10 Terrifying Vampire Stories For Halloween
4. The Buckinghamshire Vampire
In 1192, a woman in Buckinghamshire was awoken one night to find her recently deceased husband standing over her. He climbed on top of her, pressing down on her with all of his weight to the point that she nearly died.
Petrified by her ordeal, the woman asked some of her friends to come over and keep watch while she slept. Her husband did indeed return but was scared away by his wifes friends. Many other people then began to report sighting the man around the town at night and even in broad daylight.
In order to free themselves from the vampire, the townspeople people turned to the church and asked Buckinghamshires Archdeacon Stephen for help. He wrote a letter to the Bishop, St. Hugh, who advised that they should dig up the body and burn it in order to destroy the vampire demon.
Archdeacon Stephen was reluctant to do this as he believed that it would be disrespectful to the soul of the man who had become infected by the vampire. To counter this, St. Hugh wrote a letter of absolution for the vampire and gave it to Archdeacon Stephen with instructions to place it with the body as this should keep the vampire at rest.
Archdeacon Stephen oversaw the body being dug up, it displayed no signs of decay. The body was quickly reburied alongside the Bishops letter and the vampire has not been seen in Buckinghamshire since.