Case file · High strangeness
The vampire of Croglin Grange
Augustus Hare's memoirs, published in the 1890s, told of a creature with a brown face that scratched through a window at Croglin Grange, Cumberland, and bit a young woman; it was traced to a vault and burned.
1896 CE · 54.83, -2.63 · status: legend
The account
Montague Summers reprinted the story in 1929. Researchers found no Croglin Grange, though there is a Croglin Low Hall and a church nearby.
The sceptical view
The tale resembles the penny dreadful 'Varney the Vampire'; no record of the events exists.