The Night Visitors Vampire Research Society

The Night Visitors Vampire Research Society

por James Cheney
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Celestine's Forbidden Apprenticeship with the Soucouyant of Trinidad

Rarely does a childhood memory carry the weight of the supernatural quite like this one. In a hair salon in early 2000s Massachusetts, a psychic reader named Celestine shared a chilling tale from her childhood—a story that changed her life forever—a story rooted deep in the folklore of 1950s rural Trinidad. When Celestine was just nine years old, she defied her grandmother’s warnings and visited a woman the village feared. She recounted the legend that was Mama Vashti, a mysterious woman living isolated in the village who possessed supernatural knowledge of remedies and spiritual practices. Though villagers secretly sought her help for love and prosperity spells, they avoided her publicly, whispering that she was a soucoyant—a shape-shifting creature from Caribbean folklore who sheds her skin at night. Whatever she was, she was a woman wrapped in contradiction. Slowly, an unusual friendship and apprenticeship formed between them. Mama Vashti taught Celestine card reading, herbal knowledge, and how to read people’s silences (the kind of knowledge you don’t find in any book). She also revealed she had been cursed in 1898 at age twenty, explaining her ageless appearance. The bond between them was profound and lasting, truly life-shaping in every sense. Celestine carried these lessons across decades and oceans. Listen to this episode to hear her extraordinary story unfold. What did Celestine actually witness during Carnival that she could never fully explain? Our Podcast Theme Music Music Title: “Haunted Haus”, Artist: Tim Kulig (timkulig.com) Lic CC 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ We also used "Nocturnally" by Amulets CC no attribution required Call for Listener’s Stories: Share Your Story Have you experienced something unexplainable? Email me directly with your story at thenightvisitorsvrs@gmail.com. There are two ways to share. You can write your story in an email, or tell your story in a simple voice recording from your phone and send it as an attachment via email audio length limit of 3 minutes.Click here to submit! You are also welcome to suggestions as to which aspects of vampirism you’d like to see explored in our posts or our YouTube videos, please email us at thenightvisitorsvrs@gmail.com. Facebook, YouTube & Substack 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. Join our Facebook group. You can subscribe to the Night Visitor’s Vampire Research Society on YouTube, @VampireResearchSociety or subscribe to Substack https://jamesnightvisitors.substack.com
T1 · E24
24 jul 2026
17:28

The Croglin Grange Vampire: Folklore or Forgotten History?

Every so often I come across a story that reminds me why I started researching vampire history in the first place. The legend of the Croglin Grange vampire is one of those rare cases that has enough historical substance to make you pause, yet enough mystery to keep people debating it more than a hundred years later. What makes this story so compelling is it blurs the line between folklore and documented history, refusing to fit into either category. Modern researchers have actually located the property and confirmed a deed placing its name before 1720, though geographical inconsistencies still cloud the full picture. The tale even inspired Alvin Schwartz’s “The Window” from Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, proving its grip on our imagination endures. Could a story this specific survive generations purely as invention? I hope you enjoy exploring this one as much as I enjoyed putting it together. Our Podcast Theme Music Music Title: “Haunted Haus”, Artist: Tim Kulig (timkulig.com) Lic CC 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Call for Listener’s Stories: Share Your Story Have you experienced something unexplainable? I would like to put out a call to all of our listeners to share your story. I want to share them in a special listener’s episode. You can request to remain anonymous, or we’ll share your name if you give us permission. Email me directly at thenightvisitorsvrs@gmail.com. There are two ways to share. You can write your story in an email, or tell your story in a simple voice recording from your phone and send it as an attachment via email audio length limit of 3 minutes.Click here to submit! You are also welcome to suggestions as to which aspects of vampirism you’d like to see explored in our posts or our YouTube videos, please email us at thenightvisitorsvrs@gmail.com. Join the Facebook Group 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. Join our Facebook group to connect with fellow Night Visitors from around the world. Subscribe To watch the Night Visitor’s Vampire Research Society’s true stories on YouTube, subscribe to the YouTube channel @VampireResearchSociety or subscribe to Substack https://jamesnightvisitors.substack.com and receive new true story episodes every Friday.
T1 · E23
16 jul 2026
13:17

