The Croglin Grange Vampire: Folklore or Forgotten History?

The Croglin Grange Vampire: Folklore or Forgotten History?

Every so often I come across a story that reminds me why I started researching vampire history in the first place. The legend of the Croglin Grange vampire is one of those rare cases that has enough historical substance to make you pause, yet enough mystery to keep people debating it more than a hundred years later. What makes this story so compelling is it blurs the line between folklore and documented history, refusing to fit into either category. Modern researchers have actually located the property and confirmed a deed placing its name before 1720, though geographical inconsistencies still cloud the full picture. The tale even inspired Alvin Schwartz’s “The Window” from Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, proving its grip on our imagination endures. Could a story this specific survive generations purely as invention? I hope you enjoy exploring this one as much as I enjoyed putting it together. Our Podcast Theme Music Music Title: “Haunted Haus”, Artist: Tim Kulig [https://timkulig.com/] (timkulig.com [http://timkulig.com]) Lic CC 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/] Call for Listener’s Stories: Share Your Story Have you experienced something unexplainable? I would like to put out a call to all of our listeners to share your story. I want to share them in a special listener’s episode. You can request to remain anonymous, or we’ll share your name if you give us permission. Email me directly at thenightvisitorsvrs@gmail.com [thenightvisitorsvrs@gmail.com]. There are two ways to share. You can write your story in an email, or tell your story in a simple voice recording from your phone and send it as an attachment via email audio length limit of 3 minutes.Click [http://minutes.Click] here to submit! [thenightvisitorsvrs@gmail.com] You are also welcome to suggestions as to which aspects of vampirism you’d like to see explored in our posts or our YouTube videos [https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfbHhb3fApds7pLn-Xi84RaORe6YmGw-A&si=RweZtH_nPWPUK4im], please email us at thenightvisitorsvrs@gmail.com [thenightvisitorsvrs@gmail.com]. Join the Facebook Group The Night Visitors Vampire Research Society is a worldwide community sharing firsthand vampire encounters and exploring the folklore, history, and pop culture of the undead. Join our Facebook group [https://www.facebook.com/groups/nightvisitorsvampireresearchsociety] to connect with fellow Night Visitors [https://thenightvisitors.com/] from around the world. Subscribe To watch the Night Visitor’s Vampire Research Society’s true stories on YouTube, subscribe to the YouTube channel @VampireResearchSociety [https://www.youtube.com/@VampireResearchSociety/?sub_confirmation=1] or subscribe to Substack https://jamesnightvisitors.substack.com [https://jamesnightvisitors.substack.com] and receive new true story episodes every Friday.

Nora's Summer Job & The Vampire of the Upper East Side

Rarely does a vampire encounter story manage to be this quietly unsettling without ever saying the terrifying thing out loud. Nora, a struggling actress in 1980s New York City, takes a live-in caretaker’s job with a man named Casimir van der Broek in his Upper East Side brownstone, and what she finds there will stay with you long after you finish listening. The clues accumulate slowly. A fifteenth-century Latin book about vampires. A portrait authenticated to the seventeenth century, bearing a Dutch frame stamp from 1698. A man who never eats, never sleeps at night, and never steps into daylight. (Casimir’s formal courtesy somehow makes everything more disturbing, not less.) The evidence piles up, piece by piece, each detail adding to the same unthinkable conclusion. Have you ever taken a job or entered a building where the atmosphere felt completely frozen in another century, or where the owner kept hours that defied explanation? Tell me your strangest workplace story in the comments on Substack or on our YouTube video. Our Podcast Theme Music Music Title: “Haunted Haus”, Artist: Tim Kulig [https://timkulig.com/] (timkulig.com [http://timkulig.com]) Lic CC 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/] Call for Listener’s Stories: Share Your Story Have you experienced something unexplainable? I would like to put out a call to all of our listeners to share your story. I want to share them in a special listener’s episode. You can request to remain anonymous, or we’ll share your name if you give us permission. Email me directly at thenightvisitorsvrs@gmail.com [thenightvisitorsvrs@gmail.com]. There are two ways to share. You can write your story in an email, or tell your story in a simple voice recording from your phone and send it as an attachment via email audio length limit of 3 minutes.Click here to submit! [thenightvisitorsvrs@gmail.com] You are also welcome to suggestions as to which aspects of vampirism you’d like to see explored in our posts or our YouTube videos [https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfbHhb3fApds7pLn-Xi84RaORe6YmGw-A&si=RweZtH_nPWPUK4im], please email us at thenightvisitorsvrs@gmail.com [thenightvisitorsvrs@gmail.com]. Join the Facebook Group The Night Visitors Vampire Research Society is a worldwide community sharing firsthand vampire encounters and exploring the folklore, history, and pop culture of the undead. Join our Facebook group [https://www.facebook.com/groups/nightvisitorsvampireresearchsociety] to connect with fellow Night Visitors [https://thenightvisitors.com/] from around the world. Subscribe To watch the Night Visitor’s Vampire Research Society’s true stories on YouTube, subscribe to the YouTube channel @VampireResearchSociety [https://www.youtube.com/@VampireResearchSociety/?sub_confirmation=1] or subscribe to Substack https://jamesnightvisitors.substack.com [https://jamesnightvisitors.substack.com] and receive new true story episodes every Friday.

