10/18/2026
Weekly Weird News · urban-legends
Vampires in England Were a Thing Long Before Dracula
Filed by Max the Cryptid Reporter
We often think of vampires as an Eastern European legend, what with Count Dracula's connection to Romania. Recent archaeological excavations make them seem quite common in Poland. Dracula's fictional trip to England was preceded by a couple of other 19th century English novels. But even they weren't the first evidence of vampires in Britain.The scourge of the Croglin Vampire supposedly happened in 1750. Vampires were associated with bats in the village of Renwick in 1733, even though real vampir
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