The Night Visitors Vampire Research Society

Rarely does a vampire encounter story manage to be this quietly unsettling without ever saying the terrifying thing out loud. Nora, a struggling actress in 1980s New York City, takes a live-in caretaker’s job with a man named Casimir van der Broek in his Upper East Side brownstone, and what she finds there will stay with you long after you finish listening. The clues accumulate slowly. A fifteenth...

In our latest episode of The Night Visitors Vampire Research Society , we examine an account that challenges our understanding of human will and musical charisma. Renata's story will make you rethink every underground concert you've ever attended. We travel back to a hot, mid-80s holiday weekend in a secluded Florida Everglades club to uncover what happened when a mysterious underground band took...

In our latest episode of The Night Visitors Vampire Research Society supernatural stories podcast, the story challenges everything we think we know about vampires. We’ll travel back to 1984 to a remote village outside Harbin, China, to get to the truth behind Meilan’s encounter with a stranger — an encounter that altered her life permanently. An exchange with a stranger forges a mystery! Meilan, a...

Boston, 1963. Nineteen-year-old Rosalie desperately needed money for college when she accepted a waitressing job at a restaurant tucked away in Chinatown. The owner, the elegant and enigmatic Mrs. Lam, seemed perfectly ordinary. That is until Rosalie noticed young men arriving through the alley entrance and disappearing into her private office. One night, Rosalie accidentally walked in on somethin...

This week's episode of The Night Visitors Vampire Research Society podcast plunges into Veronica's chilling account of a summer spent house-sitting near a centuries-old cemetery in rural Massachusetts—an experience that would test the boundaries between rational explanation and inexplicable terror. Her excitement quickly turned to fear as a mysterious figure began appearing in the cemetery across...

Carefully tucked inside a pantry wall, a bundle of love letters from 1912 changes everything for Duarte, a twenty-year-old Portuguese-American student spending a strange summer in Provincetown. Years later, he still pondered what it mean to grieve for someone who never truly died? Inês existed in a kind of liminal space, unable to move forward, unable to return home. Our Podcast Theme Music Music...

In 1935, a mysterious guest arrived at a boarding house in rural Quebec with seven trunks, a fortune in cash, and no appetite for food. What the landlady discovered among her guest's belongings made no sense — until fifty years later, in a Chinese restaurant in Boston, when she met her once again. Still young, still smiling. What would you do if confronted with proof that defied everything you bel...

Some years ago, I met Trudy, a well-traveled woman in her late sixties, who finally broke her silence about her friend Rifka’s terrifying vampire encounter in NYC in the late 60s. After hearing it, I wondered could a tormented soul really reach across generations? Rarely does a vampire story carry the weight of generational trauma quite like this one. Was Rifka’s experience a dream, or did somethi...

This week’s episode of The Night Visitors Vampire Research Society takes us from rural Iowa where Judy left her troubled family behind and moved to San Francisco in the summer of 1967 — the summer of love. With a diploma in hard-knocks and a lot of ambition, she settled into a small studio rental above an antique shop in San Francisco’s Chinatown. She was lonely until one rainy evening, a young ma...

In early 1990s Cambodia, Chanda and her husband were being drained — literally. Night after night, they woke exhausted, covered in small puncture wounds, haunted by suffocating dreams. The source turned out to be closer than they imagined: their next-door neighbor, an ahp — a vampiric entity from Khmer folklore that hunts as a disembodied floating head with trailing entrails behind it. When a Budd...

The Night Visitor of Belarus This week's episode of The Night Visitors Vampire Research Society supernatural podcast and YouTube story, explores a haunting narrative that blurs the line between medical rationality and spiritual mystery. In the mid-1980s, a young doctor named Yuri was working the night shift at a rural clinic deep in the Belarusian countryside. His only patient was an elderly woman...

In 1997, I logged onto the internet for the first time and discovered a world of forums and newsgroups where the supernatural wasn't just a hobby, it was a shared passion. It was in one of these digital spaces dedicated to vampire subculture that I met a writer from New York City. He shared with me a remarkable account he had gathered while interviewing a 98-year-old former actress named Dora, who...

