Episode 315 - The Vampire Epidemic of Medveđa: A True Horror Story

What if we told you that one of the most terrifying vampire stories ever… is actually documented in government records? 😱

In this episode, we unearth the chilling legend of Arnold Paole, a Serbian soldier whose alleged undead rampage left an entire town convinced that vampires were real. We’re talking about bodies that refused to decay, villagers dropping dead after seeing a ghostly figure at the foot of their bed, and an official military investigation that left even the skeptics shook.

Was this a case of mass hysteria? A mysterious disease? Or did vampires actually stalk 18th-century Serbia? 

But before we sink our teeth into that, Sabrina meets a special someone and might just have manifested a paranormal investigation with her… 

PLUS: A listener story about a mysterious bite mark and lost time experience that’ll make you rethink doing laundry alone. 🧛‍♂️

The findings discussed in this episode are in an official government report titled Visum et Repertum (Seen & Discovered) and you can read it, translated to English:

https://web.archive.org/web/20060315125133/http://www.vampgirl.com/visum.html 

Watch the video version here.

Have ghost stories of your own? E-mail them to us at [email protected] 

New Episodes are released every Sunday at 12am PST/3am EST (the witching hour, of course). Corinne and Sabrina hand select a couple of paranormal encounters from our inbox to read in each episode, from demons, to cryptids, to aliens, to creepy kids... the list goes on and on. If you have a story of your own that you'd like us to share on an upcoming episode, we invite you to email them to us!  

This episode is sponsored by Lume, Fast Growing Trees, Ollie, BetterHelp, iRestore, and Bubbly Cleaning.

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Edited and produced by Jaimi Ryan, original music by Arms Akimbo! 

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