Thanks to centuries of folklore, novels, movies, and TV shows, the tropes of vampires are carved deep into the popular ...

The vampire is a common image in today’s pop culture, and one that takes many forms: from Alucard, the dashing spawn of ...

The 18th president's descendant had a storied career in museum curation before turning his attention to an affable vampire.

“If you strip down folklore and just come up with a standard set of facts, vampires very well could be real,” Weiss says. To learn more, TODAY.com spoke to Weiss and other experts who weigh in ...

From “Dracula” to “True Blood,” vampires are a spooky story staple that just won’t die. Elements of science and medicine are also woven throughout vampire mythology, which once served as ...

For centuries, vampire folklore has compelled us. Tales of bloodsucking beasts can be found in ancient cultures around the world including First Nations people.

In this myth, the body would stay somewhat alive after it was buried. The first sign of a Nachzehrer would be that the body would chew through the shroud they were buried in.

Folklore dating back to the Qing Dynasty speaks of the Chinese vampire counterpart: a jiangshi, a reanimated, stiff corpse that returns to life and hops along after its victims to drain their ...