A strange encounter. An isolated house. A mysterious figure who may not be quite what he seems.

This episode of The Night Visitors explores an unsettling account from northern Vermont that sits somewhere between ghost story, vampire folklore, and an unexplained encounter. With its eerie atmosphere, strange clues, and lingering questions, it's a story that refuses to offer an easy explanation.

What was really happening at that house?

Listen to the full episode and decide for yourself.

If you enjoy ghost stories, paranormal encounters, vampire folklore, unexplained phenomena, and unsettling tales from the past, subscribe to The Night Visitors for more strange stories from the shadows. Please rate and comment and help us connect with more vampire enthusiasts.

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Music Title: “Haunted Haus”, Artist: Tim Kulig (timkulig.com) Lic CC 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Other Music in this Episode

"Frightmare" by Jimena Contreras and "Mysterious Strange Things" by Yung Logos

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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.

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What happens when a devoted rationalist comes face to face with a vampire?

Sava, a researcher, collected Milena's firsthand account, and the details are genuinely unsettling. Her isolated home sat near a cemetery (because of course it did), and the nocturnal visitations that began there shook her modern communist ideology to its core. A village healer named Biljana advised her to bury a blessed silver box containing protective herbs and garlic on the vampire's grave. Slowly, reluctantly, Milena accepted this deeply unconventional remedy.

Because some experiences genuinely transcend ideological frameworks. Tune in to hear Milena's haunting story unfold in full.

Serbian Folklore and Communist Idealism Collide

The Mysterious Face at the Window

The Sign of the Cross

The Healer's Revelation

Burying the Silver Box

The Vampire's Grave

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Our Podcast Theme Music

Music Title: “Haunted Haus”, Artist: Tim Kulig (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.

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!

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, please email us at 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 to connect with fellow Night Visitors from around the world.

YouTube

To watch the Night Visitor’s Vampire Research Society’s true stories on YouTube, subscribe to the YouTube channel @VampireResearchSociety or subscribe to this Substack and receive new true story epsiodes every Friday. - Vampire Research Society

Some loves refuse to end, even after death itself. In 1988 Hong Kong, a wealthy woman named Pearl encounters a tenant whose devotion to a lost love stretches far beyond anything she can rationally explain, and the mystery of Mr. Lee will stay with you long after the story ends.

What does it mean to love someone across the boundary between life and death?

The story leaves his true nature beautifully ambiguous, hovering between the supernatural and the inexplicable. It is unsettling and deeply moving at the same time.

Listen to this episode for a haunting tale about love, loss, and what refuses to stay buried.

The Vampire of Hong Kong

Pearl Discovers Lee's Secret at the Temple

Pearl Discovers Mysterious Blood Jars

Pearl's Dangerous Suspicions About Mr. Li

If you enjoy historical vampire lore, forgotten folklore, and true accounts of the supernatural, don’t forget to like, subscribe, and share your thoughts when you join the facebook group or subscribe to substack or my YouTube channel.

Our Podcast Theme Music

Music Title: “Haunted Haus”, Artist: Tim Kulig (timkulig.com) Lic CC 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Other Music

We also used “Dark Toys” by SYBS CC no attribution required

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.

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!

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, please email us at 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 to connect with fellow Night Visitors from around the world.

YouTube

To watch the Night Visitor’s Vampire Research Society’s true stories on YouTube, subscribe to the YouTube channel @VampireResearchSociety or subscribe to this Substack and receive new true story epsiodes every Friday. - Vampire Research Society

This week, we’re going to Hokkaido, Japan to investigate a supernatural story with a very frightening twist, where the question isn’t whether the dead can return, but what might return wearing their face

Obon is the time of year when the dead are welcomed home. But what if something else came back with them?

Takuto has returned to his family home for the festival, still grieving his fiancée who died months earlier. Then, on the first night of Obon, something strange happens. At first, it looks like a miracle. By the third night, it is clear that something is very wrong.

Listen to find out what happens next.

If you enjoy historical vampire lore, forgotten folklore, and true accounts of the supernatural, don’t forget to like, subscribe, and share your thoughts when you join the facebook group or subscribe to substack or my YouTube channel.

Our Podcast Theme Music

Music Title: “Haunted Haus”, Artist: Tim Kulig (timkulig.com) Lic CC 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Other Music

We also used “Oasis Dreams” by Patrick Patrikios CC no attribution required

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.

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!

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, please email us at 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 to connect with fellow Night Visitors from around the world.

