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This Week In Survival June 1, 2014

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Whew well that was another week survived, this one despite the open zompire grave in Poland puzzling the world with questions like, how did the zombies infect the first Polish vampires anyway? Not to mention my ongoing hunt for the shady shadow hunters Sue and Tim  to locate the spectrum jewel they wield and…. what else? 

Shadow hunters taking on shadow shifters this week.
Shadow hunters vs shadow shifters this week.

This Week In Survival is all about the what else. That time of the week when I look back through the pages of SOS and gamely follow the comment crumb trail to find out who is surviving what and how, supernaturally of course.

Thanks to everyone who kept on keeping on with SOS this week. Check back here as I update the post with all the latest facts and news left by survivors like you and me here on the site.

Wanted: Spectrum Jewel

–>>ENRON believes the shadow hunters must have stolen it and may be using it. Which raises the question, are they hunting the shadows? Or unbinding them for nefarious purposes? Thanks to ENRON and ICE for investigating this one…

Is Lycanthropy a Heritable Virus?

–>> That’s the theory posited this week here by VELANKO. Do you agree?

Whose DNA is MIA now?

–>> A reminder from LOKI to protect your DNA at all costs. What does Lilith want with Ice’s father’s DNA? Thanks to LOKI for bringing this alert.

Alchemy Experiment Notes:

–>>When  LILITH and RB team up for a little alchemy experiment what could go wrong? Oh yeah, everything. Is she still bound in Gehenna eating stars?

–>> Or confined in REAPER’S home with a bowl of popcorn?

Supernatural Family Counselling:

–>> Well well well look who’s finally signing up. Did R.B. find one of HATTER’S brochure’s lying around?

Stone Father Update: 

–>> VELANKO on the trail of a the masonic man. Is the Stone Father covering up a supernatural war? Or waging it?

Another Zompire Grave Found by Polish Vampire Archaeologists

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Another zompire grave discovered in Poland by a vampire archaeologist this week proves Poland was zompire ground zero, even while raising the possibility of a fresh zompire outbreak in that country.

SOS warning, the information contained in this report may be disturbing to both vampires and zombies. Read on at your discretion. And please remember, I’m just the messenger… no shooting. Or biting.

A zompire grave uncovered in Poland this week.
A zompire grave uncovered in Poland this week.

Vampire archaeologist Slawomir Gorka led the expedition to uncover a suspected vampire grave in the small town of Kamien Pomorski only to find more evidence for the existence of the dread Polish zompires as far back as the 15th Century.

Polish vampire graves have been puzzling supernatural researchers since the 1950s when they were first discovered.

Survivors know it’s not unusual to find the remains of a suspected vampire staked and buried with a stone on the mouth. Vampire graves like this have been discovered around the world.

But the Polish vampire graves show an extra level of caution was taken with these suspected supernatural beings. Specifically, the suspected supernatural was also decapitated and the teeth removed entirely before a stone was put in the mouth and the whole head placed beside the knees. A clear case of overkill for a vampire burial – but just right for a suspected zompire.

In other words, Poland may have been Mecca for the world’s very first zompires.

Polish vampire professor Titus Hjelm explained to CNN that Polish vampires lived entirely normal lives – until their deaths.

“Vampires were born, rather than ‘made”,” he says. “They were normal people who could live normal lives, not aristocrats living in distant castles. The problems only started when these people died.”

Without a proper burial, these genetic vampires were known to rise from the dead with a hunger for human flesh just like a zombie, but with one exception. The first flesh they would eat to start their new unlife appears to have been their own.

“They are known for eating their own flesh and even burial garments when they rise from the dead,” says Titus Hjelm.

Does this explain explain the stone placed in the mouth of the skeleton whose teeth have already been removed and the placement of the dead vampire’s head beside the knees?

“Such a placement of the head ensured the dead would not be able to ‘reach it’ and put it back on his neck,” suggests zompire archaelogist Kamil Kajikowski.

Also very telling is the placement of the stake. Archaeologists note that Polish vampires are invariably staked through the thigh and not the heart at all like other vampires. Just another sign the Polish people knew they were not dealing with a simple vampire burial but rather someone wanting to go walking.

When will we know the truth about the Polish vampires and how they went zombie in the middle ages?

Soon, if the vampire archaeologists of Poland have anything to say about the matter.

“So far they remain unknown,” says the head of that archaeology department Leszek Gardela. “It is high time to change this.”

We will have to keep on keeping on to find out. Meanwhile, let’s hope these vampire archaeologists are well trained to handle zompire remains and it won’t go missing like that Bulgarian vampire skeleton. Anyone with a theory or a lead on the matter is invited to report.

