Question:
Are Vampires Real...?
anonymous
2009-03-29 18:02:20 UTC
I know this sounds a little silly, but im just very curious.

Are Vampires real?
23 answers:
Callie Kaulitz !!
2009-03-29 18:28:18 UTC
There are such things as vampires. They aren't the kind in Hollywood fiction, but there are people who do practice vimpirism. I actually have a friend who is a psychic vampire, which is one of the two main types a vampires. Instead of blood, she feeds off of the feelings of people around her. If you have any questions for her, feel free to email me and ask for her email, she's happy to answer any questions on the subject :)



oh and I asked this question here https://answersrip.com/question/index?qid=20081214105059AAco2zg a long time ago and got a lot of responses from real vampires. You can check out some of their responses which may be helpful.
Samworld
2009-03-29 18:11:01 UTC
I don't know. The interesting thing is that most civilizations have a vampire or vampiric bogey man in their respective mythologies. Many of these cultures and civilizations didn't even exist at the same points in history. If you believe that every legend has a hint of truth, then vampires, dragons, sprites and other "mythological" creatures may have existed at some point in history, if not today. Realistically speaking, I would think the modern world would be easy for vampiric creatures to adapt to but who knows? Personally I've never met one.
Lord Bearclaw of Gryphon Woods
2009-03-30 09:37:19 UTC
Well, here's the rest of the answer:





6. Even if a vampire feeds once a week, and his victim also becomes a vampire, that is exponential growth, with four iterations a month. First iteration: One makes one, total two. Second iteration: Two make two, total four. Third iteration: Four make four, total eight. Fourth iteration: Eight make eight, total sixteen. 16 vampires at the end of one month, 256 at the end of the second month, 4096 by the end of the third month, 65,536 by the end of the fourth month, 1,048,476 at the end of the fifth, and 33,572,832 vampires at the end of half a year! By way of comparison, there are currently approximately 33 million people who have HIV/AIDS and the disease is a world-wide epidemic. I see people every day in the hospital with AIDS, but never has there been one documented case of a vampire attack. Do the math - vampires are a mathematical impossibility.

As for the idea that vampires existed "a long time ago" consider the estimated global population 5,000 years ago - using the above mathematical rationale, a single vampire converted every human on the globe in less than two years. This falls therefore, under the logic of Occam's Razor - which states that when you have removed every impossible answer, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. Since there is no "vampiric plague" swarming the earth, the logical deduction is that they don't exist.



7. Point of clarification about "vampire" bats: vampire is simply the name we have given them because they do drink blood, same as a flea, mosquito, leech, or spider. Are these creatures vampires? No. They are living creatures, not legendary monsters. They can subsist on blood because of their smaller size and proportionately larger stomach volume. Drinking blood does not make you a vampire anymore than eating raw meat makes you a werewolf, although it might make you a mosquito.



8.The humans who profess to be vampires are victims of an all-encompassing self induced delusion. They are as human as you or I, regardless of their claims, and if they ingest HIV tainted blood they can most certainly contract the disease, esp. if they have any cuts, sores, or lesions in and or around their mouth. It is a very dangerous delusion to be laboring under. Note that there is absolutely no scientific or medical proof that these people derive any benefit at all from the ingestion of blood, and even worse are the so-called "psychic" vampires, because their delusion is one that they cannot substantiate with any concrete evidence at all.



9. There is no "vampire" gene. People are not "born" as vampires. When a woman goes to the hospital for prenatal care there are many tests done on mother and child, even while still in the womb, to check for many things, including genetic anomalies that result in deformities and birth defects. If such a gene existed, in today's world with today's technology it would have been found - we have already completely sequenced the human genome. It would also have to follow Mendel's law of dominant/recessive gene theory. Again, the odds on that many "vampires" all escaping the notice of the medical/scientific community are so low as to be almost nonexistent. The idea that there is a global "vampire community" engaging in controlled breeding to keep the "bloodline pure" is delusional in the extreme.



10. There is no "vampire virus" - as I have already pointed out, HIV is a virus, and look at how fast it has spread - virtually everyone knows someone with the affliction. According to the "vampire websites" there are "thousands" of vampires running around. If that was so then at least one of them has ended up in a hospital for bloodwork when they became pregnant, had a bloodborne infection, was injured in a car wreck, etc, etc, ad nauseum. The anomaly would have been detected and medical science would have isolated it, studied it, applied for research grants on it, published papers on it, and turned it into the talk of the medical and scientific community, as well as making its "discoverers" celebrities and rich beyond their dreams. A virus cannot alter your DNA in such a radical fashion without killing you.



THERE IS NO VAMPIRE VIRUS. V5 is not a vampire virus, it is a form of the human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV - something none of you want. The only site I can find linking V5 to vampirism tells a good story, and the author knows a good bit about viral replication, but the site has no hard scientific proof, or links to other, more reputable sites to back it up. These websites offering V5 as "proof" are offering theory only, and have no actual proof that "V5" actually exists! One site claims that the knowledge is being "suppressed" - but if that were so, how'd they find out? And why is the website still up? Because it's fiction. Further investigation of "V5" produces only one further lead: to actual medical reports on HIV.