Vampires at the Venue? A 1985 True Story from the Everglades

In our latest episode of The Night Visitors Vampire Research Society, we examine an account that challenges our understanding of human will and musical charisma. Renata's story will make you rethink every underground concert you've ever attended. We travel back to a hot, mid-80s holiday weekend in a secluded Florida Everglades club to uncover what happened when a mysterious underground band took the stage—and completely seized control of everyone in the room. An unearthly rhythm leaves a haunting question. Decades later, the venue manager still contemplates the confronting chilling evidence left behind in the green room. Listen to the story and let me know your answer to this question - If you witnessed a room full of people lose their autonomy to a sinister force, would you have the courage to stay, or would you run? you can reply on some platforms as well as our youtube channel and substack or join our facebook group. Our Podcast Theme Music Music Title: “Haunted Haus”, Artist: Tim Kulig [https://timkulig.com/] (timkulig.com) Lic CC 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Call for Listener’s Stories: Share Your Story Have you experienced something unexplainable? I would like to put out a call to all of our listeners to share your story. I want to share them in a special listener’s episode. You can request to remain anonymous, or we’ll share your name if you give us permission. Email me directly at thenightvisitorsvrs@gmail.com [thenightvisitorsvrs@gmail.com]. There are two ways to share. You can write your story in an email, or tell your story in a simple voice recording from your phone and send it as an attachment via email audio length limit of 3 minutes. Click here to submit! [thenightvisitorsvrs@gmail.com] You are also welcome to suggestions as to which aspects of vampirism you’d like to see explored in our posts or our YouTube videos [https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfbHhb3fApds7pLn-Xi84RaORe6YmGw-A&si=RweZtH_nPWPUK4im], please email us at thenightvisitorsvrs@gmail.com [thenightvisitorsvrs@gmail.com]. Join the Facebook Group The Night Visitors Vampire Research Society is a worldwide community sharing firsthand vampire encounters and exploring the folklore, history, and pop culture of the undead. Join our Facebook group [https://www.facebook.com/groups/nightvisitorsvampireresearchsociety] to connect with fellow Night Visitors [https://thenightvisitors.com/] from around the world. Join us on Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/groups/nightvisitorsvampireresearchsociety] Subscribe To watch the Night Visitor’s Vampire Research Society’s true stories on YouTube, subscribe to the YouTube channel @VampireResearchSociety [https://www.youtube.com/@VampireResearchSociety/?sub_confirmation=1] or subscribe to Substack https://jamesnightvisitors.substack.com and receive new true story episodes every Friday.

