1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Log 1 of however many logs this takes. 2 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:10,000 It's just me here, no other half. 3 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:14,000 He left the recorder and went out tonight. I'm not sure where. 4 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:19,000 And I'm not sure who will be listening to this, but it has to be at least documented. 5 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:22,000 Something about all of this is not right. 6 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:28,000 That brooch, it has some sort of power, but I'm not sure what. 7 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:31,000 And I'm not sure what he's going to do with it. 8 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:33,000 But that's not the worst part. 9 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:36,000 I don't know his name. 10 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:40,000 The speaker, the recorder, the guy behind this, the guy who met me in the catacombs. 11 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:43,000 I have no idea what his name is. 12 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:46,000 And in all the recordings I cannot find any mention of it. 13 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:49,000 It's small, I know, but it's not nothing. 14 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:52,000 There are occurrences of others' names. 15 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:54,000 Take a listen. 16 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:57,000 Yo Kelky, let's go. 17 00:00:57,000 --> 00:00:59,000 Yo Vince, do you have an affordable charger? 18 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:01,000 Mary, is this our stop? 19 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:03,000 What, Nina? 20 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:07,000 Not once is his name mentioned. 21 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:08,000 Nothing. 22 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:10,000 It's odd. 23 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:12,000 There's something he's not telling me. 24 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:14,000 Whoever he is. 25 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:21,000 As history progresses, perspectives change. 26 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:26,000 These can be small changes, like pedestrian, meaning drab or dull. 27 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:30,000 Now it just means a passerby on the side of the road. 28 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:32,000 Some changes are larger. 29 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:34,000 Changes for progression. 30 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:39,000 For inclusion, understanding, political movements or protests. 31 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:44,000 There are a few examples, however, of perspectives changing for the worse. 32 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:46,000 I have one. 33 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:48,000 Vampires. 34 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:54,000 They are not the sexual, ever-youthful, gorgeous immortals they have been depicted at. 35 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:57,000 I know, because I met one. 36 00:01:57,000 --> 00:02:04,000 Vampires, like many other mythical creatures, fall into the haunt category. 37 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:06,000 My fellow brethren. 38 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:07,000 Debatably. 39 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:14,000 Haunts like these cannot jump their consciousness between object or creatures. 40 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:20,000 They are a subset, a haunt stuck in one form. 41 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:23,000 But they still seek out violence. 42 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:27,000 Vampires are an example of these haunts. 43 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:33,000 Now, the reason vampires are some of the most encountered creatures is because of what they are. 44 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:39,000 To put it simply, they are haunts that have possessed their own dead body. 45 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:45,000 Throughout history, they have had many names that boil down to a single definition. 46 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:49,000 The vengeful one who walks after death. 47 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:56,000 Hence why the idea of zombies most likely came from a vampire encounter. 48 00:02:56,000 --> 00:03:01,000 In German folklore, a vampire is known as a Nachsäger. 49 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:09,000 For the rest of the recording, I will be referring to them as vampires, because I know my German pronunciation is atrocious. 50 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:15,000 Why'd you stop? 51 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:20,000 Uh, I thought you might interject. 52 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:24,000 You've been quieter since Zurich. 53 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:28,000 Uh, I'm tired. 54 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:32,000 Alright, fair enough. 55 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:34,000 Vampires. 56 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:39,000 Unfortunately for us all, the real ones look and act more like zombies than vampires. 57 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:42,000 In some ways. 58 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:47,000 Vampires do not seek out and attack the living just for food. 59 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:53,000 Instead of explaining all vampires, I'll tell the tale of one specific vampire. 60 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:55,000 One I met. 61 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:04,000 Waking up inside a coffin is immediately terrifying. 62 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:05,000 Imagine it. 63 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:09,000 Waking up in the pitch black, not sure where you are, your memory is unclear. 64 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:13,000 You try to move, but your feet hit a wall, so do your hands. 65 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:15,000 You try to sit up, but you can't. 66 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:17,000 You're boxed in. 67 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:20,000 In this case, Johann was alive. 68 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:22,000 But not exactly. 69 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:25,000 He could barely remember who he was. 70 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:29,000 All he knew, all he felt was the pit in his stomach. 71 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:33,000 The gnawing, aching, growing pit that told him he had to feed. 72 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:45,000 So, before anything else, he tore, writhed, squirb, and tore. 73 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:49,000 He scratched his flesh, tearing it off and funneling it into his mouth. 74 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:51,000 He couldn't stop. 75 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:54,000 With every bite, every swallow, he could feel the pit shrinking. 76 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:56,000 But it wasn't enough. 77 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:57,000 So he kept tearing. 78 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:02,000 No one above ground would know, as he tore most of his flesh off and ate it. 79 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:04,000 But he ran out. 80 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:06,000 Muscle wasn't the same. 81 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:08,000 He tried to bit off his arm. 82 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:10,000 He needed flesh. 