8: Awaking Evil

Spiritus

"According to local legend, the unassuming William was actually a vampire who had been run out of England and fled to the states. You can supposedly see proof of this on his own mausoleum, which features strange markings, which pointed to the occult...and thus, his vampiric status."
The Richmond Vampire is famous among locals, and has been tied to a fateful train tunnel collapse from the early 1900s. Many believe that the digging of this tunnel awoke this evil creature...
Thank you for listening to this weeks episode! This topic was suggested to me by the Twisted Libra Cemetery: https://www.twistedlibracemetery.com/
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Main sources used for this episodes research:
https://www.12onyourside.com/2019/10/03/richmond-vampire/
https://www.12onyourside.com/2020/09/28/this-week-history-train-tunnel-collapses-church-hill-killing-least-men/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmond_Vampire
https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/experiences/virginia/haunted-church-hill-tunnel-history-va
https://www.abandonedcountry.com/2013/04/22/the-church-hill-tunnel-two-portals-a-world-apart/
https://rvaghosts.com/ghosts-of-hollywood-cemetery/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Cemetery_(Richmond,_Virginia)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmond_Vampire