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Almost all modern people are sure that vampires do not exist. We are accustomed to seeing such creatures exclusively in films and TV shows. However, not everyone knows that many stories about vampires were inspired by real people and events.
Consider 10 real monsters who love blood, which caused genuine horror among their contemporaries.
10 Petar Blagozevic
This man lived in Serbia in the XNUMXth century. It is believed that he resurrected after his death and began to drink the blood of living people. When Blagojevich died, some of the villagers suddenly fell ill and died quickly. It was not possible to determine the cause of their death.
People who fell ill claimed to have seen Petar at night. The son of Blagozhevich also died, who had previously said that the revived father came home and asked to be fed. After some time, Petar’s body was exhumed.
Eyewitnesses claimed that the open eyes of the vampire were moving, and besides, he was breathing. A stake was driven into Blagozhevich’s chest, after which he was buried again. After that, the villagers stopped suffering from nightmares and strange diseases.
9. Alnwick Vampire Castle
William of Newburgh, the medieval English chronicler, recorded a very strange story. It was about a resurrected man, the owner of Alnwick Castle. Before his death, he sat on the roof, watching his wife who loved to cheat.
The deceived husband fell unsuccessfully, died, ended up in the afterlife, and then returned from there. His ghost began to walk around the city, which brought with him a terrible plague.
After some time, the grave of the owner of the castle was dug up, after which a shovel was stuck into the body. Fresh blood poured from the corpse, confirming the suspicions of the townspeople about the vampire.
8. Vampire from Highgate
There is an old Highgate Cemetery in London. In the late 60s of the last century, people began to see quite often dead animals there with unusual wounds on their necks. Many claimed to have met a tall, sinister man in this cemetery with a hypnotic gaze that could paralyze on the spot. To find the vampire, people dug up several graves. He was never found, but just in case, they decided to close the cemetery at night. After that, nothing happened, and the inhabitants of the city calmed down.
7. Sava Savanovic
Sava Savanovich is a famous Serbian vampire ghost who lived in a dilapidated mill and preyed on people who approached it after sunset. During his lifetime, he was a wealthy cattle dealer who committed a terrible sin by killing his girlfriend.
Savanovich wasn’t killed or banished like many other vampires. He just suddenly stopped his attacks, but for a very long time people were afraid to be near the old mill. Over time, it collapsed.
Now it is believed that the vampire woke up and decided to find a new home: people are still afraid of him. Even the local authorities reported about the awakening of Sava.
6. Vampire from Croglin Grange
In the XNUMXth century, the Cronwells moved into the Croglin Grange mansion. After a while, an unusual glow began to be noticed in the garden. They didn’t pay much attention to it, but one night Lady Cronwell saw someone’s eyes at the window, sparkling like lights. The woman was very scared, and the monster began to open the window.
Lady Cronwell screamed. Other members of the family ran to help, but the strange creature still managed to bite the woman in the neck. The next time, the vampire was ambushed: the Cronwells started shooting, and the creature disappeared.
In the morning, an open crypt was discovered, in which there was a decomposed body with fresh bullet marks. Soon the vampire was burned.
5. Jure Grando
Jure Grando died in the 15th century. He was a simple Croatian peasant. After Grando’s death, he inspired terror in the local population for more than XNUMX years.
The vampire knocked on doors at night. If someone opened it to him, then death came very quickly for this person. When the vampire was not engaged in murders, he appeared to his widow and asked her for sensual pleasures.
Then the villagers, led by a local priest, decided to get rid of Grando. They dug up and beheaded his body, after which the troubles of the villagers stopped.
4. Hunderprest of Melrose Abbey
In the XNUMXth century, Melrose Abbey was home to a clergyman nicknamed “Hunderprest”, “the dog priest”. He was named so because he liked to hunt on horseback with dogs.
During his life, this priest was not a very good person, and after his death, he completely became a terrible vampire.
Other clergymen got scared and decided to get rid of Hunderprest. They came to the place where he was buried and waited. When the vampire priest rebelled, he was hit on the head with an axe. Hunderprest’s body was burned, after which the ashes were scattered, but it is believed that the priest is still looking for new victims.
3. Vampires of New England
At the end of the 10th century, a grave with the skeletons of farmers was discovered in Connecticut. These people were buried in the XNUMXth century. One farmer was beheaded with his bones arranged in the shape of a Jolly Roger. It turned out that the head was separated already XNUMX years after the death of a person.
All valuables were in place, so the version of the looting of the grave disappeared immediately. It is believed that this is some kind of “vampire epidemic”: at about the same time in the nearby city of Jewett City, almost 30 corpses were exhumed and burned.
2. Gorbalsky vampire
Gorbals is an old Scottish cemetery. One day, rumors arose that a vampire with iron teeth began to appear there. People said that this creature took several children.
The vampire was quickly hunted by other children armed with knives and sticks. It is believed that this story originated from the influence of American comics about vampires and other monsters.
1. Bloody Countess (Elizabeth Bathory)
This vampire can be called one of the most popular. Elizabeth Bathory was very fond of torturing peasants and bathing in human blood.
This countess lived in Hungary, she was born in the XNUMXth century. The tortures that this lady came up with were very cruel: she drove people out into the snow so that they would die of cold, doused them with ice water, pierced their lips and fingers with nails.