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The easy answer to your question as to why so few people believe is easily explained. Fear. We fear not knowing what something is but also fear what we will learn by understanding it.

The thought of Humans NOT being the head of the food chain, so to speak, it a bone chilling fear that some people can not bare to face. Denial is a powerful defence.

You can't 'answer' the question of whether there really are these being out there or not. It's impossible to know for sure and even if they did disproved something there would still be people that would stand by their believes that what they had saw was real.

There's a mgazine out here in England call Beyond that comes out monthy with tons of articles and stories in it. This month there is a strory of a woman that claims for most of her live to have been 'followed' by a monster 'Bat-winged Monkey Bird' (the name she gave it when she was 8 and first saw it). No one else has ever see this being but she stands firm in the fact that she saw it and kept seeing it.

Some people will just turn around and say it was her imagination and maybe it was but to her that thing was real. She saw it. It scared her. No one may ever see anything like it again but to her it was alway real.

The Chupacabras is another case like this. Most people in Puerto Rico firmly believe that it is the real thing and the Chupacabras really does exist, but ask anyone outside of Puerto Rico and they would probably wave is off as the imagination of a couple of farmers that have had too much to drink or gotten confused in the dark or hear stories and thought they saw it but in fact it was simply a dog or cat or whatever.

As for why these creatures don't show themselves that's easy. Humans have a nasty habit of killing or destorying anything that scarys us. If we don't understand it then we get rid of it. This is the same with any sort of animal. We discover something new and what is the first thing the people in charge want to do? Cut it open to see if it would benfit us in some way. They've kept themselves hidden for this long for a reason and I doubt they'll change their minds or instincts now.

It's not really fair to say all scientist don't believe. A friend of mine is studying mico-biology but still has a keen interest in the supernatural.

As for the scientists that don't believe it's just the way that person is. They have the type of mind or point of view that means they don't believe anything unless they've seen it or heard it. And once they do discover something they need to understand how it works or why it does what it does. If they didn't have that sort of mind set they wouldn't have become scientists in the first place.

Personally I don't believe that that's anyone that doesn't fear the supernatural. It's an unknown element to us and it's our instinct to fear that which we do not know.

Of couse you'll alway have doubts. I believe firmly in ghosts but I very doubtful over aliens and monster beings.

If we didn't have doubts ad believed everything we where told about the supernatural I doubt anyone you dare leave their house.

If you asked everyone in this guild I'm sure everyone of them would tell you they had doubts over one area of the supernatural.

If all the questions were answered it would no long be supernatural but natural.

It would make things far too boring.
To quote Shakespears' Hamlet: 'There are most things in Heaven and Earth that are dreamed of in your philosophy'. I would rather keep things that way.

So what you're saying is that you want to answer all the questions so you can make up new questions? That seem likes your contradicting your self.

If you teacher doesn't tell you the answer then find it yourself. You can't have everything handed to you on a silver platter, sometimes you have to go looking for something your self.

As for making Peace with other beings or creatures, human are unable to make peace with themselves. Why would they be any better with things that could be higher in the food chain that us? And as I said before human's are a greedy bunch, even if they did make allies of these creatures it would only be while we believed they were useful to us.

I'm not saying your greedy, just people have a habit of acting that way. I understadn what you mean. Some questions would be useful to have but not all. A lot of the time the answer to one question just spawns most questions.

We are already, sort of, at peace with most elements of the supernatural. We leave them alone and they leave us alone. That maybe the closest we can get to a peaceful life next to these elements we have no control over.

The fear that most people feel towards that which they can not see or feel or hear is why so many people choose not to believe.

I have to disagree with you there. You can learn all you want about something that scarys you, for example spiders, but you'll still be scared of them. So learning about the supernatural wouldn't mean someone would come to appect it.
But I do agree that if more people where open minded then most people would probably come forwards with their own stories. If they didn't feel they would be brushed off as crazy and so on.

Vlad Dracul was a real person, but in truth I've never heard much about his death. Wiki looks like it has a good artical on him you might want to look there. Here's the link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlad_Dracula

But what happened to him after he died? Nothing. He was dead. There has never been anything other that a character in a book that shared his name, that leads me to believe he was anything other that a normal (ok very blood thirsty) man.

And even if he was a 'vampire' his body was decapitated by the Turks and in any text that's one of the best ways to kill a vampire.