About Vampires?

Question

Are they really real? This isnt a joke I want to know.

ok please more than one word answers that is not helpful. Thanks

Answer 1

Yes...

You see...

“Into every generation a Slayer is born. One girl in all the world, a Chosen One. One born with the strength and skill to fight the vampires, to stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their numbers.”

Answer 2

They are no more real then the people who think they are vampires. They were folklore originally told around campfires and hearths for the purpose of entertainment. I imagine made-up by men because we like to tell scary stories to kids. We get a strange satisfaction from that.
But, there are those who think that vampires are sexy and dark and are drawn to that as an alternative lifestyle. So they propagate the myth and enjoy the unease that people feel when they say they are a vampire. It's just a little feeling of power; a cheap thrill.

Answer 3

No, but the myth has been around thousands of years in all kinds of cultures. I don't know why it's such a universal piece of folklore, but it is.

Some unfortunate people were buried when they were in a coma, not dead. When people would dig up a corpse or whatever, and see that it had obviously moved around and had blood around its mouth (from biting lips and tongue in agony, probably), they could connect that to unexplained deaths or bad luck in the community and say it was a vampire.
The other people have already explained about psychic vampires and vampire wannabes. I hope that answer helps.

Answer 4

Creatures of the night clearly a good story....BUT,..Dracula is based on a real person. Vlad lll the impaler also known as "Vlad Dracula"! He lived in Romania during the 15th century! p.s some say they are vampires, but they just wish it was real..like jedi stuff!! There's no hanging from roof's retractable fangs and silver bullets!!!...that's Hollywood!

Answer 5

To be honest withyou, they have these weird vampire meetings once a week across the street and the people are beautiful! But i couldve swore one time a bout a month ago, this dude was walking out of the meeting around 12am and saw us looking and he freakin disappeared! Weird sh1t.

Answer 6

No they are not real. Only as real as your imagination. There are some strange cults, and some people do, for one reason or another, drink each others blood, but not out of actual biological supernatural hunger. Just to be weird.

Answer 7

There are many people out there that will call themselves vampires. Of coarse there are also many different types of vampires so I guess that really depends on what type you are asking about.

Psychic Vampires:
These are people who, for whatever reason, derive nourishment from"feeding" from the "life energy" of people around them. This form of vampirism falls into the category more of meta-physics and the occult than mainstream science. It seems psy-vamps have the ability to draw out the "chi," "manna," or plain energy of their victims. They do not seem to have the craving for blood found in most other forms of vampirism. In advanced cases, the vampire can choose from which victim to draw and even which types of energy to take. The one with whom I have spoken uses this ability to heal others by feeding from the "negative" energy in the victim's aura. From what I have heard from the "victim/patients," she is quite good at what she does. In less developed cases, the psy-vamp might not even know about this condition. Other people around him or her might feel "drained" from the person's presence, and hence the vampire will usually have trouble keeping friends. A good psychic can usually tell if a person is a psy-vamp. There is no known cure, but a psychic vampire can learn to control his/her feeding habits.

"Spirit-Influenced" Vampires:
These are, no doubt the most frustrating cases to study because they differ so widely. In the one case I have been able to study, the vampire was involved in demonology and either erred or made a pact he later regretted. It seems that certain "spirits" or "demons" can give people some of the characteristics of other types of vampires in exchange for partial possession. The new vampire then has certain enhanced abilities and, in exchange, allows the spirit to take over now and then. At first this almost sounds like a form of symbiosis, but the human in the deal soon finds that the spirit usually does things that are morally unacceptable. He seems to be in a constant state of remorse for the things he's done. He wouldn't go into details, but he did hint at murder. Also in this catagory are the vampires who claim to have been changed by a visitation in a dream or by the apparition of a ghostly vampire. Cases in this category are documented in the book _Vampires_Among_Us_ by ???????.

"Viral" Vampires:
This is the category where I have had the most expirience. "Viral" vampires are the ones that seem to have the most reason to call themselves vampires. This "virus" is what causes the change to take place. It is passed on through blood, sexual secretions, and occasionally saliva. Transmission is usually deliberate and ritualistic. I have heard of one case where the would-be vampire "got over" the virus, and a few cases where the recievers died during the process. It is unknown if this is an actual virus or if the effects are psychosomatic based on the archetype of the American Vampire. Nonetheless, the effects and changes associated with this type of vampirism are real. The process of change is the traditional exchange of body fluids in a ritual setting. The fledgling commonly expiriences a near-death-experience at some point, sometimes seemingly unrelated to the change into a vampire. Effects of the change include photosensitivity, increased night vision, anemia, dual-personality (one normal personality and another that takes over when the vampire looses it's temper), a blood fetish, a craving for rare red meat, and if the person had any psychic ability, this is increased. Sex drive is first decreased then increased beyond the intensity before the change. Most vampires describe the sensation as like that of being on LSD during a mild trip. From the descriptions, it seems to me to be more akin to the effects of thojune, the halucigen in Absinthe. Either way, the sensuality of a vampire is appearant. Some vampires notice a change in muscle movement. It is more direct, smooth, rapid, and efficient. Most vampires of this variety notice a slowed aging process. Depending on the strain of the virus, all of these changes are p resent to differing degrees.

Answer 8

The immortal shapeshifting undead, No.

Low life worthless losers who try to suck the energy out of anyone who actually 'has a life'. Oh yeah.

Think of the stories as metaphoric.

Answer 9

They are real....IN the minds of some people with extremely over-active imaginations!

Answer 10

does it matter? would you know one if you met them? if there are would they not try to hide after all the hunting them down that was done through out history?
Satan's greatest trick was to convince the people he did not exist!
if you do not think they exist you do not hunt them!