Self-styled vampire reveals British link:

A 23-year-old Satanist jailed yesterday in Germany for a gruesome, ritual Satanic killing, said that she became a vampire in London.

In testimony which exposes the bizarre world of Britain’s underground occult groups, Manuela Ruda said that she swapped the “mortal” world for a life of blood-drinking and devil worship after working in a club in London which she said was frequented by “vampires and human beings”. Guardian UK

Fictional theory set to bite the dust

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Vampires are fact not fiction and they could be living in a street near you.

Jon Downs, of the Exeter Strange Phenomena Group, believes that there are vampires living across the West Country.

‘There are vampiric entities in the South West, although they’re not the sort that Buffy the Vampire Slayer would recognise,’ he said.

Forget the tall, cloaked man with the swept-back hair, Jon believes that the vampires exist in various forms, possibly as animals.

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