This week’s episode travels to Honolulu’s Chinatown in 1923. A young woman named Betty escaped an arranged marriage in China and built a new life on the other side of the Pacific, but the man she left behind sent a curse after her. Every night at sundown, a malevolent ghost appeared in her bedroom, coal-eyed and hateful, withering every living thing around it. Betty held the line with prayer, garl...

Joaquin and the Vampire Curse: Spiritual Justice and the Price of Disrespect My spiritual mentor Lorimar, was full of stories, but this one stopped me cold. In the 1970s Bronx, a young santero named Joaquin betrayed the one person he shouldn't have — an espiritista who knew exactly how to make him pay. What she summoned from a grave in Woodlawn Cemetery came to him every night: a woman in white wh...

This week’s episode of The Night Visitors Vampire Research Society podcast takes us to a small farming community in western Massachusetts in the late 1980s where a Polish biologist turned fortune teller is going about her business as usual — until one evening a strange woman walks into her parlor and the cards reveal something darker. The milk curdles. The cat won’t stop growling. And the visitor...

A Black Market Deal That Changed Everything When 19-year-old Vera started selling contraband through a Moscow tea shop, she never imagined meeting someone like Mikhail. The charming Georgian businessman offered her a dangerous proposition: smuggling caviar and champagne for substantial payment, plus an invitation to his Black Sea home during the May Day holiday. (Trust no one was Vera's survival r...

What happens when caring for an elderly woman slowly drains the life right out of you? In this chilling 1992 case from Cape Cod, twenty-two-year-old Roxanne takes a caregiver position with Mrs. Campbell, a centenarian living in a 1700s Massachusetts home. The house stays dark despite summer’s brightness, and something feels deeply wrong from day one. Mrs. Campbell never eats, yet she maintains sha...

When Bihn arrives in 1977 Texas as a Vietnamese refugee, isolation and language barriers make every shadow feel threatening. Her charming nocturnal neighbor, who greets her in French with an aristocratic air, seems suspicious from the start, especially after she notices visitors leaving his apartment with strange puncture wounds on their necks. Haunted by dread, Bihn turns to what she knows: tradi...

The Obeah Vampire: The Duppy Called Winston Something lived in Elizabeth's kitchen - something her husband fed with blood and whispered promises. Wealthy clients came to their Toronto apartment seeking revenge, and they always left satisfied. But hungry things grow hungrier. And when the man in the top hat finally showed his grinning face, Elizabeth understood the real question: who was serving wh...

A night-shift convenience store clerk in rural Massachusetts encountered something inexplicable. A mysterious woman named Alva, dishevelled, carrying old photographs, appeared repeatedly in the wee hours of the morning. Over weeks, strange phenomena escalated: bloodless animal carcasses, supernatural cold, and a catatonic figure discovered in an abandoned cemetery shed. Was Alva a troubled drifter...

The flowers died first. Fresh-cut blooms withered overnight while a man lay paralysed, watching someone who shouldn't exist stand motionless at the foot of his bed until dawn. In 1950s Transylvania, three women thought they knew how to deal with a witch. They thought prayer would be enough. They were wrong about all of it. This account, witnessed firsthand by a child who later recounted it, examin...

In celebration of the Lunar New Year, our first episode explore's a Taoist legend! The Temple’s Jiangshi: Ming's Encounter with the Dreaded Hopping Chinese Vampire When Ming sought refuge in a rural temple during his journey to Hong Kong in the 1890s, he had no idea what lurked beneath the altar. That night changed everything he thought he knew about the supernatural. The creature that emerged was...

What if the folklore our ancestors passed down wasn't entertainment—but historical testimony? Most paranormal content sensationalizes the unexplained. But what happens when we approach these stories with genuine curiosity and respect? James Cheney's "The Night Visitors" does something different. It explores documented accounts of vampiric entities across cultures and centuries—not the romanticized...