What if the folklore our ancestors passed down wasn't entertainment—but historical testimony?

Most paranormal content sensationalizes the unexplained. But what happens when we approach these stories with genuine curiosity and respect?

James Cheney's "The Night Visitors" does something different. It explores documented accounts of vampiric entities across cultures and centuries—not the romanticized versions from pop culture, but the serious testimonies people have carried in silence.

These aren't ghost stories. They're accounts of very real experiences: inexplicable energy drain, mysterious time loss, unexplained depletion of resources. Patterns that appear across different continents, different eras, different families.

Here's what makes this approach worth paying attention to:

The podcast treats folklore as historic ...