Has there ever been any scientific proof that vampires have existed?

Answer 1

Definitely go to this website to find out more about vampires.

http://science.howstuffworks.com/vampire5.htm

According to that website there is no scientific evidence, but there are some rare diseases that can result in vampire-like symptoms...like sensitivity to light.

The wikipedia entry for vampires is also pretty good...check out section 7 (Natural phenomenon that propagate the belief in vampires) for more about these weird diseases.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire

Answer 2

Yes, well, not "count Dracula" vampires or living-dead, but a psychiatric disease baptised "Renfield's Syndrome" or "clinical vampirism". It's a disease in three stages that starts at a very tender age.

During childhood, the patient develops a habit seeking death, usually by killing insects and the likes. The second stage appears in the teenage years, where the patients begins to actively seek blood either from animals or humans. The most common form is the habit of the patient to drink its own blood. The last and most rare stage is where the patient seeks out blood actively and loses contact with reality and can come to the point of killing or torturing its victims to death.

You can look for the cases of Peter Kurten and Richard Trenton Chase, if that's what you're looking for.

Answer 3

Arnold Paole (d. c. 1726) was a Serbian hajduk who was believed to have become a vampire after his death, initiating an epidemic of supposed vampirism that killed at least 16 persons in his native village of Medwegya, located at the Morava river near the town of Paraćin. His case, like the similar case of Peter Plogojowitz, became famous because of the direct involvement of the Austrian authorities and the documentation by Austrian physicians and officers, who confirmed the reality of vampires. Their report of the case was distributed in Western Europe and contributed to the spread of vampire belief among educated Europeans. The report and its significance for the subsequent Eighteenth century vampire controversy are nowadays explained with the poor understanding of the process of corpse decomposition at the time.

Answer 4

In the supernatural sense, no. However, people still consume human blood today (in a type of underground culture). Also, some hunters on killing their first deer still drink it's blood.
Historically, it was believed that drinking your enemies blood would give you their powers. In hunting it was to take in the spirit (and honor the spirit of) the animal that provided you with needed food.

There is also a disease that makes you very sensitive to (in fact unable to tolerate) sunlight.

These two conditions together seem to be the basis of vampire legends.

While vampire legends are older than Vlad the Impaler (Count Dracula) his horrifying (and effective) battle tactics were a legend/story to good to be left untold.

Michael John Weaver, M.S.

Answer 5

Yes. You may want to read "The Secrets of Dr. Taverner" by Dion Fortune for a slightly fictionalized account of a 'vampire haunting" that was based on a true incident. She describes the incident more fully in her book 'Psychic Self-defense". Most vampires that are encountered are 'psychic vampires', and feed off the life force emitted when people are emotionally excited, either anger, fear or sexual arousal. That is why ghosts try to scare people, because they want the "energy hit".

Answer 6

vlad the impaler was real and many people believed he was considered a blood drinker aka vampire

Answer 7

none yet. symptoms comparable albinism, diseases causing loss of blood such as hemophilia. no real proof anyone has drunk blood either in rituals that is human blood.

Answer 8

Yes try using the freedom of information act... And you will get a year's worth of reading information.....................................................