Paranormal Magazine

(This feature can be found in Paranormal Magazine issue 42 by Brad Steiger)

Yes, they are, claims veteran researcher BRAD STEIGER.After decades of study, Brad has developed an astonishing – and alarming– theory about the origin and reality of these most enduring of monsters.

The vampire legend has always been with us, from the shadows of the ancient Egyptian pyramids to the bright lights of New York City. Every culture has its own name for the night stalker. The word with which most of us are familiar rises from the Slavonic Magyar vam, meaning blood and Tpir, meaning monster.

The traditional physical appearance of a vampire in European folklore is grotesque, a nightmarish creature with twisted fangs and grasping talons. The cinematic depiction of the vampire in F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu (1922) presented moviegoers with an accurate depiction of the traditional vampire. In this film, which was Murnau’s unauthorized version of Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula, we see actor Max Schreck’s loathsome bloodsucker, Count Orlock, skittering about in the shadows with dark-ringed, hollowed eyes, pointed devil ears, and hideous fangs. With his long, blood-stained talons, his egg-shaped head and pasty white complexion, Schreck’s Nosferatu captures the classic appearance of the undead as seen in the collective nightmares of humankind.

After Stoker’s novel became a popular stage play in 1927 and, in 1931, a classic horror film with Bela Lugosi portraying the Count as a sophisticated aristocrat, the image of the vampire as a hideous demon began to become transformed in the popular consciousness into that of an attractive stranger who possesses a bite that, while fatal, also promises eternal life.

In the decades that have followed Lugosi’s iconic appearance, the demonic vampire of legend gradually became replaced by beguilingly romantic figures – figures which have proved the inspiration for a thriving Vampire Community existing today.

THE VAMPIRE COMMUNITY

Merticus is the administrator for Voices of the Vampire Community, a high profile member of ‘a visible and vibrant community of people who are using the label [vampire] to describe themselves’.

Merticus explains: ‘When a serious member of the vampire community describes themselves as a vampire, they are not trying to tell you that

they think they’re a fictional character with supernatural powers or that they hope you’re gullible enough to believe they’re hundreds of years old and live in a castle. They’re not even claiming kinship with the folkloric monster that frightened the people of Central Europe and has them performing vampire-banishing rituals to this day.’

The unifying factor is that members of the community really believe themselves to be vampires, an attitude supported by the fact that, as Merticus puts it, ‘there is no functioning definition of a real vampire’.

He continues: ‘This is primarily because no one knows what the cause of the phenomenon actually is, and the community has coalesced around a set of loosely shared perceptions and symptoms rather than a central organizing principle.

‘Therefore, we can describe some common experiences involved in being a vampire, but these shouldn’t be taken as a definitive vampire checklist. There are no known necessary and sufficient conditions to be met before you can be a vampire. Likewise, there’s no single definitive sign that someone is not a real vampire.’

Merticus adds that the most common experience vampires share is the need to take in life energy or blood, from sources outside themselves, to maintain spiritual, psychic, and physical health.

‘Blood-drinking, or sanguinarian, vampires have to consume small, polite amounts of human blood from willing donors,’ Merticus said. ‘The majority of sanguiniarians report taking only an ounce or less at a time; usually no more than once a week. Feeding is absolutely a health necessity: vampires have reported many negative physical symptoms when trying to ignore this need to feed.

‘Psychic vampires, or psivamps, feed on psychic energy. Some psivamps enter into relationships with donors in the same way that sanguinarian vampires do, while others cultivate techniques for absorbing ambient energy from crowds and public places, so as not to take from any one source.’

Of course, not everyone who considers themselves a vampire prove so civilized in their behaviour.

THE VAMPIRE OF SACRAMENTO

From the time of his birth on May 23, 1950, it seemed that Richard Trenton Chase of Sacramento, California, had been born under an unlucky star. As a child he was a bedwetter, a firestarter, and a killer of small animals.

When he started high school, Chase became convinced that a Nazi crime syndicate had targeted him and was paying his mother to poison him with a chemical that was turning his blood into powder. As an antidote to keep his heart beating, Chase began killing and disemboweling small animals, mixing their organs with Coca-Cola in a blender, and drinking the potion.

In 1975, after he injected rabbit’s blood into his veins and developed blood poisoning, Chase was committed to a mental asylum. Even here he found a way to continue his obsession, by capturing birds that landed on his window sill and eating them.

