WEIRD AFTER DARK: Jure Grando, Black Shuck, and the Moon’s Mysteries

WEIRD AFTER DARK: Jure Grando, Black Shuck, and the Moon’s Mysteries

The Weird After Dark hosts explore Europe’s first documented vampire who knocked on doors for sixteen years promising death, violated his widow nightly, and when villagers finally opened his coffin in 1672, he was perfectly preserved with tears streaming down his face—screaming as they sawed through his neck. But the cosmic horror deepens when they examine our moon’s ‘impossible perfection’: positioned exactly 1/400th the distance from Earth as the sun while being exactly 1/400th its size, creating the precise conditions for life—leading to mind-bending theories that future humans traveled back 4.6 billion years to build it, or that it was deliberately placed there by intelligent design.

JURE GRANDO: The First Real Documented Vampire Case in European History

JURE GRANDO: The First Real Documented Vampire Case in European History

In 1656, Croatian stonemason Jure Grando was buried alive after defying powerful monks, only to rise from his grave and terrorize his village for sixteen years—knocking on doors that meant death would soon follow, violating his widow night after night, and when villagers finally opened his coffin in 1672, they found him grinning with tears streaming down his face, immune to wooden stakes, screaming as they sawed through his neck in what became Europe’s first documented case of vampirism.

BEFORE DRACULA: The Ancient Vampire Legends That Started It All

BEFORE DRACULA: The Ancient Vampire Legends That Started It All

What if Dracula wasn’t inspired by Vlad the Impaler at all, but by an ancient Irish vampire king buried upside-down under a thorn tree? Uncover the disturbing true stories, from Elizabeth Báthory’s blood baths to premature burials during plague outbreaks, to ancient demons that stalked babies in their cribs—discover the dark tapestry of true stories, medical mysteries, and folklore that created the world’s most famous vampire.