As we've established, you weren't speaking of a vampire myth at all, just about reports of some unidentified phenomena.
There are no vampires and never were. While you may be right that legends preceded Bram Stoker, you're not referring to experiences, but to fictitious beings from popular mythology.
Do vampires exist? No and yes.
Webster's Dictionary offers the following definition of the word vampire:
1: the reanimated body of a dead person believed to come from the grave at night and suck the blood of persons asleep
2a : one who lives by preying on others
2b : a woman who exploits and ruins her lover
3: vampire bat
#1 does not exist. #2a, 2b and 3 do exist
It's likely the vampire myth came from this disease...
Porphyria - Wikipedia
I don't know him although I had heard the name. There are a lot of people running around, writing books, getting on TV shows, and etc. who claim all sorts of things--to be Martians, reincarnated somethings, former leaders of whatever you can name, sorcerers, and so on.Isn't vapirism real?
What about Bill Schnebolen?
I don't know him although I had heard the name. There are a lot of people running around, writing books, getting on TV shows, and etc. who claim all sorts of things--to be Martians, reincarnated somethings, former leaders of whatever you can name, sorcerers, and so on.
Although I don't believe that theory, it surely is the case that the vampire movies of recent years have made the vampire of legend out to be quite different from how he used to be described. No longer a grotesque creature of the night who lives in his coffin and turns into a bat etc., he's become a fairly sympathetic human (albeit with pale skin) who, however, has some sort of a physical disability and so finds it hard finding true love or something else like that.I dont, but I know people who do.
It is apparently (so I have been told) a growing belief in what appears to be the more loony conspiracy theory believers that there is a current spate of vampire films designed to make vampires out to be less evil in preparation for them to be revealed to the world as real.
I believe that there are some people who were once mixed up with occultish groups, yes, but most of those folks who are seen on TV "exposing" secret information to the world aren't credible, no.
I don't think it's worth 43 minutes of my time to find out. The first one seems to be talking about being with Satanists (and there are such people) but I don't know if anything he says is true; and at least some of what the second one says is about Santeria which is a strange non-Western religion.