Sanguinarius: Frequently Asked Questions

"It is virtually impossible to accurately estimate the number of real sanguinarian or psychic (pranic) vampires or those who identify as real human vampires in the U.S. or World today.  This is problematic for a few reasons:  The community essentially exists in two parts and with considerable crossover -- the online community and the offline community.  While one can canvas the online vampire community message boards, forums, e-groups, MySpace, Facebook, Yahoo, LiveJournal, and half a dozen other avenues of communication it's very difficult to account for duplication of accounts across multiple locations, those who still maintain active accounts, and those who simply joined these networks out of passing interest, spammers, or for completely unrelated reasons.  If one were to take a snapshot and adjust mathematically (or rather best educated guess) for those who are active participants at any given time in the online community I'd place such number somewhere between 3,000 to 8,000 with the important caveat that perhaps only twenty percent of these individuals are actual real sanguinarian or psychic (pranic) vampires.  There is a constant rate of turnover within the community and a filtering for those who seriously identify with vampirism and those who are simply searching or exploring the latest media hype.  In contrast to the online community, the offline community can't readily be "counted" because it's not entirely clear how many solitary practitioners are out there versus how many are affiliated with groups, organizations, Houses, et. al.  One could speculate 5,000, 50,000, 500,000, even 5 million... but they'd literally be guessing.  By far the greatest concentration of self-identified vampires reside in the United States followed by Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and a variety of Western and Eastern European countries.  In the United States the distribution of vampires generally follows standard trends in population with California, New York, Georgia, Texas, Ohio, Illinois, and Florida as major centers of activity."

--Merticus, principal contributing author and researcher for the Vampirism & Energy Work Research Study (VEWRS & AVEWRS)