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Chanda and the Floating Head

18 min · 8. maj 2026
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In early 1990s Cambodia, Chanda and her husband were being drained — literally. Night after night, they woke exhausted, covered in small puncture wounds, haunted by suffocating dreams. The source turned out to be closer than they imagined: their next-door neighbor, an ahp — a vampiric entity from Khmer folklore that hunts as a disembodied floating head with trailing entrails behind it. When a Buddhist monk's blessing finally let Chanda see what had been feeding on them in the dark, she knew exactly what she was dealing with. But defeating it would take something bigger — the sacred festival of Pchum Ben, when the gates of the underworld open and the ancestors come to help. What happens when you fight a vampire with faith, family, and a ring of thorn branches? Listen to find out. You’ll find The Night Visitors podcast on a variety of platforms, from Apple [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-night-visitors-vampire-research-society/id1877361064] and ListenNotes [https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/the-night-visitors-vampire-research-society-_pdMV0yqPZk/] to iHeartRadio [https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1333-the-night-visitors-vampir-322837360/] and more. Theme 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/] If you have any personal experiences with vampires you’d like to share, or if you have any 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]. Your privacy is always protected. To watch the Night Visitor’s Vampire Research Society’s true stories, subscribe to the YouTube channel @VampireResearchSociety [https://www.youtube.com/@VampireResearchSociety/?sub_confirmation=1]. 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. And if you haven’t already, subscribe right here on Substack [https://jamesnightvisitors.substack.com/] so you never miss a Tuesday article on vampire pop culture and folklore or our Friday true story accounts of supernatural encounters.

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