The Story of the Beast of Croglin Grange
By Augustus Hare Captain Fisher also told us this really extraordinary story connected with his own family:- Fisher may sound a very plebeian name, but this family is of very ancient lineage, and for many hundreds of years they have possessed a very curious sort of place in Cumberland, which bears the weird name of...
Croglin Vampire or Not?
By Lionel and Patricia Fanthorpe Or was it? Lionel and Patricia Fanthorpe take a fresh look at a well-known story. Croglin Grange and its so-called vampire was a case where we had to change our opinion radically due to further evidence coming to light. The original account was given by one of the Fisher family...
The Croglin Vampire Explored
By Martin Jeffrey Explained and investigated by many, the case simply refuses to go away. Earlier this year we visited Croglin and investigated some of the claims researchers have given. The Place Twelve miles south east of Carlisle, Croglin water is a lonely stream, Wordsworth’s poem sets the scene “Down from the Pennine Alps, how...
The Vampires of the Borders
By Martin and Louise Jeffrey Stories of vampirism are rife in all the countries that make up the United Kingdom. Scotland and England have very prolific stories of the vampire and that is no different for the towns that are situated on the Scottish/England border. The Croglin Vampire case claimed that during the Victorian times...
William of Newburgh’s Vampires (12th Century)
By William of Newburgh Chapter 23: Of a similar occurrence at Berwick In the northern parts of England, also, we know that another event, not unlike this and equally wonderful, happened about the same time. At the mouth of the river Tweed, and in the jurisdiction of the king of Scotland, there stands a noble...
The Vampire Cat
By Lord Halifax Mr Everard Meynell, who told the following story in a letter to Lord Halifax, was the latter’s nephew, being the son of his brother, the Hon. Frederick Wood, who changed his name to Meynell on succeeding to the estate at Hoar Cross. I was siting in my club after dinner, smoking a...
Possessed by Vampire Evil
By News of the World In 1973, the News of the World published an interview with Rev Donald Ormand about his encounter with a “human vampire”. Donald was asked by doctors to help out when a 22 year old man with a history of attacking people with his teeth or nails to get at their...