Is Poland zompire ground zero?
Is Poland zompire ground zero?

Shadow Hunters Expose Shape Shifting Shadows Everywhere – What is Their Secret?

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As a pair of shadow hunters with the unlikely names of Tim and Sue seize supernatural headlines around the world with their ability to expose and capture the shadow shifters hiding among us, supernatural survivologists express concern.

Shadow Hunters
Shadow Hunters

What is their secret? And how will they contain the shadowy shifters they expose? Are they really waging a shadow war? Or up to something even more sinister?

As any survivor who follows SOS even half-heartedly will be aware, shape shifters in general and shadow shifters in particular are one of my biggest foes.

Mainly this is because leprechauns remain stunted into adulthood by rainbow teleportation, remaining deceptively small in stature, but  also mainly because shifters are just so darn shifty.

When your enemy can disguise him or herself as a tin can or a toaster, you never know what you’re dealing with until it’s too late. Like other supernatural survivologists of 99.98% human origin, I have failed to find a reliable way to identify them and as a result, they remain immune to the diagnostic powers of The Monstrometer.

Enter shadow hunters Tim Noble and Sue Webster. The shadowy duo has solved this age old problem with a secret light source to expose the true form of many everyday objects. And while they’re not divulging their secrets, the duo have been demonstrating their powers to wowed audiences around the world this month.

But what is their secret? And how do they intend to securely contain the shifters they expose?

What is the secret of the shadow hunters?
What is the secret of the shadow hunters?

Check back here as I hunt down the shadow hunting duo for an interview.

An SOS investigation in progress…

This Week In Survival, May 25, 2014

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Finally a nice quiet week of survival… knock on wood…

Must be summer in the Northern Hemisphere. Apart from the impending demon wolf resurrection oh and that little demigod fight that broke out over London today, things have been pretty quiet, supernaturally speaking.

Demigods Caught Fighting on Video
Demigods Caught Fighting on Video

It gives me a chance to catch up on all the correspondence of the week. Thanks to everyone expecting a reply for their ongoing patience. Survival HQ has been in the process of undergoing its annual security move but a new location has been found so things should get straightened around soon.

New Exorcism Service

–>> New exorcism service  BLANCHE here on the site but buyer beware I still have not looked into it and cannot vouch for its authenticity or its effectiveness. So far all I can tell for sure is that the price appears to be lower than the previous service used here on the site ie: that of Paster Larson and his demon fighting daughters.. but as with any exorcist there’s bound to be a hidden price…

–>> Anyone who has used this service or having knowledge of it is requested to please submit testimony.

Dream Analyst Needed:

–>> CLAYTON has a few questions for werewolves about forests that never end…

Roseburg Pack Encounter

–>> This is going to take some research…. VELANKO & CHAOS on a crow cull encounter an unfriendly pack… what happened? I’m still working on that but so far it results in a murder of chicken nuggets… What is a STONE FATHER? any background or updates on this situation is much appreciated…

Gehenna Tourism Bureau

–>> Look who is on a trip to…. where? What is this place? And what are the artifacts involved here? It’s LILITH and AGENT R.B.  somebody seems to be hungry so anything could happen.

–>> and look who is guarding the VOID KEY… is this reassuring? Or ominous?

Archaeologists Uncover Bones of Demon Wolf Black Shuck Werewolves of Bungay Enraged

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As the bones of legendary demon wolf Black Shuck were uncovered by archaelogists this week, how will the shadowy Werewolves of Bungay protest this desecration of his holy bones?

Bones of legendary demon wolf exposed.
Bones of legendary demon wolf exposed.

Archaeologists uncovered massive 7 foot long wolf bones that had been ceremonially buried at a church in  Suffolk, England this week, and  confirmed they had found the secret grave of legendary demon wolf, Black Shuck, who terrorized church goers in the middle ages.

Famous for his flaming claws that burned scorch marks into church doors, Black Shuck terrorized church goers in the middle ages, attacking them when they knelt to pray. A survivor account by Reverend Abraham Fleming in 1577 describes a typical Black Shuck attack like this:

‘This black dog, or the divel in such a linenesse (God hee knoweth al who worketh all,) running all along down the body of the church with great swiftnesse, and incredible haste, among the people, in a visible fourm and shape, passed between two persons, as they were kneeling uppon their knees, and occupied in prayer as it seemed, wrung the necks of them bothe at one instant clene backward, in somuch that even at a moment where they kneeled, they strangely dyed…”

Strangely dyed indeed….

