I need governmental archives on REAL! Vampire and Werewolf sightings.

Have you tried searching the catalog? https://catalog.archives.gov/

We don't have full-text search for everything, so in addition to "werewolf" and "vampire" you might want to try terms such as "supernatural" or "paranormal."

Happy hunting!

Dear supernatural,

This is a good question, because many of these realities unfortunately involve a criminal element or warfare, and various aspects of  human behavior or mental illness.  Behavioral intimidation of the enemy during warfare also has historic elements of the occult, myth and reality. I would suggest the electronic reading rooms of the FBI Vault, the CIA CRST (possible Stargate remote viewing files),  Unit 731. and The Black Vault.

This is the closest the National Archives comes, within the Public Catalog, and the photo does not post in the Hub.

SPECIALIST Fourth Class (SPC4) Ray Garcia (right), USA, drinks             blood from a chicken after removing its head, as USA            soldiers assigned to 1ST Battalion, 501st Infantry, and Royal Thai Army Soldiers,            attend jungle survival training at Thung Song, Thailand during Exercise COBRA GOLD            2000         

Mr. Hunter,

Unfortunately most of our catalog records pertaining to “werewolf” concern a German propaganda and resistance campaign from 1944. Similarly “vampire” yields records concerning an experimental British jet aircraft from that same period. However, the catalog is constantly being added to as more records are processed, described, or scanned so we encourage you to periodically search. Since werewolves and vampires originate from Eastern European folk myths and we only have records of the US government, we're unlikely to have anything. We expect that the US intelligence agencies, e.g. FBI, CIA, have studied the paranormal but these units do not regularly transfer records to NARA.

Another possible source is the National Archives’ official magazine Prologue, where we would certainly publish a complete account of our findings should that occur. If a researcher first makes the discovery, I expect at least one major outlet will publish a story on their findings.

Outside of the National Archives it could be fruitful to consult the variety of nonfiction works concerning werewolves and vampires. This Western Washington University lib guide lists books that outline the anthropological aspects of werewolves and similar phenomena and these Scientific American and National Geographic pieces do likewise with the vampire. Whenever you read books or articles it never hurts to check the footnotes for possible leads into your own research. 

Best of luck in your search.

This response was compiled by Alex Champion.