vampire-like creature who lives in the mountains and attacks its human prey at night. In one Luzon village where a Huk unit was firmly ensconced on an adjacent mountain, an army psy-ops team was brought in to spread rumors that an asuang lived on that same mountain. “Two nights later,” Lansdale recalled, “after giving the stories time to circulate among Huk sympathizers in the town and make their way up to the hill camp, the psywar squad set up an ambush along a trail used by the Huks. When a Huk patrol came along the trail, the ambushers silently snatched the last man of the patrol, their
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