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The Bizarre Case of Mercy Brown – Vampire or Victim?

Just over a hundred years ago, residents of Exeter, Rhode Island became convinced that one of their own was returning from the grave to feed on the lives of their own relatives. In 1892, the family of Mercy Brown family started dying off from a terrible sickness, one by one.  The town blamed her –Continue reading “The Bizarre Case of Mercy Brown – Vampire or Victim?”

Bela Kiss, the Hungarian ‘Vampire’ Serial Killer

Romania’s Transylvania may be the birthplace of the fictional vampire, Count Dracula, but Hungary holds the distinction of harboring Bela Kiss.  He was a real-life serial killer who murdered and drained the blood from at least 24 young women just before World War I.

Podcast: Ten Theories about the Never-Aging Count Saint Germain

So who exactly was le Comte de Saint-Germain, the never-aging man of mystery who left so few clues behind?  How could he hobnob around Europe throughout the 1700’s and never appear to grow old?  Count Saint Germain He looked the same in London in 1743 as he did in St. Peterburg in 1762, as heContinue reading “Podcast: Ten Theories about the Never-Aging Count Saint Germain”