Nora's Summer Job & The Vampire of the Upper East Side

Rarely does a vampire encounter story manage to be this quietly unsettling without ever saying the terrifying thing out loud. Nora, a struggling actress in 1980s New York City, takes a live-in caretaker’s job with a man named Casimir van der Broek in his Upper East Side brownstone, and what she finds there will stay with you long after you finish listening. The clues accumulate slowly. A fifteenth-century Latin book about vampires. A portrait authenticated to the seventeenth century, bearing a Dutch frame stamp from 1698. A man who never eats, never sleeps at night, and never steps into daylight. (Casimir’s formal courtesy somehow makes everything more disturbing, not less.) The evidence piles up, piece by piece, each detail adding to the same unthinkable conclusion. Have you ever taken a job or entered a building where the atmosphere felt completely frozen in another century, or where the owner kept hours that defied explanation? Tell me your strangest workplace story in the comments on Substack or on our YouTube video. Our Podcast Theme Music Music Title: “Haunted Haus”, Artist: Tim Kulig (timkulig.com) Lic CC 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Call for Listener’s Stories: Share Your Story Have you experienced something unexplainable? I would like to put out a call to all of our listeners to share your story. I want to share them in a special listener’s episode. You can request to remain anonymous, or we’ll share your name if you give us permission. Email me directly at thenightvisitorsvrs@gmail.com. There are two ways to share. You can write your story in an email, or tell your story in a simple voice recording from your phone and send it as an attachment via email audio length limit of 3 minutes.Click here to submit! You are also welcome to suggestions as to which aspects of vampirism you’d like to see explored in our posts or our YouTube videos, please email us at thenightvisitorsvrs@gmail.com. Join the Facebook Group 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. Join our Facebook group to connect with fellow Night Visitors from around the world. Subscribe To watch the Night Visitor’s Vampire Research Society’s true stories on YouTube, subscribe to the YouTube channel @VampireResearchSociety or subscribe to Substack https://jamesnightvisitors.substack.com and receive new true story episodes every Friday.
T1 · E22
10 jul 2026
16:52

Vampires at the Venue? A 1985 True Story from the Everglades

In our latest episode of The Night Visitors Vampire Research Society, we examine an account that challenges our understanding of human will and musical charisma. Renata's story will make you rethink every underground concert you've ever attended. We travel back to a hot, mid-80s holiday weekend in a secluded Florida Everglades club to uncover what happened when a mysterious underground band took the stage—and completely seized control of everyone in the room. An unearthly rhythm leaves a haunting question. Decades later, the venue manager still contemplates the confronting chilling evidence left behind in the green room. Listen to the story and let me know your answer to this question - If you witnessed a room full of people lose their autonomy to a sinister force, would you have the courage to stay, or would you run? you can reply on some platforms as well as our youtube channel and substack or join our facebook group. Our Podcast Theme Music Music Title: “Haunted Haus”, Artist: Tim Kulig (timkulig.com) Lic CC 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Call for Listener’s Stories: Share Your Story Have you experienced something unexplainable? I would like to put out a call to all of our listeners to share your story. I want to share them in a special listener’s episode. You can request to remain anonymous, or we’ll share your name if you give us permission. Email me directly at thenightvisitorsvrs@gmail.com. There are two ways to share. You can write your story in an email, or tell your story in a simple voice recording from your phone and send it as an attachment via email audio length limit of 3 minutes. Click here to submit! You are also welcome to suggestions as to which aspects of vampirism you’d like to see explored in our posts or our YouTube videos, please email us at thenightvisitorsvrs@gmail.com. Join the Facebook Group 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. Join our Facebook group to connect with fellow Night Visitors from around the world. Join us on Facebook Subscribe To watch the Night Visitor’s Vampire Research Society’s true stories on YouTube, subscribe to the YouTube channel @VampireResearchSociety or subscribe to Substack https://jamesnightvisitors.substack.com and receive new true story episodes every Friday.
T1 · E21
3 jul 2026
14:33

The Alabaster Vagrant of Harbin: The True Story of Meilan’s Undead Patron in China

In our latest episode of The Night Visitors Vampire Research Society supernatural stories podcast, the story challenges everything we think we know about vampires. We’ll travel back to 1984 to a remote village outside Harbin, China, to get to the truth behind Meilan’s encounter with a stranger — an encounter that altered her life permanently. An exchange with a stranger forges a mystery! Meilan, a hardworking woman, meets Yufeng over the course of several months in the predawn hours of 1984, feeding her. Years later is forced to confront the unsettling truth about Yufeng’s identity. Listen to the story unfoldand let me know what you think: If someone strange changed the course of your life, would you spend years trying to explain it? Or would you simply accept the gift? Call for Listener’s Stories: Share Your Story Have you experienced something unexplainable? I would like to put out a call to all of our listeners to share your story. I want to share them in a special listener’s episode. You can request to remain anonymous, or we’ll share your name if you give us permission. Email me directly at thenightvisitorsvrs@gmail.com. There are two ways to share. You can write your story in an email, or tell your story in a simple voice recording from your phone and send it as an attachment via email audio length limit of 3 minutes. Click here to submit! You are also welcome to suggestions as to which aspects of vampirism you’d like to see explored in our posts or our YouTube videos, please email us at thenightvisitorsvrs@gmail.com. Our Podcast Theme Music Music Title: “Haunted Haus”, Artist: Tim Kulig (timkulig.com) Lic CC 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Topics: true vampire stories, Chinese vampires, paranormal encounters, cemetery mysteries, Asian folklore, real supernatural stories, unexplained phenomena, undead legends, Harbin, China, true horror podcast.
T1 · E20
25 jun 2026
16:25

