Stake And Hoe All Vampires

Oh,

how

Television

can ruin a good thing.

One of my favorite TV shows starring

Josh Gates,

supposedly an archeologist of some sort,

stars in

Expedition Unknown

on the

Travel Channel

decided to run an episode about finding

Vampires.

It was damn interesting too.

They even got the chance to interview the leader of a group of men,

from a

Bulgarian Village,

who swore that the recent death of

Fellow Villager,

was making people sick because he was a

Vampire.

They dug up the grave in the middle of the night,

why was the Vampire at home then,

they cut out his heart,

he was only dead for two weeks,

cooked it in some kind of broth

and held a medieval ritual,

feeding it to the sick

Villagers

which cured them immediately.

Talking about power of the mind inflicting sickness to oneself,

then curing oneself with superstition.

It was pretty fascinating.

The show is still good to watch.

The only part that upset me was when

Josh Gates

explains,

at the end of the show,

the above Skeleton,

with the piece of metal from a hoe sticking in his neck,

had possibly a rare disease called

Porphyria

after its

DNA

was tested.

First,

the test wasn't conclusive,

and second,

Josh Gates

said that the

Skeleton,

if he had

Porphyria,

would have an aversion to sunlight,

that his gums would shrink making his teeth look like fangs,

and have a repugnance towards garlic.

I was so excited about finding something new that I could write a story on and I looked into the subject.

Further study shows that

20,000 Americans

are afflicted with the disease each year.

There are two main types of the disease.

Acute Porphyrias

which is the worst one to be inflicted with,

and

Cutaneous Porphyrias

which is the one that the victims have the aversion to sunlight. Cutaneous Porphyrias

can,

but not always,

occur due to some other diseases,

that hasn't been treated,

like a gum disease.

And the repugnance to Garlic?

Ask anyone with a gum disease what the

Allium Family of Foods

do to their mouths.

The show stood on its own merits until they sensationalized it by stretching the truth.

This is,

The Picture Of The First Skeleton Has A Stake Where His Heart Would Have Been While The Second Skeleton Has The Blade From A Hoe Jammed In His Neck,

Jim Hauenstein,

And,

"Her vampires are sparkly, which I think we can all agree is wrong."

- Christopher Moore -

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