1 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:47,140 Archaeologists in 2009 unearthed a skeleton that had a brick thrust into the mouth. 2 00:00:47,140 --> 00:00:52,320 And probably evidence of a very real vampire remedy. 3 00:00:52,320 --> 00:00:57,720 This may have been a local tradition to stop her vampiric attacks. 4 00:00:57,720 --> 00:01:10,440 Vampirism flourishes throughout history and continues today. 5 00:01:10,440 --> 00:01:16,120 There have been those who psychologically feel the need to drink blood. 6 00:01:16,120 --> 00:01:24,280 People do believe in real vampires today. 7 00:01:24,280 --> 00:01:29,480 Other creatures science refuses to recognize. 8 00:01:29,480 --> 00:01:34,720 But new technology makes us question what is real. 9 00:01:34,720 --> 00:01:38,280 If our eyes see it. 10 00:01:38,280 --> 00:01:41,280 If our cameras capture it. 11 00:01:41,280 --> 00:01:44,680 Does it exist? 12 00:01:44,680 --> 00:01:49,720 And to a realm where fact meets fiction. 13 00:01:49,720 --> 00:01:51,720 Science meets legend. 14 00:01:51,720 --> 00:01:55,720 When nightmares come to life. 15 00:01:55,720 --> 00:02:01,720 Do you believe? 16 00:02:01,720 --> 00:02:07,720 Lost tapes. Vampire. 17 00:02:07,720 --> 00:02:19,720 Authorities are now investigating what appears to be yet another incident related to the rash of mysterious murders and disappearances that have plagued the area. 18 00:02:21,720 --> 00:02:26,720 The assault happened at about 2am outside this local convenience store. 19 00:02:26,720 --> 00:02:33,720 Surveillance footage shows a customer exit the store and almost immediately get attacked by an unknown assailant. 20 00:02:33,720 --> 00:02:47,720 We warn you, what you are about to see is disturbing. 21 00:02:47,720 --> 00:02:53,720 At this time police are continuing their search for both victim and assailant. 22 00:02:53,720 --> 00:03:03,720 The identity of the attacker remains unknown. 23 00:03:03,720 --> 00:03:05,720 Is that the before shot? 24 00:03:05,720 --> 00:03:08,720 Yeah, come on in. 25 00:03:08,720 --> 00:03:10,720 I want to see you guys walking in through the front door, okay? 26 00:03:10,720 --> 00:03:12,720 This is it. 27 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:15,720 The Redding family entering into their new lives. 28 00:03:16,720 --> 00:03:19,720 That door won't open. 29 00:03:19,720 --> 00:03:22,720 Just really put your shoulder into it. You can do it. 30 00:03:22,720 --> 00:03:24,720 This house doesn't work. 31 00:03:24,720 --> 00:03:26,720 It's fine. Just give it everything you got. 32 00:03:26,720 --> 00:03:31,720 It's very tricky. 33 00:03:31,720 --> 00:03:34,720 I think the kid was doing better when he put him in there. 34 00:03:34,720 --> 00:03:35,720 You want to try it? 35 00:03:35,720 --> 00:03:37,720 I'll just put on the list. 36 00:03:37,720 --> 00:03:39,720 How many things do we have on that list now? 37 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:42,720 I stopped counting at 462, alright? 38 00:03:42,720 --> 00:03:47,720 After losing his job to economic downsizing, Dennis Redding moved his wife, Sarah, 39 00:03:47,720 --> 00:03:51,720 and their nine-year-old son, Eddie, into this admitted fixer-upper. 40 00:03:51,720 --> 00:03:58,720 He documented the renovations, his footage reflecting their determination to make the best of the situation. 