It is speculated that many supernatural creature legends such as those surrounding werewolves, vampires and demons were the product of tales woven to explain series of horrendous murders. They went unidentified as such simply because superstition and fear kept people ignorant and cowering from truly investigating the source of the violence. We have tried to place labels on certain individuals who have caught our attention such as Elizabeth Bathory, Vlad the Impaler, Jack the Ripper or the Servant Girl Annihilator, but the truth of the matter is vicious serial crimes have plagued our race since the beginning of civilization. My gut reaction was to agree, but then, I began to wonder: is this really true? Is the world more violent? Is the human race more vicious than previous centuries? Or are we merely more open about the violence that takes place to the point that we have become jaded to the horrors humans inflict on one another? Serial killers are nothing new to our species mass murders have been around as long as history allows us to recount. The other day I overheard someone saying that they thought the world was a much more violent place than ever before in the history of the human race.
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