In 1976 Chase was released to his mother with a prescription for an antipsychotic medicine. In mid-1977, he was found wandering nude in the Lake Tahoe area. A bucket containing blood and a liver was later found in his Ford Ranchero. In this case the vital fluid did not belong to a human.He killed his first person in December 29, 1977, in a drive-by shooting. About a month later, Chase shot 22-year-old Teresa Wallin three times. He dragged her body

into the bedroom of her home, where he stabbed her repeatedly, smeared her blood over his hands and face, and used a yogurt cup to catch some of her blood to drink.

Two days later, Chase bought two puppies from a neighbor, killed them and drank their blood. However, he decided animal blood did not give him the satisfaction he gained from drinking human blood.

On January 27, Chase committed his most appalling crime. He murdered four people within minutes of each other: Evelyn Miroth, her six-year-old son, her friend Danny Meredith and her 22-month-old nephew, whom she was baby-sitting. Chase removed several organs from the bodies of Miroth and her son and drank his victims’ blood from a cup. He left behind him several perfect bloody handprints which swiftly led to his arrest.

DRACULA AND BATHORY

Vlad Tepes – known as the Impaler because of his habit of staking his enemies on sharpened wooden posts – was a 15th century king of Wallcahia (present day Romania) and has often been cited as an inspiration for Dracula. He was also known as Vlad Dracul (meaning ‘Son of the Dragon’), so lending his name to Stoker’s character.

However, there is no evidence to suggest Vlad was a vampire. Cruel he certainly was but in his homeland he is regarded as a national hero, responsible for halting the apparently unstoppable encroaches of the Ottoman Turks. Indeed Vlad could reasonably be regarded as a saviour of the Western world. To call him a creature of darkness in Romania would be comparable in the United States to calling George Washington a vampire.

However, there does exist a historical connection between Vlad Dracul and a real vampire. Erzsebet (Elisabeth) Bathory belonged to the same family as one of Vlad’s right-hand men. The teenage Elisabeth, known for her beauty and her flawless complexion, married Ferenc Nasady in 1575. Nasady was another family name with a sinister reputation, and the young Count Ferenc had a streak of sadism running through him.

It is likely that Elisabeth would have remained just another depraved aristocrat if her husband had stayed at home to keep her happy but Ferenc was often engaged in warfare with the Turks for long periods. While he was away the castle guests began taking on a strange appearance, as Elisabeth’s personal serving maid Iloona Joo and two lesbian witches named Darvula and Dorka summoned bizarre acquaint ances from all over the countryside to amuse their lonely mis tress. Some of the visitors claimed to be vampires or werewolves. Others were witches, wizards, and alchemists.

Many hideous and gruesome experiments were performed by these disciples of Satan, and they often featured the torturing of servant girls to enliven a dull afternoon. Jonas Ujvary, the castle’s chief torturer, would select girls from the staff on whom to practice his skills with branding irons and executions.

When Ferenc died in battle in 1604, Elisabeth found herself a single woman in her forties, concerned that she was no longer young and beautiful. One night a serving maid spilled a small portion of the wine she had been pouring for her mistress. The Countess struck the girl in the face and sent a splattering of blood on her hand. When she brushed the drops of blood away, it seemed to her that the skin beneath appeared softer and younger.

Quickly the Countess summoned Iloona Joo and told her that she had just discovered a vital element to the secret of eternal youth. While the burly guards held the terrifi ed serving girl, the Countess drew a pan of blood from her veins and began bathing her body with the blood she had stolen. In her eyes, her complexion improved immediately.

With a desperate passion for retaining her allure, the fiery-eyed Elisabeth Bathory of Hun gary set out to keep a regular supply of maidens in stock to bleed for her bath. She would also take sips of their blood in the belief it would keep her young. For 11 terrible years the horrible acts of torture and murder were allowed to continue. At last, her deeds were brought to the attention of the court in Vienna and King Matthias of Hungary was compelled to act. Bathory’s castle was raided on New Year’s Eve, 1610.

They found dead and dying bodies of young women strewn about the fl oor, some of them horribly mutilated. From the sounds upstairs they knew that a huge, drunken revelry was taking place. The raiders quietly sealed off the exits from the castle and arrested everyone inside. The exact number of young women murdered by Elisabeth Bathory may never be known, but the most accepted total of her victims is about 650.