The Alabaster Vagrant of Harbin: The True Story of Meilan’s Undead Patron in China

In our latest episode of The Night Visitors Vampire Research Society supernatural stories podcast, the story challenges everything we think we know about vampires. We’ll travel back to 1984 to a remote village outside Harbin, China, to get to the truth behind Meilan’s encounter with a stranger — an encounter that altered her life permanently. An exchange with a stranger forges a mystery! Meilan, a hardworking woman, meets Yufeng over the course of several months in the predawn hours of 1984, feeding her. Years later is forced to confront the unsettling truth about Yufeng’s identity. Listen to the story unfoldand let me know what you think: If someone strange changed the course of your life, would you spend years trying to explain it? Or would you simply accept the gift? Call for Listener’s Stories: Share Your Story Have you experienced something unexplainable? I would like to put out a call to all of our listeners to share your story. I want to share them in a special listener’s episode. You can request to remain anonymous, or we’ll share your name if you give us permission. Email me directly at thenightvisitorsvrs@gmail.com [thenightvisitorsvrs@gmail.com]. There are two ways to share. You can write your story in an email, or tell your story in a simple voice recording from your phone and send it as an attachment via email audio length limit of 3 minutes. Click here to submit! [thenightvisitorsvrs@gmail.com] You are also welcome to suggestions as to which aspects of vampirism you’d like to see explored in our posts or our YouTube videos [https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfbHhb3fApds7pLn-Xi84RaORe6YmGw-A&si=RweZtH_nPWPUK4im], please email us at thenightvisitorsvrs@gmail.com [thenightvisitorsvrs@gmail.com]. Our Podcast Theme Music Music Title: “Haunted Haus”, Artist: Tim Kulig [https://timkulig.com/] (timkulig.com) Lic CC 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Topics: true vampire stories, Chinese vampires, paranormal encounters, cemetery mysteries, Asian folklore, real supernatural stories, unexplained phenomena, undead legends, Harbin, China, true horror podcast.

My Boss Was a Vampire Rosalie's True Story from Boston's Chinatown

Boston, 1963. Nineteen-year-old Rosalie desperately needed money for college when she accepted a waitressing job at a restaurant tucked away in Chinatown. The owner, the elegant and enigmatic Mrs. Lam, seemed perfectly ordinary. That is until Rosalie noticed young men arriving through the alley entrance and disappearing into her private office. One night, Rosalie accidentally walked in on something she could never explain: a woman with blood-red lips and a glow to her eyes. Mrs. Lam warned Rosalie to never return again but before she did that she gave her money and a carved jade pendant. Decades later, an appraisal of the pendant revealed a detail so inconceivable that Rosalie was forced to reconsider everything she had witnessed in that restaurant. Listen and let me know what you think about Rosalie’s story. Our Podcast Theme Music Music Title: “Haunted Haus”, Artist: Tim Kulig [https://timkulig.com/] (timkulig.com) Lic CC 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Call for Listener’s Stories: Share Your Story Have you experienced something unexplainable? I would like to put out a call to all of our listeners to share your story. I want to share them in a special listener’s episode. You can request to remain anonymous, or we’ll share your name if you give us permission. Email me directly at thenightvisitorsvrs@gmail.com [thenightvisitorsvrs@gmail.com]. There are two ways to share. You can write your story in an email, or tell your story in a simple voice recording from your phone and send it as an attachment via email audio length limit of 3 minutes. Click here to submit! [thenightvisitorsvrs@gmail.com] You are also welcome to suggestions as to which aspects of vampirism you’d like to see explored in our posts or our YouTube videos [https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfbHhb3fApds7pLn-Xi84RaORe6YmGw-A&si=RweZtH_nPWPUK4im], please email us at thenightvisitorsvrs@gmail.com [thenightvisitorsvrs@gmail.com]. Join the Facebook Group The Night Visitors Vampire Research Society is a worldwide community sharing firsthand vampire encounters and exploring the folklore, history, and pop culture of the undead. Join our Facebook group [https://www.facebook.com/groups/nightvisitorsvampireresearchsociety] to connect with fellow Night Visitors [https://thenightvisitors.com/] from around the world.