They're Coming Out....!
A few months ago, I reported on a scientist’s findings that people with the tendancies of werewolves – humans who change into terrifying flesh-ripping monsters under a full moon – exist among us.
Anyone you know...?
If you thought that werewolves - humans who change into a terrifying flesh-ripping monster under a full moon - were the creatures of books and movies, a new Australian study might change your mind.
The full moon does bring out people displaying werewolf symptoms – biting, spitting and scratching, a researcher has found in an official scientific study.
In just one year, between August 2008 to July this year no less than 91 emergency patients suffering violent, acute disturbances comparable to mythical werewolves were admitted to the Calvary Mater hospital in Newcastle, north of Sydney.
And a quarter of these occurred on a night of a full moon – and was double the number for other lunar phases, says Miss Leonie Calver, a clinical research nurse in toxicology.
‘Some of these patients attacked the staff like animals – biting, spitting and scratching,’ she said.
The patients all had to be sedated and physically restrained to protect themselves.
Miss Calver’s study, which is contained in the pre-Christmas edition of the Medical Journal of Australia, said: ‘One might compare them with the werewolves of the past, who are said to have also appeared during the full moon.’
Yowee!
