Coming Out Of The Coffin

With all the recent movies, best selling books and sexy dramas, being immortal is all the rage.

We look at vampires with romanticism.  Their lifestyle exudes power and sexuality.  These moody, charismatic, figures of darkness are now attracting all different types of women and men, of different ages, backgrounds and professions.

According to this trend, who wouldn’t want to be a vampire, right?

It’s so different now than let’s say 30 years ago.  I remember watching the 1979 mini series “Salem’s Lot” and being so scared that I had nightmares.  The infamous scene of the floating Glick brother who comes back to claim his brother, by tapping on the window surrounded by fog, freaked me out!  Now that Stephen King classic did not portray vampires as beautiful and sparkly beings like in the “Twilight” series but rather as horrible, evil, blood sucking creatures that crawled out from the depths of hell (can you tell that I’ve been scarred?)!

My intention for my original blog was not to be about vampires.  As I sat at my computer, blogging about a local haunted house, the show “20/20″ came on with a story on vampires living among us.

It caught my attention as they talked about the many types of vampires  i.e. energy, elemental, sexual, blood, and emotional and how many of them believe that they are vampires not by choice but rather by genetics.

These real life vampires are convinced that it is a physical condition and that by feeding on blood, energy, and emotions, they feel normal.

So now that I know that vampires really do exist, I think the next time I say that someone is sucking the life out of me…maybe they truly are.