A year later Dorka, Ilona Joo, Janos Ujvary, and a number of other witches were put to death and their bodies burned. Because of her influential name, Countess Bathory was imprisoned under house arrest and placed in a walled-up set of rooms. Her body was found on August 21, 1614. Nearly 50 when she died, the Countess of Blood was still a remarkably beautiful woman.

Officers later said the putrid odour of Chase’s residence was overwhelming. Nearly everything in his home was stained with blood and the refrigerator was filled with body parts. An electric blender on the kitchen counter was stained and clogged with decaying flesh. There were numerous dog collars scattered around various rooms, but no sign of any living dogs.

Chase was subsequently examined by a dozen psychiatrists. He only once admitted he was disturbed about killing his victims, but only because he was concerned that their spirits might return to haunt him. He seemed to experience no real guilt for what he had done. He said he needed human blood to combat his many afflictions, that blood drinking was therapeutic.

Convicted of six counts of first degree murder, Chase cheated the gas chamber by taking his own life in his cell at San Quentin Penitentiary.

THE DEVIL’S CHILD

When he was 13, Sean Sellers, a self-proclaimed ‘Devil Child’, made a pact with the devil and sealed it by drinking his own blood. From that time on, he kept a jar of his blood in the refrigerator, hidden behind the eggs. He later told the authorities he drank a lot of blood, just like a vampire.

The teenage Sean began holding nightly rituals in his Oklahoma home and inviting demons to possess his body. Soon the demons had renamed him ‘Ezurate’ and told him his power would grow if he were to kill someone. On Sunday, September 8, 1985, sometime after midnight, Sean/Ezurate killed his first victim, an Oklahoma City night clerk called Robert Bower.

Just a few minutes before midnight on March 14, 1986, Sean stripped down to his black underwear and conducted a demonic ritual while his parents slept one bedroom away. Then, he later told police investigators, the temperature in his room suddenly dropped 10 degrees. Sharp, clawed fingers touched his flesh, and he was surrounded by demons flying all around him in a strange kind of mist.

In the next few moments, Sean entered his parents’ bedroom and shot them both in the head. He truly loved his parents, he insisted, but he laughed at the blood that poured from their wounds.

On October 2, 1986, Sean Sellers was convicted of first-degree murder. At the age of 15, he became the youngest prisoner on Oklahoma’s death row.

WHO ARE THE REAL VAMPIRES?

In the example of the demon ‘Ezurate’, who took possession of young Sean Sellers, I believe we have an example of a real vampire. Real Vampires are not the undead, returning from crypt or cemetery plot to steal blood, the vital fluid of existence from the living. Real vampires are parasitic, shape-shifting entities that feed upon the energy, the life force, and the souls of humans. From whatever dimension of time and space they have come, real vampires may be compared to an ancient, insidious virus that first infects, then controls its host body, causing it to in turn possess other victims.

Real vampires are the spawn of timeless entities such as Lilith, the seductive fallen angel, or of other paraphysical beings who have traversed the boundaries of time and space to prey upon humankind.

Lilith is most often depicted as a beautiful woman with long, unkempt hair and large bat-like wings. Lilith quite likely was first feared in ancient Babylon as Lilitu, who, together with Ekimmu, wandered the night world in search of victims for their insatiable blood lust. In Hebrew folklore, Lilith was Father Adam’s wife before the creation of Eve, the true chosen mother of humankind. The terrible night creatures known as the incubi and the succubi were the children of Adam and Lilith.

Venerable traditions state that such entities as Lilith and her spawn first manifested on earth at a time when the gods were said to walk freely among evolving humankind. To these godlike creatures of darkness, the primitive humans who regarded them with such awe and reverence were property, chattel from which to gain energy and sustenance.

The apocryphal book of Enoch tells of the order of angels called ‘Watchers’, or ‘The Sleepless Ones’. The leader of the Watchers was called Semjaza or Shemhazai (in other places, Azazel, the name of one of the Hebrews’ principal demons), who led 200 Watchers down to Earth to take wives from among the daughters of men. It was from such a union that the Nephilim were born.

The Nephilim are said in the Old Testament to have been the progeny of the ‘sons of god’, whose union with earth women produced ‘giants…men of great renown’. Although often translated as ‘giants’, the word Nephilim actually means ‘the fallen ones’.

