The Vampire of Croglin Grange: The Horrific True Story of English Vampirism | Documentary

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In 1874 Captain Edward Fisher-Rowe told a terrible true story, that of a vampire who had rushed from a crypt and into his familial home at Croglin Grange so as to attack a young woman. The creature was undead, a haunting, paranormal monster that needed to feed on the living in order to preserve its immortality. Today, the legend of the British vampire is thought to have been influenced by the Transylvanian strigoi, but as the creepy story of the Vampire of Croglin Grange and archeological evidence in the form of vampire graves shows, its legacy is far older, and may have haunted the people of Croglin and the wider UK since ancient times...
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[@TheParanormalScholar]

Thank you so much for watching. If you enjoyed this episode, please like and subscribe. And, don't forget to try Rocket Money using my link: rocketmoney.com/paranormal Thank you for all your support in 2023. We look forward to bringing you more content in 2024 and wish you and your family all the very best. Happy New Year! -- Laura and Erik

[@cyndybutler7330]

Interesting

[@markgregory8085]

Great

[@dgonthehill]

ty happy new year

[@DEATH-THE-GOAT]

Happy New Year Laura, Erik and all subscribers

[@cyndybutler7330]

@@DEATH-THE-GOAT happy new year’s 🎉 to you

[@kenbattor6350]

I read that in the 1950s(?), a man was digging and found the skeleton of a young woman. Her hands and feet were cut off and her bones were riveted down. This was done to people executed for witchcraft so they wouldn't walk as a vampire. Oddly enough, shortly after the discovery, the man's house burned down. Neighbors claimed it was his punishment for disturbing the grave.

[@dgonthehill]

thats why they cut off hands & feet, wow

[@andrewbonniwell3924]

People beleved in some really folklorish tales which were started by corrupt people usually in the clergies who didn't like it if a certain man or woman went against what they believed and so this is why the Salem Witch Trials were so infamous because the whole thing was started by corrupt church pastors and squires who had political aspirations they didn't want exposed by the people who opposed them.

[@NeVerWinTa1]

That's my uncle

[@Johnniebhoy83]

​@@NeVerWinTa1A great man. Say hi to him for me. 🙋‍♂️

[@Stalkers-Get-A-Life]

Scary 😨 Pray God Protects Us Always From Evil 🙏🏻

[@scockery]

One thing about living in the British Isles I never could stomach; all the damn vampires.

[@suzannef138]

Is that actually from "The Lost Boys" I think the grandfather said it, I forgot the name of where they lived. It was California, Santa.... Something. That's a great movie, I watched it many times when I was young

[@scockery]

@@suzannef138 Santa Carla. Gunship's Dark All Day video references that movie.

[@Nyctophora]

Santa Carla :) It's a fun movie :) Death by Stereo!@@suzannef138

[@cyankirkpatrick5194]

@@suzannef138 Grandpa was portrayed by Bernard something I forgot his last name such a great actor

[@tremorsfan]

People are strange/when you're a stranger.

[@1minigrem]

I remember reading this story in the 70’s, already obsessed with the novel Dracula l searched for anything to feed my vampire obsession. You looked really lovely in this vid Laura, very vampiric.

[@fortressgothika]

If vampires exist they go unnoticed completely.

[@LLynneM]

What’s weird is I’ve come ti realize that most things I’d never believe were real are, in fact, real… according to many ppl (so who am I to say they’re wrong), but the one entity no one has said they’ve seen, who they swear is real, are vampires. Abs no one claims that they are real, they they’ve seem one. Nothing. Except some weird, but human, vamp-fans.

[@solarprophet5439]

Of course. If we knew they existed, do you think we'd suffer them to exist among us?

[@fortressgothika]

@@solarprophet5439 As we have no remains of any dead vampires, one can surmise that they are actually harder to "kill" than you suppose, and having lived for thousands of years are intelligent enough not to be detected.

[@markmiller6402]

Not completely unnoticed, many now work at the Inland Revenue

[@ShawnChapman]

That voice..❤ Beautiful story telling.

[@navinbabji]

Holy crap, the last time i was this early to a Paranormal Scholar video, Corona was still the name of a Beer. 😲😲😲😲

[@nerfherder6638]

I remember this from Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark! Freaked me out as a kid!!

[@sombrelumiere]

Me too!

[@cindygarcia6159]

I remember that story too! It was creepy!

