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Do Vampires Still Exist?

There is little tangible evidence available on the existence of Vampires, and undue weight has to be placed on circumstancial evidence.

1. Every occurrence of human combustion - especially 'spontaneous' combustion - needs thorough examination. In practice, this is patchy and details often emerge too late for firm conclusions to be drawn.

A trickle of reports has arisen in Eastern and Central Europe, most provided by professional Vampire hunters. Several isolated reports have come from urban areas in the USA - 50% of these in New York.

2. Vampire-Typical injury reports (neck bites, severe bleeding from small wounds), also need investigation. This is almost impossible, as no health service categorises wounds in a useful way - and victims often go to great lengths to disguise or deny such injury.

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3. Exsanguination deaths and missing bodies: A significant number of such events have occurred in key locations; reports of body snatching have continued, some with no evidence of external assistance, and few with any possible motive for such theft.

4. Vampire sightings have increased in recent years; this may be in part due to unwelcome and inaccurate televisual displays - a badly educated public is in increasing danger, and compounds this by false reports

Verification is difficult, but there is sufficient circumstantial evidence, and individual experiences, to assert that not only do Vampires still exist - but they are thriving.


Is anyone still investigating Vampires; Where?


Most sightings, and indeed most legends, still arise in Central Europe; there is little doubt that the species arose in this area, and was probably confined there until about 150 years ago. Recent evidence suggest that the anonymity of large cities has attracted an fast-growing network of vampire communities, attracted by a transient, dislocated population, as well as an active nocturnal life. Most serious researchers are at work in the great cities of the western world, with just a few in the Carpathian Mountains.

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Do Vampires Turn To Dust When Staked?


In a word, No. This device, popularized by Buffy the Vampire Slayer, was actually a television convenience devised by Joss Whedon to evade the need to justify a stack of corpses littering the graveyards. Staking actually starts an incendiary process, likely to end in a pile of fine white ash, with some boney remnants.



Do Crucifixes Kill Vampires?



A wooden crucifix could cause serious superficial burns, and, given enough time, could prove fatal. But this is a chemical effect, not a religious one. Many vampires are of devout Christian, Central European descent, and a crucifix could well trigger severe guilt feelings; in some cases, self-loathing. But not fatality.



Do Vampires Fear Water?



Yes; A vampire really is an incendiary device waiting to be detonated (check the theory), and water, even steam, presents a real risk to the vampire.



Can Vampires Fly?


Only if they get a ticket. Vampires have been shown turning into bats, wafting effortlesly upward, even leaping out of windows with a 'bat flight' soundtrack to suggest flight. It's all hokum; an exhausted vampire could not fly across Los Angeles and look fresh afterward, any more than I can - whatever Nick Knight might suggest. And why a vampire should even want to turn into a swarm of bats, as suggested by The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, beats me.

Vampires can probably utilize stored energy better than normal folk, and a vertical leap - or rapid escape from pursuit - might suggest flight. But it's not.

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Are Vampires Evil?


Not necessarily; vampires just "are"; as a lion is not evil when it kills a zebra, so a vampire is not evil for feeding off a person; living creatures do what they must to survive. The consensus is, however, that for the most part, Vampires are "not very nice".

However, like the fox killing all the chickens in the hen house, rather than just the one, some Vampires are particularly unpleasant - and as they have intelligence, those that choose such a lifestyle are probably evil. Just as some humans are evil ...



Have Vampires Evolved?


Vampires - as we know them - have been recorded since the 1400s, but almost certainly have been around pretty much unchanged, for eons.

Given the unique nature of their lifestyle and physiology, it would be logical to assume that if they have survived this long that they may have evolved in order to survive.

Long-lived creatures are doomed to evolve more slowly, whatever the pressures on them; a longer life means fewer generations, slower reproduction and so fewer opportunities for evolutionary change.

Evolutionary changes should be counted in the thousands of years rather than decades or even centuries, but the nature of viruses and the nature of vampires may have allowed for some crossover; Vampire legends constantly link vampires to the natural world - bats, wolves and crows have all been associated, and though most of such tales are pure tosh (or pure Hollywood!), we do not have any deep knowledge of the more distant past.


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Parasitic organisms might appear to have the freedom to reproduce at will; but most are subject to limitations, in some cases a complex life cycle, involving more than one host species, in others a simple population pressure.




Are There Vampire Communities?


Vampires tend to live alone or in small coummunities, sometimes refered to as covens. Vampires who allow their community to grow too large risk discovery and destruction; individuals and small groups might get by for ages - especially in isolated communities. The act of vampirification creates a potential competitor, as well as a blood relative - a community that can support one vampire's appetites might not be able to support two; from such instability mobs, riots and flaming torches are born!




How Do Vampires Survive?


