The Gorbals Vampire

Andrew gave me a heads-up on a largely neglected episode in vampire history.

It shows what happens when vampire rumours (much like the Highgate Case) spin out of control and take on a life of their own.

Stuart Nicolson's "Child Vampire Hunters Sparked Comic Crackdown" chronicles the events that lead to graveyard desecration in Glasgow, 1954, and a comic book witch hunt.

This Blood's for You

This isn't vampire-specific, but I did find it interesting, nonetheless. You'll see why.

A quick note on formatting of the following article: paragraph indents have been replaced with paragraph breaks for this blog.

And now, onto "Bloody Good Police Work", mX (Melbourne), Friday February 12, 2010, p. 9:

Polish police have recovered 11 tonnes of human blood plasma stolen from a US company while on its way to Austria.

The truck with a freezer unit carrying the plasma, worth more about $1.6 million, was stolen as the driver made a rest stop in Germany.

It was taken across the border into Poland, where it was seized on Wednesday.

Polish police have made no arrests so far, and believe thieves stole it in the hope of selling it elsewhere in Eastern Europe.