Category: Famous Vampires

Episodes of alleged vampire activity reported in Highgate Cemetery in north London. The case reached a peak in the media in the early 1970s, but…

Vlad Tepes (1431–1476) Voivode (prince or ruler) of Wallachia, a province south of Transylvania and now part of Romania, and namesake of BRAM STOKER’s vampire,…

Haigh, John George (1901–1949) Vampire murderer. Born in England in 1910, John George Haigh was raised in a strict Pilgrim Brethren family. He seemed to…

Fritz Haarman (1879–1925) The “Vampire Butcher” of Hanover, Germany. Fritz Haarman was born in Germany on October 24, 1879, to a stern household. He particularly…

Cuntius, Johannes (Pentsch Vampire) Silesian vampire who behaved like a poltergeist and Incubus. The case was recorded by Henry More in An Antidote Against Atheism…

Croglin Grange Vampire VAMPIRE attack recorded in Victorian England. The story of the Croglin Grange Vampire is set in Cumberland, now part of Cumbria. A…

Coventry Street Vampire (1922) was a Vampire scare in London. On the night of the full Moon in April 1922, an enormous black BAT-like creature…

The Buckinghamshire Vampire (12th c.) was an English Vampire case recorded by William of Newburgh from an oral account related to him by Stephen, the…

Mercy Lea Brown (1871–1892) was a most famous alleged Vampire of America. News of the European vampire cult that leaked out to the West in…

James Brown(ca. 19th century) was an alleged sailor Vampire who was imprisoned in Washington, D.C. The account of “James Brown,” the name given by the…