Do you believe in werewolves?
Do you?
sharei believe there are many things out there, that people assume cant possibly be true and are just stories. but what gets me is how did all the stories start. arewolves, vampires ect everyones heard the stores and they had to come from somewere. so my answer to your question is i belive there is something or some things out there whatever thay are.
shareA lot of people believe that vampires came about because of a disease where a person cannot come in contact with any sunlight because their skin almost literally burns. I have always assumed that werewolves were sort of adapted the same way. But, then again, who am I to say that there aren't supernatural things like that in the world? How ignorant would we have to be to rule out any possibility of something like werewolves or vampires?
shareVery true.
Werewolves and anything supernatural (even religion is considered to me in this way. But let us not get into this!) cannot be proved.. but because of this, they can neither be disproved either.
Which is why I choose to believe in werewolves and vampires. Perhaps one day they'll show themselves.
I don't think it's fair to say people who don't believe in werewolves or vampires are "ignorant", they have logical reasons to not believe so.
Your arguments are partly true; there's no saying that some supernatural beings like vampires or werewolfs don't exist somewhere in the world.
However, it CAN be proved that it is NOT possible for a perfectly normal human being to turn into a vampire/werewolf.
Whether or not someone believes in ghosts would be a different story because there's nothing about ghosts that can be completely disproved scientifically. But werewolfs/vampires are a different story. It's possible that something similar to them exist but not possibly the exact same as the stories portray them.
It's nice to find...people...who are as openly contemplative as you and the authors of the previous posts.
With that logic, you must believes in fairies, talking goldfish, and a flying toilet bowl.
A dangerous way to think.
what is so dangerous about having an open mind :)
shareIt's one thing to have an open mind, it's another to have it open so wide that everything in there falls right out. Magical thinking can have its place in the human psyche, but trying to live in the fringes usually precludes a healthy ability to live in reality. Reality can be scary, but being functionally sane is worth the price of admission.
Plus, anyone who votes has a responsibility to keep at least one foot somewhere near the planet.
Movies are IQ tests. The IMDB boards are each person's opportunity to broadcast their score.
I hope you say the same thing to all those fundamentalist god lovers out there. Why is it perfectly acceptable to believe in some man in the sky and not acceptable to believe in Vampires or Werewolves? Neither can be proved so this baffles me that one is considered religion and the other is considered flights of fanciful fancy.
shareHow ignorant would we have to be to rule out any possibility of something like werewolves or vampires?
It's not ignorant to assume something doesn't exist because there's no proof that suggests otherwise. That's like saying people are ignorant for believing there's such thing as bigfoot or the lochness monster.
I know I'm a vampire, Snookie. share
I totally agree with u spinx101. I also thought the stories had to come from somewhere
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Well, I believe in possibilities, and if there's possibilities, you never know if there'll be something out there that may be real even though it seems like it isn't-like a werewolf for example. In Translyania, they tell supernatural tales based off experience, and if Dracula could be real, so could be a vampire, werewolf, or whatever, we just hadn't came across one yet.
shareI didn't want to make this public knowledge, I used to be a werewolf but I'm alright nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwww !!
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On a more serious note, this may or may not be a load of old moonlight but many years ago, as a boy in Scotland, I was introduced to an old author of Highland stories - Struan Robertson, mainly accounts of supernatural happenings and old folk legends actually happening etc.
He handed me one of his old stories which told of an event in his own youth, the evidence of which he saw with his own eyes. In the mountains of North Perthshire, in the Highlands of Scotland, about the turn of the old century, a shepherd had been roaming the hills all day and as it was getting dark and he wasn't near his croft yet, he decided it was too cold to sleep out on the hill and instead he would make for an old stone bothy, a small stone, peat-thatched hut way in the hills, sometimes used by shepherds and gamekeepers and their hunting parties.
When he reached the bothy in the moonlight, it was blacked out and deserted. He tried the door but it was stuck fast and he could not get in. Even shouldering the door had no effect. He then tried a window and by breaking one small pane, was able to unlock it and slid it open. He put his first leg through the window gap and was just crouching down to get his head and body through when all of a sudden, he felt a strong pair of hands grab his leg ! It was a very strong grip and just then, he felt a searing pain and shouted out as his leg got bitten ! He lashed out with his leg as hard as he could and with all his might, pulled himslef out of the window. Then he ran from the bothy as fast as his injured leg would let him. Luckily. he was not followed !
Some time after, when Struan Robertson, as a young man, interviewed the shepherd about the attack, the shepherd showed him his healed leg. It bore the ugly scars of a large bite mark, not a human bite-pattern, but more like a dog-style bite, but the pattern being larger than a dog - maybe like a wolf ? But how can that be ? Wolves became extinct in Scotland in the 17th Century ! Scottish zoos did not keep wolves at that time and there were no game parks in existence at that time - so no escaped wolf ! And yet the bite mark was like a very large dog - much bigger than a sheepdog and then there were the human hands which grabbed his leg.
A nice piece of folklore ? or is there more to the tale ?
Scotland has many mysterious stories waiting to be explored, well-known and not so well known. My Highland father told me some of these stories - wouldn't it be great if they're really true ?
