![]() ![]() Hidden beneath the media images and the talk-show circuses, lies a dark realm with its own rituals, rules, boundariesand penalties. Now Ramsland was face-top-face with her subjects and the questions were alarmingly intimate and direct: Were these vampires for real? Did they act from compulsion or choice? Did they really drink blood? What else did they do? Often against her better judgment, Ramsland began to follow up personal ads and Internet inquiries with actual forays into the vampire scene, penetrating deeper and deeper into a world few Americans even dream exists. But the search for her opened new doors of inquiry for Ramsland, who found herself drawn almost against her will into a world she had previously explored only through the investigations and research of others. ![]() One of the experts consulted in the search for Susan Walsh was clinical psychologist Katherine Ramsland, who was steeped in the subject as a journalist and bestselling biographer. Suspicion immediately fell on the bizarre cultists who wore black, painted their faces white, and drank (or claimed to drink) human blood. "If you begin to hunt for vampires, the vampires will begin to hunt for you." "Christian" In the summer of 1996, a young female reporter named Susan Walsh disappeared while writing a story on downtown Manhattan's mysterious "vampire" underground. ![]()
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