41 00:03:58,720 --> 00:04:05,720 Their biggest fear at the time was Eddie adjusting after some potentially dangerous bouts with sleepwalking. 42 00:04:05,720 --> 00:04:11,720 But this family would soon discover there was much more to fear inside this old house. 43 00:04:11,720 --> 00:04:14,720 These are their tapes. 44 00:04:17,720 --> 00:04:20,720 This place is horrible, Ruggles. 45 00:04:28,720 --> 00:04:29,720 Ruggles. 46 00:04:30,720 --> 00:04:31,720 I'm sorry. 47 00:04:42,720 --> 00:04:45,720 Hey! I thought you were supposed to be fixing up this room. 48 00:04:45,720 --> 00:04:47,720 I hate this place. 49 00:04:47,720 --> 00:04:51,720 Well, maybe if you don't pack some of these boxes and put some stuff out. 50 00:04:51,720 --> 00:04:54,720 It's creepy. I'm wearing weird glasses. 51 00:04:54,720 --> 00:04:57,720 Hey, why'd you put that there? 52 00:04:57,720 --> 00:05:00,720 Well, remember how I used to sleepwalk? 53 00:05:00,720 --> 00:05:05,720 I'm just, it's a new place, and I wanted to make sure you were safe. 54 00:05:05,720 --> 00:05:07,720 If you know, I want to be able to keep an eye on you. 55 00:05:07,720 --> 00:05:09,720 Mom, I haven't done that since I was eight. 56 00:05:09,720 --> 00:05:11,720 I want to be treated like a big kid. 57 00:05:11,720 --> 00:05:13,720 I know, and you are. 58 00:05:13,720 --> 00:05:16,720 Can we just have it up for me just so I can sleep easy? 59 00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:17,720 Alright. 60 00:05:17,720 --> 00:05:22,720 Alright, I'll have it a treat for you and Ruggles. 61 00:05:22,720 --> 00:05:23,720 Come on. 62 00:05:26,720 --> 00:05:27,720 Hey, hey! 63 00:05:27,720 --> 00:05:30,720 Careful with that. That was a nice gift from Grandma. 64 00:05:40,720 --> 00:05:48,720 The broadest definition of a vampire is the entity or a person living or dead who takes your life force. 65 00:05:48,720 --> 00:05:57,720 Among the great characteristics of vampirism is the vampire's need to feed on blood. 66 00:05:57,720 --> 00:06:05,720 This blood lust is just the single most powerful image of the vampire. 67 00:06:06,720 --> 00:06:11,720 In the Eastern Europe vampire cult, the vampires looked a lot like they looked in life. 68 00:06:11,720 --> 00:06:17,720 In folklore around the world, we find vampire entities who are more demonic, they're monstrous. 69 00:06:17,720 --> 00:06:23,720 Film and fiction has given us another kind of vampire, literally a corpse that gets up and walks. 70 00:06:23,720 --> 00:06:32,720 A sort of creature of the night lurking somewhere, not only in our deepest fears, but somewhere on the margin between life and death. 71 00:07:05,720 --> 00:07:07,720 The vampire is a monster. 72 00:07:21,720 --> 00:07:22,720 What is it? 73 00:07:22,720 --> 00:07:23,720 Something in the room. 74 00:07:23,720 --> 00:07:25,720 There's something in the room. 75 00:07:25,720 --> 00:07:27,720 No, it's just a bad dream buddy. 76 00:07:27,720 --> 00:07:28,720 Monster in the room. 77 00:07:28,720 --> 00:07:30,720 Monster, okay. 78 00:07:30,720 --> 00:07:31,720 Monster. 79 00:07:31,720 --> 00:07:33,720 There's no monsters in the room. 80 00:07:33,720 --> 00:07:35,720 Monster's love the closet. 81 00:07:35,720 --> 00:07:37,720 They don't love this one though. 