[@Maxley..]

"A lunatic may have escaped from a local asylum." What I love is the inference here that in Victorian Britain, you were never more than a mile from a poorly-guarded granite institution overflowing with lunatics, all hell-bent on getting out in order to scratch at the windows of the nearest bungalow. As L. P. Hartley said, "the past is a foreign country: they do things differently there." Happy New Year, channel PS. x

[@n0t5ur3]

Today the lunatics roam free

[@JohnDavies-cn3ro]

Don't laugh - back then each county, and possibly large town had its own insane asylum, usually somewhere remote. There was a lot of nasty lore attached to them - sadly some of which still circulates (and even gets given a form of dubious authority by some religious groups) today.

[@dougaldouglas8842]

Lunatics were visited by members of the public as a show. Some poor souls would be watched, and noted, by members of the public as to what they did. Like Coronation Street, without actors

[@billyhunt]

I remember reading this story in the book "The Monster Trap" by Peter Haining as a kid in the 1970's.

[@Para2normal]

Glad I'm not the only one who read that book, and its sequel.

[@billyhunt]

@@Para2normal There was a sequel?

[@wareforcoin5780]

I'm not going to explain all the math I did to get to this conclusion because it's several paragraphs of figures, but I recently went and calculated the average amount of people a vampire would eat a day if they had the feeding requirements of a vampire bat. It's at least 7 people a day. So that's why they're such a big problem.

[@Texasmade74]

That's assuming they automatically drain human victims and not keep them alive as long as they can

[@LeBlueGizmo]

Heard once that there's not a lot of accounts on vampire sightings due to no survivors living long enough

[@Texasmade74]

@@LeBlueGizmo that makes sense

[@user-xr2lv4ll6j]

That pesky vampire problem. We can't move for traps.

[@BlackTongue.]

Just copy and paste the math so we can know you're not full of sh*t

[@Jim-Mc]

Glad to see someone covering this in more depth. This story has always been exceptional for its specific location, realistic corpse/shriveled brown vampire. The detail of picking the lead to get inside also always seemed a strange piece to completely fabricate.

[@NigelJackson]

And yet the lead-picking also features in 'Varney the Vampire'.

[@Jim-Mc]

@@NigelJackson Either Varney borrowed from the Croglin tradition before it was actually written down or lead picking was a known way of breaking into a house.

[@NigelJackson]

@@Jim-Mc Could be. Accounts of strange occurences could well cross over into popular literary culture and vice versa. In any case I've always been fascinated by the very eerie story of the Croglin Grange Vampire since I first read it in Donald F. Glut's 'True Vampires of History' as a lad in the 1970s. One of the foremost English vampire cases...

[@karenchristinewise7833]

There are vast histories and lore about the undead in Celtic and Bretonic mythology. The belief was that if these creatures were mentioned that it gave them substance. It is a common belief around the world in different cultures. The anthology of vampire stories called Dracula's Brood is fascinating. I bought a copy in Dublin in 1988 and loved it. I still have it and it's well read.

[@TheKulu42]

I've heard this story, but you've added a lot of details I've never known until now. And I never realized that England has its own vampire story traditions. I always thought the idea of vampires were brought over from Eastern Europe. Now that would have been a twist to "Dracula." The Count arrives in England assuming the citizenry won't know anything about vampires and combating them only to discover to his horror that he's wrong!

[@6Haunted-Days]

Well I’m sure the vampire lore WAS brought from Eastern Europe at some point…..it’s an ancient belief. It didn’t come FROM the UK itself…..

[@andrewbonniwell3924]

The Strigoi are mentioned in the book by the Romanian locals who are in fear and give Jonathan Harker a cross to wear at least in the movie. Now in the book, I don't think he is given anything by the locals riding with him in the carriage.

