The Night Visitors Vampire Research Society
James Cheney
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About This Podcast
They come uninvited. This is The Night Visitors, a paranormal podcast with James Cheney.
The Night Visitors explores encounters with vampires, supernatural folklore, and purportedly true stories of the creatures that visit in the night. Each episode presents a single account drawn from firsthand testimony, family histories, and witness reports collected from around the world.
James’s lifelong fascination with vampires and the supernatural led him through decades of research into vampire lore, psychic vampirism, and folkloric traditions spanning continents: the strigoii of Romania, the jiang shi of China, the soucouyant of Trinidad, the duppy spirits of Jamaica, the list goes on. That same fascination turned passion eventually pulled him from New England - a region with its own dark folklore - to Transylvania, where the locals still know what to do when the dead don't stay buried.
Especially drawn to vampires and all things vampiric, James looks to fill in the gap that formed following the death of Dr Stephen Kaplan, who during the 1970s and 80s ran the Vampire Research Center, conducting serious inquiry into vampirism. His work has since fallen into obscurity. Despite today's explosion of interest in the paranormal, nobody is doing what he did - until now. The Night Visitors Vampire Research Society is a space where people can share their experiences and be taken seriously.
Episodes draw on global vampire folklore and true supernatural accounts -Why did a rice farmer in the 1890s Guangdong survive a night trapped in a temple with a jiang shi? What protected a young woman in 1923 Honolulu from a curse sent across the Pacific? How does a guest in a Depression-era Québec boarding house never age and never eat? What do you do when a dishevelled stranger visits your night shift - and sleeps on a stone slab in the cemetery next door?
Firsthand accounts from around the world that examine vampires, ghosts, curses, spiritual attacks, and entities that exist at the edges of belief.
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The Night Visitors theme music is "Haunted Haus" by composer Tim Kulig. We're grateful to Tim for allowing us to use his work to set the tone for each episode. https://timkulig.com/
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The Night Visitors is part of a worldwide community exploring vampire culture, folklore, and the paranormal. James also publishes a weekly newsletter featuring articles on vampire lore, history, and how genuine folklore shows up in film and literature.
🌙 Website: thenightvisitors.com
🌙 Newsletter: jamesnightvisitors.substack.com
🌙 Facebook Group: bit.ly/night-visitors-fb-group
🌙 Instagram: @nightvisitorsvrs
🌙 YouTube: youtube.com/@VampireResearchSociety
Share Your Story
Have you encountered something you believe was a vampire—psychic, folkloric, or otherwise? Email [email protected]. With your permission, your account may be featured on a future episode. Names and identifying details can be changed to protect your privacy.
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S1E18 Veronica's Vampire Summer: The Real Reason Her Summer Reading List Went Unfinished TRUE Story
This week's episode of The Night Visitors Vampire Research Society podcast plunges into Veronica's chilling account of a summer spent house-sitting near a centuries-old cemetery in rural…
S1E17 The Mystery of Ines: The Azorean Bruxa of Cape Cod, a True Story of the Undead
Carefully tucked inside a pantry wall, a bundle of love letters from 1912 changes everything for Duarte, a twenty-year-old Portuguese-American student spending a strange summer in Provincetown. Years…
S1E16 What's the Tea on Claudine? A Quebec Mystery
In 1935, a mysterious guest arrived at a boarding house in rural Quebec with seven trunks, a fortune in cash, and no appetite for food. What the landlady discovered among her guest's belongings made…
S1E15 Springtime in 1968 Brooklyn, a TRUE Shavuot Vampire Encounter
Some years ago, I met Trudy, a well-traveled woman in her late sixties, who finally broke her silence about her friend Rifka’s terrifying vampire encounter in NYC in the late 60s. After hearing it, I…
S1E14 Conversations with Vampires in 1967 San Francisco's Summer of Love
This week’s episode of The Night Visitors Vampire Research Society takes us from rural Iowa where Judy left her troubled family behind and moved to San Francisco in the summer of 1967 — the summer of…
S1E13 Chanda and the Floating Head
In early 1990s Cambodia, Chanda and her husband were being drained — literally. Night after night, they woke exhausted, covered in small puncture wounds, haunted by suffocating dreams. The source…
S1E12 The Dead Don't Lie, Daria's Story
The Night Visitor of BelarusThis week's episode of The Night Visitors Vampire Research Society supernatural podcast and YouTube story, explores a haunting narrative that blurs the line between…
S1E11 Janos and the Ingenue: A Vampire’s Warning in the City of Angels
In 1997, I logged onto the internet for the first time and discovered a world of forums and newsgroups where the supernatural wasn't just a hobby, it was a shared passion. It was in one of these…
S1E10 Betty's Night Visitor: A 1923 Honolulu tale of curses, malevolent spirits, and supernatural protection.
This week’s episode travels to Honolulu’s Chinatown in 1923. A young woman named Betty escaped an arranged marriage in China and built a new life on the other side of the Pacific, but the man she…
S1E9 Joaquin and the Vampire Curse
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S1E8 Ania's Bloody Bread: The Fortune Teller and the Vampire of Western Massachusetts
This week’s episode of The Night Visitors Vampire Research Society podcast takes us to a small farming community in western Massachusetts in the late 1980s where a Polish biologist turned fortune…
S1E7 The Immortal Comrade: The Mystery of Mihail
A Black Market Deal That Changed EverythingWhen 19-year-old Vera started selling contraband through a Moscow tea shop, she never imagined meeting someone like Mikhail. The charming Georgian…
S1E6 Roxane's Vampire Summer and Mrs Campbell's Dark Secret
What happens when caring for an elderly woman slowly drains the life right out of you? In this chilling 1992 case from Cape Cod, twenty-two-year-old Roxanne takes a caregiver position with Mrs.…
S1E5 The Vampire Next Door: A Vietnamese Refugee's Supernatural Terror in 1977 Texas
When Bihn arrives in 1977 Texas as a Vietnamese refugee, isolation and language barriers make every shadow feel threatening. Her charming nocturnal neighbor, who greets her in French with an…
S1E4 The Obeah Vampire: The Duppy Called Winston
The Obeah Vampire: The Duppy Called WinstonSomething lived in Elizabeth's kitchen - something her husband fed with blood and whispered promises. Wealthy clients came to their Toronto apartment…
S1E3 Night Shift: The Convenience Store Vampire
A night-shift convenience store clerk in rural Massachusetts encountered something inexplicable. A mysterious woman named Alva, dishevelled, carrying old photographs, appeared repeatedly in the wee…
S1E2 Fresh in the Grave: Elena's Story
The flowers died first. Fresh-cut blooms withered overnight while a man lay paralysed, watching someone who shouldn't exist stand motionless at the foot of his bed until dawn. In 1950s Transylvania,…
S1E1 Beneath the Altar, Ming's Encounter with a Chinese Hopping Vampire, the Jiangshi
In celebration of the Lunar New Year, our first episode explore's a Taoist legend!The Temple’s Jiangshi: Ming's Encounter with the Dreaded Hopping Chinese VampireWhen Ming sought refuge in a rural…
The Night Visitors Vampire Research Society: Examining Folklore as Memory, Not Fantasy
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The Night Visitors Vampire Research Society has published 19 episodes since February 2026, covering topics in Documentary, Personal Journals.
The Night Visitors Vampire Research Society is currently highly active with new episodes weekly. Average episode length is 15m.
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