82 00:07:37,720 --> 00:07:39,720 It's a bad closet for monsters. 83 00:07:39,720 --> 00:07:42,720 You know, I don't think that there's any monsters in your champ. 84 00:07:47,720 --> 00:07:49,720 Is that, is that what you heard? 85 00:07:49,720 --> 00:07:50,720 Is that it? 86 00:07:50,720 --> 00:07:51,720 You know what that is? 87 00:07:51,720 --> 00:07:55,720 That's probably just something like raccoons or something, just screwing around up in the attic. 88 00:07:55,720 --> 00:07:57,720 Can I sleep in your room now? 89 00:07:57,720 --> 00:07:58,720 No, no, no. 90 00:07:58,720 --> 00:07:59,720 I don't think it's a good idea. 91 00:07:59,720 --> 00:08:01,720 To get a little old proof. 92 00:08:01,720 --> 00:08:04,720 Maybe just tonight you can stay in the room. 93 00:08:04,720 --> 00:08:06,720 Let's go to mommy's room. 94 00:08:06,720 --> 00:08:08,720 Oh my goodness. 95 00:08:14,720 --> 00:08:19,720 There are several different animals in nature that feed on blood. 96 00:08:19,720 --> 00:08:23,720 Mosquitoes, ticks, leeches. 97 00:08:23,720 --> 00:08:28,720 The vampire bat is of course one of the very few animals on earth that actually can live on blood 98 00:08:28,720 --> 00:08:32,720 and derive its primary nutrition and calories from blood. 99 00:08:32,720 --> 00:08:40,720 Although we associate them with feeding on human blood, of course they're actually evolved to feed on the blood of hoofed animals. 100 00:08:40,720 --> 00:08:45,720 In the kind of classic Dracula movies you see large canines. 101 00:08:45,720 --> 00:08:52,720 But in some other movies like Nosferatu you see very sharp long incisors, vampire bats. 102 00:08:52,720 --> 00:08:53,720 They actually have both. 103 00:08:53,720 --> 00:08:56,720 They have long canines and long incisors. 104 00:08:56,720 --> 00:09:01,720 They will take the long shearing canines to shear the hair off the surface 105 00:09:01,720 --> 00:09:06,720 and then they'll use those sharp incisors to puncture the skin. 106 00:09:06,720 --> 00:09:13,720 Vampire bats will drink half their weight in blood in a 20 minute feeding if they're able to. 107 00:09:19,720 --> 00:09:20,720 Ruggles. 108 00:09:27,720 --> 00:09:30,720 Ruggles? Is that you? 109 00:09:34,720 --> 00:09:37,720 Ruggles, are you down there? 110 00:09:39,720 --> 00:09:41,720 Ruggles. 111 00:09:41,720 --> 00:09:43,720 Ruggles. 112 00:09:53,720 --> 00:09:57,720 Man, this place is worse than I thought. It's just never ending. 113 00:10:00,720 --> 00:10:03,720 Dennis, I'm really worried about Eddie. 114 00:10:03,720 --> 00:10:05,720 Let's know. 115 00:10:05,720 --> 00:10:06,720 Dennis! 116 00:10:06,720 --> 00:10:08,720 What? 117 00:10:08,720 --> 00:10:10,720 Look what he did to Ruggles. 118 00:10:10,720 --> 00:10:12,720 This is not normal. 119 00:10:12,720 --> 00:10:15,720 This and last night, some of you saw right where he was. 120 00:10:15,720 --> 00:10:18,720 No, last night was just a bad dream. 121 00:10:18,720 --> 00:10:21,720 It's just that he's in this new place, alright? 122 00:10:21,720 --> 00:10:22,720 And there's a lot of stuff going on. 123 00:10:22,720 --> 00:10:24,720 It's gonna be okay, alright? 124 00:10:24,720 --> 00:10:27,720 I'm gonna include him in everything that I do around here, okay? 125 00:10:27,720 --> 00:10:29,720 I remember fixing things with my dad and I loved it. 126 00:10:29,720 --> 00:10:30,720 It was great. 