The Vampire of Croglin Grange | British Pub Lore

It wasn't a storm that let the creature in. It was the heat. Discover the terrifying legend of the Vampire of Croglin Grange and the window that remains bricked up to this day.

In the lonely fells of Cumbria, there stands an old fortified farmhouse with a strange feature: a ground-floor window that has been sealed with bricks for over a century. The locals know why.
The story goes that in the 1870s, a family of city tenants moved into the Grange during a summer of "annihilating heat." Desperate for air, they left the heavy shutters open at night. That was their mistake.
In this episode of British Pub Lore, we investigate one of England's few "physical" vampire legends. This wasn't a pale aristocrat in a cape; it was a shrivelled, brown, mummified thing that didn't smash the glass—it used a long fingernail to unpick the lead.

We track the story from the dinner parties of Victorian London to the quiet churchyard of St John the Baptist. We examine the forensic details of the "picking" sound, the bullet wound found in the coffin, and the persistent theory that the whole thing was stolen from a Penny Dreadful novel.

In this episode:
???? The Heatwave: How the weather betrayed the Cranswell family.
???? The Scratching: The terrifying mechanical sound of the creature unpicking the lead.
???? The Creature: Why this "brown, shrivelled" beast is more bog-body than Dracula.
???? The Hunt: The pistol shot, the blood trail, and the burning in the churchyard.
???? The Skepticism: Did Captain Fisher steal this story from Varney the Vampire?
Key Locations:
• Croglin Low Hall (Cumbria)
• St John the Baptist Church (Croglin)
• The Robin Hood Inn (Village Pub)

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