I'm a Nurse, real education, real experience. No matter what people tell you, "vampires" cannot drain you psychically, cannot gain supernatural nourishment from blood, and are not in any way shape or form "energy deficient". Humans do not give off prana, chi, the Force, or anything else that so-called "psy vamps" say they feed on. These are lies of the "vampire community" with absolutely no evidence to back them up, and are used in order to give their fantasies pseudo-legitimacy to people who are gullible enough to swallow this tripe hook, line, and sinker.
Gamer Kitten
2009-03-29 19:10:54 UTC
Pardon me Lord Beaclaw whilst I steal your thunder...



"Here is truth - read and understand.

1. Vampires, defined as a humanoid being that MUST consume blood or energy to survive do not exist. Cut and paste time, as it is too much work to type this out over and over and I "recycle" my own answers instead of retyping them so here goes. A brief discussion of the human digestive system and then the probable vampire population given an exponential growth rate should explain why vampires are not possible.



2. The human body is not designed to process large amounts of blood for nutrition. There is not enough protein, carbohydrates, and fats present in blood to maintain a complex creature such as Homo Sapiens or any theorized offshoot mutations. When a human ingests food it is first broken up into a bolus by chewing, then churned up in the stomach with digestive juices to form a mass called chyme. It then passes through the pylorus into the duodenum, part of the small intestine where it mixes with bile salts and secretions from the pancreas and liver which continue breaking it down on a molecular basis, mostly affecting fats at this point. The broken down nutrients pass through the wall of the intestines and into the bloodstream where they are carried to each cell or stored for later use. Indigestible bulk continues through the intestines, turning a dark brown from the bile. Water is absorbed from this mass in the large intestine depending on the needs of the body - a well-hydrated person will usually have a softer stool than a dehydrated person will. Water also enters the bloodstream, and this is what helps to maintain blood pressure. The pressure tends to balance itself in a healthy person because the bloodstream goes through a formation in the kidney called the Loop of Henle, where the narrowing blood vessel forces excess water and cellular waste such as urea out through the cellular wall into the kidneys, where it is excreted through the ureters into the bladder, and then out of the body via the urethral passageway.



3. IMPORTANT - A person physically unable to process his own food for nutrition therefore also could not process blood - it's the same process. Ingested blood does not transmit directly to the veins anyway - it would be chemically broken down by the digestive system.



4. Theoretical ingestion of blood to supply these nutrients would therefore have to occur at least once a day, and would require the ingestion of the entire blood supply which could not happen as the stomach is far too small to hold that much liquid volume. Hold up your clenched fist - under normal conditions your stomach is about that size. Furthermore, such a mass would be difficult to pass thru the intestines as it has no fibrous bulk, would create an intestinal impaction, causing massive vomiting from the large concentration of iron present, and any "real" vampire would have to eventually expel the waste, which would come out as a black, tarry, smelly goo, just as stool does when blood is present from a upper GI bleed.

5. These humans that affect the whole "vampiric lifestyle" are NOT vampires. They are simply humans playing their own little game, in their own little fantasy world, usually pandering to their own little sexual fetish, which may or may not actually be sexual. I too, play my own little game, in the SCA, but mine is a game where the deeds that I do are determined by the strength of my arm and sword - I am a warrior, with just as much skill and ability as any warrior of ancient times. The difference is that I am claiming to be something physically possible: a warrior, and I prove it everytime I strap on my armor and walk onto a SCA battlefield. The so-called "vampires" are claiming to be something physically impossible: a walking corpse, and all they prove is that black Victorian clothing, a pair of false fangs, and a little makeup make for a good Halloween costume - it does not make you a vampire.



6. Even if a vampire feeds once a week, and his victim also becomes a vampire, that is exponential growth, with four iterations a month. First iteration: One makes one, total two. Second iteration: Two make two, total four. Third iteration: Four make four, total eight. Fourth iteration: Eight make eight, total sixteen. 16 vampires at the end of one month, 256 at the end of the second month, 4096 by the end of the third month, 65,536 by the end of the fourth month, 1,048,476 at the end of the fifth, and 33,572,832 vampires at the end of half a year! By way of comparison, there are currently approximately 33 million people who have HIV/AIDS and the disease is a world-wide epidemic. I see people every day in the hospital with AIDS, but never has there been one documented case of a vampire attack. Do the math - vampires are a mathematical impossibility.

As for the idea that vampires existed "a long time ago" consider the estimated global population 5,000 years ago - using the above mathematical rationale, a si
anonymous
2009-03-29 18:33:11 UTC
Wow no one knows about real vampires? It still shocks me with all the vampire obsessed teens and the vampire popularity in Hollywood, that real vampires are able to stay so well hidden.



