This week’s episode of The Night Visitors Vampire Research Society podcast takes us to a small farming community in western Massachusetts in the late 1980s where a Polish biologist turned fortune teller is going about her business as usual — until one evening a strange woman walks into her parlor and the cards reveal something darker.

The milk curdles. The cat won’t stop growling. And the visitor vanishes from the driveway in the time it takes to lock a door. This strange visitor sends Ania reaching back across generations for protection. Would Ania’s memory of her grandmother’s knowledge about the undead, and a loaf of bread filled with blood and ashes really keep a vampire away?

Listen to find out.

Have you experienced something unexplainable? We're actively seeking your vampire encounter stories and folklore topics for upcoming episodes. If you have any experiences you'd like to share or if you have any suggestions as to which aspects of vampirism you'd like to see explored in articles and YouTube videos email me directly at thenightvisitorsvrs@gmail.com.

Please note that if you give us permission to share your stories of vampire encounters and would like to remain anonymous, we will change your name and any potential identifying details to protect your privacy. I look forward to hearing from you.

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A Black Market Deal That Changed Everything

When 19-year-old Vera started selling contraband through a Moscow tea shop, she never imagined meeting someone like Mikhail. The charming Georgian businessman offered her a dangerous proposition: smuggling caviar and champagne for substantial payment, plus an invitation to his Black Sea home during the May Day holiday. (Trust no one was Vera's survival rule, but something about Mikhail's gentleness made her hesitate.)

From the moment she boarded that private train in 1990, nothing made sense. Why would this mysterious figure possess such wealth in communist Russia? At his seaside mansion, surrounded by Fabergé eggs and priceless artifacts from across Soviet republics, Mikhail compared Vera to Saint Shushanik and revealed his true purpose—he needed someone brave enough to preserve cultural treasures as the regime crumbled. Was he protecting history or recruiting an accomplice?

The arrangement worked perfectly for a year until the Soviet collapse. Vera emigrated and rebuilt her life, but years later spotted Mikhail on television looking exactly the same.

Could he have possessed supernatural knowledge, or was something even stranger at work? Listen to discover how one risky decision at a tea shop led to an encounter that defies explanation.

Have you experienced something unexplainable? We're actively seeking your vampire encounter stories and folklore topics for upcoming episodes. If you have any experiences you’d like to share or if you have any suggestions as to which aspects of vampirism you’d like to see explored in articles and YouTube videos email me directly at thenightvisitorsvrs@gmail.com.

Please note that if you give us permission to share your stories of vampire encounters and would like to remain anonymous, we will change your name and any potential identifying details to protect your privacy. I look forward to hearing from you.

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What happens when caring for an elderly woman slowly drains the life right out of you? In this chilling 1992 case from Cape Cod, twenty-two-year-old Roxanne takes a caregiver position with Mrs. Campbell, a centenarian living in a 1700s Massachusetts home. The house stays dark despite summer’s brightness, and something feels deeply wrong from day one.

Mrs. Campbell never eats, yet she maintains sharp mental clarity and unusual energy (which should have been Roxanne’s first warning). As weeks pass, Roxanne’s vibrant personality mysteriously fades into exhaustion and listlessness. Meanwhile, her employer grows increasingly vital and energetic. The turning point comes when Roxanne discovers Mrs. Campbell tending flowers in the cemetery at midnight, surrounded by others in a secretive gathering.

After witnessing this ritual, Roxanne suspects she’s been deliberately drained through witchcraft, though Mrs. Campbell might call it something else entirely. The old woman speaks cryptically about “life feeding on life” and ancient powers. Eventually released with severance pay and a fortifying herbal shake, Roxanne escapes to rebuild her life as an event planner on Cape Cod.

This case raises an unsettling question: How many energy vampires work without their victims’ consent?

Listen to hear the full disturbing details of Roxanne’s summer with Mrs. Campbell.

Have you experienced something unexplainable? We're actively seeking your vampire encounter stories and folklore topics for upcoming episodes. If you have any experiences you’d like to share or if you have any suggestions as to which aspects of vampirism you’d like to see explored in articles and YouTube videos email me directly at thenightvisitorsvrs@gmail.com.

Please note that if you give us permission to share your stories of vampire encounters and would like to remain anonymous, we will change your name and any potential identifying details to protect your privacy. I look forward to hearing from you.

You’ll find The Night Visitors podcast on a variety of platforms, from Apple and ListenNotes to Pocketcasts and iHeartRadio, plus more.

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When Bihn arrives in 1977 Texas as a Vietnamese refugee, isolation and language barriers make every shadow feel threatening. Her charming nocturnal neighbor, who greets her in French with an aristocratic air, seems suspicious from the start, especially after she notices visitors leaving his apartment with strange puncture wounds on their necks.

Haunted by dread, Bihn turns to what she knows: traditional Vietnamese protective rituals. She burns spirit money and leaves blood pudding offerings outside her door (the old ways don’t just disappear when you cross an ocean). But when those offerings vanish each night, her curiosity overtakes her fear. What she discovers in his apartment are old photographs showing him unchanged since the 1920s, his motionless body in a darkened room at noon, all seem to confirm her worst suspicions, or do they?

After performing protective rituals with holy water, Bihn learns something that chills her more than any supernatural encounter: the apartment has been “vacant for over a year.” Her neighbor has vanished without a trace. Could cultural displacement and loneliness have blurred reality with folklore, or had Bihn truly encountered something beyond explanation?