[@ryanfreebody6881]

Vampire is a western creation, originally Vampyre which was the sophisticated and charismatic vampire we all know today, first written about in 1819 in the UK by English writer John Polidori with his publication of The Vampyre. The story was highly successful and arguably the most influential vampire work of the early 19th century. Bam Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula is remembered as the quintessential vampire novel and provided the basis of the modern vampire legend, even though it was published after fellow Irish author Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's 1872 novel Carmilla. The genre, is still popular in the 21st century, with books, films, TV shows, and games. The vampire has since become a dominant figure in the horror genre. However, the basic concept of what we call a vampire in modern times has been around since ancient civilisations. Just under different names, but all sharing the basic formula of what we deem a vampire. Local variants in Southeastern Europe were known by shtriga in Albania, vrykolakas in Greece (Lamia ancient Greece), and strigoi in Romania, cognate to Italian 'Strega', meaning Witch. Interestingly enough the Ekimmu of ancient Assyria share the same basic formula. Assyrians ruled the largest empire then yet assembled in world history, spanning from parts of modernday Iran in the east to Egypt in the west. So, this human creation was global. It is interesting because all origins for the things we consider evil, vampires, demons, evil spirits, ghosts and such. All come from Mesopotamia (Sumerians, Akkadians, Assyrians, Babylonians). Ancient civilisations that predate the Greeks, which is interesting due to the fact Western societies ideology stems from the Greeks. Hence when looking for the origins of such things, the path will take you straight to the Greeks, and of course another big issues, religion. The bible, which they deem to be the origins of everything. But, this is not the case. Our reality and our truth today is only a dozen generations old, fact of the matter is it constantly changes so right now what we deem the past, will soon be what those in the future will deem us. It's rather interesting how far back such creations go, Heck we are still discovering things with human history that predates the ancient civilisations I've stated, which could be the true origins of these things. Either way, all of this seems to be something humans have established since we came into existence. It's what we create for the unknown things we struggle to understand, be it scientific, natural, psychological, psychopathology, and psychodynamic. We naturally must have an answer for everything and hold the belief we know all. It is fascinating. I like to believe that I am ignorant in many things, nothing is concrete fact and our truths are influenced by many things, we as humans seem to have core belief and ideas that have remained from the earliest point in human history, to now in modern times. This is also why I opted to start with the text I chose, to show how an origin is dictated by name. These names for such concept is a road block, when looking for the true origin of the concept.

[@andrewbonniwell3924]

@@ryanfreebody6881 It's funny you mention The Vampyre and Camilla, who is supposed to be the offspring of Dracula who is actually stronger and older than Dracula himself as a Vampire herself. I've not read either book strangely and only know Camilla exists because of the second movie of Vampire Hunter D where she is one of vampire nobles D is sent to kill off.

[@JohnDavies-cn3ro]

Don't forget that a lot of 'English' settlers in olden times were actually from central, eastern and northern Europe, who could well have brought the original myths with them. I vaguely recall reading a collection of veteran English vampire lore tales which took stories back to Saxon times, so the tales go back much, much further than Victorian gothic romance. Sheridan le Fanu - who I think may have known Bram Stoker, wrote a very good tale, Camilla, about, of all things, a lesbian vampire in the 1870s which, I think manages to pre-date Dracula.

[@schizoidboy]

I remember one article in a book claiming the residents in Croglin Grange denouncing the story there of a vampire, but they did have a story about a ghostly pig.

[@pentagrammaton6793]

This was almost certainly an example of vampire fiction of the era, and nothing more substantial.

[@lokitus]

Blood sucking demons are a feature in mythologies across the globe.

[@ryanfreebody6881]

Thank you Laura and Erik. You guys are great! Love watching the subject matter you go over, especially with presenting the facts, and being fair with going over it as stated respecting those involved and also wrapping it up for both scientific/factual people and those who believe in the paranormal/unexplained. We rarely see mistakes made, showing how in-depth your research is, highlighting how much work goes into these projects. It opens people's eyes to things that may have been missed, especially with how certain things influence others with their content. Those sitting on the fence with some of these subjects get the majority of the insight needed. I look forward to seeing more questionable things, especially the anomalies out there that make you go outside the box to try and wrap your head around it all. Also, happy new year to you both and everyone else who enjoys the content.

[@TheParanormalScholar]

What a lovely comment! Thank you so much, Ryan! Wishing you and yours all the very best for 2024 🎉🎉🎉

[@andyc4295]

I love this account of the vampire. It sounds like this was the inspiration for "The Window" story in the "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark" series.

[@brooksiefan]

Thank you so much for all the entertainment and information you brought to us in 2023. Happy New Year!

[@the1tigglet]

I do believe this tale provided the basis for a particular type of vampire called nosferatu who are considered monstrous in a tragic sense. Today multiple productions and games have given them a clan status where nosferatu were tragic characters were living with their demons displayed on their face at all time.

