Vampires Are Real?! The History of Vampires from Ancient Greece To TODAY 🩸

from Ovaries And Oddities · host Ivanna Brookes

Check out @ovariesandoddities on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, TikTok, Instagram & Facebook Vampires didn’t start with Twilight.Long before Dracula, entire villages were digging up graves, staking corpses, and burning bodies during the 18th-century “Great Vampire Epidemic.” In this episode of Ovaries and Oddities, we’re tracing the complete history of vampirism, from ancient blood to drinking demons and medieval vampire hysteria in Eastern Europe, to Elizabeth Bathory, Vlad the Impaler, and the literary creation of Dracula.See you next Thursday,Ivanna Brookes

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