Since the Watchers manifested on Earth as angels, the Watchers were beings of spirit essence, rather than flesh and blood. What these fallen ones invading Earth needed from the sons and daughters of humans was their blood and their flesh so that they might become corporeal beings. The Watchers and the Nephilim were the first real vampires to exploit humankind, and they continue today to feed on the life force of humans – both their blood and their spirit.

It is interesting to note that all of the world’s major religions speak of a duality of the gods or demigods that came to Earth – some to exploit; others to teach; some to enslave; others to free. In Muslim traditions, the Jinn are demons who possess a wide variety of supernatural powers. Some scholars declare the Jinn a bit lower than the angels, because they were created of smoke and fire. Their leader is Iblis, once hailed as Azazel, the Islamic counterpart of the Devil.

The Jinn are mentioned frequently in the Qur’an, but the entities were known before the Prophet Muhammed wrote of their existence. In pre-Islamic Arabia, the Jinn were revered as godlike beings who inhabited a world parallel to that of humans.

Many scholars of mysticism and the esoteric declare one type of Rakshasas – the unrighteous spirits of Hindu belief – to be the Hindu equivalent of the Nephilim. The evil Rakshasas most often appear as beautiful women who drink the blood and feed off the flesh of men and women. The Rakshasas also possess shape-shifting abilities, and they take great delight in possessing vulnerable human hosts and causing them to commit acts of violence until they are driven insane.

The ancient Persians and Chaldeans named those angels who fell to Earth the Cacodaemons. Cast out of heaven (another world, another universe) for rebelling against the prevailing order, their leader, Ahrimanes, was determined to rule Earth and the primitive humans who resided there. However, the Agathodaemons, the representatives of universal law, prevented Ahrimanes from exploiting or interfering with the natural evolution of humans.

According to the Persians, the Cacodaemons were rejected from Earth and took refuge in the space between Earth and the fixed stars, a domain which is known as Ahriman-abad. It is from this dimension that Ahrimanes, resentful and revengeful, takes his pleasure in directing his daemons to afflict and torment human beings.

Throughout all of history, these paraphysical beings, mimicking our human forms, have walked among us unnoticed, sowing discord wherever they wander, sapping our soul energy, invading host bodies whenever possible, causing vulnerable humans to seek the blood of their fellow beings.

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17 Responses to “Are Vampires Real?”

1. Paindancer Says:
   January 11th, 2010 at 6:16 pm

   So.. let me get this straight…

   Instead of continuing to talk to the existing modern vampire community, who has actually been doing substantial research, after a quarter of your article, you go back to superstition and folk lore.

   I guess its not like you are forced to do real journalism here, and I suppose modern vampires are simply not as interesting as you needed. Its a pity however, that you choose to spend more time demonizing opposed to learning.

2. Donna Says:
   January 12th, 2010 at 3:56 am

   Seriously? None of these sociopaths and schizophrenics were vampires, they were just mentally ill people. The only real vampires I am aware of are typically decent people who need to take energy/blood from others in order to maintain their health, and they don’t commit murder or assault to do it.

   A possessed person is just that–possessed. Not a vampire.

3. Vampire Libby Hodges Says:
   January 12th, 2010 at 3:01 pm

   First there are real vampires who drink blood but are not murderous heathens. Anybody who would actually kill someone for blood is not a very good vampire. Real vampires have donors. Second there are four kinds of vampires:

   1. Sanuguine vampires are blood drinkers and do not murder people. Donors have a position of great respect, value, and importance in most Vampire Covens some are ministers, spiritual leaders, religious acolytes within Covens. Vampires have their own form of magic called Vampirecraft. Donors also have their own form of magic called Donorscraft. Sanguine Vampires can be very gifted with their own kind of Palo, Vodou, Hoodoo mix of the Vampirecraft

   2. Prana/Psi/Psychic Vampires and psychic energy donors make up the largest group of Vampires and Vampire Donors. The can be gifted telepaths, psychics, and empaths to the extent of what is humanly possible.

   3. Elemental Vampires feed off of the energy from the elements (earth, wind, fire, water). The elemental vampires can be gifted in the pratices of Hoodoo, Native American Medicines, And Green Vampirecraft (magic) to the extent that is humanly possible. Not all elemental vampires feed on psychic energy from humans; so it is kind of an insult and shows a lack of respect for the true elemental vampire who draws energy from the elements (earth, wind, fire, water).

   4. Hybrid Vampires feed a combination of ways. A hybrid Vampire may drink small amounts of blood; but also feed on elemental energy. A hybrid vampire may feed off psychic energy; but also feed off the elements (earth, wind, fire, water).

