Various Famous Vampires

 

 

   Real live examples of incidents and vampires 

 

  Countess Elizabeth Bathory

  Fritz Haarman

  Sergeant Victor Bertrand 

 Countess Misty

  Bloodlust

Countess Elizabeth Bathory (1560-1614) who lived in Hungary during the 16^th century, said to be a neophilist as well as a sadist, the countess was reputed to be a sort of vampire queen. Opinions vary as to how many women were slaughtered by Countess Bathory. Some say three hundred - others claim it is more like six hundred. Sufficient to say that this psychotic middle-aged noblewoman, widow of the Count Nadasay, killed hundreds of young girls by draining them of their blood by various methods. The Countess’s blood lust was said to have been aroused when she scratched her maid with a comb in a fit of temper and found blood on her hands. The authorities had raided her castle during an orgy. Girls were found chained in dungeons and tortured, being “milked” out of their blood as needed.
Bathory's psychotic mania was connected with her own beauty. She believed that the blood of virgins would act as an excellent skin conditioner and she literally bathed in their blood. Her accomplices in crime were beheaded but she, being a noblewoman, was condemned only to life imprisonment.

 

 

Fritz Haarman

Though Haarman cannot be truly be called a real vampire, his method of killing his victims bore all classic hallmarks of a vampire attack and the gothic horror which surrounded the crimes. During five years of his criminal activity, it is officially estimated that as many as fifty young males between the ages 12 and 18 were murdered. Haarman killed his victims by holding them down, and then killed them, usually by a single strong bite on the throat. The bodies were cut up in portions and ate by Haarman and some were cooked and sold to the public. The prosecution alleged that he had actually sold the flesh of his victims for human consumption in his cooked meat shop. He earned the name of the Hanover Vampire.

Sergeant Victor Bertrand

In 1849 a century of extraordinary progress of the fiend, a shadowy figure was found to be flitting among the tombs at dead of the night desecrating graves in the most shocking manner in France. Bodies were torn from their coffins, violated and appalling mutilated, creating extreme horror and fear. The view grew that the manifestations must be supernatural by the fact that every cemetery which was the scene of the attacks was surrounded by high walls and guarded by heavy iron gates, which was always kept locked after night-fall. The phantom had made innumerable escapes, escalating fears amongst the seasoned troops sent to capture it. In a July evening, this notorious vampire was injured by gun-shots, his boot-prints were followed and he was trapped. He was Sergeant Victor Bertrand, due to his activities, known throughout Europe as "Le Vampyr" was a necrophiliac and addicted to vampiric practices. He was sentenced to a year's imprisonment since there was no murder involved and he was medically proven to be sane, and with that dropped out of sight and out of history.

A couple once wrote to me and told me they
needed a pair of vampire's eyes so that they
could rule the world. They said that if I
didn't send them my eyes in two weeks, they
would come and get them. Did they really
think I'd be stupid enough to pluck out my
eyes and send them to them? How could I see
to address the box if I didn't have my eyes?

Countess Misty is possibly one of the most famous of today's "Vampires", she has appeared on TV chat shows and even in books on Vampires. She is no person from history but a living breathing person of the 20th Century. She is not locked up in any Mental institute, but is living free in America. She is also the leader and creator of the "Lost Shadows Gang" which is a group of Blood drinkers.

They love the night; they drink blood; they want to meet you... Real Vampires do exist and Bloodlust tells their complete, shocking story.
On screen, from Bela Lugosi to Gary Oldman, the Dracula myth has fascinated millions. Some people, though, feel compelled to live out their dark fantasies and actually become vampires themselves.
One woman believes that blood-drinking cures her anemia and keeps her young - if she can't find a donor she will even gnaw her own arm. Another devotee, a man, compares the pleasure of blood-drinking to orgasm, describing the taste as 'the best in the world'. Fear of AIDS proves little deterrent, though one vampire interviewed here claims to abstain from 'one night bites'.
Unbelievable but true, Bloodlust charts a remarkable journey through a sinister obsession

This is a great book. Carol Page has looked into the subject well, and interviewed a selection of people who claim to be vampires...

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