YouTube

To watch the Night Visitor’s Vampire Research Society’s true stories on YouTube, subscribe to the YouTube channel @VampireResearchSociety or subscribe to this Substack and receive new true story epsiodes every Friday. - Vampire Research Society

Tonight’s story of supernatural vengeance, set in 1925 in a remote Vanuatu village was passed down through four generations. It follows Ellen, a widow who begins to suspect that her late husband’s spirit is visiting her children at night. But as illness spreads through the village and misfortune follows in its wake, she uncovers an ancient belief almost unknown outside the South Pacific: the talamaur.

Tune in to hear the full story unfold.

Theme Music

Music Title: “Haunted Haus”, Artist: Tim Kulig (timkulig.com) Lic CC 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Other Music

We also used "Oasis Dreams" by Patrick Patrikios CC no attribution required

Call for Listener’s Stories: Share Your Story

Have you experienced something unexplainable? Email me directly with your story at 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!

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, please email us at thenightvisitorsvrs@gmail.com.

Facebook, YouTube & Substack

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. You can subscribe to the Night Visitor’s Vampire Research Society on YouTube, @VampireResearchSociety or subscribe to Substack https://jamesnightvisitors.substack.com

In 1892, a grieving father in Exeter, Rhode Island watched his neighbors dig up his family members, burn his daughter’s organs, and feed the ashes to his dying son. This is that story.

George Brown had already lost his wife and daughter to tuberculosis when the community turned its desperation into something darker. Mercy Brown, just 19 years old, had been stored in an above-ground crypt through winter. When her body showed minimal decomposition, her neighbors saw vampirism. They removed her heart and liver, burned them, and gave the remains to her brother Edwin as medicine. He died weeks later.

What does it say about us that even a scientific voice like Dr. Metcalf could not stop what fear had already set in motion?

Incredibly, the incident reportedly inspired Bram Stoker’s famous vampire novel and represented the final case in a two-hundred-year phenomenon that produced nearly eighty exhumations (a staggering number most people never know about). The story ended a long chapter in American folklore. Today, Mercy’s grave still receives flowers, gifts, and symbolic vampire teeth from visitors.

Our Podcast Theme Music

Music Title: “Haunted Haus”, Artist: Tim Kulig (timkulig.com) Lic CC 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

We also used "Nocturnally" by Amulets CC no attribution required

Call for Listener’s Stories: Share Your Story

Have you experienced something unexplainable? Email me directly with your story at 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!

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, please email us at thenightvisitorsvrs@gmail.com.

Facebook, YouTube & Substack

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. You can subscribe to the Night Visitor’s Vampire Research Society on YouTube, @VampireResearchSociety or subscribe to Substack https://jamesnightvisitors.substack.com

Rarely does a childhood memory carry the weight of the supernatural quite like this one. In a hair salon in early 2000s Massachusetts, a psychic reader named Celestine shared a chilling tale from her childhood—a story that changed her life forever—a story rooted deep in the folklore of 1950s rural Trinidad.

When Celestine was just nine years old, she defied her grandmother’s warnings and visited a woman the village feared. She recounted the legend that was Mama Vashti, a mysterious woman living isolated in the village who possessed supernatural knowledge of remedies and spiritual practices. Though villagers secretly sought her help for love and prosperity spells, they avoided her publicly, whispering that she was a soucoyant—a shape-shifting creature from Caribbean folklore who sheds her skin at night. Whatever she was, she was a woman wrapped in contradiction.

Slowly, an unusual friendship and apprenticeship formed between them. Mama Vashti taught Celestine card reading, herbal knowledge, and how to read people’s silences (the kind of knowledge you don’t find in any book). She also revealed she had been cursed in 1898 at age twenty, explaining her ageless appearance. The bond between them was profound and lasting, truly life-shaping in every sense.

Celestine carried these lessons across decades and oceans. Listen to this episode to hear her extraordinary story unfold.

What did Celestine actually witness during Carnival that she could never fully explain?

Our Podcast Theme Music

Music Title: “Haunted Haus”, Artist: Tim Kulig (timkulig.com) Lic CC 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

We also used "Nocturnally" by Amulets CC no attribution required

Call for Listener’s Stories: Share Your Story

Have you experienced something unexplainable? Email me directly with your story at 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!

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, please email us at thenightvisitorsvrs@gmail.com.

Facebook, YouTube & Substack

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. You can subscribe to the Night Visitor’s Vampire Research Society on YouTube, @VampireResearchSociety or subscribe to Substack https://jamesnightvisitors.substack.com

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 (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.

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!

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, please email us at 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 to connect with fellow Night Visitors 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 or subscribe to Substack https://jamesnightvisitors.substack.com and receive new true story episodes every Friday.