[@KFilippi2525]

Happy New Year to Ms.Laura and everyone at The Paranormal Scholar🎉🎉🎉. With Love from Chicago,😊 USA!!!

[@TheParanormalScholar]

Thank you so much, lovely! 😊 Happy New Year to you too! All the best for 2024! 🎉🎉

[@pwhales264]

​@@TheParanormalScholar They romanticize vampirism way too much being a vampire is actually a very horrifying thing to become. It is better to be dead than to be cursed to be a vampire. I seen another researcher who stated that the original vampires were people who were cursed by the Almighty God because they were having sex with the dead so those people who were going into tombs and to graves mutilating bodies and having sex with dead people were cursed by God to become the undead vampires.

[@GreatWhiteZep]

I read this story somewhere in a book as a youngster. I recall the bit with the brother shooting the vampire in the leg and then going to the burial vault to find the corpse in the coffin with a leg wound.

[@roringusanda2837]

😮I had a big old book of ghost stories, it may have been called Ghosts, with this one in it. I loved it, read it til it fell apart and was never able to find it again...I did once think I had, but it turned out to be an expurgated American version, they took out a few of the best stories!! I remember the scariest ones like Minuke, and The Last Traveler, and the author talking about his brother who had died as a child so was therefore never really considered to have lived...

[@MauriceTarantulas]

I feel sucked dry by subscriptions stories and adverts😂 I'd rather face Dracula! P.s Happy New Year thanks for story!

[@antihero8603]

Happy New Year, Laura!!!

[@jorgeaceves2068]

Excellent video and work Ms. Laura I’m a few time in you channel and really like your job. Best wishes and Happy New Year 2024.greetings from 🇨🇦🙏.

[@mr.nobody8288]

Been waiting a long time for you to do this one. Excellent job.

[@TheParanormalScholar]

Thank you! I am very glad you enjoyed the subject matter! Best wishes for 2024.

[@purplegothicqueen]

Happy New year to you 🎊. Great story telling as usual. I like that you have a picture by J. W. Waterhouse - my favourite artist xxx

[@TheParanormalScholar]

Thank you for watching -- your kindness is much appreciated! And yes, one of my favourites too! Happy New Year!

[@RaggedyMan78]

Great stuff as always

[@annieb3883]

This is the first video I’ve ever watched of yours and I absolutely loved it!!❤❤

[@Miss_Morgendorffer]

Muchas gracias por el 2023 & Happy New Year, Laura!🎉🥂

[@TheParanormalScholar]

Thank you so much! Happy New Year to you, too! 🎉

[@The_Nonchalant_Shallot]

Ma'am, you gotta stop with that look in your eyes. You're makin' me feel things. D: *smashes like button*

[@TheREALDanontheMoon]

Bruh- save some for the rest of us- have some respect

[@davidlancaster8152]

There's alot to unpack here. A captivating report. Your visit and investigation into what's left of Croglin Grange is intriguing and lends a great deal of credence to the tale. Most enjoyable. Thanks Laura! Happy New Year!

[@TheParanormalScholar]

Thank you, David -- very glad you enjoyed this one. Happy New Year! 🎉🎉

[@iainmelville9411]

This story has always fascinated me. Thank you so much for doing this. Happy new year 🎉❤😊

[@TheParanormalScholar]

Thank you, Iain 😊 Happy New Year to you, too!

[@jolovesblackcats]

Spot on Laura, as always, I love getting a notification that you have up loaded!!!! All the very best to you & yours in 2024. XXX

[@johnbiggs]

So THIS is the inspo for "The Window" in Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark ... Always thought it was one of the scariest ones in the whole treasury

[@jekylthorn8969]

Another fantastic video, Laura! That horseshoe covered window is fascinating. Something definitely happened there for someone to have worked so hard to exorcise it!

[@vikingskuld]

Great video and i live this story. I just wanted to say thank you for making this one.

[@RshadowA]

Thank you for another great video with such wonderful narration. This channel just keeps getting better and better. Please don't stop making such fantastic and wonderful content for this amazing channel.

[@thomascrowley9122]

Happy New Year Laura

[@scottthomas3792]

An excellent tale, one I had never heard before...

[@TheParanormalScholar]

Thank you for watching.