My Boss Was a Vampire Rosalie's True Story from Boston's Chinatown

Boston, 1963. Nineteen-year-old Rosalie desperately needed money for college when she accepted a waitressing job at a restaurant tucked away in Chinatown. The owner, the elegant and enigmatic Mrs. Lam, seemed perfectly ordinary. That is until Rosalie noticed young men arriving through the alley entrance and disappearing into her private office. One night, Rosalie accidentally walked in on something she could never explain: a woman with blood-red lips and a glow to her eyes. Mrs. Lam warned Rosalie to never return again but before she did that she gave her money and a carved jade pendant. Decades later, an appraisal of the pendant revealed a detail so inconceivable that Rosalie was forced to reconsider everything she had witnessed in that restaurant. Listen and let me know what you think about Rosalie’s story. Our Podcast Theme Music Music Title: “Haunted Haus”, Artist: Tim Kulig (timkulig.com) Lic CC 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Call for Listener’s Stories: Share Your Story Have you experienced something unexplainable? I would like to put out a call to all of our listeners to share your story. I want to share them in a special listener’s episode. You can request to remain anonymous, or we’ll share your name if you give us permission. Email me directly at thenightvisitorsvrs@gmail.com. There are two ways to share. You can write your story in an email, or tell your story in a simple voice recording from your phone and send it as an attachment via email audio length limit of 3 minutes. Click here to submit! You are also welcome to suggestions as to which aspects of vampirism you’d like to see explored in our posts or our YouTube videos, please email us at thenightvisitorsvrs@gmail.com. Join the Facebook Group 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. Join our Facebook group to connect with fellow Night Visitors from around the world.
T1 · E19
19 jun 2026
16:16

Veronica's Vampire Summer: The Real Reason Her Summer Reading List Went Unfinished TRUE Story

This week's episode of The Night Visitors Vampire Research Society podcast plunges into Veronica's chilling account of a summer spent house-sitting near a centuries-old cemetery in rural Massachusetts—an experience that would test the boundaries between rational explanation and inexplicable terror. Her excitement quickly turned to fear as a mysterious figure began appearing in the cemetery across from the isolated farmhouse she had agreed to watch. What started as a strange sighting became one of the most terrifying experiences of her life. At first, she dismissed what she had seen as the harmless behavior of an eccentric stranger. But as the weeks passed, strange patterns emerged, unsettling details coalesced, and the line between folklore and reality began to blur. Some phenomena resist easy explanation. By the end of the summer, Veronica would leave the property early, abandoning her plans and carrying with her a story she still cannot explain nearly three decades later. On her final night, she left without her belongings and never went back. There was something in the graveyard! Could this be documentation of genuine paranormal contact? Tune in to hear the full story and decide for yourself what walked among those graves. Our Podcast Theme Music Music Title: “Haunted Haus”, Artist: Tim Kulig (timkulig.com) Lic CC 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Call for Listener’s Stories: Share Your Story: Have you experienced something unexplainable? I would like to put out a call to all of our listeners to share your story. I want to share them in a special listener’s episode. You can request to remain anonymous, or we’ll share your name if you give us permission. Email me directly at thenightvisitorsvrs@gmail.com. There are two ways to share. You can write your story in an email, or tell your story in a simple voice recording from your phone and send it as an attachment via email audio length limit of 3 minutes. Join the Facebook Group: 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. Join our Facebook group to connect with fellow Night Visitors from around the world. We're also on YouTube: To watch the Night Visitor’s Vampire Research Society’s true stories, subscribe to the YouTube channel @VampireResearchSociety
T1 · E18
12 jun 2026
15:39