   Vampires are not Parasites. The fictional vampires of movies and fairy tales might be parasites. Even the murderous, delusional, criminals with some vampire tendencies might be; but real vampires are not murderers. People in the Vampire Community who are guilty of such moral turpitude acts such as (murder, rape, child molestation, leeching, elder abuse) are abandoned by the vampire community and stripped of any affiliation with other real vampires or vampire donors for that matter this is called Sin Nomine. Also more than likely someone from the Vampire Community will report this person to the police.

   There may not be a concrete way to define real vamppires; as a high priestess of a vampire coven I will be the first to tell what real vampires and even vampire donors are clearly not: (murderers, child molesters, rapist, leeches, elder abusers, nor abusers of the disabled). Anybody who is not willing to stand up for the real vampire and donor community to let the none vampire donor community know this is not worthy of being apart of the vampire donor community.

   I take offense to even the implication that the real vampire donor community is made up of murderers, rapist, child molesters, leeches, or eleder abusers. I am sick and tired of people saying they speak for the vampire community; but say nothing about folks lumping us in with murderers and child molesters. Am I the only leader in the vampire community willing to stand up and protect our own?

   As children we are fed through our mothers blood supply until birth. We can easily see it is offensive to call an unborn human who draws energy from the blood supply of their mother a parasite. So as a human real sanguine vampire we want the same respect you give to an unborn child. Real sanguine vampires get very offended by the term parasite. We all feed from something plants, meat, blood does that make every human on the planet a parasite?

   Vlad Tepes/Dracula of Romania is a hero in his country. He never drank blood; but he did dip bread in blood sauce when he was with the Ottoman Turks. People do not want to call Vlad a Vampire because he protected and defended hia country. Vampires have been defending their countries and serving in the military for some time now. I am also a Veteran of the United States Navy and a Vampire. Society wants to believe real vampires do not protect, nurture, or care for others or their countries; but this was not true in Vlad’s time nor is it true in our time.

4. R Says:
   January 14th, 2010 at 1:12 pm

   Why is there no opinion from the scientific community? I mean, if psychic vampires and blood drinkers are making legitimate claims, then surely someone somewhere would have tested something. There is no proof to back any of these peoples claims other than their own beliefs which reflect myth and popular fiction so closely it makes one believe that they may suffer from some sort of detachment from reality. An example of this is many believe they possess a sensitivity to sunlight, are nocturnal, are stronger, faster, have stronger senses, are smarter, all in all superhuman and more “other” than “mundanes” because of their claims of vampirism. (sanguinarius.org, drinkdeeplyanddream.com, kheperu.org and many many others make these claims alongside many many individuals)

5. Rav Says:
   January 14th, 2010 at 11:48 pm

   As a member of the vampire community I will say the article started out well. Then they started talking about sociopaths and serial killers. There is no proof that mental illness made those people commit heinous acts. I have known many people with mental illnesses who would not hurt another person in such a way. None of the vampires I have known are homicidal maniacs. As a vampire with mental illness I found everything after Merticus to be offensive and blindly judgenmental. There are also many members of the vampire community who beleive they receive no benefits from being a vampire. None of us are superhuman. There are some differences that actually fall within human parameters and some that can be traced to genetics. I have non-vampire family members with the same sensitivities that I do. The only difference is that I need to absorb energy from outside sources and have a need for blood that I somewhat satisfy with supplements. I am a mother, student, and contributing member of society. I am in no way crazy and that was confirmed by my psychiatrist. I believe that people should not open their mouths before doing the necessary research on a topic.

6. R Says:
   January 15th, 2010 at 12:59 pm

   Ha ha, I already did my research. Insert tired sigh here. Freedom of speech. I respect it, so I won’t cry like a baby because you don’t agree with me Here’s a hanky, dry your tears.
   Genetics? Really? I would love to get my hands on a transcript of the research and laboratory testing that determined that. I would also like to know the lab that conducted the tests, the companies funding and backing the research, the (legitimate, qualified) anthropologists on the team and if anyone involved in the research had a biased opinion by already being a member of the vampire community.
   Also, did you tell your therapist about your blood drinking and other symptoms of vampirism? Have sessions dedicated to trying to establish if it’s psychosomatic? Have you got a second opinion? Also you mentioned you were mentally ill–I assume you have a diagnosis? That means that the system already thinks you’re crazy. Whether or not they think you’re dangerous is the determining factor in whether or not you’re locked up or prescribed heavy meds like antipsychotics, benzodiazepines or what ever the flavor of the week is.

