Vampire and blood-drinker reports map

Reports of a creature blamed for draining the blood of livestock or other animals, sometimes called a "vampire beast". We map claims, not creatures, and make no claim about what any of them show; people who describe themselves as vampires are not part of this map.

Other names in the sources: Vampire beast, Blood-sucking creature.

We map claims, not creatures. A case is what some source says someone saw or heard, with the link to that source. It is not proof that anything was there, and a retelling counts once, not as a second sighting.

See Vampire on the map All 64 cases

By the numbers

64 cases on the map, 37 of them first-hand (the witness telling it). A case may stand on several documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations.

Best-documented cases

Ranked by independent sources first, then documents, then first-hand accounts. This says how well a claim is documented, not whether it is true.

1. 

   Vampire · East New York, New York

   East New York, New York1 independent source

   Witness reports seeing a black heavy-set man with dreads and fangs on a bus in New York City who caused the women around him to become mesmerized.

2. 

   Vampire · Cincinnati, Ohio · 2023

   Cincinnati, Ohio1 independent source

   The narrator reports being stalked and attacked by a pale, fanged vampire with no reflection who chased them through the Oktoberfest grounds in Cincinnati.

3. 

   Vampire · New Orleans, Louisiana

   New Orleans, Louisiana1 independent source

   The narrator and their ex-boyfriend were invited into a Gothic mansion in New Orleans by an eccentric man with long black hair who was later identified in a book as a self-proclaimed vampire.

4. 

   Vampire · Sacramento, California · 1990s

   Sacramento, California1 independent source

   The narrator observed people with pale blue eyes in Sacramento who approached small groups and seemed interested in them.

5. 

   Vampire · Ljubljana, Upravna Enota Ljubljana · 2006

   Ljubljana, Upravna Enota Ljubljana1 independent source

   The narrator and three friends from the UK entered a club in Ljubljana where everyone appeared to be a vampire with fangs and gothic features.

6. 

   Vampire · Los Angeles, California · 2013

   Los Angeles, California1 independent source

   Witness reports seeing two pale, expressionless individuals with black eyes who looked like vampires while crossing the street near the Roosevelt hotel in LA.

Further reading

• On the Track of Unknown Animals, Bernard Heuvelmans (1959)
  The founding work of cryptozoology.
  Borrow on Internet Archive
• Cryptozoology A to Z, Loren Coleman and Jerome Clark (1999)
  Encyclopedia of reported creatures.
  Borrow on Internet Archive
• Abominable Science!, Daniel Loxton and Donald Prothero (2013)
  Skeptical history of the Yeti, Nessie and others.
  Borrow on Internet Archive
• In Search of Prehistoric Survivors, Karl Shuker (1995)
  Borrow on Internet Archive

Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.