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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#310 | A History of Vampires | Fangs, Fear and Fiction