Vampires/ Draculas/Zombies, do they still exist?

Answer 1

have you not seen blade and dawn of the dead

Answer 2

Well Pdk, Stephanierudder and others do have their oar into the water, But they also lack a little history history of what they are talking about, The history of Zombies and Vampires Go back into antiquity. And every country that exist on the face of this earth have stories about the above named creatures. Yes there are diseases birth defects and a million other reasons that can explain the reason for these creatures, But with all the myth and legend, the simple truth is that all of these Myths and Legend are based in some form of truth that has been witness by people and the truth has been lost in time. Some people never read how much research Bram Stoker did in order to create A story about vampires. And he use a real Historic person as a model for his vampire. As for zombies they also existed long before man could even write. But one thing that we do know is that that someone created Drugs that could create a zombie like state and that a person exist in that state for many years, way before even paper or other material material that people could write on. There was several groups of people that were drawn about on cave walls that lived off the blood of animals and other humans. So lts like I said earlier myths and legend are all based off of some truthful incident that happen in time. So to say they did not or do not exist today just may not be true, Who knows.................. Yet we all know that facts are a hell of stranger than fiction.

Answer 3

Well lets see, vampires and Dracula are the same thing. In literature Dracula was a vampire, in real life he just liked to impale people and cut their feet and hands off. Yet, he alone saved Europe from a Muslim invasion by the Turks. Zombies, not sure, have heard it both ways in many different cultures around the world. Either way, mythology and monsterous creatures have been formed from people's misunderstanding of natural events, of actual events that have happened, and from things that still have yet to be explained. Believe what you want to believe. Just the whole garlic thing with vampires, chicks don't dig the smell, it repels them also.

Answer 4

In the late 1800's and on into the 1960's, Haitian landowners would poison their underclass-men/women with a "potion" that would make these poor people appear to be dead. These people would be buried and then after the funeral, at night, the landowners would hire people to dig them back up (knowing they weren't really dead) and bring them to certain quarters built for workers. When these people came out of their coma they would have very little memory of their former lives. They would have to live the rest of their lives in a daze because the poison that had been given to them would damage their brains. The Landowners would then put them to work in their fields, etc., as free laborers. Enevitably, some would be spotted by their family members and then be thought to be zombies who had come back from the dead. There is alot of documentation of this occurance happening. I have heard that most voo-doo priests and priestesses still know how to make this "potion". I saw a documentary on a man who went through this ordeal. He was a Haitian farm worker who actually remembered his ordeal and escaped. He is alive today and now lives in South Florida. His tombstone is still standing in his former Haitian Village stating that he died in June of 1963. He also has a vauge memory of being buried! Can you imagine? As for vampires, there is reported cases in almost every country in the world dating back to before Christ. Africa, China, and of course central Europe. Vlad the impailer (Dracula himself) disappeared from his grave two days after he was buried. In 1982 a catholic priest claimed to have captured a real vampire. This happened in Romania and was a big deal at the time. All of a sudden you didn't hear any more about it. The discovery channel did a documentary on this in 1999 and found a huge cover up but no real evidence was found.

Answer 5

Vampire myth came from blood diseases and accidentally burying people who were not dead yet. Whenever a village woudl suffer from some plague of some sort where people wasted away, they would blame vampires for draining away the energy of the victims. This would led to digging up the cemetary to find the vampiric culprit. Sometimes they would find the remains of the recent dead with bloody nails and a scratched up coffin - this was from they're coming out of a coma and finding themselves buried under the earth and tryign to claw their way out. Also the early vampire hunts recorded finding fresh dead with blood pooled in certain parts oft heir body which they beleived came from the vampire's victim. This was just a casue of decomposition not vampirism.

Dracula was the title of a Romanian prince - Vlad III (or IV) but most know him as Vlad Tepes - the Impaler. He was renowned for his strict policies the breaking of which entailed impalement. Dracula in Romanian means son of the dragon which is reference to a knightly order of the 15th century. It also carries the double meaning of son of the devil. This other meaning is what inspire Bram Stoker to name his vampire villian as such.

Zombies come from Haitain voodoo rituals. In real life zombies weren't dead but thought they were dead. Serpent and the Rainbow is all about the special chemical used to make these living zombies.

The zombies of today are undead creatures similar to revenant, a type of low level vampire.

Answer 6

Dracula was based on an actual person--Vlad Dracul of Romania. He was a blood thirsty ruler, but the "vampire" legend is just that---a legend. Vampires and Zombies have never been proven to exist.

Answer 7

Dracula is a vampire. They exist, if only in their own mind. Voodoo still claims to create zombies.

-M

Answer 8

There was only one Dracula. Now, about vampires and zombies. I think that they may exist (not the poser goth/rock/punk or whatever people who think that they are vampires and want to drink blood).

Answer 9

Vampires do not exist, and I don't know about Zombies but Dracula was the real nickname of a person called Vlad Tepes (Vlad the impaler), a prince of Wallachia.

Dracul in his language (romanian?) means dragon, and dracula means little dragon.

Dracula was renowned as a stern and bloodthirsty prince who would behead his peasants and impale them on spikes. There are many stories about Dracula/Vlad Tepes in romanian, turkish and russian mythology, and it seems at least some of the stories have a foundation in truth.

Answer 10

They never actually existed anyway. Just like today, they were figments of the imagination painted through literature and oral tradition. In certain cases (Dracula) they were based upon real people and the blood sucking nature was symbolic of their cruelty. Whereas the real individual wasn't supernatural, the character was.

Answer 11

The question you want us to answer is really not do they exist. It is whether we believe in them. If you don't believe in them, they don't exist. If you believe in them, then they do.

In the past, there had been cases where there was stealing of blood, or some other things where a man was caught sucking blood out of a blood bag. The thing is, if you believe, then they are vampires. If not, they are just vampire wannabes. As simple as that