Vampire of Croglin Grendzh

Vampire of Croglin Grendzh
1680

Among the frequently retold cases involving''real''vampires, as it turned out, the most fascinating is the story of the vampire Croglin Grendzha - old house, located in Cumberland, England

The report of the Vampire, first appeared in the August Hare''Story of My Life,''written in recent years before last century. According to Hare, these events occurred during the 1875-1876 period. The house, which at that time was owned by Fisher family, was commissioned Kransvell Amelia and her two brothers - Edward and Michael. In summer, this area was hot, and when all three went to sleep, the woman lay near a window. She closed the window, but did not close the shutters. She could not sleep and noticed that something was approaching the window, then it is something began to scratch, and then pull the window, trying to pull the glass. There is an open window and zabrados inside. The woman froze in horror, and a brown face with burning eyes approached her, grabbed and bitten by the throat.
She screamed, and when her brother rushed to her aid, being hurried away. One of the brothers comforted his sister, and another rushed to pursue a creature, which disappeared behind a wall of a neighboring church. A doctor who later examined the woman, offered her a change of scenery, and the brothers took her for a long time in Switzerland. But then all three returned to Croglin Grendzh. At the next spring being re-appeared. One of the brothers pursued him, shot him in the leg and watched him until the vault at the local cemetery. The next day, along with other citizens brothers went into the vault, which was in a terrible state of neglect. And only one coffin did not seem abandoned. Opening the coffin, they found the body with fresh gunshot wound in his leg. They took the bullet, and his body was burned.
In 1924, Charles G. Harper, basing their assertions on the visit to the area, challenged the book Hare. Harper could not find a place called Croglin Grendzh, although there were two other buildings - Croglin High Hall and Croglin Low Hall, but none podhoilo the description Croglin Grendzha. There was no church - the closest was a mile, and none of the crypt, the corresponding description. In turn, at a later time and write Harper was challenged when Cleve F. Ross visited the area. In a conversation with the local life has been found that Lowe Croglin Hall was just the sort of house, referred to by Hare in its history that a number of years there was a chapel, and the stones of its foundations still exist in 30 years. It seemed Cleve Ross answered all objections Harper.
History Croglin Grendzha continued in 1968, when psychologist - researcher Scott Rogo proposed a new version. He noticed the similarity of the history of the Vampire Croglin Grendzha and the first chapter of''Varney the Vampire''- a popular history of the vampire, first published in 1929, Montague Summers. They are very similar, and it is likely that one of them is based on the other. Rogo has suggested that the entire history Croglin Grendzha no more than a hoax.
Last, the final note in the dispute. Clive Ross again later discussed the incident with local residents, and they said that in writing the Hare was a very significant problem - the story took place not in 1870, and in 1680, almost two centuries earlier. Thus, this fact really puts this story in time before publication''Varney the Vampire''and all it throws very far into the past history and turns it into unconfirmed legend.