Lore about vampires and other blood-drinking beings has existed for centuries. For hundreds of years, people have been coming up with scientific explanations. Some link diseases to vampire-like ...

Vampires are literally everywhere — and we aren't just talking about movies, TV shows and books either. No, vampires, the kind that legends are built on, the kind that drink blood, can be found ...

Modern vampires like Dracula may be dashing, but they certainly weren't in the original vampire myths. Archive Photos/ Moviepix via Getty Images The vampire is a common image in today’s pop culture, ...

Thanks to centuries of folklore, novels, movies, and TV shows, the tropes of vampires are carved deep into the popular imagination: The creatures drink blood, sleep in coffins, recoil from garlic and ...

"The blood-drinker is the one found in six of the seven continents, there's not a doubt at all," Jonathan Weiss, folklorist, historian and founder of Johnathan Weiss Tours in New Orleans told TODAY.

No, vampires, the kind that legends are built on, the kind that drink blood, can be found worldwide. "The blood-drinker is the one found in six of the seven continents, there's not a doubt at all," ...