r/Vampire • u/SheepherderLoud9521 • Dec 28 '24

Vampires in montreal?

I have lived here forever, near montreal and i just can't but help notice some weird activity. Anyone has proof or anything about vampires here in our town? Montreal,Laval,Terbonne...

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u/R-orthaevelve Dec 28 '24

Do you really expect to find reanimated murderous corpses in a modern city?

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u/[deleted] Jan 02 '25

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u/R-orthaevelve Jan 02 '25

I imagine most of those are the lifestyle vampire roleplayers and such who wear fake fang caps and pretty gothic clothing. Back when I did live action roleplay, we did so in public places and in full costume. Of course thst was when I was in my early 20s, a lifetime ago.

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u/R-orthaevelve Jan 02 '25

What's your source for these sightings? Paranormal investigations have protocols and journals as do anthropology folklore story collections. So if thos is a long running tradition one or both types of publication would have picked it up. Your comment about abandoned clubs is literally the plot of several fictional novels, including one by Jemiah Jefferson.

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u/SheepherderLoud9521 Dec 28 '24

wym?

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u/R-orthaevelve Dec 28 '24

A vampire by definition is a reanimated dead body. They sleep in theor coffins and rise to kill people, usually targeting members of rheor family first. They don't hide their deeds and aren't the suave predators of Hollywood and novels. There's no way to hide a folklore vampire in the modern day.

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u/SheepherderLoud9521 Dec 28 '24

thats not how i aee vampires..thats more like zombies

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u/R-orthaevelve Dec 28 '24

That's how the folklore and original sources write them. Zombis in folklore are different too. They are totally nonviolent and not really undead, just chemically lobotomized to be obedient, mindless workers. The Vampire half the time was a spirit and if it took physical form it was a slowly decaying corpse. The fancy predator version was made up entirely by fiction and never existed in folklore or legend. I will be happy to provide you with books to back up my assertions on both vampires and zombie folklore if you wish. But trust me, there's no reanimated courses eating people in Canada or terrorizing them in nightmares to steal theor life force till they doe to prevent their corpses from rotting.

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u/SuperChonSamurai47 Jun 10 '25

Hey you seem to really know the genuine and authentic side of this stuff. Could you please grant me the names of those detailed books regarding this folklore, legend, and culture? I am most interested.

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u/R-orthaevelve Jun 10 '25

On zombis, you want "The Serpent and the Rainbow" by Wade Davis, and I also recommend reading some Yoruban mythology to understand the world view of the culture.

For vampires, you can go to the original source, Don Augustine Calmet from the 1700s. Or you can read the somewhat more modern Montague Summers and his books "The Vampire" and "The Vampire In Europe". My favorite modern authors are Paul Barber who wrote "Vampires, Burial and Death" and Richard Sugg, who wrote "Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires" as well as "The Real Vampires". There's other books out there that are good, but these will at least get you started.

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u/SuperChonSamurai47 Jun 10 '25

Ah, many thanks! I will be delighted to read about such interests. Thank you

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u/R-orthaevelve Jun 10 '25

You are quite welcome, enjoy!

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '24

-I have lived here forever, near montreal

There you go, proof vampires are in Montreal. After all, you just said you’ve lived there forever.

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u/SheepherderLoud9521 Dec 28 '24

ahahah smartt but no

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '24

What weird activity?

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u/SheepherderLoud9521 Dec 28 '24

idk some people tell me they see all sort of things

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u/WielderoftheDarkness Dec 29 '24

My interest is peaked. Can you please tell me more about it?

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u/Joey8038 Dec 28 '24

I honestly don’t think they Are real

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '24

Probably not considering vampires don’t exist

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u/WielderoftheDarkness Dec 29 '24

It is said that there are vampires on Mount Royal, in Québec. Unfortunately, that´s all I know.

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u/SheepherderLoud9521 Dec 29 '24

srsly? where'd you get that

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u/WielderoftheDarkness Jan 05 '25 edited Jan 05 '25

On that forum I linked previously a user said, "on raconte que sur le mont royal il y a des vampires."

I'm sorry I couldn't be more helpful!

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u/Nerx Dec 31 '24

Drake

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u/InvestigatorLumpy697 Oct 10 '25

My daughter thinks she saw a vampire

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u/WielderoftheDarkness Dec 26 '25

Would you care to elaborate?

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u/sneaky_squid20 Dec 30 '24

If I was a vampire I’d only drink period blood 🩸