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 teller is going about her business as usual — until one evening a strange woman walks into her parlor and the cards reveal something darker.

The milk curdles. The cat won’t stop growling. And the visitor vanishes from the driveway in the time it takes to lock a door. This strange visitor sends Ania reaching back across generations for protection. Would Ania’s memory of her grandmother’s knowledge about the undead, and a loaf of bread filled with blood and ashes really keep a vampire away?

Listen to find out.

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