The advance of technology must pose a threat to the vampire; bureaucracy, finger print identification and security photography may force vampires to finally decide whether to risk life within the 'normal' community - or to survive in the netherworld of the drug and crime community, illegal immigrants and the homeless: they must be tempted to want the advantages of each, without the disadvantages of either. I suspect a fear of the tightly-ordered modern world will make the decision for them.

Long life brings opportunities and knowledge; a stable community has the chance - and the need - to plan for the long term. Legends of lonely castles and huge empty estates are probably close to the truth.

The modern equivalent would be the Swiss bank account, the off-shore trust ... but still an emphasis on property, the safest deposit of them all - and the one vital to the Vampire life style.

The vampire down on its luck would be at the mercy of everything life could throw at it - including sunlight - and would probably not survive for long.

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Many scholars argue the word “vampire” is either from the Hungarian vampir or from the Turkish upior, upper, upyr meaning “witch.” Other scholars argue the term derived from the Greek word “to drink” or from the Greek nosophoros meaning “plague carrier.” It may also derive from the Serbian Bamiiup or the Serbo-Crotian pirati. There are many terms for “vampire” found across cultures, suggesting that vampires are embedded in human consciousness.b
A group a vampires has variously been called a clutch, brood, coven, pack, or a clan.f
Probably the most famous vampire of all time, Count Dracula, quoted Deuteronomy 12:23: “The blood is the life.”f
The Muppet vampire, Count von Count from Sesame Street, is based on actual vampire myth. One way to supposedly deter a vampire is to throw seeds (usually mustard) outside a door or place fishing net outside a window. Vampires are compelled to count the seeds or the holes in the net, delaying them until the sun comes up.b

Celtic for “stone tables,“ dolmens may have been placed over graves to keep vampires from rising


Prehistoric stone monuments called “dolmens” have been found over the graves of the dead in northwest Europe. Anthropologists speculate they have been placed over graves to keep vampires from rising.c
A rare disease called porphyria (also called the "vampire" or "Dracula" disease) causes vampire-like symptoms, such as an extreme sensitivity to sunlight and sometimes hairiness. In extreme cases, teeth might be stained reddish brown, and eventually the patient may go mad.c
Documented medical disorders that people accused of being a vampire may have suffered from include haematodipsia, which is a sexual thirst for blood, and hemeralopia or day blindness. Anemia (“bloodlessness” was often mistaken for a symptom of a vampire attack.f

Considered a "true" vampire, Elizabeth Bathory supposedly bathed in the blood of young virgins.


One of the most famous “true vampires” was Countess Elizabeth Bathory (1560-1614) who was accused of biting the flesh of girls while torturing them and bathing in their blood to retain her youthful beauty. She was by all accounts a very attractive woman.f
Vampire legends may have been based on Vlad of Walachia, also known as Vlad the Impaler (c. 1431-1476). He had a habit of nailing hats to people’s heads, skinning them alive, and impaling them on upright stakes. He also liked to dip bread into the blood of his enemies and eat it. His name, Vlad, means son of the dragon or Dracula, who has been identified as the historical Dracula. Though Vlad the Impaler was murdered in 1476, his tomb is reported empty.f
One of the earliest accounts of vampires is found in an ancient Sumerian and Babylonian myth dating to 4,000 B.C. which describes ekimmu or edimmu (one who is snatched away). The ekimmu is a type of uruku or utukku (a spirit or demon) who was not buried properly and has returned as a vengeful spirit to suck the life out of the living.a
According to the Egyptian text the Pert em Hru (Egyptian Book of the Dead), if the ka (one of the five parts of the soul) does not receive particular offerings, it ventures out of its tomb as a kha to find nourishment, which may include drinking the blood of the living. In addition, the Egyptian goddess Sekhmet was known to drink blood. The ancient fanged goddess Kaliof India also had a powerful desire for blood.


