What is the earliest recorded reference to a vampire or vampire-like creature?

The Persians were one of the first civilizations to have tales of blood-drinking demons: creatures attempting to drink blood from men were depicted on excavated pottery shards.[63] Ancient Babylonia had tales of the mythical Lilitu,[64] synonymous with and giving rise to Lilith (Hebrew ìéìéú) and her daughters the Lilu from Hebrew demonology. Lilitu was considered a demon and was often depicted as subsisting on the blood of babies. However, the Jewish counterparts were said to feast on both men and women, as well as newborns.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire

"However, in 2000 B.C., the early Babylonian epic of Gilgamesh clearly described vampires. The Ekimmu, or Departed Spirit was the soul of a dead person who for somereason could find no rest and wandered over the earth seeking to seize the living. As inmost later vampire tales, the Ekimmu and its victim had some mysterious psychic connection, which made the victim particularly vulnerable to attack. The Ekimmu could walk through, doors or walls to take up residence in house. It would then drain the life from the household, usually killing the owner and many of his relatives and servants. The epic tells us that among those likely to return as vampires were those who had died violent deaths; those whose corpses had remained unburied or uncared-for, and those who had left certain duties undone. Various magical texts and incantations list the possible connections between the Ekimmu and its victim."

http://getwokebooklist.com/sacredtexts/goth/vkk/vkk06.htm

The earliest legends of vampires come from the Far East in areas such as China, Tibet and India
https://ur.umich.edu/0102/Oct29_01/17.htm

Clearly, there are a few differing ideas. However, most of the websites that I found listed Sumeria/Babylonia as the home of the first vampire legends, so that would be my guess.