Vampire Truth

Let me start with this, I don’t and will never care if you believe me or not, I have had many people not believe me over the years and it gets very tiring. I am about 300 or so years old, I was born in Europe during the very late 1600’s. Things to know about Vampires in general.

1) I am not evil, I don’t kill humans, I use donor blood

2) I don’t need blood every day, every 3 or so days I need about a cup of blood to stay strong

3) Sunlight will not kill me, it just gets in my eyes a lot, and irritates me.

4) Once we are “turned” we will stay at that age forever, unless rarely there are those who can alter their appearance

5) A lot of vampires can’t “change/turn” people voluntarily, I have a choice when I bite, It comes with my age, I don’t do it in evil, if they want to be a vampire then they have to prove to me that they are worthy

6) I am immortal, Time stopped for me a long time ago when I was 30, I can only die by select means, Silver or crosses are not one of them

7) I don’t hate humans with a passion, I merely dislike your kind, most humans are ignorant and some are bad hearted, but not all of you are evil by any means

I can live off of animals, it is not my choice, they aren’t very good to eat, but if I must

9) I do need food and drink to stay alive, much like anyone, but not even close to the amount you need

10) I have no real super powers, I can’t shoot laser beams or anything like that, I do have enhanced abilities such as speed and strength. to an extent, I can influence peoples minds to make me seem invisible to them, and change my age appearance, that just comes with age, our abilities increase over the years

11) Finally it was never my choice to be turned, I was attacked, It is a hard existence for me, every one I know will die but I will remain, The clock has stopped for me

I am telling you this to broaden your mind, I am tired of hiding, people need to know, We aren’t all evil, we are misunderstood, even so I don’t really care, It may seem cruel but I have little to no real emotions anymore, It has become bland to me, I am grateful I still know love, I am trying to get you to understand that anything thats unfamiliar is not bad, just new. Have a nice day, May life treat you all well.

Sent in by Vince, Copyright 2009 VampireTruth.com

As I promised here is the legend in vampire history of Greece…

The vampire fore-runner is next seen in ancient Greek mythology. While there are several minor deities that have vampire-like qualities, the myths involving Lamia and the Empusa are the closest link to modern day vampires. While neither demigoddess was considered “undead,” both show many similarities to the vampire.

Greek mythology tended to be malleable over time, and demigods and goddesses tended to change in quality, form, virtues, and responsibilities. The earliest form of the Empusa was that of being the daughter of the Greek Goddess Hecate. Hecate was originally a Chthonian (meaning not a major deity residing upon Mt. Olympus) Greco-Roman goddess of magic, and was later a three-faced goddess of ghosts, witches, and curses. The Empusa is described as demonic-looking and was said to have bronze feet. She would take the form of a beautiful young woman in order to seduce young men and drink their blood while asleep.

Lamia, however, is something entirely different. Considered somewhat a tragedy (at least by ancient Greek standards), Lamia was something new in the progression of the vampire myth. Lamia is the first vampire-type creature in history who was not a god or goddess, the first who was originally human.

According to Diodorus Siculus, a first century BC historian, Lamia was the daughter of King Belus of Egypt. Upon her father’s death, she became queen of one his most prosperous territories, Libya,and Zeus’s lover, Lamia had an affair with Zeus, and they produced several offspring, including Herophile. Herophile was a famous sibyl, or prophetess at Delphi.

When Hera, wife of Zeus and goddess of women and marriage, found out about the affair, she flew into a rage and killed all of the children of Lamia and Zeus. Lamia was driven insane with grief. According to Diodorus, she vowed revenge and began devouring infants and consuming their blood. Lamia then loses the ability to close her eyes so that she would always obsess over her dead children.  Eventually, her face began to take on hideous demonic aspects because of her terrible crimes.

Written by Chetan, Copyright 2009 VampireTruth.com

I only read a little bit of one of the articles just to figure myself out. When I was in the third grade I came close to willing to actually bite someone (I know I sound like a freak, but I just want to get everything off of my chest). One of the only things that stopped me was a friend of mine, since she said my eyes were redder than my hair. “Really, that’s flippin awesome!” Was the first thing to come out of my mouth, but then she said that my eyes went back to there usual color (well my eye colors change by the type of mood that I’m in so I don’t know if they turned green or blue). That is what started the whole thing.

Throughout time, it started to get harder for me to eat normal food and would make me feel sick and weak, but when I ate red meat (like it said in the article) I felt better and more satisfied. Later on in my life, I started to get a really good sense of smell, sharp hearing, and can catch details very well. People also started to comment on the way I looked, even though I usually didn’t get ready for school until a quarter of an hour before it started. People always say that I’m beautiful, (I’m really sorry for sounding as if I’m bragging, I’m just throwing out all of the stupid details to get my point across) but they never seem to see past that.

I start to burn when I’m outside for about 10 minutes, but I think that anyone who has fair skin would, and I don’t really like the smell of garlic, but I’m not going to die if I eat it (I hope at least). I sound really crazy saying this as well, (I guess that I might as well say it since I already said all of these crazy things already) but I can see into people, not like read there mind and control them like off of TV (though that would be kind of fun to try). It’s more like I can see past them, into their hearts. It’s easy to see if they are honest or not, or to see if they are hiding something. Sometimes I can hear what they are thinking, but it usually happens during a conversation or when they are to simple minded and get there feelings mixed in with there thoughts. I also can see something while I daydream in class, and it plays out later on in time, like a deja vu (I don’t think that I spelt that right) just that it didn’t happen in the past when I saw it. I guess that there is a fifth dimension. Well that’s enough for the crazy talk about “powers”, though I can’t even control them and they make me exhausted.