a Chinese vampires were called a ch’iang shih (corpse-hopper) and had red eyes and crooked claws. They were said to have a strong sexual drive that led them to attack women. As they grew stronger, the ch’iang shih gained the ability to fly, grew long white hair, and could also change into a wolf.a
While both vampires and zombies generally belong to the “undead,” there are differences between them depending on the mythology from which they emerged. For example, zombies tend to have a lower IQ than vampires, prefer brains and flesh rather than strictly blood, are immune to garlic, most likely have a reflection in the mirror, are based largely in African myth, move more slowly due to rotting muscles, can enter churches, and are not necessarily afraid of fire or sunlight.f
Vampire hysteria and corpse mutilations to “kill” suspected vampires were so pervasive in Europe during the mid-eighteenth century that some rulers created laws to prevent the unearthing of bodies. In some areas, mass hysteria led to public executions of people believed to be vampires.b
The first full work of fiction about a vampire in English was John Polidori’s influential The Vampyre, which was published incorrectly under Lord Byron’s name. Polidori (1795-1821) was Byron’s doctor and based his vampire on Byron.f
The first vampire movie is supposedly Secrets of House No. 5 in 1912. F.W. Murnau’s silent black-and-white Nosferatu came soon after, in 1922. However, it was Tod Browning’s Dracula—with the erotic, charming, cape- and tuxedo-clad aristocrat played by Bela Lugosi—that became the hallmark of vampire movies and literature.f
A vampire supposedly has control over the animal world and can turn into a bat, rat, owl, moth, fox, or wolf.c
In 2009, a sixteenth-century female skull with a rock wedged in its mouth was found near the remains of plague victims. It was not unusual during that century to shove a rock or brick in the mouth of a suspected vampire to prevent it from feeding on the bodies of other plague victims or attacking the living. Female vampires were also often blamed for spreading the bubonic plague throughout Europe.d
Joseph Sheridan Le Fany’s gothic 1872 novella about a female vampire, “Carmilla,” is considered the prototype for female and lesbian vampires and greatly influenced Bram Stoker’s own Dracula. In the story, Carmilla is eventually discovered as a vampire and, true to folklore remedies, she is staked in her blood-filled coffin, beheaded, and cremated.f
Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897) remains an enduring influence on vampire mythology and has never gone out of print. Some scholars say it is clearly a Christian allegory; others suggest it contains covert psycho-sexual anxieties reflective of the Victorian era.k
According to several legends, if someone was bitten by a suspected vampire, he or she should drink the ashes of a burned vampire. To prevent an attack, a person should make bread with the blood of vampire and eat it.


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Without an invitation, vampires in most legends cannot cross a threshold


Thresholds have historically held significant symbolic value, and a vampire cannot cross a threshold unless invited. The connection between threshold and vampires seems to be a concept of complicity or allowance. Once a commitment is made to allow evil, evil can re-enter at any time.b
Before Christianity, methods of repelling vampires included garlic, hawthorn branches, rowan trees (later used to make crosses), scattering of seeds, fire, decapitation with a gravedigger’s spade, salt (associated with preservation and purity), iron, bells, a rooster’s crow, peppermint, running water, and burying a suspected vampire at a crossroads. It was also not unusual for a corpse to be buried face down so it would dig down the wrong way and become lost in the earth.f
After the advent of Christianity, methods of repelling vampires began to include holy water, crucifixes, and Eucharist wafers. These methods were usually not fatal to the vampire, and their effectiveness depended on the belief of the user.f
Garlic, a traditional vampire repellent, has been used as a form of protection for over 2,000 years. The ancient Egyptians believed garlic was a gift from God, Roman soldiers thought it gave them courage, sailors believed it protected them from shipwreck, and German miners believed it protected them from evil spirits when they went underground. In several cultures, brides carried garlic under their clothes for protection, and cloves of garlic were used to protect people from a wide range of illnesses. Modern-day scientists found that the oil in garlic, allicin, is a highly effective antibiotic.k
That sunlight can kill vampires seems to be a modern invention, perhaps started by the U.S. government to scare superstitious guerrillas in the Philippines in the 1950s. While sunlight can be used by vampires to kill other vampires, as in Ann Rice’s popular novel Interview with a Vampire, other vampires such as Lord Ruthven and Varney were able to walk in daylight.f
The legend that vampires must sleep in coffins probably arose from reports of gravediggers and morticians who described corpses suddenly sitting up in their graves or coffins. This eerie phenomenon could be caused by the decomposing process.c
According to some legends, a vampire may engage in sex with his former wife, which often led to pregnancy. In fact, this belief may have provided a convenient explanation as to why a widow, who was supposed to be celibate, became pregnant. The resulting child was called a gloglave (pl. glog) in Bulgarian or vampirdzii in Turkish. Rather than being ostracized, the child was considered a hero who had powers to slay a vampire.f
The Twilight book series (Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn) by Stephanie Meyers has also become popular with movie-goers. Meyers admits that she did not research vampire mythology. Indeed, her vampires break tradition in several ways. For example, garlic, holy items, and sunlight do not harm them. Some critics praise the book for capturing teenage feelings of sexual tension and alienation.i

