San Antonio teens featured in documentary about 'real vampires’ — and yes, they drink blood

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A documentary published online in January features several San Antonio teenagers who believe they are real-life vampires, some of whom have drank other people’s blood.

The documentary follows several young “self-identified real vampires,” with some even drinking donated human blood or cutting friends’ arms to drink from them. The video has garnered more than 590,100 views since being posted on Jan. 28.

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The film also meets with some of these young people’s parents and friends to see how they have reacted to this subculture.

San Antonio resident David, 17, said he believes vampires are half-human, half-demon.

“My soul is corrupted,” David said in the documentary. “I am not a human.”

“I like blood. Blood makes me feel stronger, better, more healthy, more awake, more confident, like it makes me feel good inside,” he said.

One girl, Michal, said “Hollywood vampires” can’t have garlic, but she loves the aromatic food.

“It’s good for your heart,” she said.

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Michal also explained her first time trying another person’s blood at a young age, saying she got a rush from the experience of licking a friend’s open wound.

David also describes his girlfriend, Ookami, as looking like “food” at times, even though he cares about her a lot.

The “vampires” also hang out with a group of “wolves” who wear tails on their hind ends.

The documentary shows the vampires washing knives in preparation to cut friends arms so they can drink some blood. Michal said using teeth to puncture a person’s skin to drink blood is “frowned upon,” but she likes to use glass because it cuts clean and there’s digging involved with the cutting.

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The documentary also points out that San Antonio has a reputation of being one of America’s most haunted cities.

“As a pastor this is definitely something I believe is from Satan,” Anthony Cobbs, a local pastor said in the documentary. “This is something that is being used to take young people away from focusing in on god and focusing in on a relationship with Christ.”

One parent who supervises the kids said it doesn’t bother her, and that she is OK with “whatever makes them happy.”

You can watch the full documentary in the video above.

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