I've wondered about the fact and fiction of vampires for a long time, and recently decided to conduct a study.
I went to a church and filled a small flask with the holy water I found there. Later on, when I had the opportunity, I crept up on one of my vampire friends while he slept and poured the flask out onto his head to wake him up. He was understandably irritated by the fact that I splashed him and bitched me out (I had it coming I guess), but otherwise showed no ill effects whatsoever.
On the flipside of that, I went to this Christian store in the mall and asled a friend of mine who worked there if she had any empty bottles that the holy water came in. She handed it to me and I went home to conduct a new experiment. When I was alone, I filled the bottle with ordinary tap water and grabbed a water pistol I'd purchased just for the occasion. I entered the room that another vampire friend of mine was, and made sure that she saw me pour the bottle of water into the squirt gun. She asked me why I was filling a water gun with holy water, and in response, I shot her with it. She clutched her face, fell to her knees, and shrieked about how much it hurt and when I saw her later, she had a red mark on her cheek where the tap water had made contact.
Another time, while in the presence of my vamp friends, I thought to gather more personal data, and set up another experiment. I walked into the next room and promptly pretended to freak out, claiming that I saw a mouse in my kitchen. I asked my vampire friend to hand me the heavy candlestick off of my shelf so I could kill it. What I didn't tell her, however, was that the candlestick was pure silver. She handed the candlestick to me all the same, without even so much as flinching. Another friend of mine even grabbed the other candlestick from the shelf and helped me look for it, and he's a self-proclaimed lycan.
I do have one vampire friend who won't enter my house because I used to have a cross on my front door (it was there when I moved in), going so far as to shield her eyes whenever she came near the door. Another friend of mine, however, picked up a cross that had fallen off of my wall and hung it back up (he made a joke about hanging it upside-down, but hung it the right way).
I even had a room mate once who was a vampire. He lived with me for 8 months, and during that time he hardly left the house, even at night (I wouldn't recommend leaving the house at night in my neighborhood anyway). If he ever did leave the house, I was always with him. This led to the obvious conclusion that he never fed on blood, human or otherwise. Eight months without blood, but he never got weak, and he certainly didn't die (he never complained about not being able to feed either).
I haven't bothered with doing experiments on fire, decapitation, or a stake through the heart, because let's face it, that stuff would kill anyone!
Draw your own conclusions. I did.
