Do vampires exist in the world?

Answer 1

Answer 1:

No. Besides obvious absurdities in the various descriptions of them, one must realize that man has made a hobby of hunting to extinction any animal that we feel is a threat. And when not doing that, various groups of men square off and hunt each other as threats, in everything from "lynchings" to "wars".

If there was so much as a hint of the possibility of vampires, there would be no resources spared in the tracking down, rounding up, and wholesale elimination of them. And nothing in vampire lore suggests that they could stand against the massed might of man.

It would be as simple as infecting all of our blood with something harmless to us, and poison to them. Or installing sun lamp style lights in the street lamps and around each house.

Answer 2:

Lore is the best description, fiction would be another, also individual fantasy, which seems to be spreading to beleivable proportion for a large part of society.

Answer 3:

There is admittedly a romantic (in the old school sense) style to the idea of them. Not so much the blood drinking as the immoratility part. Modern vampires don't have the panache of the original ones. To - shall we say? - "metrosexual".

However, that said, there is no scientific basis to them, and the ones as described in books and movie nowadays are more a teen girl's dream than a frightening monster.