Hollywood vampires often differ drastically from folklore vampires


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Hollywood and literary vampires typically deviate from folklore vampires. For example, Hollywood vampires are typically pale, aristocratic, very old, need their native soil, are supernaturally beautiful, and usually need to be bitten to become a vampire. In contrast, folklore vampires (before Bram Stoker) are usually peasants, recently dead, initially appear as shapeless “bags of blood,” do not need their native soil, and are often cremated with or without being staked.f
Folklore vampires can become vampires not only through a bite, but also if they were once a werewolf, practiced sorcery, were excommunicated, committed suicide, were an illegitimate child of parents who were illegitimate, or were still born or died before baptism. In addition, anyone who has eaten the flesh of a sheep killed by a wolf, was a seventh son, was the child of a pregnant woman who was looked upon by a vampire, was a nun who stepped over an unburied body, had teeth when they were born, or had a cat jump on their corpse before being buried could also turn into vampires.f
In vampire folklore, a vampire initially emerges as a soft blurry shape with no bones. He was “bags of blood” with red, glowing eyes and, instead of a nose, had a sharp snout that he sucked blood with. If he could survive for 40 days, he would then develop bones and a body and become much more dangerous and difficult to kill.f
While blood drinking isn’t enough to define a vampire, it is an overwhelming feature. In some cultures, drinking the blood of a victim allowed the drinker to absorb their victim’s strength, take on an animal’s quality, or even make a woman more fecund. The color red is also involved in many vampire rituals.k
In some vampire folktales, vampires can marry and move to another city where they take up jobs suitable for vampires, such as butchers, barbers, and tailors. That they become butchers may be based on the analogy that butchers are a descendants of the “sacrificer.”c
Certain regions in the Balkans believed that fruit, such as pumpkins or watermelons, would become vampires if they were left out longer than 10 days or not consumed by Christmas. Vampire pumpkins or watermelons generally were not feared because they do not have teeth. A drop of blood on a fruit's skin is a sign that it is about to turn into a vampire.e
Mermaids can also be vampires—but instead of sucking blood, they suck out the breath of their victims.e
By the end of the twentieth century, over 300 motion pictures were made about vampires, and over 100 of them featured Dracula. Over 1,000 vampire novels were published, most within the past 25 years.k
The most popular vampire in children’s fiction in recent years had been Bunnicula, the cute little rabbit that lives a happy existence as a vegetarian vampire.g
Some historians argue that Prince Charles is a direct descendant of the Vlad the Impaler, the son of Vlad Dracula.h
The best known recent development of vampire mythology is Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spin-off, Angel. Buffy is interesting because it contemporizes vampirism in the very real, twentieth-century world of a teenager vampire slayer played by Sarah Michelle Gellar and her “Scooby gang.” It is also notable because the show has led to the creation of “Buffy Studies” in academia.

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Vampire legends date as far back as ancient Egypt and Sumeria
Folkloric vampires of Eastern Europe especially the Balkans did not have fangs and were described as having ruddy and bloated appearances.

They were afforded the gaunt, pale look by novelists such as Bram Stoker.

Vlad the Impaler is credited as the inspiration for Dracula. Vlad was guilty of sadistic torture of his enemies, including impaling but as far as is known he never drank his victims’ blood.


In the 16th century, Countess Bathory of Romania slit her maidservants’ throats and drank their blood with the mistaken notion that it would give her longevity and it is alleged that this gave rise to the blood drinking activities of vampires in fiction
In Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire in 1973 a Polish expatriate, Demetrius Myiciura died from choking on a clove of garlic. He was found in his home surrounded by salt, garlic and crucifixes all reputed to stave off vampires.

There is also a report that another Polish man, Jan Dbworski, died in similar circumstances in Stoke on Trent but in 1966
Nicolae Ceausescu, communist dictator of Romania from 1965 to 1989 was portrayed by protesters against his regime as a vampire
There are people who genuinely believe themselves to be vampires.

In 2002 in Edinburgh, a Scot tried to convince a jury, unsuccessfully, that he believed himself to be a vampire and that it was the reason for his murder of a friend.

In Cuba in 1977 there were reports of goats being attacked and drained of their blood. The creature attacking them was called a “Chupacabra”. It is still not known what the creature was.


‘Nosferatu’ was the first ever vampire movie that followed the “racula” storyline. It was released in 1922, silent and black and white. The first ever vampire movie is believed to be the German silent “Nachte des Grauens” aka “Night of Terror” released in 1916 and featured vampire-like beings.




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vampires are medicly proven to exist but not in the stake to the heart ect bullshit, its a protein of the blood that lacks, they need blood or a synthetic source of the protein, there has been no sucsessful synthetic because of the severe side effects to some people, most typicly pig or cow because its easily availible in any butchers


they can fly bullshit they sleep upside down/in a coffin bullshit

these are stories to make books and films more exciting, the unexplained arouses fear is the masses


if everything turned out like it did in books, there would be no starvation ect in the world (bible) mankind would not exist if vampires existed apparently stronger faster smarter ect ect than mankind (any number of countless books)

First proof,then believe...

But what is more beautiful in life than believing in these kind of things?It's what gives men hope and dreams...You're are Scottish.A land full of legends and myths..Love the tales!

I like vampire stories
Especially Darren Shahn
Being a vampire would be great

Im all for vampires unless they sparkle.:mad:

im a vampire... not even joking

That's cool.I turn into a werewolf every now and then.But i'm not allowed to transform inside the house anymore, because i shed on the carpet.