I had an odd dream this morning. It was about blood. And unseen psychic vampires that have hunted a particular human with a specific blood type to survive, or maybe increase their genetic pool? It was unusual. Near the end of the dream, I wrote an email to David Paulides, the man behind the Missing 411 investigations, books and movies. I asked him if he’d noticed a commonality in the blood types of the people that have gone missing. Then I woke up.
And I’d never even known the word, ‘hematology’ before the dream.
Curious, isn’t it? We are a species that has multiple blood types. Some combinations can cause problems, fatal even, and a special blood type has been named ‘universal’ because it is able to be accepted by all, but that’s not true anymore thanks to a newly discovered blood type that can only donate to its own. Are we the only species on the planet that has multiple blood types? What’s the point of this adaptation? Is it evidence of us being hybrids of other species? Am I reading too much into all this? Afterall, sometimes a dream is just a dream.
Join me to learn something new about blood, rare blood diseases, forensic science, and maybe even some vampire facts and lore. I’ll also share the rarest blood type on Earth with you.
Show Sources and Materials:
Blood Facts from ThoughtCo: https://www.thoughtco.com/facts-about-blood-373355
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/559256/why-we-love-true-crime
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/vampires-europe-new-england-halloween-history
https://www.livescience.com/33528-why-blood-types-exist-compatible.html
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-do-people-have-differ/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-mystery-of-human-blood-types-86993838/
https://animals.howstuffworks.com/animal-facts/do-animals-have-different-blood-types.htm
https://www.historicmysteries.com/blood-types/
Ten facts about blood: https://youtu.be/FGFWImXRE08
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20140715-why-do-we-have-blood-types (it also tells of the newly discovered Bombay blood type!)
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