"In our heart of hearts we have not come so far from our paleolithic ancestors. So long as we still live in fear so people like Altes will exist to feed off it and find it sweet. He and his kin have always prospered in those shadows just as they will continue to prosper, down through the ages, leeches growing fat on the world's pain."

"White Darkness," about Haiti and voodoo, is a fascinating, shocking and even moving narrative culled by British filmmaker Richard Stanley from his travel journals, at Fortean Times' website,.