Bats are being thought to be menacing beings in many cultures. These are nocturnal and therefore connected with the night that is usually associated with death. There are lots of the common species that also have the relatively bizarre outlook that makes them all even more off-placing for the human beings. It does not aid that there is the species that really sucks the blood (which is Desmodus Rotundus, the vampire bat).

At the Maya culture, this bat god Camazotz has been associated with the death. Camazotz has been the name of the monstrous being that has dwelled in the known as a “house of bat” in a Popol Vuh. Numerous scholars believed that Camazotz has been inspired by the mutual vampire bat, but the others have recommended that it has been based on the giant vampire bat which (probably) went vanished at times during the Holocene periods or Pleistocene periods.

The Monster Bat

The monsters and the bat-like demons are usual in the Central America and South America. Another sample of such a tale is the Chonchon at Chile and Peru, which is believed to be made when the sorcerer, identified as kaku that performed the magical rite making the severed head to shoot huge ears and talons in death. These giant ears turned into wings then.

The Giant Vampire Bat

In the year 1988, the fossil of the vampire bat has been located in the province of Mongas province in Venezuela. The bat has been bigger than the present vampire bat by around 25% and has been dubbed Desmodus Draculae. This is even more popularly identified as the giant vampire bats.

The latest age discovered for the D. Draculae site was 300 BP during circa 1650 AD. Its latest age in the Central America has been difficult to ascertain, however, it is possibly either the Late Holocene or Pleistocene. Those dates really makes it very promising that the D. Draculae co-survive with humans in the Central and South America, and the human being could have come to contact with this D. Draculae, although towards Late Holocene they could have been dying out rare.

The D. Draculae Sightings

During the early 1950, the Brazilian couple asserts that they meet a bat like begin the similar valley where the fossils of this D. Draculae were situated in the country of Brazil. One more incident takes place in the year 1975 when there is an outbreak of the animal mutilations that hits the country of Puerto Rico. One farmer states that he has been repeatedly attack by the two gray birds like creatures. Those creatures had been also observed by the others all throughout the mutilation rash. Another sighting takes place during the mid-1970 in Texas, when the farmer declared that he had seen bald bat or the pterosaur like creature with the gorilla like faces and short beaks. The three toed imprints of the creature were believed to have been located.