Are the werewolf and vampire myths based on memories of a war between Cro-Magnon Man and Neanderthals?

I just listened to a short talk on the origin of the werewolf and vampire myths. 

I don't think those myths were of great importance before Hollywood used them, by the way, but all myths are very interesting and appealing, to me at least. 

Even though fairy tales bored me to tears when I was three or four I love them now. Why, I don't know.

Were Neanderthals the original vampires?

Others think vampires are linked to the rare disease porphyria, which makes sufferers flee the sun. 

Perhaps porphyria is a Neanderthal legacy. 

Vampires are not important in Romanian culture, by the way. An Anglo-Irish pulp fiction writer copied the idea of a vampire story from another more gifted Anglo-Irishman, who had set his vampire story not in Transylvania but in Styria in Austria.

I have no idea if Robert Sepehr is a good authority but his theories about war between Cro-Magnon and cannibalistic Neanderthals who saw well in the dark are worth hearing, though his stuff smacks slightly of the stuff people like Erich von

Daniken wrote about visitors from outer space or Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln on the Rosicrucian secret, Jesus's marriage to St. Mary Magdalene. (My father was fascinated by both these - my supervisor Simon Keynes told me that Baigent, Leigh and Lincoln had no respect for truth.)

It's also interesting that Robert Sepehr thinks the evidence does not support the idea that mankind came from one group in Africa and that the widespread academic belief in this theory is based on political reasons.  

I know academics are usually in thrall to unexamined political ideas.

I always strongly suspected that the idea that there was not one Indo-European people at one time was based on dislike of the idea of Aryans for political reasons rather than science, but I never looked into the question. 

A girl who read Classics in my college told me, when I asked her about the origins of Indo-European, that it is a metaphor. I bet it's not.

I was very amused in 1985 to read John Hooper in his book The Spaniards saying the Basques are so ancient a race that some have suggested they are not homo sapiens at all but descended from the Neanderthals. 

That little known fact made people laugh at a dinner party in 1985 but got me accused of "19th century racism" by an apolitical friend on Facebook 13 years ago. 

Didn't Ambrose Bierce say 'goke' after attempts at humour? 

He also suggested using what he called a “snigger point” — \__/ — to convey jocularity or irony. But Ambrose Bierce was so leaden and unfunny. I feel sad just remembering The Devil's Dictionary.

As for the Neanderthal theory of the origins of the Basques, perhaps it is true. Judge for yourself here.