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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/trifletruffles on 2023-11-28 16:33:43.

Original Title: TIL in the 1950s, when the CIA was fighting the Huks, a communist guerrilla movement in the Philippines, they spread rumors that evil men would be attacked by an aswang or ‘vampire’. As part of psychological warfare, they punctured holes in a dead body and drained it of blood for others to find.