127 00:10:30,720 --> 00:10:33,720 I promise you we're gonna be so close at the end of this. 128 00:10:35,720 --> 00:10:36,720 Okay. 129 00:10:37,720 --> 00:10:39,720 Hey, Mr. Squirrel. 130 00:10:39,720 --> 00:10:42,720 Was that you making all that noise last night? 131 00:10:44,720 --> 00:10:46,720 Do you know where Ruggles is? 132 00:10:46,720 --> 00:10:48,720 Hey, where are you going? 133 00:10:52,720 --> 00:10:55,720 Ruggles, are you down here? 134 00:11:06,720 --> 00:11:07,720 Okay. 135 00:11:07,720 --> 00:11:11,720 Let's see what we find on the old snake cam. 136 00:11:13,720 --> 00:11:16,720 Alright, let's see. 137 00:11:22,720 --> 00:11:23,720 Okay. 138 00:11:25,720 --> 00:11:26,720 Who are you? 139 00:11:27,720 --> 00:11:29,720 You scared the crap out of me. 140 00:11:29,720 --> 00:11:31,720 What are you doing? 141 00:11:31,720 --> 00:11:33,720 Trying to get rid of your Berman. 142 00:11:33,720 --> 00:11:35,720 What's Berman? 143 00:11:36,720 --> 00:11:39,720 Berman's like squirrels or raccoons or rats 144 00:11:39,720 --> 00:11:43,720 or any kind of animal that comes and gets in your house. 145 00:11:43,720 --> 00:11:46,720 And the thing is they carry diseases and they can make you sick. 146 00:11:46,720 --> 00:11:49,720 So we want to get them out of here before they do that. 147 00:11:50,720 --> 00:11:52,720 This is my snare pole. 148 00:11:52,720 --> 00:11:53,720 Now, see this end here? 149 00:11:53,720 --> 00:11:56,720 This end goes around their neck. 150 00:11:56,720 --> 00:12:01,720 And what happens is I sneak up on them 151 00:12:01,720 --> 00:12:04,720 and when I have this around their neck, 152 00:12:04,720 --> 00:12:06,720 I pull, huh? 153 00:12:08,720 --> 00:12:10,720 What was that? 154 00:12:10,720 --> 00:12:12,720 You hear that? That's them. 155 00:12:13,720 --> 00:12:16,720 Oh, hey, listen, give me some space, okay? 156 00:12:16,720 --> 00:12:19,720 I'm gonna get this while I hear them right there, alright? 157 00:12:19,720 --> 00:12:21,720 So maybe go find your mom or dad, okay? 158 00:12:21,720 --> 00:12:22,720 Thanks. 159 00:12:22,720 --> 00:12:23,720 Okay. 160 00:12:23,720 --> 00:12:25,720 Alright, here you go. 161 00:12:26,720 --> 00:12:28,720 Let's see. 162 00:12:31,720 --> 00:12:32,720 Come on. 163 00:12:35,720 --> 00:12:39,720 Okay, let's see what we got here. 164 00:12:51,720 --> 00:12:55,720 Whoa, what a mess. 165 00:12:59,720 --> 00:13:02,720 What the hell are those things? 166 00:13:04,720 --> 00:13:08,720 Come out, come out wherever you are. 167 00:13:15,720 --> 00:13:17,720 What the hell? 168 00:13:28,720 --> 00:13:29,720 Alright, that's cool. 169 00:13:29,720 --> 00:13:31,720 Watch out, just back up a little bit, honey. 170 00:13:31,720 --> 00:13:32,720 No, no, no, no. 171 00:13:32,720 --> 00:13:34,720 Hey, hey, Eddie. 172 00:13:34,720 --> 00:13:35,720 Want to give her a try? 173 00:13:35,720 --> 00:13:36,720 Yeah. 174 00:13:36,720 --> 00:13:37,720 Alright. 175 00:13:37,720 --> 00:13:39,720 Alright, you can take that. 176 00:13:39,720 --> 00:13:40,720 Hold on. 177 00:13:40,720 --> 00:13:41,720 Just be careful, babe. 178 00:13:41,720 --> 00:13:43,720 I want to get this on the camera here. 179 00:13:43,720 --> 00:13:44,720 Are you ready? 