Online Vampire Cult - Pt2: "404: Vampire Not Found"
Was I in a Cult?
Liz Iacuzzi
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🗓️ 23 March 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
If Part 1 was the seduction… this is the unraveling.
By now, Celeste is fully in - the "true believer" phase we like to call it. The relationships feel real. The stakes feel real. And the consequences for questioning it? Also very real.
Because inside this world, there are rules. Rewards for loyalty. Punishments for doubt. And what once felt magical begins to shift. The cracks start to show. And Celeste is forced to confront a terrifying possibility:
What if none of this is real?
What follows is a slow, psychological tug-of-war between belief and reality - until one discovery changes everything.
After all, the most shocking part wasn't that there were vampires on the internet.
It was who was pretending to be them.
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| 0:00.0 | The views, information, or opinions expressed by the guest appearing in this episode solely |
| 0:04.4 | belong to the guest and do not represent or reflect the views or positions of the hosts, |
| 0:09.4 | the show, podcast one, this network, or any of their respective affiliates. |
| 0:16.4 | The vampire has come to represent more of this idea of a parasitic relationship with humanity. |
| 0:25.5 | Like, the vampire can't survive without a human supply. |
| 0:30.3 | And there's analogies there with narcissism, I would argue. |
| 0:34.7 | And that's why I've come to settle on it with the cult because there were no |
| 0:41.9 | vampires in the cult, but also there were vampires in the cult, you know. |
| 1:01.2 | Mm. Welcome back to Was I Anacol time, Tyler Meason. |
| 1:03.3 | And I'm Liz Ayakuzzi. |
| 1:04.8 | Yes, she is. |
| 1:13.9 | And today is part two of Celeste Mott's tale of getting pulled in to an online vampire-looking glass, Anne Rice, New Orleans, |
| 1:17.0 | La stat, chat room, early internet. |
| 1:19.2 | Vampire cult. |
| 1:21.0 | Try saying that again. |
| 1:22.4 | I don't need to. |
| 1:23.8 | They heard it again. |
| 1:25.0 | They heard it the first time. |
| 1:27.6 | They can press the 15-second back button and hear it again. |
| 1:33.7 | You guys, if you didn't listen to the first part of this story yet, do that now. Thank you. For the one person who accidentally went to two, go back to one. Why? Because part one, it has |
| 1:38.8 | grief. It has got got got early internet role play. It's got an emotional manipulation all wrapped in a luring black velvet tape. |
| 1:51.1 | I think do that one more time because when you say grief, you sound like it's a birthday party. |
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