- [Matthew] You know, a lot of people really like cats,
but if I told you that there are people that live like them.
Here are 10 people who live non-human lives.
Number 10 are vampires.
With all the popularity the creatures of the night are
getting in modern day movies, books and television shows,
it's no wonder people would crave to live the life,
or rather un-life, of a vampire,
and that's just what 55 year old Vanian Dark
and his wife, 28 year old Ethereal, claim to be.
The couple, who live in Manchester, England,
possess something stranger than a 27 year age difference
and love for black clothing.
They have a lust for actual human blood.
Though they swear they never take it from unwilling hosts
the way that vampires in fiction do,
they do drink from each other
and a group of enablers called Black Swans,
who go out of their way to get certificates
saying that they're in clean health
so that they can feed their vampire friends and family.
The Darks don't claim to possess super strength, speed,
or even immortality, but they do seem
to take their lifestyle very seriously.
Well, everyone needs a hobby, right?
Some people knit, some people play croquet
and some people do this.
Number nine are cats.
I can see the appeal in wanting to have a cat,
the cuteness, the companionship, but wanting to be one?
That's taking things a bit too far, if you ask me.
However, that's just what a 21 year old
Norwegian woman is doing as she goes
about her life as a talking cat named Nano.
Nano says she's always been a feline
and does very feline-esque things,
such as walking on all fours, sleeping on window sills,
hissing at dogs, avoiding water that isn't in her bowl,
and meowing playfully at humans,
even ones that she doesn't know.
She also claims to possess incredible night vision
and enhanced catlike hearing.
Nano says that she was definitely born
into the wrong species, and that she's supposed to have come
into this world as a cat, but something went wrong
and she popped out as a human.
She's the first person to publicly identify as a cat.
Psychologists have told her that she can grow out of it,
but Nano hopes that she's a cat for life.
Yeah, that's cool.
I wonder if she gets hairballs.
Number eight is a silver elf.
Michael Love, also known by his elvish name, Zardoa,
is a member of the silver elves, a supposed family
of those mystical creatures from Tolkien novels
or Dungeons and Dragons games.
The silver elves claim to have first awakened
to their true selves in 1975, when they were contacted
by the Elf Queen's Daughters in Carbondale, Illinois,
probably via Ouija board.
The EQDs taught Zardoa and his silver elf sisters
how to cast spells and perform enchantments,
which I'm sure legitimately worked.
The silver elves were also taught
the elven way, which is a spiritual path
that leads to belief in Santa Clause,
their distant cousin, the tooth fairy,
and all other deities.
Since then, Zardoa has been living his magical elven life
out in Honolulu, Hawaii, with his wife Sisterflame
and the two of them have written and published
over 37 different books on elven magic,
enchantment and the elven way.
Yeah, I'll be sure to read those real soon.
What's on Netflix?
Number seven is a dragon lady.
Eva Tiamat Baphomet Medusa, formerly Richard Hernandez,
is a 56 year old transgender woman from Arizona
and the world's first trans species human dragon.
Tiamat, the only transhuman dragon in existence,
has had numerous cosmetic procedures done to give her,
or it, as Tiamat prefers, a more reptilian look.
These plastic surgeries have removed its ears,
removed and modified its nose, removed teeth,
forked its tongue, dyed its eyes green,
and implanted eight horns in its head.
Tiamat also has full body tattoos that create
scaly patterns on its skin as well as face tattoos,
and it still has plans for even more cosmetic work
until 2025, with the ultimate goal
of leaving humanness behind.
Whether or not it will want to fly around breathing fire
and massacring peasant villages in the future, you know,
remains to be seen for now, but Tiamat heads
an activist organization making the world a better place.
Yeah, a better place for who?
What kind of charity work does a dragon lady do?
I'm genuinely curious.
Number six are unicorns.
In 2011, art director and choreographer Shaft Uddin
decided to attend the Burning Man Art Festival
in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada.
There, he had an epiphany and was reborn
as a fabulous unicorn version of himself.
Being a unicorn doesn't demand
that you act like a mystical horse.
It's more about dressing colorfully, being uber positive,
living life spontaneously, and loving everyone
in an almost literal polyamorous sense.
Shaft and his unicorn clan, which started in London, England
are more like modern day hippies
that go out partying and dancing
while wearing strapped unicorn horns on their foreheads.
Their horns, along with their extremely glittery
and rainbow colored outfits, turn heads everywhere
that they go, and their following has attracted
thousands from around the world.
The unicorns have their own credo
of 10 principles that they follow,
most of which involve being shiny, happy people.
You know, a lot of people probably laugh at these guys,
but hey, we could all use a little more positivity
in our life, even if it includes some glitter.
