Vampires, Is There Any Truth Vampires originally stem from pagan beliefs centuries ago. Each country has its own myth about different spirits that they received the ideas from being uneducated. They did not understand why bodies still bled after death and why crops withered and what disease was. They made their own explanations. Science today is what magic once was. We made our own explanations and now we find evidence. Though just because they didn't collect evidence back then, doesn't mean there wasn't any. Could there be truth in vampire and mythology, you decide?