180 00:13:44,720 --> 00:13:45,720 Yeah. 181 00:13:45,720 --> 00:13:48,720 One, two, three. 182 00:13:49,720 --> 00:13:51,720 Come on, you can do it, hit. 183 00:13:51,720 --> 00:13:52,720 Oh. 184 00:13:52,720 --> 00:13:53,720 Yeah. 185 00:13:53,720 --> 00:13:54,720 Oh, awesome. 186 00:13:54,720 --> 00:13:55,720 Look at that. 187 00:13:56,720 --> 00:13:58,720 See, it's fun. 188 00:13:58,720 --> 00:14:04,720 When you deal with electricity, Eddie, you've got to be really, really careful because if you... 189 00:14:04,720 --> 00:14:05,720 Dad! 190 00:14:05,720 --> 00:14:06,720 Dad! 191 00:14:06,720 --> 00:14:08,720 It's not funny. 192 00:14:08,720 --> 00:14:10,720 Honey, what is going on? 193 00:14:10,720 --> 00:14:13,720 Nothing, we're just having a little bit of fun. 194 00:14:13,720 --> 00:14:15,720 Did the exterminator come back? 195 00:14:15,720 --> 00:14:17,720 Back, I didn't know he left. 196 00:14:17,720 --> 00:14:19,720 His truck's been here all day. 197 00:14:19,720 --> 00:14:20,720 Huh. 198 00:14:20,720 --> 00:14:23,720 Well, maybe you should find him. 199 00:14:23,720 --> 00:14:24,720 Alright. 200 00:14:24,720 --> 00:14:27,720 Okay, I'll go check up on him. 201 00:14:27,720 --> 00:14:29,720 Okay, I'll go check up on the attic. 202 00:14:29,720 --> 00:14:31,720 Watch out for raccoons. 203 00:14:31,720 --> 00:14:32,720 Okay. 204 00:14:32,720 --> 00:14:34,720 Eddie, go check the basement. 205 00:14:34,720 --> 00:14:35,720 The basement? 206 00:14:35,720 --> 00:14:37,720 Yeah, the basement. 207 00:14:39,720 --> 00:14:50,720 There may be some natural medical explanations to explain at least some vampire cases, especially from earlier times when people's understanding of disease and illness was very limited. 208 00:14:50,720 --> 00:15:01,720 The paleness of tuberculosis, the coughing up of blood were symptoms that could easily be equated with traditional vampirism. 209 00:15:01,720 --> 00:15:11,720 And sometimes when the outbreak reached hysterical proportions, there would be a popular movement to dig up a corpse. 210 00:15:11,720 --> 00:15:19,720 You might find due to just simple decomposition blood in the mouth of a corpse because the gases had forced blood upward. 211 00:15:19,720 --> 00:15:26,720 And this would be interpreted as proof that the corpse was a vampire. 212 00:15:26,720 --> 00:15:29,720 We fear vampires because we fear the dark. 213 00:15:29,720 --> 00:15:30,720 We fear the unknown. 214 00:15:30,720 --> 00:15:40,720 We fear the superstitious side of our nature in the horror of living forever without our soul. 215 00:15:40,720 --> 00:15:49,720 Mr. 216 00:15:49,720 --> 00:15:52,720 What, where are you? 217 00:15:52,720 --> 00:15:57,720 Oh! 218 00:15:57,720 --> 00:15:59,720 My camera. 219 00:16:10,720 --> 00:16:17,720 Hello? 220 00:16:17,720 --> 00:16:21,720 Mr. 221 00:16:21,720 --> 00:16:24,720 Mr. 222 00:16:24,720 --> 00:16:26,720 Are you okay? 223 00:16:40,720 --> 00:16:42,720 Mom, mom, mom! 224 00:16:42,720 --> 00:16:44,720 Mom, he's coming! 225 00:16:44,720 --> 00:16:45,720 What is the matter? 226 00:16:45,720 --> 00:16:46,720 He's coming! 227 00:16:46,720 --> 00:16:49,720 Help me! 228 00:16:49,720 --> 00:16:51,720 Oh my God! 229 00:16:51,720 --> 00:16:53,720 No! 230 00:16:53,720 --> 00:16:55,720 I'm sorry! 