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The Night Visitors Vampire Research Society

The Night Visitors Vampire Research Society

by James Cheney

Documentary Personal Journals

Season 1

When the Dead Return for Love: The Vampire of Hong Kong

Some loves refuse to end, even after death itself. In 1988 Hong Kong, a wealthy woman named Pearl encounters a tenant whose devotion to a lost love stretches far beyond anything she can rationally explain, and the mystery of Mr. Lee will stay with you long after the story ends. What does it mean to love someone across the boundary between life and death? The story leaves his true nature beautifully ambiguous, hovering between the supernatural and the inexplicable. It is unsettling and deeply moving at the same time. Listen to this episode for a haunting tale about love, loss, and what refuses to stay buried. The Vampire of Hong Kong Pearl Discovers Lee's Secret at the Temple Pearl Discovers Mysterious Blood Jars Pearl's Dangerous Suspicions About Mr. Li If you enjoy historical vampire lore, forgotten folklore, and true accounts of the supernatural, don’t forget to like, subscribe, and share your thoughts when you join the facebook group or subscribe to substack or my YouTube channel. Our Podcast Theme Music Music Title: “Haunted Haus”, Artist: Tim Kulig (timkulig.com) Lic CC 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Other Music We also used “Dark Toys” by SYBS CC no attribution required 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. YouTube To watch the Night Visitor’s Vampire Research Society’s true stories on YouTube, subscribe to the YouTube channel @VampireResearchSociety or subscribe to this Substack and receive new true story epsiodes every Friday. - Vampire Research Society

Takuto and the Hone-Onna of Obon: Japanese energy vampires in in 1953 Hokkaido

This week, we’re going to Hokkaido, Japan to investigate a supernatural story with a very frightening twist, where the question isn’t whether the dead can return, but what might return wearing their face Obon is the time of year when the dead are welcomed home. But what if something else came back with them? Takuto has returned to his family home for the festival, still grieving his fiancée who died months earlier. Then, on the first night of Obon, something strange happens. At first, it looks like a miracle. By the third night, it is clear that something is very wrong. Listen to find out what happens next. If you enjoy historical vampire lore, forgotten folklore, and true accounts of the supernatural, don’t forget to like, subscribe, and share your thoughts when you join the facebook group or subscribe to substack or my YouTube channel. Our Podcast Theme Music Music Title: “Haunted Haus”, Artist: Tim Kulig (timkulig.com) Lic CC 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Other Music We also used “Oasis Dreams” by Patrick Patrikios CC no attribution required 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. YouTube To watch the Night Visitor’s Vampire Research Society’s true stories on YouTube, subscribe to the YouTube channel @VampireResearchSociety or subscribe to this Substack and receive new true story epsiodes every Friday. - Vampire Research Society

The Borrowed Vampire: The Talamaur of Gaua Island

Tonight’s story of supernatural vengeance, set in 1925 in a remote Vanuatu village was passed down through four generations. It follows Ellen, a widow who begins to suspect that her late husband’s spirit is visiting her children at night. But as illness spreads through the village and misfortune follows in its wake, she uncovers an ancient belief almost unknown outside the South Pacific: the talamaur. Tune in to hear the full story unfold. Theme Music Music Title: “Haunted Haus”, Artist: Tim Kulig (timkulig.com) Lic CC 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Other Music We also used "Oasis Dreams" by Patrick Patrikios 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

Mercy Brown: Reburied Without Her Heart, New England’s Last Vampire

In 1892, a grieving father in Exeter, Rhode Island watched his neighbors dig up his family members, burn his daughter’s organs, and feed the ashes to his dying son. This is that story. George Brown had already lost his wife and daughter to tuberculosis when the community turned its desperation into something darker. Mercy Brown, just 19 years old, had been stored in an above-ground crypt through winter. When her body showed minimal decomposition, her neighbors saw vampirism. They removed her heart and liver, burned them, and gave the remains to her brother Edwin as medicine. He died weeks later. What does it say about us that even a scientific voice like Dr. Metcalf could not stop what fear had already set in motion? Incredibly, the incident reportedly inspired Bram Stoker’s famous vampire novel and represented the final case in a two-hundred-year phenomenon that produced nearly eighty exhumations (a staggering number most people never know about). The story ended a long chapter in American folklore. Today, Mercy’s grave still receives flowers, gifts, and symbolic vampire teeth from visitors. 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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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