One such story my father recounted, not about wolves, was during his childhood. His father was a gamekeeper on the Ronachan Estate, Clachan, Kintyre, Argyll. A nearby old castle tower, belonging to a local chieftain/laird, the MacDonalds of Largie, was reputed to have an resident elf-like creature, a brownie. A famous local story told how a servant in the castle was laying table in the dining hall for a banquet. She had just put out all the best silver, meticulously laid out in the best traditions of multi-course culinary etiquette, on the big polished table and had gone next door to the china pantry. When she came back into the dining hall, her jaw dropped. All the silver was on the carpetted floor, laid out in a different pattern to that the maid had used. The maid, muttering under her breath at what was obviously some ill-timed practical joke, painstakingly laid out all the silver on the table again, in the correct order - again ! Then off she went.
When she came back, all the silver was on the floor - again !!! and laid out in the other pattern - again !!! Once more, the dutiful maid did the needful and went out - but this time, she just went outside a few moments and rushed back to catch the culprit. But in the seconds she had been out of the room, the cutlery was back on the floor in the other layout. Now completely spooked, the maid thought there was some supernatural force at work and so she laid out the table one more time, but this time, used the cutlery layout from the floor.
When she returned, the cutlery was still on the table and so it remained. The suspected culprit ? A helpful but strong-minded brownie ! A sort of Highland Dobbie (the Harry Potter house-elf) except brownies are invisible to normal humans, are a lot more independent, they choose you and stay as long as you feed them and see them okay.
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" but what gets me is how did all the stories start. arewolves, vampires ect everyones heard the stores and they had to come from somewere."
yeah, it's called the human imagination. are you kidding me?
While i do not believe in vampires or werewolves, i like to read about the various legends. I believe in things like bigfoot, because a giant ape is a zoological possibility.
shareone that lives for centuries and nobody can ever seem to catch or get a good photograph of? bigfoot is a hoax. if there was any truth to it you know the government would capture it in a week so it could study it.
shareBadgers are all over the UK, but i've never seen one in the wild. Does that mean they don't exist?
sharebut youve seen photos of them right? clear, natural photos? unlike the ones of "bigfoot"? there are legions of photos to be found of badgers. theres like what - 1 or 2 of "bigfoot"? and theyre very hazy and blurry. its not the same thing at all and you know it.
shareAbsence of proof is not proof of absence. I know i sound like some nut, but i truly believe bigfoot, sasquatch, and similar beasts exist. Look at the patterson film. Its authenticity is debated, but i still believe it to be genuine. Look at the borneon bay cat. As far as i know, only one picture of the animal exists. There is the kting voar, a type of antelope, well-known to the people of the region where it lives. All we have is sets of its horns, no photo exists.
shareMy mistake, there's more than one picture of the bay cat. One site even claimed no photos existed at all.
sharewell how do you explain why there are no fossil records or remains of any type of ape in the americas? why has their existence only been observed in other parts of the world? if he's the last of his kind, wouldnt you think they would have found at least a shred of evidence of his species' existence by now? i think that is a little more convincing than some blurry videos and pictures.
shareThey collected hair samples. They were identified as mammalian, but otherwise unknown. They could be from anything, admittedly. True, no ape remains have been found in the americas, but prehistoric monkey remains have been found in several parts of south america. Parts of dead animals aren't always easy to find. Also, de loys ape was never conclusively proven to be fake. And people saying they have encountered bigfoot give really detailed accounts about what they saw, rather than saying "a huge hairy monster, at least 8ft tall". And let's not forget, the native americans spoke of sasquatch, a canadian or northern version of bigfoot. That sounds similar to people in africa describing gorillas to white explorers for the first time.
shareThe Patterson film has been completely debunked. It was a hoax. But never mind that. Sure absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. But absence of evidence is not evidence of presence! Absence of evidence is just that - nothing. That silly argument would "prove" hobbits are living in your back yard!
For a viable population of huge ape-like creatures to exist and account for so many sightings as Bigfoot we would expect to find remains of dead ones somewhere, sometime. They would die from disease or heart-attacks or snakebites, etc., just like any other animal and of course they would leave a trace of bones. Fossil evidence does not support such a creature either. There are now so many humans all over the place that without solid evidence we cannot honestly say Bigfoot exists.
Those hair samples that were found - in each case they were not examined by actual scientists. There is not a single case of a hair sample that cannot be explained by normal animals other than Bigfoot. Please furnish ONE example of a mysterious hair sample that cannot be explained by known animals!
Who knows? Lycanthropes (animal shape shifters) and vampires just might exist. Maybe we just do not see them too often, that's all.
I heard that one of the things that started the stories about werewolves was the Vikings that would rade villages in the night...dressed in heavy fun from head to toe,and totaly drunk. Doing all sorts of weird things like biting people and stuff,you know, cause they're drunk and all. And then you never know...the people who they invaded might have been drunk instead...and then when they were sober again told stories of big hairy man like creatures that came into their homes at night...and elaborating on it until the stories became frigtening tales of supernatural monsters as they were passed down through time. And then there were these Roman military people who would dress up in wolf pellets(with the head and all) and lead war rades and stuff. But I'm not saying I don't beleive in them and all. You never know what might still be in some of the (however sparce) unclaimed wilderness out there. I for one will never NOT beleive they don't exist. Becasue again, you never know...
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