This is an old commentary from cracked, that I thought you guys might want to read since its getting close to Halloween. I hope no one posted it here before. anyway I think its interesting and could spark a lively discussion.

Picture Courtasy of David Wong at Cracked

If you don’t believe in monsters, you’re part of a tiny minority of humans. Pretty much all of the cultures on Earth have believed in monsters for most of their history and, even stranger, they all believed in the same monsters. We recently pointed out that every culture has some variation of the vampire legend and that’s true of all the standard monsters—zombies, werewolves, etc.

But why? Well, it has to do with the wiring of the human brain, the evolution of cultures and, most importantly, the fact that people are dicks. All of which may spell bad news for the human race…

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