Episode Details

72: The Gorbals Vampire

Season 1 Episode 72 Published 2 years, 4 months ago

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Join me in The Red Treehouse as we explore a disturbing and unsettling story--The Gorbals Vampire. In September 1954, in Glasgow, Scotland, hundreds of children invaded The Southern Necropolis to hunt down and kill the terrifying Gorbals Vampire.

A now-infamous case of mass hysteria, the children genuinely believed they were under threat of attack by a 7-foot-tall vampire with glowing red eyes--and iron teeth.

What caused over four hundred children to arm themselves and search out a supernatural--and undead--enemy?

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Music:

Into the Dark by Shakibhasansayed

Sad Rap Beat by Defekt Maschine

Sources:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crg9kp599kwo

https://www.thesun.co.uk/living/3029717/harrowing-black-and-white-photos-show-the-horrific-living-conditions-in-1940s-glasgow-where-overcrowding-was-rife-and-sewage-seeped-into-slums/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Necropolis