It begs the question: Are vampires real? When it comes to the kind of vampires portrayed in popular movies like "Twilight" or Bram Stoker's classic novel "Dracula," the answer is no. Humans don't ...

In the early 1700s, a series of unusual events kicked off a "media sensation" about vampires. One physician described a "magical plague" in Serbia where "perfectly normal buried dead are arising ...

Moreover, rather than populating the area of the mythical, and today that of the pop, the Slavic vampire was very much part of the deepest folk beliefs – lying at the heart of the Slavic world-view.