7. Donna Says:
   January 15th, 2010 at 8:50 pm

   Of course mental illness is the cause for those people committing acts of murder, cannibalism, etc. Sociopaths have no conscience. Someone capable of those actions who was raised in a culture that frowns upon them so heavily obviously has something wrong with them. I personally find demonic possession an unlikely explanation. Sociopathy has been studied fairly well, and the changes in the brain that are seen are quite clear. Schizophrenic delusions can also lead people to do heinous things–this is another physical brain condition that cannot be treated via psychology, but must be treated medically. There is no treatment for sociopathy that I am aware of, however.

   The point is that none of that has anything to do with vampirism. A serial killer eating corpses isn’t a vampire.

8. polite amounts of blood « being a swan Says:
   January 18th, 2010 at 3:46 pm

   [...] amounts of blood In this otherwise unwittingly hilarious article on vampires there is a funny little quote: ‘Blood-drinking, or sanguinarian, vampires have to consume small, [...]

9. R Says:
   January 19th, 2010 at 3:11 am

   They are people claiming to be vampires. I don’t see how you miss the correlation. So what you’re saying is that claims of vampirism are valid, UNLESS the individuals kill someone or have a mental illness? That members of the vampire community are somehow above the rest of society in moral standing? If one of your vampire friends kill someone will you come to their defense with “He can’t possibly be a cold-blooded killer, he thinks he’s a vampire!”?
   Considering how disdainful of “mundane society” most “vampires” are, I wouldn’t put it passed the community to turn out more dangerous individuals. So many “vampires” claim to be superior or higher on the food chain (this mentality is reflected in how they drink human blood/”drain human energy”). Also, see my provided link for the mentality of prominent sanguinarians in the community.
   Also demonic possession and “astral parasites” are a common theory of “vampirism causes” inside the community. Acting like this one individual is a special case is misleading.

10. Nick Says:
    January 19th, 2010 at 4:18 pm

    We’re not saying that there aren’t bad eggs out there. Just as in every community, we also have those that are mentally unstable or simply take it too far. The point is, despite what some may believe, vampires are not by any means, “above” humans because we are also human. We’re not some other race or breed of human, just human, like anyone else. We won’t come to anyone’s defense if they kill, because killing is wrong, and illegal. That’s why we have donors. Furthermore, 99 times out of 100, anyone that claims to be a vampire, and considers mundanes as some lower race, or claims to be centuries old, or claims to have impossible powers is just trying to get attention. They just want their 15 minutes of fame and will say anything the media wants to hear.
    On another note, granted, nothing is yet proven on what causes vampirism. Genetics is just the most likely explanation. Determining whether or not your child will be a vampire may one day be as easy as determining if they will have blue or brown eyes. Again, not proven, I know; but it’s the most probable theory we have so far.
    If you really want to know more about the vampire community, come by vcmb.org and talk to some of us. Swing by sanguinarius.org on your way to get an idea of what we really are.

11. Moe Says:
    January 20th, 2010 at 2:58 pm

    You forgot a few cases including the disappearance of one woman who ” investigated” the vampire community in New York. Katherine Ramsland wrote about the case ( though not well) in one of her books. Ramsland also has a list of vampire killers on the TruTV web site, including “vampires” as victims.

    True crime wise, there are in fact a number of cases of sexual predators and psychopaths claiming to be vampires. The ” vampire cult” case is one such example. Another is when some guy pretended to be a vampire and lured a teenager to a cemetery where he raped her. So the claim of so-called ” real vampires” that their community is not predatory and are law-abiding is rather hard to believe.

    Scientifically speaking, there is no proof that people claiming to be vampires are in fact genetically inclined to become vampires. Aside from a blood disease that makes patients crave blood and iron consumption, there is no empirical proof behind the claims of those who say they are vampires. The only area of science that can provide theories as to the real vampire claim would be mental health professionals. There is a mental illness called Renfield’s Syndrome that makes reference to vampiric fixation. For a number of those claiming to be vampires, they are role playing Anne Rice types and not anything near what the folklore vampire is.

    William Schnobelen, noted Christian liar, recently added to his biography the claim he was a real vampire until he got saved OC.

