Croglin Grange Vampyre

In the mid-1870's, three unnamed people rented a large house, called Croglin Grange, in Cumberland, England, and had a chilling awakening to the vampyre legend. During the first summer the young woman and her two older brothers spent in the house, they began leaving the window shutters open at night. One such night, the young woman noticed two strange lights coming from a belt of trees bordering their yard and the churchyard. She soon realized that the lights were actually the eyes of a dark, humanoid creature.

The woman lay in bed, terrified. She was too afraid to run to the door in case the creature should see her movement through the window. She couldn't scream as her voice was paralyzed with fear. When she thought the thing ran around the house, she bolted for the door; but as she tried to open it, she heard a scratching at the window. To her horror, the brown-faced, flaming-eyed creature was right outside her window, staring in at her. She screamed as she flung herself to her bed.

The thing began breaking the window; and, reaching its hand through a hole in the glass, it unlocked the window and entered the room. The thing came straight toward the woman and bit into her neck. Her brothers came running to her aid after hearing her screams. As one brother chased the thing out the window, the other tended to his unconcious, bleeding sister. The thing disappeared over the wall of the churchyard.

The three assumed the thing was an escaped lunatic; but, because the doctor who examined their sister said she had suffered an extreme shock, they decided to move to Switzerland, hoping that a change in surroundings would help her to recover. Acting on their sister's decision, they returned to the house in England in the autumn.

The woman returned to her room in the house only this time, she kept the shutters closed. Nothing happened until one night in March. That night the woman got ready for bed. She suddenly heard the familiar scratching. Seeing the same brown-faced, flaming-eyed creature, she screamed for her brothers. The two brothers ran out the front of the house armed with pistols. One of them shot the thing in the leg; but it still got over the churchyard wall and disappeared into an old, dilapidated vault.

The next morning the brothers, along with the others who lived in the house, went into the churchyard to investigate the vault. Upon opening it, they found all of the coffins had been opened and emptied, their contents strewn about. Only one coffin was untouched. They discovered a brown, shriveled, mummified corpse with a pistol wound in its leg. The group removed the thing and burned it.

After that incident the woman was not attacked again.

P/S:seem that a vampyre also have it's own mystery...