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Many things are said about the supernatural creatures of myth and legends, mainly that they aren’t real and are explained away scientifically. Most of the facts that we know of concerning these things that go bump in the night come from some historical events that were so gruesome that they needed a “rational” explanation for their happenings.
One such event concerns Vlad the Impaler, who was said to be a vampire because he thought that drinking the blood of the people he killed would rejuvenate him and keep him young forever (on top of impaling his enemies’ heads on pikes). With the same mentality, a Hungarian Countess, Elizabeth Bathroy de Ecsed, would exsanguinate virgins and bathe in their blood to stay forever young. Another fact that helped spread these myths about vampires, are people who are allergic to the sun because if you can’t stand the sun’s light surely you mustn’t be human and the sun is a weakness that could very possibly kill you.
A number of other phobias and medical conditions that were later discovered also helped cement the fact that these monsters do not in fact exist.
An example of a creature that was explained away with a mental illness was the werewolf/shifter. Someone who had the disease of lycanthropy would think they were a wolf (or any animal really) on the night of the full moon; they would start to behave like a wolf, walk on all fours and howl at the moon.
Bottom line is; are these facts really one hundred percent accurate? Or were these facts about the myths invented by a whole other community living side by side with the humans and supported by science the more advanced it got? If by chance these facts were invented, how much of these “facts” are actually wrong and why would they purposefully spread as truth? And who would be part of this community and how would they survive living in space?