Vampire · East New York, New York
NY-NDID case-e5524a5129First-hand accountAdded to map Oct 21, 2026
- Creature
- Vampire
- When
- Date unknownno date given
- Where
- East New York, New Yorkto approximate level
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
Witness reports seeing a black heavy-set man with dreads and fangs on a bus in New York City who caused the women around him to become mesmerized.
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Details
- Creature
- Vampire
- Where
- East New York, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, 11208, United States
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words - When
- Date unknown
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (2 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 21, 2026
- Case id
- case-e5524a5129
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Source trail (2)
Down the rabbit hole → 2 documents, and how they connect
Every link goes to where we found the account. The earliest we found is marked; it is the earliest found, not necessarily the original.
- Encounter with a vampire
Reddit · 2025-06-14
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Vampire Encounter
Reddit · 2025-06-14
Further reading
- On the Track of Unknown Animals, Bernard Heuvelmans (1959)
The founding work of cryptozoology.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Cryptozoology A to Z, Loren Coleman and Jerome Clark (1999)
Encyclopedia of reported creatures.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Abominable Science!, Daniel Loxton and Donald Prothero (2013)
Skeptical history of the Yeti, Nessie and others.
Borrow on Internet Archive - In Search of Prehistoric Survivors, Karl Shuker (1995)
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Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.