[@seanmurphy3932]

It's her eyes that haunting me, love this channel

[@user-tz8il9cb4o]

What a nice way to spend the next 17:05 minutes, three hours before 2024!!!!!!😊 Happy new year Laura and everyone else, I wish you all good health and happiness ❣️🧿

[@samwiederspan8823]

Thank you Laura and Erik. I've enjoyed this wonderful tale. It is the first thing I've listened to on this New Year's Day, off to a good start.

[@ryusantos6145]

Been awhile since I heard anyone mention this event. I read about this back in the late 70's or early 80's.

[@patmc8895]

Happy New Year!!!! 😊

[@michaelbrooks8332]

I'm not sure but I think even Tacitus wrote of our belief in monsters and mysterious creatures

[@bonchrissie1980]

I love the way you incorporated the ad to the story! 😂

[@donlodge1230]

"...And yet" ... just as we thought Laura could not get any better she starts the new year with this brilliant tale.......

[@poppabearskitchen1769]

Lady Laura, thank you for providing hours of fascinating stories. Blessings for the new year, may you always have food.

[@isabellelachambre5051]

Happy New Year from France !🎉

[@NanaBren]

Dear Laura and Erik, what a fabulously eerie tale. I actually had goosebumps when it was scratching at the window. Even though this story has been told before, I am sure never as well as you tell it. The bricked up window with horseshoes for protection is suggestive that something specific is happening to the people who live there. I can assure you that if I ever purchase a home with obvious protections, I will be happy to keep those items in place - just in case…. I wish you both well in this new year and look forward to seeing more videos. ❤Brenda P

[@ProbablyOnLSD6669]

Need the name of that painting behind her

[@seanroche2358]

The magic circle by John William Waterhouse

[@LucienSabre]

I first read about this story about 20 years ago….and maybe because the rendition came with (very good) illustrations, it remains of the scariest (*for me*) vampire stories I’ve ever heard. Also to note is that the version I read ((from what I learned later on there should be like dozens of versions of this tale, all varying from one another in this or that detail)) said the sister was attacked more than once by the vampire and was then brought to a seashore town to recuperate, only for the creature to attack again shortly after the family was back at Croglin Grange - and that second time is when one of the brothers shot the creature.

[@MidnightSmoke]

Thank you for telling us the story. Here is a like and comment to help your channel grow and get you the recognition you deserve

[@TheParanormalScholar]

Thank you!

[@moodyshah007]

Happy new year!!

[@alannevin2490]

Happy New Year! I love your channel and look forward to each new video. All the best for this year!

[@ballsack6547]

Happy new year Laura pal 🎉

[@scottboyd3838]

Love the dress Laura, apropos for this episode

[@cyndybutler7330]

Happy new year’s 🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@TheParanormalScholar]

Happy New Year! 🎉🎉 All the best for 2024!

[@cyndybutler7330]

@@TheParanormalScholar you also

[@pizzademonXX]

Brilliant, really enjoying the channel 👌👍🥂🍾Happy New Year 🎊🎉

[@martinkineavy9039]

I love this channel!!

[@TheParanormalScholar]

Thank you, Martin!

[@suzannef138]

Very interesting 😊, Happy New Year 🎉

[@martinlang9615]

Stephen Kings’ “Salem’s Lot” scared me as a child.

[@danielwalker7269]

Also had scratching on the window

[@naikjoyx4291]

Oh thank you for this video.. as a loner introvert I'll just take a shower and watch this before going to sleep later.. in a few hours

[@Eluneara1]

Happy new year to you to Paranormal Scholar :3

[@VivienneMarsden-ky6or]

❤ That you done this video.HAPPY NEW YEAR LAURA AND ERIK.I HAVD MISSED YOU IN THE GHOST COLLABES

[@awolstew1036]

great work!

[@TheParanormalScholar]

Thanks for watching!

[@marievaleur7877]

Best wishes for a fantastic 2024!! Thank you for all the great videos!

[@dawnprice9546]

Love ur creepy stories. Best iv heard ❤

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Your subs are going up nicely!!! You deserve it 4real❤ nice Segway btw lol😂😂😂

[@TheParanormalScholar]

Thank you for all your support! Happy New Year!

[@icescrew1]

Happy New Year, kids ! Looking forward to your 2024 adventures. Thank you for sharing them.

