Showing posts with label Vampire. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vampire. Show all posts

Saturday, 28 April 2018

Mineral Point Vampire (1981 - 2004, Mineral Point, Wisconsin)


On the evening of March 14, 1981 there were reports of a vampire-like figure lurking in Graceland cemetery. The police responded. At the cemetery, a lone officer confronted a tall, thin, pale faced figure dressed in black and wearing a cape. The figure suddenly bolted. The officer gave chase. The chase ended when the pale man lept over a six foot fence at the border of the cemetery. The next morning, the police returned to the cemetery to follow tracks made in the snow. At the point where the pale man jumped over the fence, his tracks disappeared – there was nothing but untouched snow on the other side of the fence. In March, 2004, police responded to reports of man sitting in a tree outside of an apartment complex. When they arrived, a tall, thin, darkly clad man with a pale face leapt from the tree and fled. The police followed but quickly lost sight of the suspect. Again, there were footprints. The police followed them to a ten foot concrete wall – where they ended. In 2008, a young couple was fishing off of a pier at nearby Ludden Lake. They heard noises coming from beneath the pier, directly under their feet. Something was climbing up out of the water. Thinking it was an animal, they shined a flashlight between the boards of the pier to get a better look. Staring back at them was a stark white face of a man. The couple fled towards their car. The creature followed. It was fast. As they drove away they could see a tall darkly dressed, caped figure running towards them. Two patrol units went to the pier. They found the couple’s hastily abandoned fishing gear and nothing else.
Source & Image Credit: https://www.wisconsinology.com/single-post/2016/10/05/The-Mineral-Point-Vampire

Friday, 27 April 2018

Vampire (Early 1990s, Lochmaben Castle, Scotland)


Tom Robertson investigated the woods in Lochmaben (Dumfries and Galloway) after hearing stories of animals that had been found drained of their blood. He encountered a tall figure dressed in sacking with a hood over its head, which black eyes and grey face. The creature leapt into a tree and swung away. Eight years later Robertson went looking for the creature again, finding it and taking a couple of photos - one of which is pictured at the top.
This case blew me away when I first saw the pictures, but then I soon reconsidered and realised just how easy it would be to fake this story and the photographs. The so-called ‘vampire’ in the image seems to be a broad-shouldered guy who could have easily just posed for this photograph and then left. Of course, we should always give the benefit of the doubt to witnesses of bizarre occurences like this, but it is helpful to maintain an attitude of healthy skepticism.
Source: http://www.paranormaldatabase.com/reports/vampdata.php