For hundreds of years, people have been afraid of blood-sucking creatures that rise from the dead.

But where does the vampire myth actually come from, what happened to the people accused of being a vampire, and what if there was a simple, biological explanation for it all?

• The start of Bram Stoker's Dracula
• The fundamental characteristics of vampires
• Vampires in ancient European folklore
• Why people might have thought vampires needed to drink blood
• Vampires being blamed for the plague
• The Great Vampire Epidemic
• The story of Petar Blagojević
• John Polidori’s The Vampyre
• Vampires & Vlad The Impaler
• Vampires on film
• Modern vampires

Full interactive transcript, subtitles and key vocabulary available on the website: https://www.leonardoenglish.com/podcasts/vampires

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