[@jameswoodridge7712]

Thanks for all the wonderful stories you've shared with us and all your hard work. Best wishes to you and your hubby for the new year. I look forward to your tall tales for 2024. May the Lord bless you and keep you safe all through the New Year and beyond.😁🧐👽🛸👾🤡🎃🕸️🙀🤖😈👻

[@windangel7720]

I've wished this story was true since the first time I heard it. You made it even more realistic for me! 😳 Great video.😊

[@TheParanormalScholar]

Glad you enjoyed it. Thank you for watching! 😊

[@shadowmihaiu]

I just found your channel. Very nicely presented!

[@garysworld9233]

Amazing as always 🎉

[@MissOutcast100]

You are my favourite story teller channel Your voice your readings our always best respect from Kelly in Australia 🎉

[@markcarpenter6020]

The iron horseshoes make sense. If i remember correctly several irish fairies are pretty close to what we call vampires and iron is a weakness of the fey. I have read several theories that much of the mosern vampire myth actually comes originated with tales about those fairies.

[@Sepultra012]

I have to say, that's the best segway to an add that I have ever seen, well done!

[@danielwalker7269]

Master of the English storyteller. Well done 👍 It makes me contemplate all the possibilities both real and imagined that substantiate these stories.

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This may just be the greatest advertisement transition ever...

[@stephkluske423]

Again, another Great documentary Laura 🤗 stories such as this one can be passed down through generations and an element of 'chinese whispers' can occur. However the bricked up window 🪟 laden with horseshoes, has been done for a reason 😮 if not only to be "better off safe than sorry". The 'scratch, scratch, scratch' at the window would have been terrifying 😢. Anyway,Happy New Year to both you and Erik and can't wait for your next docco. Take care hunny, and remember to lock your windows 😂😉

[@glynnphillips9703]

Happy Happy New Year to you and your family

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Nice gothic outfit! Happy New Year!

[@hannah1948]

what a great video!!! thank you!!!

[@s0cializedpsych0path]

I actually watched your "read advertisement" because you made it entertaining!!! This is how advertisement used to work. Now, they try to annoy the crap out of you. This was refreshing!

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They certainly have not misplaced their advertising money with you! 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@Michael-qm3xe]

Happy new year Laura Keep up the great work for 2024 Really enjoying the channel Well done

[@JC-oe6up]

Very nice and informative video. I read about this vampire story years ago as a child,but your video showed me some new information.Another vampire story you may interested in,that's not so grim ,the Gorbals Vampire.

[@indridcold8433]

I once lived in a house that was once a home and way point for soldiers going to war in 1837 and 1838 during the Canadian revolt against Britain. The house had many, very deep, storage tunnels in the cellar. My brother and I used to go very deep into the dead end tunnels. Nothing really happened until we found a grave under the rug of the short torrent the house has. The torrent was added to the house and had a concrete slab foundation for it. But, it seemed it was also grave for a soldier. There was a 2 metre, rectangular engraving in the middle of the slab, with the rank, name, regiment of the soldier. After it was discovered bad things started happening. The tunnels, my brother and I enjoyed playing in were making frightening sounds when we opened the wooden doors. It happened almost every night. There was a legend that the soldier was a victim of a vampire. It got so bad that my parents moved us away. The house stood vacant for years after that. It burned down about eight years ago and bulldozers removed the foundations and buried the holes left.

[@mtgAzim]

Hope you've had wonderful Christmas and New Year Laura! You have my sincerest well wishes! ^_^

[@becomingungovernable]

💯 watching thos when I get home

[@gort.3296]

Happy New Year !!!

[@eddavis8769]

how about the highgate vampire

[@michaelhalliday395]

You have the absolutely best voice. Another fantastic video

[@Pocket-Watch]

what an interesting story. Very well presented. A bit scary to think that vampires have been a part of folklore from so early back in time. Thanks for this video. Happy New Year, all the best for 2024

[@donfredette5189]

Happy new year..young lady..good health and lots of happiness to you and Eric...

[@marginbuu212]

How did we go from this to Twilight?

[@wendywilson8168]

It could only be propaganda put out by the vampire elites to make them seem more palatable 😆

[@estradamurcielgo175]

Teenage girls

[@wattyler9806]

I've read this story in a book by Merseyside Author tom slemen in one of his books. Which are a good read. Your story is well told thank you.

[@christophertrigger1535]

Oral traditions and folklore tales are almost always based in fact. Look at all of the things coming to light in our reality nowadays.

[@dawnprice9546]

Happy New year ❤