Yes, there are real vampires, but they are not immortal nor undead. They are not allergic to sunlight or garlic, they do not sleep in coffins.



They are normal humans like you and I, except for one little difference. For what ever reason, vampires feel a strong need for an alternative source of energy. Normal humans get enough energy by eating food. Vampires eat normal food, but don't get enough energy from it. There are two types of alternate energy that vampires use. Sanguine vampires drink blood. Psi vampires absorb psychic energy.



Usually these vampire people are not bad. Sanguine don't run around biting people. They have doners who agree to cut themselfs and let the vampire drink a little of their blood from the cut. Where they find these people who agree to donate is beyond me, but they do. Psi vampires don't really need a doner because they can just walk into a room and drain people's energy and no one would realize it really.



Also, these vampires are not "turned" and they can not turn you into a vampire. They are born the way they are and most of them realize it around puberty. Also, no one knows for sure why these people need an alternet source of energy. Some think it is a genetic dissorder, mental dissorder, or other rare illness, but no one knows for sure as not many doctors have bothered to look into it and real vampires are shy and very careful of who they share thier information with.
anonymous
2016-09-08 04:05:48 UTC
good for one, garlic, crosses do not even damage vampires. Screen writers made that up looong in the past. And vampires have a mirrored image. The exhibit up in graphics. Secondly, If your a vampire, then your fang tooth or w.e will probably be essential sharp. :P And thirdly, you could no longer belive, however im a vampire. My title used to be originaly Beth, however I received bored of that approximately two decades in the past, so I converted my title to Zaria. [=
Torsvik Von Clemson
2009-03-30 01:31:32 UTC
250 years ago I made a lot of money hunting vamps. Every time someone asks if vampires are real I just look at the huge scar on my leg and remember all of that money I made.
anonymous
2009-03-29 19:45:02 UTC
Of course not. Back then people believed to be vampires really had rabies. Look at the symptoms.
Nessie ^-^
2009-03-29 18:30:53 UTC
okay, so I saw this 'vampire' show on the history channel, by the way its an awesome channel...very very interesting. but anyway, it was about how back back back back in the days, like were talking BC in think there was this guy, i don't remember much of this cause i saw in last year, but he started to drink human blood. he would hang their heads on spears, i think and drink their blood. i think his name was Vlad, i think he was the prince that lived in Transylvania. over time, he was started to be know and be called by Dracula..i forgot what it meant, but yeah. he was the only true vampire that ever lived. you should check out the history channel, click on the video tab and type in Vlad Dracula the Vampire and there should be various videos. actually, if you've never read the book, Dracula by Bram Stoker, he wrote it based on this true event in Transylvania, he did a lot of research. you should really read the book its really good, in my opinion. anyhow, i hope i helped and check out the video on the history channel it's very interesting.
ChelK
2009-03-29 18:37:49 UTC
Depends on what your definition of vampire is...

Vampires like in twilight, count dracula- no



Vampires like people who kill people and drink their blood- yes. (otherwise known as cannibals) I remember reading this book about serial killers and it talked about the first known vampire, and it was this woman who killed virgin women and bathed in their blood because she believed it would make her immortal.
Hank A
2009-03-29 18:11:59 UTC
Those guys are trying to hide the truth, but I'm gonna be honest with you, kid. You need to be able to protect yourself.



They're real. They're out there. And they're hungry.



Rub yourself with garlic when you go out at night, that should be enough to keep 'em away.



Good luck.
Silas (Echo Company)
2009-03-29 18:09:27 UTC
Negative... But there are idiots who think there are vampire out there.
anamdran2
2009-03-29 18:10:39 UTC
No they are not real although there are some people who enjoy drinking blood but I guarantee you that is less than .0001 % of the people of the whole world.
anonymous
2009-03-29 18:40:58 UTC
THERE ARE NOT REAL



and you stupid "physic vampires" are a cult.
anonymous
2009-03-29 20:42:52 UTC
No but it would be pretty cool if they were, they have a certain appeal about it
Araphel
2009-03-29 20:37:17 UTC
The invitation is extended in your favor

if you wish to find out for yourself.......

V....V
coolgirl123
2009-03-29 20:41:40 UTC
Who knows, it hasn't been proven otherwise
Victor
2009-03-29 18:40:23 UTC
their are animals that only feed on blood but not humans thats just stupid
CaliBabe
2009-03-29 18:08:34 UTC
I'm sure if they were, we would all be aware of it by now.

So I'm gonna go with no on this one.
katie p
2009-03-30 14:52:29 UTC
yes their are two kinds Sanguine and Psi look them up i did
Twizzted and unholy
2009-03-29 20:51:19 UTC
depends on your view, i think we are real.
The Tails Doll
2009-03-29 18:06:30 UTC
Probably not.
anonymous
2009-03-29 19:24:16 UTC
Indeed we are...


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