Comments on: Kentucky’s White Vampire

By: sschaper

sschaper — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 16:52:35 +0000

Didn’t say red ears, though, or I’d say a Hound of Annwn

By: sschaper

sschaper — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 16:51:57 +0000

Gravedigger?

By: mystery_man

mystery_man — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 04:21:44 +0000

CrimsonFox79- That is a very good observation about the Borzoi. A large one might be a surprising sight for someone not used to seeing this breed, as it is not a conventional looking dog. This might make them inclined to over exaggerate the size. I also think you are very right in your idea of what might have happened. Someone is killed, throat slit, and a dog just happens to be seen lapping up the blood. Dogs do not suck blood, but they wouldn’t have any problem with lapping it off of a wound especially if they were hungry. To a shocked observer, the licking of the blood from the cut could easily be misinterpreted for it sucking the blood. I think your idea is a very sound and rational one. It makes sense and is definitely a possible explanation.

By: CrimsonFox79

CrimsonFox79 — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 22:48:03 +0000

White animal thats similar to a greyhound but larger?
A ‘Borzoi’ (a dog breed) is what first comes to mind:
http://www.westminsterkennelclub.org/breedinformation/hound/images/borzoi.jpg

except they arent 4′x6′ of course… no dog is. But people tend to exaggerate a lot on sizes of animals they see. I have had people describe spiders that ‘were huge like tarantulas’ that were 1/2″ barn spiders…. or scream a ‘enormous’ 1-foot-long garter snakes that were gonna suffocate them. So I don’t take size descriptions too literally.
And I don’t doubt that a large uncommon dog breed, especially if seen from a distance, can be over-exaggerated as much bigger than it is.

Though of course, Borzois (or any dog) do not tear holes in throats and suck blood dry.

There haven’t been actual eye-witnesses of the large white animal sucking dogs’ blood has there?
I would say it might be humans slitting animals’ throats (Halloween is coming up, and there are a lot of sickos out there who still do weird animal sacrifices like this around halloween)
and perhaps there’s a neighborhood stray dog that’s just being the assumed culprit?

By: bill green

bill green — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 16:57:18 +0000

great new article about kentucky s white vampire. thanks bill green

By: cmgrace

cmgrace — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 16:46:08 +0000

Albino chupacabra of some type?

By: mystery_man

mystery_man — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:54:55 +0000

Interesting account, but I suspect highly over sensationalized. I am guessing the corpses were drained dry? The physiology required for an animal to drain all of the blood from an animal the size of a dog would highly unlikely in my opinion. It would be quite a feat. Even known animals that subsist entirely on blood, like the vampire bats, come nowhere near draining their prey completely of blood (granted they taste from much larger animals, but even if they did feed off animals their own size, they would not suck them dry). Even if this creature was bigger than the dogs, I find it improbable. “Vampire” stories are good yarns, but I feel the possibility of an animal of the size described equipped with the drastic anatomy needed to pull such a thing off is low. Unless it is something supernatural, in which case it is likely beyond our present ability to study anyway and to me puts it outside the realm of cryptozoology’s scope.