231 00:16:55,720 --> 00:16:56,720 Oh my God! 232 00:16:56,720 --> 00:16:57,720 How did you get this? 233 00:16:57,720 --> 00:16:58,720 It's getting out of here! 234 00:16:58,720 --> 00:16:59,720 Come on! 235 00:16:59,720 --> 00:17:01,720 Come on! 236 00:17:01,720 --> 00:17:02,720 Come on! 237 00:17:02,720 --> 00:17:04,720 Hurry! Hurry! 238 00:17:04,720 --> 00:17:05,720 Come on! 239 00:17:05,720 --> 00:17:06,720 Damn it! 240 00:17:06,720 --> 00:17:08,720 Hurry! 241 00:17:08,720 --> 00:17:09,720 What? 242 00:17:09,720 --> 00:17:11,720 I just got a one! 243 00:17:11,720 --> 00:17:13,720 Hurry, mom! 244 00:17:13,720 --> 00:17:16,720 Hurry! Hurry! Hurry! 245 00:17:16,720 --> 00:17:18,720 Ah! 246 00:17:18,720 --> 00:17:20,720 Oh my God! 247 00:17:20,720 --> 00:17:21,720 Dad! 248 00:17:21,720 --> 00:17:22,720 Hurry! Hurry! 249 00:17:22,720 --> 00:17:24,720 He's coming! 250 00:17:24,720 --> 00:17:25,720 He's coming! 251 00:17:25,720 --> 00:17:27,720 Come on, don't pinch! 252 00:17:27,720 --> 00:17:29,720 Come on! 253 00:17:29,720 --> 00:17:31,720 Down! 254 00:17:31,720 --> 00:17:33,720 Oh my God! 255 00:17:33,720 --> 00:17:35,720 Oh my God! 256 00:17:35,720 --> 00:17:37,720 Oh my God! 257 00:17:37,720 --> 00:17:39,720 Oh my God! 258 00:17:39,720 --> 00:17:41,720 Oh my God! 259 00:17:41,720 --> 00:17:43,720 Get him down! 260 00:17:43,720 --> 00:17:45,720 Hurry! Hurry! 261 00:17:45,720 --> 00:17:46,720 Come on! 262 00:17:46,720 --> 00:17:47,720 Let me in! 263 00:17:47,720 --> 00:17:48,720 Get out of here! 264 00:17:48,720 --> 00:17:49,720 It's a meat! 265 00:17:49,720 --> 00:17:50,720 Get him! Get him! 266 00:17:50,720 --> 00:17:52,720 Get him! 267 00:17:52,720 --> 00:17:54,720 Get him! 268 00:17:54,720 --> 00:17:56,720 Come on over here! 269 00:17:56,720 --> 00:17:57,720 Get him! 270 00:17:57,720 --> 00:17:58,720 Oh my God! 271 00:17:58,720 --> 00:17:59,720 Get him! 272 00:17:59,720 --> 00:18:00,720 Oh my God! 273 00:18:00,720 --> 00:18:02,720 How many times did you see? 274 00:18:02,720 --> 00:18:03,720 Three! 275 00:18:03,720 --> 00:18:04,720 Three! 276 00:18:04,720 --> 00:18:07,720 Get him out of here! 277 00:18:15,720 --> 00:18:17,720 Get him! 278 00:18:17,720 --> 00:18:19,720 Get him! 279 00:18:19,720 --> 00:18:21,720 Get him! 280 00:18:21,720 --> 00:18:23,720 Oh my God! 281 00:18:27,720 --> 00:18:29,720 What? 282 00:18:29,720 --> 00:18:32,720 We're okay. We're okay. 283 00:18:34,720 --> 00:18:38,720 The Redding family bravely managed to escape their encounter. 284 00:18:38,720 --> 00:18:44,720 The body of exterminator Stan Polanski was recovered, mysteriously drained in blood. 285 00:18:44,720 --> 00:18:49,720 Police conducted a thorough search of the house, and though the mysterious nests were located, 286 00:18:49,720 --> 00:18:52,720 no unknown creatures were found. 287 00:18:52,720 --> 00:18:57,720 Months later, similar attacks were reported in a mining village 60 miles north. 288 00:18:57,720 --> 00:19:01,720 These new reports prompted a reinvestigation of the Redding case 289 00:19:01,720 --> 00:19:07,720 to determine if these events are isolated phenomena or if they live among us. 290 00:19:28,720 --> 00:19:31,720 Get more Lost Tapes online. 291 00:19:31,720 --> 00:19:33,720 More monsters. 292 00:19:33,720 --> 00:19:34,720 More experts. 293 00:19:34,720 --> 00:19:36,720 More video. 294 00:19:36,720 --> 00:19:39,720 AnimalPlanet.com slash Lost Tapes.