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The Night Visitors Vampire Research Society

The Night Visitors Vampire Research Society

著者: James Cheney
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They come uninvited. This is The Night Visitors, a paranormal podcast with James Cheney.

The Night Visitors explores encounters with vampires, supernatural folklore, and purportedly true stories of the creatures that visit in the night. Each episode presents a single account drawn from firsthand testimony, family histories, and witness reports collected from around the world.

James’s lifelong fascination with vampires and the supernatural led him through decades of research into vampire lore, psychic vampirism, and folkloric traditions spanning continents: the strigoii of Romania, the jiang shi of China, the soucouyant of Trinidad, the duppy spirits of Jamaica, the list goes on. That same fascination turned passion eventually pulled him from New England - a region with its own dark folklore - to Transylvania, where the locals still know what to do when the dead don't stay buried.

Especially drawn to vampires and all things vampiric, James looks to fill in the gap that formed following the death of Dr Stephen Kaplan, who during the 1970s and 80s ran the Vampire Research Center, conducting serious inquiry into vampirism. His work has since fallen into obscurity. Despite today's explosion of interest in the paranormal, nobody is doing what he did - until now. The Night Visitors Vampire Research Society is a space where people can share their experiences and be taken seriously.

Episodes draw on global vampire folklore and true supernatural accounts -Why did a rice farmer in the 1890s Guangdong survive a night trapped in a temple with a jiang shi? What protected a young woman in 1923 Honolulu from a curse sent across the Pacific? How does a guest in a Depression-era Québec boarding house never age and never eat? What do you do when a dishevelled stranger visits your night shift - and sleeps on a stone slab in the cemetery next door?

Firsthand accounts from around the world that examine vampires, ghosts, curses, spiritual attacks, and entities that exist at the edges of belief.

Our Sound

The Night Visitors theme music is "Haunted Haus" by composer Tim Kulig. We're grateful to Tim for allowing us to use his work to set the tone for each episode. https://timkulig.com/

Join the Community

The Night Visitors is part of a worldwide community exploring vampire culture, folklore, and the paranormal. James also publishes a weekly newsletter featuring articles on vampire lore, history, and how genuine folklore shows up in film and literature.

🌙 Website: thenightvisitors.com

🌙 Newsletter: jamesnightvisitors.substack.com

🌙 Facebook Group: bit.ly/night-visitors-fb-group

🌙 Instagram: @nightvisitorsvrs

🌙 YouTube: youtube.com/@VampireResearchSociety

Share Your Story

Have you encountered something you believe was a vampire—psychic, folkloric, or otherwise? Email thenightvisitorsvrs@gmail.com. With your permission, your account may be featured on a future episode. Names and identifying details can be changed to protect your privacy.

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  • The Alabaster Vagrant of Harbin: The True Story of Meilan’s Undead Patron in China
    2026/06/25

    In our latest episode of The Night Visitors Vampire Research Society supernatural stories podcast, the story challenges everything we think we know about vampires. We’ll travel back to 1984 to a remote village outside Harbin, China, to get to the truth behind Meilan’s encounter with a stranger — an encounter that altered her life permanently.

    An exchange with a stranger forges a mystery!

    Meilan, a hardworking woman, meets Yufeng over the course of several months in the predawn hours of 1984, feeding her. Years later is forced to confront the unsettling truth about Yufeng’s identity.

    Listen to the story unfoldand let me know what you think: If someone strange changed the course of your life, would you spend years trying to explain it? Or would you simply accept the gift?

    Call for Listener’s Stories: Share Your Story

    Have you experienced something unexplainable? I would like to put out a call to all of our listeners to share your story. I want to share them in a special listener’s episode. You can request to remain anonymous, or we’ll share your name if you give us permission. Email me directly at thenightvisitorsvrs@gmail.com.

    There are two ways to share. You can write your story in an email, or tell your story in a simple voice recording from your phone and send it as an attachment via email audio length limit of 3 minutes.

    Click here to submit!

    You are also welcome to suggestions as to which aspects of vampirism you’d like to see explored in our posts or our YouTube videos, please email us at thenightvisitorsvrs@gmail.com.