Number five is animal man.
Charles Foster is an oddity among the human species,
mainly because he chooses to search for the answers
to deep philosophical questions about himself and life
through the experiences of different animals.
In short, Charles Foster has dedicated
a large portion of his 54 year life to acting like animals.
Once a successful barrister and veterinarian
who studied at Cambridge University, Foster currently
teaches at Oxford University when he isn't writing.
For many years, the six foot, 210 pound man
lived as a few different animals.
He spent his time as a badger in Wales with his son,
sleeping through the daytime and hunting at night,
even smelling each other's feces.
Okay, that's going a little too far.
In London, he traveled around at night,
eating from garbage bins, sleeping under bushes,
and competing with other foxes for meals.
His attempts at living like a swift bird
and red deer were more dignified, but less successful.
How does one live like a swift bird? (imitates cawing)
Just trying to fly around, that's just weird.
Number four is Peter Pan.
Sometimes, fairy tales do come true,
or rather, sometimes, strange people ritually enact
their favorite fairy tales as if they were true.
This is the case for Randy Constan,
a 64 year old former engineer and musician
who has decided to live as Peter Pan.
Constan faces many human challenges, unlike Peter Pan,
such as constant aging and inability to fly,
but he settles for dressing in Peter Pan outfits
with green tights whenever he can
and acting giddy and carefree like a child.
Constan set up his own webpage
in order to spread awareness of his life choice,
connect with others who felt similarly
about living as an eternal child or fairy,
and to possibly find his soulmate.
Impressively, he managed to achieve all of those goals,
appearing on talk shows like Conan and Jimmy Kimmel,
receiving contact from various other odd lifestyle
enthusiasts and meeting his current wife, Dorothy.
Aw, that's actually pretty magical.
Let's just hope that he doesn't try to take her
out a window like the real Peter Pan,
'cause that relationship's gonna end real quick.
Number three is a goat man. (imitates goat braying)
Sorry, just my goat man slipped out.
One day, British writer Thomas Thwaites decided
to take a vacation from being human and became a goat man.
After spending a full year researching his unorthodox way
to escape the daily stresses and anxieties of human life,
he managed to convince a prosthetic limb expert
in Manchester, England, to help him create
fake goat limbs to walk on all fours.
He also fashioned some makeshift goat gear
using a special bicycle helmet, a raincoat,
a chest protector, and an artificial goat stomach
that allowed Thwaites to chew grass
and then spit it out secretly.
After his goat ensemble was complete,
he found a goat farm in Wolfenschiessen, Sweden
that allowed him to spend time being, you guessed it,
a goat, with a real herd of goats.
As a goat, he spent three days with a herd
and three days alone, and actually ended up winning
an IG Nobel Prize in 2016 for documenting his odd experience
in his book, Goat Man.
You know, as an author myself,
I have to say that's really impressive.
All you gotta do is dress up like a goat
and you win a Nobel Prize.
Man, I gotta get on this guy's level.
Number two are bronies.
Oh, yeah, you've heard of these people.
Living your life as a good and friendly human being
is one thing, but living your life as a colorful
and cheerfully friendly pony is another.
Enter the bronies, a huge group of diehard fans
of the 1983 toy line, My Little Pony,
which by the way, got an update with a cartoon
of the same name, based on those toys, released in 2010.
Bronies are mostly male, with only one in five
being a pegasister, or female brony.
They dress up in super flamboyant
and often complex costumes, emulating
their favorite character and actually live their lives under
the credo of the pony that they identify with the most,
making up fan fiction avatar and fan art of them.
People of all ages and ethnicities have joined this group,
with 21 being the average age of a brony.
Seemingly harmless, the brony slogan is
the same as the show's, "Friendship is magic!"
Well, let's be honest.
It's definitely not the worst group
that a person could become a part of.
And number one are furries.
Yeah, you might've heard of these people too.
If you're like most people
outside of this particular culture,
when you hear that someone is a furry, you immediately
associate that with a kinky sexual thrill seeker
or the happiness that they get from putting on
an animal costume and making sweet jungle love,
but as it turns out, furries are looking for much more
than a mate in a fuzzy outfit.
In fact, people of all ages identify as furries,
even those who are not sexually active.
For those unaware of them, furries are
costume-loving enthusiasts who appreciate animal characters
with distinctively human attributes and personalities.
Originating in 1980 at science fiction convention,
this fandom has become a subculture all onto its own.
Yes, they walk on two legs and wear clothes,
but those clothes go on top of the costume that they wear,
which by the way, is of the creature
that they identify with.
Furries are just like you, only, you know, furrier.
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