High Stakes: Life inside a Vampire Cult

Chameleon

Audiochuck | Campside Media

True Crime, Tv & Film, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.5 • 8.8K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2026

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

As a lonely, grieving teenager in the early days of the internet, Celeste Mott is drawn into a secretive message board called "The Looking Glass": a place where self-proclaimed vampires demand total belief, reward devotion, and punish doubt. What begins as fantasy soon becomes something much more dangerous: a closed world built on manipulation, hierarchy, and psychological control. Years later, Celeste tells the story of how she was pulled in, why it was so hard to leave, and the charismatic figure at the center of it all.

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0:00.0	Campsite Media
0:02.9	Hello?
0:06.2	What is so what do you want me to say?
0:08.7	Oh, it's just my
0:09.8	Camelion.
0:11.2	Camelian Weekly.
0:12.9	Oh.
0:17.0	It's Thursday, February 26th, 2020. It's Thursday, February 26th, 2026 in New Orleans.
0:26.0	Two days after Mardi Gras, and Celeste Mardi Gras is still pretty exhausted.
0:31.6	By the time we get to actual Mardi Gras day, I'm usually like done.
0:36.6	I did three nights solidly of parade, so after night three, Ias Day, I'm usually like done. I did three nights solidly of parade.
0:38.9	So after night three, I was like, I'm good. So I stayed home on Mardi Gras and I worked on my book.
0:45.8	Celeste has an MFA in poetry, but she also writes fiction and has a substack, a little bit of everything.
0:52.6	Since I was old enough to hold a pencil, I've been fascinated
0:56.6	by stories and storytelling. She also has another professional interest. Celeste is a witch.
1:05.6	She actually describes it as her other full-time job. A magical practice that aims to take your will, your goals, your drive, your imagination,
1:19.6	and use those things in accordance with certain techniques and tools to impact change in the external world.
1:26.6	So it's a framework for changing reality.
1:31.8	I think people sometimes misunderstand it as a religion.
1:37.3	It is for some people.
1:38.4	For me, it's not religious, but it is practical.
1:44.4	Celeste started out as a tarot card reader, but found more and more people coming to her asking for help with other things.
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