Virginia – The Richmond Vampire, Richmond
In Richmond, Virginia, there’s a beautiful old cemetery called Hollywood. It’s now home to some fascinating people, and apparently, a vampire. W.W. Pool was a bookkeeper who died in the early 1920s at the age of 80. Good life, good work, basic mausoleum. In 1925, a railway tunnel near Hollywood collapsed during refurbishment, killing some of the workers. Supposedly, a creature dripping in blood emerged from the accident, ran straight for Mr Pool’s resting place, and disappeared inside.
When people checked the mausoleum, it wasn’t there, and there’s no back door. Sometimes a man is seen walking out of the mausoleum after dark. One more creepy thing about the tunnel accident (that did really happen) – they only ever found one of the bodies. Many men never made it out of the tunnel, but only one body was found? Perhaps Richmond has more than one resident vampire.
You missed the boat on New Jersey! THE JERSEY DEVIL is most definitely the official haunting creature of the Garden State. Long before NJ was even a state, the legend of the Jersey Devil began. It was the 13th child of Mrs Leeds, who had no desire for another baby. According to legend, she cursed the baby even before it was born. At its birth, the creature assumed otherworldly dimension and flew up the chimney of the home. Since then, the Devil regularly haunts the Pine Barrens of New Jersey, frightening all it encounters. On the eve of a National tragedy, the Devil is said to appear at many varied places in the state to warn of evils to come (most notably in December 1941, just before Pearl Harbor.)