Washington L.O.W.F.I

Archive for March, 2010

A man wearing what appeared to be a pipe bomb was kicked out of a Seattle homeless shelter Friday morning after claiming to be a vampire, then arrested by police. Was this man one of the “real” vampires from Forks, WA, who sprang up after the filming of “Twilight?” A coworker of mine in the film business, who worked as a set designer on the “Twilight” films, tells me that rumors abound about a sect of “believers” in the NW who claim to be real vampires. Could this be another example of the “Copycat” phenomenon that I first theorized about in the 1980s, where the viewing public sees a piece of entertainment and tries to copy it? Or is this an example of the film being set in a place that already was known for its vampire cults? Or, is this particular incident just another cryptozoological “terror hoax” designed to cover up occult activity? You decide…

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