Real Vampire Sightings
March 6, 2009 by James Hewson
Filed under Weird Stuff
Real vampire sightings are not just the work of modern day fiction, a skeleton uncovered from a grave in Venice is being alleged as the first recognized case of ‘vampires’ extensively referred to in present day records.
Matteo Borrini of the University of Florence in Italy discovered the bones of a woman with a small block in her mouth while digging mass graves of plague fatalities from the Middle Ages on Lazzaretto Nuovo Island in Venice which was removed from a mass grave of victims of the Venetian plague of 1576.
During the time period the woman perished, many individuals conceived that the plague was spread by ‘vampires’ which, rather than consuming human’s blood, spread illness by gnawing on their coverings after death. Grave diggers positioned blocks in the mouths of believed vampires to impede them from gnawing the coverings, Matteo stated.
The urban myth depicts Vampires as possessing a variety of supplemental powers and personality characteristics, radically changeable in different traditions, and is a familiar subject of folklore, movies, and present day fiction. Vampires are believed to be enormously powerful, possessing fangs, and an inability to be exposed to daylight or holy water Whilst they enjoy a long existence and have an incredible healing capability, they are not as legend tells it, thought to be outright immortal.
Additional characteristics of the traditional Vampire is the possession of supernatural physical abilities such as, agility, hearing, increased smelling capacity and of course, omitting no shadow. It is believed that Vampires also have quadrochromatic vision; while we humans have just three kinds of conoids in our eye vampires possessed four, the fourth being regulated to be near-infrared. It is understood that they are able to close themselves down for decades, desiccating down to this biologically inactive condition and entering what is commonly recognized as an ‘undead’ phase whereby they cannot be destroyed other than by decapitation, burning, or puncture of the heart by a wooden implement.
Vampire legend implies that they principally bite the victim’s neck, drawing out the blood commencing with the carotid artery. In mythology and popular tradition, the expression usually relates to a ideology that one can gain supernatural powers by consuming human blood. In addition, Werewolves are occasionally thought to become vampires following death, and vampires are frequently believed to possess the capacity to metamorphose themselves into wolves.
The above is of course the stuff of urban legend and our movie screens and works of fiction however, this latest find in Venice is probably as close as we are going to get in terms of real vampire sightings.
I AM A VAMPIRE, I WAS TURNED IN OCTOBER 1899, EERILY JUST BEFORE THE TURN OF THE CENTURY. My human memories are blury so I can’t recount too much of my human life and you would not believe how hard it has been for me to adapt to thie new age, and its hard to see what humans are turning earth into, and also its been harder to get a hold of some blood, whereas when I was a baby bat all I would have to do is get me a seasoned maiden, but now all humans are accounted for. Woe is me.
it is kind of hard to believe something that you never seen but im not going to doubt that other creatures exist out there that are hidden
if you are a vampire i invite you to pay me a visit.
WELLLLL,im not sure i belive in vampires but you never know its a very big world and we might not be the only ones here that can be in a human form.
i am seeking a real vampire. reasons are mine i will tell you if i believe you
I need a vampire to take me away. and i want to feed one ;P My neck is open to the vamps
if thA WER TRUE DNT U THINK WE WOULD NO BOUT THEM BY NOW THER WOOD BE REPORTS OF PPL WIV BIT MARKS ON THER BODY WAT A LOUD OF CRAP
thats the point were made to belive theres nothing else out there but if you open your mind alittle you will never know what will happen…..p.s check your grammer before posting!!
Jasper,
You do not speak like your from the 1800′s?
On another note…
I think this discovery is really fascinating. I don’t really know if I buy into the whole vampire theme, But it is intresting. Interesting int he fact That the reality that Vampires have been haunting the minds of so many people for so long and the proof of that, Is amazing! Its really neat!
xoxoxoxoDee
It’s amazing to see this. I would love to be a vampire. if there are any out there willing to turn me, i would be eternaly theres.
im not sure if vampires are real or not but wouldn’t it be well sweet if they were. People claim to have been attacked by vampires but most of the time it’s just a load of bull. And, i think people who say they are vampires are just looking for attention, and if they were vamps they wouldnt be exposing their selfs would they ?.They might just be doing it for a joke but maybe people are not looking for jokers.Maybe there is such things as vampires, a number of people have reported being attacked in the same area’s, but it could be a hoax. I hope that i didn’t offend anyone because that was not at all my intentions. anyway i really don’t think that if there was such thing as a vamp it wouldn’t be like the myths (Big fangs, blood drinkers, etc) they might be walking amoungst us, and we just dont know it, or they couldn’t be real and it truly is just myths. But who knows, maybe some day we could find out but i don’t think we would for a vry long time.
Just looking for answers.
I’m pretty optimistic when it comes to the undead, although no a big fan of mythical creatures like zombies or ghosts i do like the idea of there being vampires living amongst us. As for that douche saying that there would be a signifigant number of sightings and reports if they were real… well there has been! Many people such as police and the government are always trying to keep supernatural sightings hush hush, and also trying to make them seem like medical explanations. For example over the last week in Russia alone there has been 200 reports of attacks or eyewitnesses to attacks of pale, strong creatures believed to be vampires. Over 10 people have died due to neck wounds and others are injured. Go check http://www.vampires.com and see for yourself! If you do believe in Vampires then it does good to look into it, after half an hour of searching i found over 150 reports, true or not you decide! But keep an eye open…
PLEASE TURN ME IF THERE ARE REAL VAMPIRES. just to give you a reason to turn me my parents are divorsed,i hate my step mom, i have no friends,and i feel alone all the time. i hate my life.
I know that ghosts are not mythical. I have seen too many to call them such a demeaning title. Although, No Vampires have ever shown themselves to me. Yet I still believe they are out there. Many of them will avoid confrontation. And get online just to divert people from believing.
All Im looking for is one to talk to. Not a fake wanna be joker acting like a vampire cause they have something missing from life. A real actual Vampire.
I dare them to tap the thin line between them and our world.
We are very calm beings and we dont usually attack unless threatened. It is true, memories are usually lost but, with every gift is a curse…
~Shadow~
jasper ur post is writen in the day at 5 in the afternoon, if all these myths about vampires are true they would be sleeping at that time by the way watch ur bak coz ‘i am’ if u know wat i mean …… see u soon xx
That sure is hard to believe
am just 15 years old but all thia interest me.
it not funny. but honestly if vampires<3 were really real i would
to be turned.
by all means i would be there.