So, there's a new Dracula movie coming out and Halloween is around the corner. Vampires are currently like the Rolling Stones in that they are ancient and trying desperately to stay relevant. Their heyday has passed in cinema and it couldn't come soon enough. Time to move onto weresloths or something like that.

However, just because vampires are going extinct on screen doesn't mean that they're going extinct everywhere. In fact, right here in Texas we have several types that you should definitely keep an eye out for...

The Crazy Vampire In 2011 Lyle Monroe Bensley, 19, broke into a woman's house in Galveston and started biting her in her sleep. She escaped from the house and he followed her out into the street before she got away in her car. Later, when the police apprehended him he claimed to be a 500-year-old vampire who wished to be detained because he didn't want to feed on humans. The police were very accommodating to his request.

The Trucker Vampire Though not indigenous to Texas, our state was one of the many that saw the trucker vampire, Timothy Jay Vafeades drive his rig through. What no one knew was that he used that rig to play out fantasies of sexual assault and vampirism. He'd kidnapped a 19-year-old family relative and kept her imprisoned in his truck while they rambled over the country. Vafeades would wear fake fangs and force his captive to wear them as well before having sex with her more than 100 times. He is currently awaiting trial in Utah. The FBI is still trying to find other victims that Vafeades may have picked up on his routes.

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