The Vampire

One Strange Thing: Paranormal & True-Weird Mysteries

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🗓️ 23 November 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Since 1981, the story of The Mineral Point Vampire has been an established point of spooky pride in Wisconsin monster lore; on this episode, we sink our fangs in to explore the odder points of the alleged creature sightings.

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0:00.0	I'm Laura Norton, and this is one strange thing, the show where we search the nation's
0:09.8	news archives for stories that can't quite be explained. Because you, dear listeners, are discerning consumers of the unusual, and dare we say, the strange, we assume you have at least a working knowledge of the creatures who populate the spookier corners of the human mind.
0:39.8	And we're not even talking about cryptids this time. Think even stronger nightmare fuel.
0:47.3	You know the things that go bump and slither and scitch-scratch in the night, the werewolves
0:53.9	and the zombies and the ghouls.
0:56.6	And the vampires.
0:59.5	Americans have long had an interest in the nocturnal and the fanged.
1:04.0	Although we must point out, vampire sightings have never caught on the way UFOs have,
1:10.0	nor have they come close to touching the popularity of Bigfoot in this country.
1:15.2	Maybe, to be fair, we've been distracted by all those clowns. Who can say? But there have been a few
1:23.2	notable exceptions to this rule, and one of those is a story from the unlikely and very
1:29.5	cheesy state of Wisconsin. That is a compliment. If you're educated enough in tales of the weird,
1:39.1	you might even have heard of this one before, the Mineral Point vampire sighting of 1981. As we dug into this tale,
1:47.1	we found quite a few oddities, not all of which concern the paranormal event itself. So,
1:53.9	not a moment to waste. Let's sharpen our teeth and get to it. Mineral Point is a town in Iowa County, Wisconsin, that's held
2:03.6	steady at a population of less than 3,000 for decades. Not exactly a bustling metropolis,
2:10.6	but a metropolis was never the intention. Mineral Point was established for, well, minerals,
2:17.4	lead mining mostly. According to Mineral Point was established for, well, minerals, lead mining mostly. According to Mineral Point,
2:21.0	a history, the area was popular with Cornish immigrants who were familiar with the lead trade across
2:27.4	the Atlantic. And conveniently, they already had a town named Mineral Point back in the UK, so they didn't have to bother
2:35.8	learning a new name. Good news all around. Now the minerals ran out and the mining business
2:43.0	eventually dried up, but Mineral Point has become quite a cozy tourist attraction, with historic
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