The Real Vampires

PRETEND

Javier Leiva

True Crime, Society & Culture, Technology

4.7 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Hey, it’s Javier. Quick update: Meghan Walsh, the subject of my Cracks in the Fandom series, has filed copyright complaints on every major platform. As a result, Spotify and Patreon have temporarily taken down the series. My attorneys are already on it, and we expect everything to be restored soon. In the meantime, it’s Halloween weekend — so let’s have some fun. I’m bringing back some of my favorite spooky episodes from the PRETEND archives. Today’s story? Real Vampires. Yeah, real ones. It’s one of my all-time favorites, and honestly, there’s no better time of year to revisit it. Stick around... I’ll be dropping more eerie episodes all weekend long. For now, let’s press play on The Real Vampires. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	True Story Media.
0:09.7	Hey, everyone. It's me, Javier.
0:11.8	As some of you know, Megan Walsh, the subject of my series Cracks in the Fandom, has filed copyright complaints on every platform where I host my podcast
0:22.3	and Spotify and Patreon have taken down the entire series.
0:26.6	But rest of sure, my attorneys are onto this and they are going to fix it.
0:32.2	This will be resolved soon and the episodes will be back up.
0:35.5	If you want to listen to that series, go to Apple
0:39.1	podcast or really any other podcast app and you should be able to find it. But in the meantime,
0:45.5	it is spooky season. It is Halloween. And so I figured if my episodes are going to be down,
0:51.6	might as well put on some of my past Halloween episodes.
0:56.5	Maybe these are episodes you've listened to the past, or maybe this is the first time you're listening to it.
1:02.1	Today's episode is about real vampires.
1:05.6	Yeah, real vampires.
1:07.4	We're going to get into it.
1:08.6	It's one of my favorites, and really, this is the only appropriate
1:12.6	time of the year to play this episode. So every day this weekend, I am going to release
1:19.6	some of my spookiest episodes. So stay tuned, you know, this is going to be, we're going to turn this into a little Halloween weekend.
1:26.6	So hang out with me and enjoy the show. So now let's go. You know, this is going to be, we're going to turn this into a little Halloween weekend.
1:30.1	So hang out with me and enjoy the show.
1:33.8	So now let's play The Real Vampires. John Browning is used to getting random calls from strangers.
1:50.0	This happens at least once a week, and they say to me that they have supernatural powers,
1:55.0	that they are a vampire, they want to meet other vampires that want me to lead them to them,
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