The Slavic Vampire of History...
... is not at all who or what we've been told. He is, instead, far more than we have ever imagined.
The Vampire's actual historical reality has always been right there in front of us... hidden in plain sight. Yet despite the strong echoes of historical truth found well evidenced throughout Slavic lore and permeating deep into our own Western novels and films, yet we have remained surprisingly oblivious.
That is... until now.
"Father Vampire"... The First Vampire in Recorded History
While Slavicists have known of him from the start, yet here in the West we have heard nothing of this first definitive Vampire of recorded history.
The year was 1047 CE when this real Vampire wrote his name openly and proudly for all to see: "I, Father Vampire..." And who and what he was debunks everything we thought the Vampire to be. In fact... it reveals him to be the undeniable polar opposite. For rather than being the evil, crucifix-fearing, blood-drinking, reanimated corpse of our fiction-fueled imaginations, he was instead... a quite-mortal, highly educated, well-regarded, crucifix-wearing, fully ordained, Eastern Orthodox Christian Priest.
And he wasn't the only one.
We have documented proof of several other known Vampires, Vampire families... even entire Vampire towns... throughout Slavic lands over the centuries, all living as would anyone else. And all without a single word spoken against them by anyone. That is... until their sudden, horrific and unjustified 17th-Century demonization by Christianity, itself.
Re-examining ALL the Evidences
Where actual history about the Slavic Vampire is concerned... never has fact proved stranger or more fascinating than fiction. And all of it far more fantastical and fulfilling than anything found in any Gothic novel or Hollywood silver-screen portrayal.
So why haven't we known of this before? Because the Slavic accounts of the Vampire were reported and popularized here in the West during the prudish Victorian Age ... and their most important historical evidences deliberately censored, as a result.
When the doctorate-level evidences are re-examined in their uncensored entirety, the hidden truth is undeniably revealed: Slavic Vampires were very real and possessed truly astounding "supernatural" traits and capacities -- most especially their very real "Dark Gift" -- worshiped by the Pagan Slavs and ardently adored by women for centuries if not millennia... before later being horribly and falsely demonized by Christianity, and all those possessing such superhuman capacity hunted down and slaughtered... as many as could be found.
The "Dark" Gift... Documented
All we now know of the Slavic Vampire might have forever remained an eternal mystery had not a real Slavic Vampire offered to let us scientifically document his very real "Dark" Gift in the laboratory. This unprecedented University study, conducted by a team of highly acclaimed, doctorate-level researchers, was then professionally published in a prestigious scientific journal and presented to the world. To this day, it remains the only study finally documenting the fabled Vampire's "physiologically impossible" "Dark" Gift... the same superhuman capacity that has always so enraptured and attracted women to them while also inciting such brutal demonization and violence from men -- most especially Christian men -- against them.
Your Host ...
Taking the moniker of "Father Vampire" in both honor and recognition of the first literal Vampire in recorded history, Brent Myers is a professionally published sexologist and amateur vampirologist, and the researcher behind this website and the presentation of all the primary-source evidences misunderstood until now or deliberately kept hidden from public view.
The Historical Reality of the Slavic Vampire Now Finally Being Revealed:
- First presented in summary at the 2014 "Seriously Staked" Vampire Symposium (Goldsmith's College, London, UK)
- Thereafter, fully presented for the first time at the 2019 Phoenix FearCon XIII
- Premiered as a 70-minute introductory film at both the 2020 International Vampire Film and Arts Festival and the 2020 Phoenix FearCon IX
- Fully presented again at 2021 Phoenix FearCon X
- And at Phoenix Winter HorrorFest 2022 (Dec. 16-18)
- and... now being publicly made available in the documentary series presented episode by episode at our Father Vampire YouTube Channel
- In the Media and Public Presentations -
ScaredyCast LIVE Podcast
On May 27, 2023, Father Vampire appeared at the Ghostlight Theatre in AZ and interviewed before a live audience by the ScaredyCast hosts.
Click the image to watch on YouTube (fast forward to 00:21:00).
InDFilm Review
Jen Bush of InDFilm.studio provides her review of Episode One of our first series: "The Search for the Slavic Vampire of History"
Interview with Brent Myers
Jay Michaels, Co-Producer of Phantasm-Con and host and horror historian at TerrorTV.com, interviews Vampire researcher, Brent Myers, about whom he later exults at his Facebook page (11/11/20):
"I was rendered speechless by the information imparted to me by Brent Myers and his story of 'Father Vampire.' IT BLOWS THE LID OFF OF EVERY VAMPIRE MYTH ... EVER. -- I'm not kidding... I was completely shocked."