So, a friend of mine asked me a question last week and I didn’t know the answer. The question would have bugged me until I found one, so I immediately Googled it and found the best answer I could. Of course, this gave me an idea for a post (this post, actually), AND, it gave me an idea for a themed day for my blog, thus, Supernatural Saturday was born.

The question she asked me was: “Why do vampires turn to dust?”

My first thought was: Oh, that’s easy. Because…. *blank stare* — Yeah, I had no answer for her. I couldn’t think of a logical reason, so I went to my Google God and found one that pleased us both.

Answer: According to most vampire lore, vampirism (awesome word, by the way) is an infection of sorts. So, when a vampire is staked, it kills the infection and reverts the body back to its normal state of being (a dead corpse). Since most vampires are so old, the corpse would be rotted and simply turn to dust.

This of course made her ask a new question: “But what about newly formed vampires?”

*blank stare*

New answer: When the vampire is turned, the infection spread throughout the body, taking it over, preventing it from decaying, etc., so when the vamp is killed, the body has nothing to go back to and just turns to dust.

That’s my answer and I’m sticking to it!