Well if you thought that was the end of what I had to say, here’s more. I did some family history to prove me being a vampire was apart of my stupid imagination, but what I found proved my imagination right, though it was only on my dad’s side of the family. It talked about how we were known as phantoms, or had god like appearances, blah blah blah, and the fact that I can smell blood easily doesn’t help me prove myself wrong either.

I did more research on vampires (now I am really going insane) and learned that vampires age slowly, and then thought about how my dad is in his sixties and he still is as strong and handsome as a twenty year old.

So I got myself more confused and ended up on this website at the very end, so I want to hear from you guys. If you think If you agree with me being a leach, then please let me know, and if you think that I lost my head, then please tell me as well. If you think that I’m stupid just because I suck at spelling, well then that will have to be your own problem.

Sent in by Sarah, Copyright 2009 VampireTruth.com

I am indeed a vampire. You may not believe I am or want to believe it but I am and that’s all that matters. I myself do not understand the ingesting of blood but your theory does make sense in some ways. Why I am replying is to clear some things up.

1) I do not hate humans. Yes, I may dislike a few of them but that’s not because I’m vampire it’s because they are unpleasant people to be around.

2) I do not live only off of blood. My digestive system is different but not to the point where I can’t have food or water. I still need to eat but I can live only off of blood for a long period of time if needed.

3) I am not evil. I can walk into a church and not “burn” In fact I am a very spiritual person.

4) I do not kill or hurt people when I feed. I live by a rule where I ask before I feed. If they say no then that’s okay with me.

5) I HATE Twilight. Yes twilight is associated heavily with vampires now and it seriously irks me. Sure we can go out in the sunlight but that doesn’t mean we magically sparkle. I applaud Stephanie Meyers however for having a large amount of creativity.

6) My thirst doesn’t make my throat “Burn.” It has much the same effect as if you didn’t have water a few days.

7) I do not change people. This however can vary between vampires I do not go around changing random people and make armies of newborns.

I do not have a “virus” or “sickness”. The cause of the change is through a venom that is found in our saliva.

9) I can live off of animal blood. It isn’t as satisfying but I don’t have to drink from humans though the thought of slaughtering a small bunny makes me sick to my stomach. I’d rather have a willing human than a dead animal.

10) I do not have superhuman abilities. In a sense no I do not have superhuman abilities I am stronger than most people though today’s humans are mostly weak little couch potatoes. As a vampire I can go through bursts of energy similar to a humans adrenaline rush, the only difference is that I can choose when to go through these bursts of energy.

11) I don’t bite when I feed. Yes I could if I wanted but it would be a lot messier than a small cut.

Well that took longer than I thought. Anyway I hope that cleared up a bit of your confusion and if not at least you have a bit of trivia on vampires.

Sent in by Jessica, Copyright 2009 VampireTruth.com

I was sleeping with my ex a couple months ago, and we just got done making out. He bit my neck hard and I thought he was just being sexy but it hurt a lot. So I pushed him off and told him to stop. But my neck was bleeding just a little bit. So I went to sleep.

The next morning I had to go home. I walked home and I had a horrible migraine. And I didn’t even want to keep my eyes open because it hurt really bad. Like needles in the back of my eyes.

When I got home I went to look in the mirror at the scratch over my neck. It wasn’t like 2 bite marks it was just a scratch from where his tooth scratched deep over my skin. I was pale, and I didn’t feel good at all. So I laid down. My mom walked in and noticed I didn’t look well and she tried to give me some medicine but I didn’t even feel like swallowing it, so I didn’t even bother trying to.

I got up the next night actually and I went to the bathroom. (I always sing when I’m walking around my house) but when I tried to talk it was like a different voice. I glanced in the mirror and I was way pale, and my eyes were blood shot. I called my ex the next morning and asked him if he was sick or anything or if he had something I should know about. He said he was a vampire. Which I thought was a joke so I hung up on him not finding that funny. I thought I was deathly ill. But then I kept remembering how he hated light, always nibbled, he was fast, and he was strong. I passed those things over though.

I didn’t know if I should believe him until he showed up at my house that night. He told me he was a vampire, and he wasn’t joking but I still told him it wasn’t funny. He told me that night he was glad I pushed him off before he actually bit me. Little did he know it was too late.

Later that month I started changing more. Paler, faster, craving blood. I never could run during the day because my ankle would sprain, but at night I run faster than usual.

I broke up with him just not too long ago. I can’t forgive what he’s done.

Being a vampire isn’t what it’s played up to be. You can’t go in light for very long, it’s hard to keep friends, and it’s hard to do anything really.

I know it sounds hard to believe me. I didn’t believe myself. I’m not 100% sure I am a vampire. That’s why I posted this. I can tell you I’m fast, pale, I have a white ring around my iris, and I hate the light.

Sent in by Summer, Copyright 2009 VampireTruth.com