I 100% believe that vampires were real

BEFORE YOU JUDGE!

1. This is r/crazyideas

2. HEAR ME OUT

Slavic, Nordic, Ancient Greek, Ancient Roman, Babylonian, Mesopotamian, Ancient African, Hebrew, Egyptians, Inuit, Aztec, India, Ancient Hawaiian and Native Alaskans

All these ancient civilizations, even at points of time in history where they would have no connection with each other or way of communicating, share myths of human-like creatures that come out only at night to feed on the blood of mankind or the recently deceased. Sometimes, these creatures would take only a little every night and some would come out every few months/years and drain someone dry. The legends of these creatures vary in appearance and how to kill them but I have an answer for both of those. The reason they look different is…Regional vampires, like how certain animals look completely different from their counterparts on a different part of the world. The reason why different ways to repel them exists for two reasons

1. People started building off the myths to fit their own narratives

2. Different people in different parts of the world try different tactics and they work. Who/what wouldn’t die from fire or getting stabbed in the heart or having your head removed. These creatures (in most mythos) used to be human

Where are they? Extinct. When humans are afraid of something, we kill it. If we can’t control it, we poke it with sticks until it stops moving. Vampires were no different. I don’t think vampires could read minds or change into bats. I think they were just stronger, blood/flesh consuming humanoids that preyed on humans.

Now I know vampirism mostly was just rabies or something like that but what if it wasn’t, just what if. Why haven’t we found fossils or something to prove their existence. Couple of reasons, after the vampires all died and the myths grew, tales of their strengths and powers expanded. So people aren’t looking for vampire remains because they think it’s all a myth. Even if we did find vampiric remains, we couldn’t test for the virus because it’s long dead, like how everything else decomposes. We have found skulls with teeth ripped out after death but we concluded that if we just ancient people being superstitious. What if they were superstitious for a reason or not superstitious at all. Besides, there are so many things in history we will never know about or discover because so many of history has been lost or destroyed or simply not past on. Why can’t vampires be one of them?

If anyone DID find vampire remains, they would either:

A: Be laughed at and not given the chance or resources to properly study them

B: Have all of their resources collected by someone with more authority and that resource would never see the light of day

C: Be a huge nerd and keep it to themselves just say they can say “I have a vampire skull”

Or D: Go missing

I know that is a great big wall of text but enjoy. Happy scrolling.