The Mystery of Ines: The Azorean Bruxa of Cape Cod, a True Story of the Undead

Carefully tucked inside a pantry wall, a bundle of love letters from 1912 changes everything for Duarte, a twenty-year-old Portuguese-American student spending a strange summer in Provincetown. Years later, he still pondered what it mean to grieve for someone who never truly died? Inês existed in a kind of liminal space, unable to move forward, unable to return home. Our Podcast Theme Music Music Title: “Haunted Haus”, Artist: Tim Kulig (timkulig.com) Lic CC 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Call for Listener’s Stories: Share Your Story Have you experienced something unexplainable? I would like to put out a call to all of our listeners to share your story. I want to share them in a special listener’s episode. You can request to remain anonymous, or we’ll share your name if you give us permission. Email me directly at thenightvisitorsvrs@gmail.com. There are two ways to share. You can write your story in an email, or tell your story in a simple voice recording from your phone and send it as an attachment via email audio length limit of 3 minutes. You are also welcome to suggestions as to which aspects of vampirism you’d like to see explored in our posts or our YouTube videos, please email us at thenightvisitorsvrs@gmail.com. Join the Facebook Group 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. Join our Facebook group to connect with fellow Night Visitors from around the world. We're also on YouTube: To watch the Night Visitor’s Vampire Research Society’s true stories, subscribe to the YouTube channel @VampireResearchSociety or subscribe to this Substack and receive new stories every Friday.
T1 · E17
5 jun 2026
14:44

What's the Tea on Claudine? A Quebec Mystery

In 1935, a mysterious guest arrived at a boarding house in rural Quebec with seven trunks, a fortune in cash, and no appetite for food. What the landlady discovered among her guest's belongings made no sense — until fifty years later, in a Chinese restaurant in Boston, when she met her once again. Still young, still smiling. What would you do if confronted with proof that defied everything you believed possible? Is Claudine a vampire or could she be an immortal alchemist? Listen now to get all the details. Our Podcast Theme Music Music Title: “Haunted Haus”, Artist: Tim Kulig (timkulig.com) Lic CC 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Call for Listener’s Stories: Share Your Story Have you experienced something unexplainable? I would like to put out a call to all of our listeners to share your story. I want to share them in a special listener’s episode. You can request to remain anonymous, or we’ll share your name if you give us permission. Email me directly at thenightvisitorsvrs@gmail.com. There are two ways to share. You can write your story in an email, or tell your story in a simple voice recording from your phone and send it as an attachment via email audio length limit of 3 minutes. Click here to submit! You are also welcome to suggestions as to which aspects of vampirism you’d like to see explored in our posts or our YouTube videos, please email us at thenightvisitorsvrs@gmail.com. Join the Facebook Group 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. Join our Facebook group to connect with fellow Night Visitors from around the world. Join us on Facebook We're also on YouTube: To watch the Night Visitor’s Vampire Research Society’s true stories, subscribe to the YouTube channel @VampireResearchSociety or subscribe to this Substack and receive new stories every Friday. Vampire Research Society
T1 · E16
28 may 2026
22:05

Springtime in 1968 Brooklyn, a TRUE Shavuot Vampire Encounter

Some years ago, I met Trudy, a well-traveled woman in her late sixties, who finally broke her silence about her friend Rifka’s terrifying vampire encounter in NYC in the late 60s. After hearing it, I wondered could a tormented soul really reach across generations? Rarely does a vampire story carry the weight of generational trauma quite like this one. Was Rifka’s experience a dream, or did something dark materialize from the shadows? Why did Rifka wake with mysterious marks on her neck feeling drained of her health, night after night? Seeking her mother’s guidance, Rifka shares her experience. Confronted with the truth, Noemi must reveal a long-held truth. What she reveals is a devastating secret that followed the family across decades and continents, buried since before World War II. Up against something ancient and relentless, a Williamsburg rabbi offers guidance rooted in tradition, and the Shavuot ritual becomes Rifka’s unexpected shield. (It’s honestly one of the more moving endings you’ll hear.) The encounter shapes Rifka forever, turning her toward both scholarship and spiritual practice. Tune in to hear this haunting story told in full. Our Podcast Theme Music Music Title: “Haunted Haus”, Artist: Tim Kulig (timkulig.com) Lic CC 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Call for Listeners’ Stories: Share Your Story Have you experienced something unexplainable? I would like to put out a call to all of our listeners to share your story. I want to share them in a special listener’s episode. You can request to remain anonymous, or we’ll share your name if you give us permission. Email me directly at thenightvisitorsvrs@gmail.com. There are two ways to share. You can write your story in an email, or tell your story in a simple voice recording from your phone and send it as an attachment via email audio length limit of 3 minutes. Click here to submit! You are also welcome to suggestions as to which aspects of vampirism you’d like to see explored in our posts or our YouTube videos, please email us at thenightvisitorsvrs@gmail.com. Join us on Facebook 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. Join our Facebook group to connect with fellow Night Visitors from around the world.
T1 · E15
22 may 2026
17:10
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