Strange Tales from Virginia's Foothills to the Coast: The Richmond Vampire, the Witch of Pungo, the Dismal Swamp Monster & More


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The Old Dominion is filled with the unexplained... With a history stretching back to the 1607 Jamestown settlement, Virginia is rich in mystery. There are ghost towns, fake towns, a vampire in Richmond, a Bunnyman in Clifton and secret government sites all over. Colonists buried gold along the James River and Sir Francis Bacon's plan for a "New Atlantis" lies in a vault in Williamsburg. Fabled pirates Captain Kidd and Blackbeard stashed treasure along the Virginia coast. A ghost light appears at a railroad crossing near West Point and mysterious booms rattle windows from central Virginia to the Eastern Shore. Cryptid creatures stalk the forests from Fairfax County to the Great Dismal Swamp. A devil monkey lurks in Goochland, Bigfoot roams Marine Corps Base Quantico, and a sea serpent swims through the Chesapeake Bay. Join Virginia native Denver Michaels as he explores these legends and many more.




Return of the Richmond Vampire


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Return of the Richmond Vampire tells a cryptic tale of the Church Hill Tunnel collapse and the urban legend that it spawned. In October of 1925, one of the most catastrophic railroad disasters in history occurred in Richmond, Virginia. In the aftermath of the tunnel's cave-in upon locomotive and crew, a saw-toothed bloodied beast emerged out of the tunnel's eastern portal. Witnesses claimed they chased the creature from the eastern portal near Chimborazo Park all the way to Hollywood Cemetery. There, it disappeared into the eerie chamber of William Wortham Pool's mausoleum. From then on dubbed the Richmond Vampire, the beast has not been seen since, until now. Mainly taking place in the Fall of 2025, this illustrated novel of historic prophetic fiction is only for a readership inclined to curiosity of the obscure and esoteric. Can you retain your sanity amidst the inquiry? In this revised edition, new material is introduced bringing into focus impending events which will effect Richmond and the wider world. Find out what, but... Beware the Thin Places!




The Vampire Nemesis, and Other Weird Stories, of the China Coast (Classic Reprint)


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Excerpt from The Vampire Nemesis, and Other Weird Stories, of the China Coast Nor would I wish that any who Should scan this page should believe that there was aught super natural about the Occurrence. I make no doubt but that all could be readily explained away On grounds purely natural by one who had been a calm Observer Of the facts, if facts they were, and not some horrible nightmare on which I look back shuddering - one not possessed Of the overwrought mind, in a state Of nervous tension, such as at the time was mine. I set them forth here for what they may be worth, and leave the reader to draw his own conclusions. My reason for reverting at all to so painful a subject, the bare recollection Of which, even now. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.