even to the modern religion. This belief is maintained by the nobles and members of the royal family in order to always look fresh in public.
To prove his theory, Dr. Kaplan
conducted research by conducting a survey in the form of questionnaires. When deploying
a questionnaire to respondent Dr. Kaplan was assisted by paranormal / psychic who
could see for certain the potentiality of interviewees as a vampire. Moreover Dr.
Kaplan also went bevy associated with devil worship or performing rituals
involving fresh blood as offerings.
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| Dr. Stephen Kaplan |
The research found that North
America is the most appropriate inhabited by blood-sucking creatures than
anywhere else in the world. According to Dr. Kaplan there are about 650 of
vampires living in the USA while other places are UK, Ireland, South America,
Canada, and South Africa.
Amazingly Dr. Kaplan found a vampire girl who successfully interviewed on television in 1979. The girl’s cloth was
commonly a dress that worn by women in 16-17 centuries, and when she’s
interviewed her face still looks like 20 years old.
From the interviews is known that blood is a vital necessity for Vampire, if the frequency of drinking blood reduced they may not die instantly but will look old.
From the interviews is known that blood is a vital necessity for Vampire, if the frequency of drinking blood reduced they may not die instantly but will look old.
The girl doesn’t like the
depiction of vampires in modern films, she expressed the films gave a
misleading picture of the actual vampire world. She explains that vampires can’t
take blood with violence, especially make their victim died. But from the
interview, the story of Count Dracula simply a true story…
Vampire start from Romania and
began to spread to Europe in the 16th century. A Romanian King in 15th century,
Prince Vlad Tepes III, otherwise known as Vlad Dracul, or Vlad the Awl, had
experience to win hundreds of wars, so no one doubted his ability to battle, he’s
also known very wild because he often skinning and impale enemies that become prisoner.
His passion to impale is what
makes a nickname for him as The Impaler (The Awl). Impale is a torture by
pricking the anus using wooden sticks that as big as an adult’s arm then
sticking it into the ground so the wood penetrating the abdomen, chest, and
even up to the neck.
Vlad’s success merely believe comes
from his ritual such as drinking and bathing the blood of his prisoners that
murdered by Vlad’s army.
His awful image continued until he
finally defeated by Sultan Mehmed II, the head of Vlad was cut and presented to
the Ottoman as a tribute to the Turk’s victims of atrocities during the war against
Vlad.
But Vlad's success inspired many
European leaders to follow his lead so in the end of the century of 15th to
17th century, many were follow his custom like bathing and drinking human
blood, which creating a new human species that drinks blood. The descendants of
Vlad III also still living on earth and continue drinking blood.
In his book Dr. Stephen Kaplan
describes a disease that causes a person to have characteristics such as
Vampire. It’s likely that the disease plagued Vlad III so he had a weird habit
of drinking blood.
Phorphyria is the name of the
disease, the disease-gene disorders where sufferers lack the enzyme glycine
which functioning to formed heme or hemoglobin that had duty to transports
oxygen in the blood. Lack of heme would make oxygen couldn’t transported
perfectly through the body so it turns pale blue, which is why vampire had blue
blood.
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| Phorphyria patient |
Phorphyria Patients also can’t be
exposed to direct sunlight because ultraviolet will burn their skin. Besides,
because the quality of poor blood circulation due to the lack of oxygen makes
the sufferer must donate or blood transfusions regularly. In fact they have to
drink the blood of it directly so that the blood could enter directly into the
digestive system and elaborated into the bloodstream.
The question why vampires hate garlic
is also had an answered, because garlic is a fat emulsifier. Good quality of
the blood is determined by the level of fat in the blood so as substances that
are emulsion, garlic can cause reduced blood lipid levels. This can be seen in
patients with cholesterol and heart disease due to hypertension that required
regularly ate raw onions so that the fat content is significantly reduced.
During his research, Dr. Stephen
Kaplan also found four large groups of vampires, namely:
- Vampire Wanabee
The group is
actually just a bunch of ordinary man who obsessed by vampire and felt
themselves as such by wearing gothic clothes and makeup. They affected by the
romance of the Vampire’s figure and pretend to drink blood during special
ceremonies that attended by masses but it’s not their lifestyle.
- Vampire Yuppie
It is the people
who trade sexual pleasure and replace it with blood. They have a need to drink
real blood, it has acquired the documentation that they drink the blood is
drained from a carton of meat in the supermarket. Most have a compulsion, and
there was a sort of guilt and shame at what they do.
- Vampire Conservative
This group
consists of a small number of people who have a physical need to consume the
blood in addition to their regular diet. He calls these people fashioned or
conservative because their clothes do not attract attention and look flat.
They hide the
fact that they drink blood but feel irritable, depressed, weak or aggressive if
they do not get enough blood in their diet. It is a sign of porphyria.
- Blood Killer
This last group
is those who act on impulse their thirst and looking for someone to kill and
drain their blood. Dr. Kaplan has worked with the Police in the USA and many
other countries to investigate the mysterious murder involving excessive blood
loss.
This is a
dangerous job because on several occasions Dr. Kaplan had nearly killed during
the investigation. As a result, he changed his method by means of interviews in
which he meets people suspected of being a vampire just to come face to face.
From this he
then made a list of people who actually belonged to the Blood Killer group and finally
Van Helsing was a nickname that given to him.
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