    Our Podcast Theme Music

    Music Title: “Haunted Haus”, Artist: Tim Kulig (timkulig.com) Lic CC 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

    Topics: true vampire stories, Chinese vampires, paranormal encounters, cemetery mysteries, Asian folklore, real supernatural stories, unexplained phenomena, undead legends, Harbin, China, true horror podcast.

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    16 分
  • My Boss Was a Vampire Rosalie's True Story from Boston's Chinatown
    2026/06/19

    Boston, 1963. Nineteen-year-old Rosalie desperately needed money for college when she accepted a waitressing job at a restaurant tucked away in Chinatown. The owner, the elegant and enigmatic Mrs. Lam, seemed perfectly ordinary. That is until Rosalie noticed young men arriving through the alley entrance and disappearing into her private office. One night, Rosalie accidentally walked in on something she could never explain: a woman with blood-red lips and a glow to her eyes.

    Mrs. Lam warned Rosalie to never return again but before she did that she gave her money and a carved jade pendant.

    Decades later, an appraisal of the pendant revealed a detail so inconceivable that Rosalie was forced to reconsider everything she had witnessed in that restaurant.

    Listen and let me know what you think about Rosalie’s story.

    Our Podcast Theme Music

    Music Title: “Haunted Haus”, Artist: Tim Kulig (timkulig.com) Lic CC 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

    Call for Listener’s Stories: Share Your Story

    Have you experienced something unexplainable? I would like to put out a call to all of our listeners to share your story. I want to share them in a special listener’s episode. You can request to remain anonymous, or we’ll share your name if you give us permission. Email me directly at thenightvisitorsvrs@gmail.com.

    There are two ways to share. You can write your story in an email, or tell your story in a simple voice recording from your phone and send it as an attachment via email audio length limit of 3 minutes.

    Click here to submit!

    You are also welcome to suggestions as to which aspects of vampirism you’d like to see explored in our posts or our YouTube videos, please email us at thenightvisitorsvrs@gmail.com.

    Join the Facebook Group

    The Night Visitors Vampire Research Society is a worldwide community sharing firsthand vampire encounters and exploring the folklore, history, and pop culture of the undead. Join our Facebook group to connect with fellow Night Visitors from around the world.

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    16 分
  • Veronica's Vampire Summer: The Real Reason Her Summer Reading List Went Unfinished TRUE Story
    2026/06/12

    This week's episode of The Night Visitors Vampire Research Society podcast plunges into Veronica's chilling account of a summer spent house-sitting near a centuries-old cemetery in rural Massachusetts—an experience that would test the boundaries between rational explanation and inexplicable terror.

    Her excitement quickly turned to fear as a mysterious figure began appearing in the cemetery across from the isolated farmhouse she had agreed to watch. What started as a strange sighting became one of the most terrifying experiences of her life.

    At first, she dismissed what she had seen as the harmless behavior of an eccentric stranger. But as the weeks passed, strange patterns emerged, unsettling details coalesced, and the line between folklore and reality began to blur.

    Some phenomena resist easy explanation.

    By the end of the summer, Veronica would leave the property early, abandoning her plans and carrying with her a story she still cannot explain nearly three decades later.

    On her final night, she left without her belongings and never went back.

    There was something in the graveyard!

    Could this be documentation of genuine paranormal contact?

    Tune in to hear the full story and decide for yourself what walked among those graves.

    Our Podcast Theme Music

    Music Title: “Haunted Haus”, Artist: Tim Kulig (timkulig.com) Lic CC 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

    Call for Listener’s Stories: Share Your Story: Have you experienced something unexplainable? I would like to put out a call to all of our listeners to share your story. I want to share them in a special listener’s episode. You can request to remain anonymous, or we’ll share your name if you give us permission. Email me directly at thenightvisitorsvrs@gmail.com.

    There are two ways to share. You can write your story in an email, or tell your story in a simple voice recording from your phone and send it as an attachment via email audio length limit of 3 minutes.

    Join the Facebook Group: The Night Visitors Vampire Research Society is a worldwide community sharing firsthand vampire encounters and exploring the folklore, history, and pop culture of the undead. Join our Facebook group to connect with fellow Night Visitors from around the world.

    We're also on YouTube: To watch the Night Visitor’s Vampire Research Society’s true stories, subscribe to the YouTube channel @VampireResearchSociety

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    16 分
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