What are peoples' maoni on Vampires, does anyone have any theories on the Myth of the existance of vampires/cold ones......

I agree! (:

Well I know exactly the origin of the English werewolf, but with vampires... I'd say our greatest guess as to the story of the vampire is that there was an outbreak of rabies within bats around the time that Wanyonya damu found their way into the myths, and since madness is an affect of rabies, if people started to lose their minds - it may've had something to do with the human brain taking in the madness and the bites from the bats as a symbol of great evil from a bloodsucking monster. At the same time, someone may've found a dug up coffin au something of the like that sent a link into people's minds that the bats, madness and a dead body were all inter-connected. This is just a theory, but who knows.