This sign of the Bungay Werewolves can be seen everywhere.
This sign of the Bungay  Lightning Werewolves can be seen everywhere.

The very strangeness of these deaths soon became apparent as Black Shuck went from reviled divel to the object of veneration by his survivors – or should I say strange dyers. Soon after a brutal Sunday attack in the middle of a lightning storm, survivors in the town of Bungay began inexplicably to hoist the image of Black Shuck everywhere, even putting him on their coat of arms to declare their allegiance.

And Bungay remains the flaming heart of Black Shuck’s demon wolf legacy. Even today it is said to be the seat of power for at least two different clans. Both Lightning and Shadow Werewolves may be found there at locations bearing signs that look like this —>>>

Just how will the werewolves of Bungay react to the news that Black Shuck’s secret grave has been discovered and his bones exposed to the world? Without a proper re-burial, will there be a full moon resurrection of the demon wolf?

I have contacted several villagers via Skype and Facebook with these questions and more but so far none will comment, clear evidence to me they are living in fear. Or else they are all in on the plan…

We’ll be looking into this one and more all week here at SOS. If you live in Bungay or happen to know somebody who lives there, I hope you will report.

Thanks for keeping on,

Seth

Chaos Alpha, Survivor of the Month May 2014

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SOS Survivor of the Month

Remember Chaos Alpha Cuz He Likely Remembers You:

Chaos Alpha

Son of Chaos and Nyx, Defender of the Throne of Creation, Alpha of the Chaotica Wolves, Assassin for Peace, now receives his fifth greatest honour, SOS Survivor of the Month…

1. Chaos has been keeping on here, lurking in the shadows of SOS for approximately 6,480 hours over the last 10 months. Read one of his introductions here.

2. However you may not have always noticed Chaos Alpha because he is the leader of a very secretive and ancient order, whose code requires them to blend in and punishes members who reveal themselves, the Chaotica.

Also maybe because he comes and goes in quiet, at midnight, through a certain spot in a certain graveyard. What is that spot? Is it a particular headstone or grave?

3. The Chaotica are a brutal bunch of werewolves whose traditions include abandoning their babies to fend for themselves in the wild. A tough beginning to be sure but if the Chaotica child survives, they receive training.

3. Chaos Alpha has two half siblings on the site. Thanatos and Eris. See some of their prickly family reunion here. 

No wonder Chaos Alpha’s sense of family is a little well.. off…

4. Since his first transformation at the age of three, Chaos trained as an assassin for peace. A paradoxical set of skills which this survivor has often deployed here on the site in the defence and aid of other survivors. For instance when a human named Andrew came on the site threatening werewolves who wouldn’t agree to turn him…

5. Although he prefers conventional weapons over magic, Chaos Alpha’s training includes dream walking. Those who dare to dream walk with this Survivor will wake up with a certain mark. Do you know the mark?

6. With all that training, Chaos Alpha gets bored without a contract, something he has been for almost two years now. He isn’t waiting around for another one though. He is on a mission, travelling always Eastward, in search of a mysterious something. What is it?

7. Chaos Alpha’s boredom often propels him to get involved in the quests and supernatural situations of other survivors. He asks questions that lead to things being found, plans being made and information being clarified or brought to light. The list of supernatural situations in which Chaos Alpha has gotten involved  are many but they include:

—>> Teaming up to help Mary & Jerry9012 defeat the Dark that rolled in here last September, the dangerous shadow of a Survivor named Blaze.

—->> Investigating the death of Mr. Mutt’s hybrid’s.

—>> Collaborating with the aforementioned Mr. Mutt along with many others to defeat the dread Sentinel Cycle.

—>> With Fenrir, he looked into reports of damage to the Throne of Creation and helped repair the seals. Hopefully that glue will hold…

8. Has great difficulty remembering things that happen to him from moon to moon and that’s why he writes it all down. Lucky for us, he chooses to file some of these notes with us here on the site.

9. That said, Chaos Alpha has a remarkable memory for others on the site, the things they say or do. Is this part of the Chaotica mind trick to erase their memories of him?

10. He does not fear death but he is not entirely fearless.  What does he fear? Follow this link. I think you may be surprised… 

There’s more to be said and written about Chaos Alpha but if you have any questions, why not ask him yourself? He likely won’t mind and Graham and I do appreciate anyone and everyone who helps to further the Supernatural research here at SOS.

And to you Chaos Alpha, thanks for helping make SOS a supernaturally great place to keep on keeping on. Your small and very likely cursed thank-you iTunes card should be arriving in your email tonight.

Seth