THE LIVING WHO HUNTED THE DEAD: A True History of Vampire Slayers
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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IN THIS EPISODE: Throughout centuries, ordinary people became vampire slayers when mysterious deaths plagued their communities, armed with stakes, shovels, and a terrifying determination to stop the undead.
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Lead-In
00:03:27.944 = Show Open
00:05:32.271 = Part One: When Governments Hunted Vampires
00:21:37.443 = Part Two: Born To Hunt The Dead
00:38:00.129 = Part Three: The Science of Hunting Vampires
= Show Close
SOURCES AND RESOURCES FROM THE EPISODE…
Real Vampire Slayers: https://weirddarkness.com/real-vampire-slayers/
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EPISODE PAGE at WeirdDarkness.com (includes list of sources): https://weirddarkness.com/RealVampireSlayers
ABOUT WEIRD DARKNESS: Weird Darkness is a true crime and paranormal podcast narrated by professional award-winning voice actor, Darren Marlar. Seven days per week, Weird Darkness focuses on all thing strange and macabre such as haunted locations, unsolved mysteries, true ghost stories, supernatural manifestations, urban legends, unsolved or cold case murders, conspiracy theories, and more. On Thursdays, this scary stories podcast features horror fiction along with the occasional creepypasta. Weird Darkness has been named one of the “Best 20 Storytellers in Podcasting” by Podcast Business Journal. Listeners have described the show as a cross between “Coast to Coast” with Art Bell, “The Twilight Zone” with Rod Serling, “Unsolved Mysteries” with Robert Stack, and “In Search Of” with Leonard Nimoy.DISCLAIMER: Ads heard during the podcast that are not in my voice are placed by third party agencies outside of my control and should not imply an endorsement by Weird Darkness or myself. *** Stories and content in Weird Darkness can be disturbing for some listeners and intended for mature audiences only. Parental discretion is strongly advised.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is sponsored by Awful Movie Reviews on YouTube. |
| 0:03.6 | I've been a fan of awful movie reviews for a couple of years now, and I never miss an episode. |
| 0:08.8 | Every Friday, you get a new comedic video covering a gosh, awful, horrible, terrible, wretched, |
| 0:13.9 | or just plain boring movie in the horror or sci-fi genre. |
| 0:17.6 | B-monster movies, films directed by notorious names like Ed Wood or Roger Corman, |
| 0:22.4 | flicks made on budgets lower than your monthly grocery bill, special effects you'd swear |
| 0:26.6 | were created by someone who's colorblind, cinematography so shaky, you'd swear a three-year-old |
| 0:31.0 | was trying to hold the camera, audio recording in the film that, well, you see where I'm going |
| 0:35.6 | here. They even take requests for awful movies you'd like to see them review in the future. You'll probably learn about flicks you've never even heard of while laughing along with the host. You can find awful movie reviews on YouTube by simply searching for awful movie reviews. I've also placed a link to them on my sponsors page so you can find them easily. And if you're like me, at the end of each awful movie review, you'll be saying it aloud |
| 0:56.6 | with the host, what an awful movie. |
| 1:00.5 | Hey, weirdos, as we get closer to Halloween and our 10-year anniversary of this podcast, |
| 1:05.5 | I'd love to get your opinions on how I'm doing, what you like, what you don't like, |
| 1:09.9 | what you'd like to see more of, what you'd change if you don't like, what you'd like to see more of, |
| 1:11.5 | what you'd change if you were in charge, well, you get the idea. |
| 1:15.2 | I have a new Weird Darkness survey on the website so you can send me your opinions, |
| 1:19.1 | and it's completely anonymous, so you can be completely honest. |
| 1:23.0 | This is a new survey, so even if you did give your opinion before, you can do so again. |
| 1:27.7 | And I'd appreciate you doing so. |
| 1:29.6 | Visit weirddarkness.com slash survey. |
| 1:32.6 | That's weirddarkness.com slash survey. |
| 1:35.6 | Hey, weirdos, just wanted to let you know that on the Weird Darkness YouTube channel recently, |
| 1:39.8 | we've been having fun doing a live chat each weeknight at 10.30 p.m. Central Time. I set up the YouTube |
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