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It's the summer of 1725, in a small village called Kisiljevo, in what is now Serbia. A man named Petar Blagojevich has been dead for about ten weeks.

In that time, nine people in the village have died. Some of them, according to the villagers, died within just a day or so of falling ill. Before they died, several of the villagers claimed Petar had come to them in the night, lain on top of them, and choked them. Petar was even said to have visited his son, requesting food. When his son refused to give him anything, Petar killed him with dozens of bites, draining him of his blood.

The villagers are terrified, and they know what needs to be done. They need to open his grave. The villagers pry it open but they find Petar’s body is not decayed. There's fresh blood in his mouth. His hair and nails had grown longer. There's new skin where his old skin has peeled away. So they drove a stake through Petar’s heart. Blood poured from his ears and the mouth. They then burned his body to ash.

A little over a century later, in 1897, a novelist in London will publish a book about a tall, elegant, charming nobleman in a castle, who sleeps in a coffin, and seduces his victims. It would be the story that would go onto shape one of the most iconic pieces of folklore of all time. 

Today’s perplexing episode is all about the vampire! 

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Recommended Reading List:

Paul Barber's Vampires, Burial, and Death

Bram Stoker's Dracula

Polidori's "The Vampyre”

Le Fanu's Carmilla

Dom Calmet's treatise

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