Years later, having moved away, Bihn rarely discusses what happened. But she remains convinced of what she experienced in that Texas apartment.

Listen to hear this unsettling tale of reality, folklore, and the unexplained.

Have you experienced something unexplainable? We're actively seeking your vampire encounter stories and folklore topics for upcoming episodes. If you have any experiences you’d like to share or if you have any suggestions as to which aspects of vampirism you’d like to see explored in articles and YouTube videos email me directly at thenightvisitorsvrs@gmail.com.

Please note that if you give us permission to share your stories of vampire encounters and would like to remain anonymous, we will change your name and any potential identifying details to protect your privacy. I look forward to hearing from you.

You’ll find The Night Visitors podcast on a variety of platforms, from Apple and ListenNotes to Pocketcasts and iHeartRadio, plus more.

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.

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The Obeah Vampire: The Duppy Called Winston

Something lived in Elizabeth's kitchen - something her husband fed with blood and whispered promises. Wealthy clients came to their Toronto apartment seeking revenge, and they always left satisfied. But hungry things grow hungrier. And when the man in the top hat finally showed his grinning face, Elizabeth understood the real question: who was serving whom?

Could this story be proof, that walking in light has its rewards?

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Have you experienced something unexplainable? We're actively seeking your vampire encounter stories and folklore topics for upcoming episodes. If you have any experiences you’d like to share or if you have any suggestions as to which aspects of vampirism you’d like to see explored in articles and YouTube videos email me directly at thenightvisitorsvrs@gmail.com.

Please note that if you give us permission to share your stories of vampire encounters and would like to remain anonymous, we will change your name and any potential identifying details to protect your privacy. I look forward to hearing from you.

You’ll find The Night Visitors podcast on a variety of platforms, from Apple and ListenNotes to Pocketcasts and iHeartRadio, plus more.

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A night-shift convenience store clerk in rural Massachusetts encountered something inexplicable. A mysterious woman named Alva, dishevelled, carrying old photographs, appeared repeatedly in the wee hours of the morning. Over weeks, strange phenomena escalated: bloodless animal carcasses, supernatural cold, and a catatonic figure discovered in an abandoned cemetery shed.

Was Alva a troubled drifter or something far darker? This episode explores the blurred line between folklore and reality.

In each episode, I examine supernatural encounters through a technical lens, questioning what evidence suggests something genuinely otherworldly.

Listen now and share your thoughts.

Have you experienced something unexplainable? We're actively seeking your vampire encounter stories and folklore topics for upcoming episodes. If you have any experiences you’d like to share or if you have any suggestions as to which aspects of vampirism you’d like to see explored in articles and YouTube videos email me directly at thenightvisitorsvrs@gmail.com.

Please note that if you give us permission to share your stories of vampire encounters and would like to remain anonymous, we will change your name and any potential identifying details to protect your privacy. I look forward to hearing from you.

You’ll find The Night Visitors podcast on a variety of platforms, from Apple and ListenNotes to Pocketcasts and iHeartRadio, plus more.

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The flowers died first. Fresh-cut blooms withered overnight while a man lay paralysed, watching someone who shouldn't exist stand motionless at the foot of his bed until dawn. In 1950s Transylvania, three women thought they knew how to deal with a witch. They thought prayer would be enough. They were wrong about all of it.

This account, witnessed firsthand by a child who later recounted it, examines how a community's fear transformed an ordinary neighbor into something far more sinister and raises uncomfortable questions about community, belief, and scapegoating.

Can communities trapped by hardship and ideology find their way back to compassion?And who are the true monsters? Were they supernatural or all too human?

Listen to discover how fear and folklore collide in this haunting Romanian story.

You’ll find The Night Visitors podcast on a variety of platforms from Apple and ListenNotes to Pocketcasts and iHeartRadio, plus more.

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In celebration of the Lunar New Year, our first episode explore's a Taoist legend!

The Temple’s Jiangshi: Ming's Encounter with the Dreaded Hopping Chinese Vampire

When Ming sought refuge in a rural temple during his journey to Hong Kong in the 1890s, he had no idea what lurked beneath the altar. That night changed everything he thought he knew about the supernatural.

The creature that emerged was a Jiangshi, a Chinese vampire with hollow eyes, a green corpse-like body, and razor-sharp claws. Unlike the vampires you might picture, this one moved in slow, hopping motions (which sounds almost comical until you're the one being chased). Ming barely escaped by climbing a tree, where he watched the paralyzed creature until sunrise revealed its weakness.

What kept this malevolent spirit trapped at the temple threshold? The villagers knew the answer. They'd been avoiding the place for generations, using it only during specific festivals. Turns out, jujube trees planted in the courtyard held the key to containing this undead Taoist priest from a century earlier.

Through Taoist mystical symbols and other means, Ming helped free the temple from its haunting. Did you know that Chinese vampires inhabit sacred spaces while European vampires flee from them?

Discover how Ming confronted the hopping terror and what makes Jiangshi so different from their Western counterparts.

1. The Rice Farmer's Journey to Hong Kong
2. Ming Encounters a Jiangshi in the Temple
3. Destroying the Jiangshi Vampire

You’ll find The Night Visitors podcast on a variety of platforms from Apple to ListenNotes to Pocketcasts and more.

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.

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