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Podcast: Unsolved Canadian Mysteries
Episode: #12 - The Vampires of Wilno, Ontario
Description: Wilno, Ontario, a small and quiet town, holds one of Canada's strangest and most unsettling folklore mysteries. In 1972, a researcher named Jan Perkowski published a report titled Vampires, Dwarves and Witches Among the Ontario Kashubs, detailing eerie claims of vampiric entities that were said to stalk the Kashubian-Polish settlers in the region. These were no mere legends—the report described in detail how the community allegedly identified, feared, and even destroyed these creatures.According to Perkowski’s findings, some Wilno residents believed in two distinct types of vampires. The first was a physical being, a reanimated corpse that...