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ARE THEY BATS?: It's time again for yet another amazing installment in our ongoing series of reports on weird things going on in the borough.
Today's topic - vampires.
Our report comes to us from the Elmhurst-based Vampire Research Center (seriously) and its director, Stephen Kaplan, who claims to be "the world's top expert on modern vampires."
Kaplan, who teaches parapyschology at adult night school at a Forest Hills high school, insists not only that vampires exist, but that "people should be afraid of them."
Why? "Because they bite!"
Kaplan says that in a recent study, he found that 85 percent of all vampires prefer biting as their favorite method of getting blood - others use more polite methods. And, he says, bite victims become "vampiroids" (yes, he made the word up) who then bite others. Scary, huh?
Kaplan says he has been researching vampires since 1972 and has even interviewed about 20 of them. He believes vampires are just people with a "physiological need to drink blood" from other humans. But maybe most frightening of all, Kaplan says vampires are "very good dressers," which means they don't wear black capes and you can't tell them apart from the other weirdos on the street.
If...