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We all know Buffy and Van Helsing, but the true history of real life vampire hunting may be stranger than fiction. From folk medicine exhumations to city-wide vampire hunts to $15,000 "Vampire Defense Kits", come learn with me about the fears that created real vampires!

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Sources:

Food for the dead : on the trail of New England's vampires By Michael E. Bell

A History of Vampires in New England By Thomas D'Agostino

From Demons to Dracula: The Creation of the Modern Vampire Myth By Matthew Beresford

Written in Blood: A Cultural History of the British Vampire By Paul Adams

Adaptable Monsters: The Past, Present, and Future of the Vampire Narrative as a Metaphor for Marginalized Groups by Alexa Wei

Vampire of Lakeview, Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Illinois 04 Nov 1888, Sun • Page 25

“Chicago’s Lost Cemetery and the Vampire Hunt” by A.P. Sylvia https://locationsoflore.com/2019/07/2...

Vampires of Lore: Traits and Modern Misconceptions By A. P. Sylvia

“The Vampire Hunt in Lincoln Park, 1888” by Mysterious Chicago https://mysteriouschicago.com/the-vam...

“Vampirism in Chicago” by Mysterious Chicago https://mysteriouschicago.com/vampiri...

“The Great New England Vampire Panic” by Abigail Tucker for Smithsonian Magazine https://web.archive.org/web/201210270...

LISTENING TO OUR VAMPIRES: DRACULA FROM THE GRAVE TO THE PAGE TO
STAGE AND CINEMA by John Edgar Browning

Vampires, Anxieties, and Dreams: Race and Sex in the Contemporary United States by Shannon Winnubst

The Occidental Tourist: “Dracula” and the Anxiety of Reverse Colonization by Stephen D. Arata

The Philosophy of Horror: Or, Paradoxes of the Heart By Noel Carroll

Fear: The History of a Political Idea by Corey Robin

Legends of Blood: The Vampire in History and Myth by Wayne Bartlett and Flavia Idriceanu

“6 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Buy an ‘Antique’ Vampire Killing Kit” by Anthony Hogg https://vamped.org/2014/10/31/6-reaso...

00:00 Introduction
02:12 Sponsor
03:21 The Vampire as Political Tool
16:20 Vampire Scares in the US
32:35 Modern Day Vampire Scares