Mercy Brown

by | Jan 10, 2015 | Real Vampires

One could be forgiven for believing that events related to vampire hysteria were confined to places like Eastern Europe. Surely such things could not occur in the more civilized regions of the western world! How then do you explain the Mercy Brown vampire incident of...

The Hunderprest Of Melrose Abbey

by | Jan 10, 2015 | Vampire Hauntings

All that remains of Melrose Abbey in Scotland are ruins, but it was once home to a colony of Cistercian monks and was one of the most prosperous. Residing there in the late 1100s was a man of dubious pursuits, who was given the name ‘Hunderprest’, or Dog Priest,...

The Highgate Vampire

by | Jan 10, 2015 | Vampire Hauntings

There are certain places which are said to be more haunted than most. That certainly seems to be the case with England’s Highgate Cemetery. It was constructed in 1839 and since the 1960s there have numerous reports of various strange sights on its grounds. In...

Famous Movie Vampires

by | Jan 10, 2015 | Vampires

It would be gargantuan task to chronicle every vampire movie ever made. Some of them have been good; some of them have thankfully faded into oblivion, and some of them have the power to live on. In many cases, it’s the lead characters themselves who really make...

Origins Of Vampires

by | Jan 10, 2015 | Vampires

Almost all cultures have some concept of a vampiric creature which feeds off the living. They may require blood but some versions can subsist on any form of life essence. They are either born as such, are created by an event during their mortal lives, or become such...

Peter Plogojowitz

by | Jan 10, 2015 | Real Vampires

It may seem strange to have two ‘documented’ cases of vampirism occurring in close proximity to each other and in the same year. And yet that’s exactly what happened. Around the time that Arnold Paole was supposedly haunting his village, Peter...