    I like the vampire as entertainment genre but I have one basic problem with the claims of the “real vampires”. If their claims are true, how come that historically speaking “their people” are a recent phenomenon, not something that has been known for centuries. The gays have better historical proof than these people.

    Yes I understand there is a vampire community, that some people claim to be psychic vampires and not blood drinkers, etc., but if you actually look at the history of how the “vampire community” came about, the fact that all this is recent and so obviously based on Anne Rice’s books that Occam’s Razor falls to their claims being based on psychology, not on biology. IMO the “vampire” community should be honest about themselves and not play the stupid games.

    And Vincent, the well-known so-called real vampire, hardly dresses himself as a normal person. He uses lenses and fake fangs, plus makeup and clothing that is hardly normal. BTW in his case he had his blood tested and there was not biological proof through the tests to explain his alleged need for blood.

    ” Real vampires” are IMO a role playing paraphilia blood sex human made community, not an actual human variant. biology wise.

12. R Says:
    January 22nd, 2010 at 3:28 am

    Nick: You can say what ever you want and try to hide the truth, but anyone that does serious delving into the community will see everyone for what they are. Heck, even a light skimming of the surface will reveal the disphoria and disconnection the members have with normal society.
    Oh, and I was a member of the VCMB until fairly recently. I saw the Bloody Minded board. Enough said.

13. robert Says:
    January 22nd, 2010 at 4:23 pm

    i think what you are saying has some truth to it the vampire way of life is usally one lived in secerts…so finding out about them makes it difficult to get to the truth…but go a lil more into deatail of how they become they way they are then your good to go

14. R Says:
    January 23rd, 2010 at 12:07 am

    Yeah, stop making these humans sound so mystical. There’s nothing mysterious. There’s nothing special. They’re just afraid of their own humanity and being as ordinary and plain as everyone else. Some are just looking for a place to belong. These things do not a vampire make.
    Reading articles on the internet is not rocket science. There is no difficulty in “getting the truth”– it is there for everyone to see.
    As for “going into deatail of how they become they way they are” (nice grammar and spelling there), I’m going to assume they are the way they are due to dissatisfaction with less than notable lives, childhood trauma and/or a midlife crisis until a qualified scientist tells me otherwise.

15. Mona Says:
    January 23rd, 2010 at 12:59 pm

    I am intrigued and somewhat unsure of the vampire legacy. From what I have read there does seem to be a genuine community of ‘human vampires” – do you exist all over the world?
    Is this not just another ditched group formed by society? I do believe there are many myths and legends that are derived from a deeper truth. … yet they are always closely guarded. I want to understand this community greatly as I am fascinated by the mystery…..

16. R Says:
    January 25th, 2010 at 9:32 pm

    There are no ancient vampire legends. The concept of this creature is fairly recent (within the past 500 years) and primarily a European construct.
    There are legends and myths that can be linked by one or two common factors (nocturnal tendencies, aversion to holy items (this part of the myths was created by the Christian church), etc) but there are no great details that link the legends. Some mythical entities drank blood, but saying all myths of “demons” that drink blood qualify as vampire myths is like saying all animals that eat meat qualify as lions).
    The things that caused belief in vampires and vampirism of recent European folk lore and legend (being born with teeth and hair, the symptoms of diseases like tuberculosis, being born with placenta on your head, committing suicide, blaspheming, being DEAD) have no relevance to the modern vampire community. There is no link between the two.
    Way back when the symptoms of vampirism were mostly the symptoms of legitimate diseases and viruses that the population of primitive eras had no understanding of. The “symptoms” of the members of the community have yet to be determined by modern science, if they even exist.

17. Vampgirl Says:
    March 16th, 2010 at 5:38 pm

    Heyy, I have loved vampires for all my life and I actually wish I was one coz I love the taste of blood and I think they are totally cool Why are all you people talking rubbish? Vampires are not some weird fairytale creature like all of you are making them out to be. Have none of you seen Twilight, True Blood, Moonlight, Vampire High, Buffy The Vampire Slayer or The Vampire Diaries? They are what I call real vampires, they have powers like mind control, ability to hear your thoughts, fast movements, strength and the ability to fly. Why do I feel like I’m the only one speaking sense here? I mean MODERN vamp information! By the way Vampires do feed off blood how else would they survive and don’t tell me they would do so by living off earth, wind, fire and water come on seriously you need to get a life! To all vamps out there I am free for being vamped free of charge!

    Thank You

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