The Colorado Vampire

One Strange Thing: True Paranormal Mysteries

Laurah Norton

Paranormalpodcast, History, True Crime, Paranormal, Mystery

4.6 • 763 Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Though the mountain region isn't traditionally known for its immortal undead, there is a tale of one particular vampire—or specifically, a vampire's grave—in a little town in Lafayette, Colorado. One Strange Thing: True Paranormal Mysteries explores the archives of the unexplained, blending rigorous historical research with a wry, skeptical wit to investigate true supernatural stories and baffling mysteries that made headlines. Dive into our Episode Mystery Archive — a curated, topic-organized source for documented hauntings, UFO sightings, cryptids, folklore, and bizarre true mysteries. Check it out here! https://www.onestrangethingpodcast.com/episodes-by-topic-mystery-archive Hosted, Written, and Researched by Laurah Norton Produced by Maura Currie Engineered by Brandon Schexnayder Subscribe to our Substack: https://substack.com/@onestrangething Sources on our website: https://www.onestrangethingpodcast.com/ Join us on Patreon for early release and ad-free episodes, exclusive stories, and bonus episodes: https://www.patreon.com/OneStrangeThing You can also subscribe to premium episodes on Apple Premium and Supercast! Find us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OSTPod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/onestrangethingpod/ and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/One-Strange-Thing-114307627035607 We have partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle our advertising/sponsorship requests. They're great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started. https://advertising.libsyn.com/OneStrangeThing 2024 All Rights Reserved One Strange Thing Podcast, LLC

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0:00.0	Just to note strangers, this story will probably be a little too scary for our youngest listeners.
0:06.8	So, discretion is advised.
0:13.3	I'm Laura Norton, and this is one strange thing, the show where we search the nation's news archives,
0:20.4	for stories that can't quite be explained.
0:32.6	Strangers, would it even be October if we didn't bring you a proper Halloween-themed topic?
0:39.5	No, it would not.
0:41.7	And what is more classically spooky than a vampire?
0:45.9	We've covered the subject before, of course.
0:48.8	Episode 32 told the tale of the Mineral Point Wisconsin vampire,
0:53.5	and in episode 71, we discussed the New England
0:57.0	vampire panic. And one thing we've gotten into a bit before is the fear around the rising of the
1:03.7	undead. That is, after all, one of the main problems with vampires. They have a bad habit of unburying themselves and then wreaking
1:13.4	all sorts of jugular-related havoc. Humanity's fear of this violence and the metaphorical
1:20.2	relationship between vampirism, mortality, and a variety of other things so complex that we would
1:27.4	need to host an entire seminar to get into them,
1:31.0	they have led to many, many superstitions.
1:35.4	And there are more folkloric bits and pieces regarding vampirism than we can possibly get into here.
1:41.7	There's sunlight and crucifixes and distracting the undead with spilled
1:47.0	grains of rice and avoiding inviting them into your home, the use of garlic, bearing them at
1:53.1	crossroads, the convenient inability to cross-running water, we could go on. But pretty much everyone
2:00.5	knows about staking vampires through the heart
2:03.9	as a means of permanently dispatching them. In fact, the BBC's History Extra reported that this
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