The True Origin of Zombies, Vampires, and Werewolves

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Western society has made everything from vampires to wolf-man and everything in between, but do some of these "monsters" have real origins in history?

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Previous Episode:

How Nature Created Unicorns, Dragons And Sea Monsters: http://www.seeker.com/how-nature-crea...

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Sources:

Vampires: Fact, Fiction and Folklore:
http://www.livescience.com/24374-vamp...

“Vampires are a perennial favorite around Halloween, but they can be found year-round in movies and on television, in books and on blogs."

From Dracula To The Strain: Where Do Vampires Come From?:
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/2015...

“The first season of the US TV series The Strain ended with The Master, source of New York’s vampire infection and one of the oldest vampires in existence, escaping our human heroes again."

Zombies: The Real Story Of The Undead:
http://www.livescience.com/23892-zomb...

“From 'World War Z' to ‘The Walking Dead’ to 'Shaun of the Dead' to 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies' and countless brain-dead rip-offs, zombies — re-animated corpses with an unstoppable craving for human flesh, especially brains — have invaded pop culture like never before."

The Tragic, Forgotten History of Zombies:
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainm...

“In the original script for 1968’s Night of the Living Dead, the director George A. Romero refers to his flesh-eating antagonists as 'ghouls.'"

Why Is It That Zombies Eat Brains?:
http://gizmodo.com/why-is-it-that-zom...

“Zombies have been a pop culture staple for decades, and in that time the concept of the dead coming back to life somehow to feast on the living has proliferated virtually every form of media that exists."

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