83 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:12,000 He needed more of it. 84 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:14,000 He had to get out. 85 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:16,000 He had to dig. 86 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:18,000 And so he did. 87 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:20,000 He scratched at the coffin, digging his nails into the wood. 88 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:23,000 It tore them from his fingers, left splinters in his veins. 89 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:29,000 After about three hours of nonstop digging, he broke to the surface. 90 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:31,000 It was dark. 91 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:34,000 He came out of the hole, wondering where he was. 92 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:37,000 A large stone was in front of him. 93 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:39,000 It had his name on it. 94 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:41,000 That was his name, right? 95 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:42,000 What was he? 96 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:44,000 He knew he shouldn't be alive. 97 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:45,000 But it didn't matter. 98 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:46,000 He was hungry. 99 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:48,000 He was still hungry. 100 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:51,000 At that moment, the cemetery was empty. 101 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:54,000 Best-case scenario for any human. 102 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:58,000 But Johan was still hungry. 103 00:05:58,000 --> 00:05:59,000 Graves. 104 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:01,000 They had people. 105 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:03,000 They had flesh. 106 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:04,000 He moved to another. 107 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:06,000 One recently laid. 108 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:07,000 The dirt was loose. 109 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:09,000 He began to dig. 110 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:13,000 He had much more energy than he remembered ever having in his life. 111 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:15,000 He felt stronger. 112 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:20,000 This new existence was painful, but if he was hunting food, he was strong. 113 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:22,000 And fast. 114 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:25,000 Within two hours, he reached the coffin. 115 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:28,000 He didn't hesitate, tearing through the wood like it was dirt. 116 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:31,000 The body inside was not fresh by any means. 117 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:34,000 But there was still flesh. 118 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:37,000 He tore, and he ate. 119 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:42,000 About four hours later, Johan had dug up a different body. 120 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:45,000 He tore off some rotting flesh, just like the last one. 121 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:48,000 Only this one had no taste. 122 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:54,000 It did nothing to satisfy the clawing ache in his stomach, no matter how much of it he ate. 123 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:58,000 In that moment, for some reason, he understood. 124 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:01,000 He needed the same flesh. 125 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:05,000 He needed the flesh with the same blood as the first body. 126 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:10,000 In this new form, whatever he was, he could hunt. 127 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:13,000 He could still taste the flesh, smell it. 128 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:16,000 He could smell the others. 129 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:19,000 The ones alive. 130 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:21,000 That was when we met. 131 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:27,000 I was taking a walk, and happened to pass by a local cemetery. 132 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:31,000 Not the Munich Cemetery, a smaller one. 133 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:34,000 It was empty, and I slowed down as I passed it. 134 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:39,000 I'm not sure why. 135 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:42,000 But with everything I've seen on the trip, everything I've hunted down, 136 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:46,000 I figured I might find something interesting in there. 137 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:50,000 Sure enough, I heard noises. 138 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:53,000 Small, quiet noises. 139 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:55,000 I did not enter the grounds. 140 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:57,000 I know better. 141 00:07:57,000 --> 00:08:01,000 I stood still, and waited. 142 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:03,000 I almost missed him. 143 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:09,000 Out of the corner of my eye, I saw a figure jump from the top of the fence 144 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:12,000 onto the roof of a nearby building. 145 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:17,000 In my mind, I was going through all the list of possible creatures this could have been. 146 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:20,000 When we made eye contact, I knew what it was. 147 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:24,000 There he was, crouched on the roof, staring at me. 148 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:29,000 I could see his flesh, some hanging loosely off, some gone completely, 149 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:32,000 showing the raw tissue and bone underneath. 150 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:38,000 His eyes glowed in the dark, like a nocturnal predator, which is all he was now. 151 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:44,000 I wondered how long it would be until Johan realized he had to stay in during the day. 152 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:48,000 You see, without flesh, the sun can be quite painful. 153 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:54,000 He looked at me closely, watching, smelling, waiting. 154 00:08:54,000 --> 00:09:01,000 After realizing I was not a relative of the poor body he tore into a few hours prior, he left. 155 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:06,000 He scrambled higher up the roof and disappeared into the night. 156 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:10,000 Should we try to warn the people? 157 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:13,000 No. It's not necessary. 158 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:15,000 Johan is at rest. 159 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:17,000 How do you know that? Isn't he still on the hunt? 160 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:21,000 Even if the sun is up now, won't he come out again tonight? 161 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:27,000 He's at rest. For good. 162 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:43,000 What did you do?