Is there a chance vampires are real?

Given all of the fokelore on it. Yes, but over the last 100 or so years, if they are real they have been very careful to hide themselves. Or fit in. But if they were real they would have started many rumours about themselves to scare away people so the stereotypes of being scared of garlic and crosses may be wrong, as if vampires were real they would have lived longer than Christianity. I am myself researching whether they could be real. So far I have no evidence. :(