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I don't know how I have lived in Richmond for all of these years and not known about the vampire! Thank you to creating beauty for opening my eyes!
So, here we go...the Richmond Vampire is an urban legend that began soon after a collapse on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad's Church Hill Tunnel in Church Hill, which buried several workers alive on October 2, 1925.
The story told of a blood covered creature with jagged teeth and skin hanging from its body that emerged from the cave-in and raced toward the James River. Pursued by a group of men, the creature took refuge in Hollywood Cemetery, where it disappeared in a mausoleum built into a hillside bearing the name W.W. Pool.
It is true that after the tunnel collapsed a living being escaped from the wreckage. It was, however, a 28-year-old railroad fireman, Benjamin F. Mosby who had been loading coal into the steam tank of a train with no shirt on when the cave-in occurred and the oven ruptured.
Mosby's upper body was horribly scalded and several of his teeth were broken before he made his way through the opening of the tunnel. Witnesses reported he was in shock and layers of his skin were hanging from his body. He died later at Grace Hospital.
Even with this logical explanation the legend lives on. Some say that someone has been seen leaving and entering this tomb many times over the years.The figure has been descibed as being partially decomposed,with rolls of tattered skin hanging limply from his frame,having large sharp jagged teeth, and fresh blood around his mouth and chin. The skeletal remains of Mr. Pool were found on a hill in the cemetary arranged into occult symbols one story says .His remains were gathered and buried in another tomb, to discourage further grave robbing attempts.
Sister Vampire - little photoshoot in one of my favorite places to visit.
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photographe: C'est moi
Modele/MUA/Couture: Ylena Hel
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Strobist Info: Cheap Chinese Flash into umbrella over camera. That's it. One light. Gorgeous, isn't it? ;-)
"History Repeating" - Paul Wesley as Stefan, Ian Somerhalder as Damon in THE VAMPIRE DIARIES on The CW.
Photo: Quantrell Colbert/The CW
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Sister Vampire - little photoshoot in one of my favorite places to visit.
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photographe: C'est moi
Modele/MUA/Couture: Hua Costumes
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Strobist Info: Cheap Chinese Flash into umbrella over camera. That's it. One light. Gorgeous, isn't it? ;-)
Vampire cupcakes at our Twilight Party.
Inspired by this: www.bzzagent.com/bzzscapes/scape/true-blood/vampire-cupca...
and blogged here: ellouise88.blogspot.com/2010/03/little-get-together-at-tw....
Just an avatar I designed to sign into Obsidian Portal, where someone might be running an online WOD game. I was inspired to add a lot of VTM symbolism...I just couldn't stop at my top 3 (Salubri, Tremere, & Toreador).
Photo shooting in chapel Saint-Vincent in Saint-Laurent d'Agny
Model Yuri Kurohime
Make-up Artist Etienne Florame
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Light/Strobist: Godox AD600Pro in TTL mode in a Broncolor beautybox on a Manfrotto lightstand
Vampire, using the model from the Zombie Dragon kit, I repositioned his arms to face outward then mounted him on base.
Little G. Oct 2004.
Another pacifier from Billy Bob Teeth, courtesy Papa. A hoot to wear year-round.
Vampire Weekend's Ezra Koenig performs on The Lawn stage during the final day of the Firefly Music Festival 2013.
The last Rhode Island vampire, Mercy Brown:
She was, like her mother, sister and brother, a victim of tuberculosis. In March of 1892, two months after Mercy had died, a Doctor Metcalf tried to calm the fears of a few folks in Exeter who believed Mercy's brother, Edwin, was being taken by a vampire spirit. In order to find out which one of the deceased Brown women contained the vaporous life-sucker, Mercy's mother (Mary Eliza) and sister (Mary Olive) were dug up. Their bodies showed advanced states of decay, so the vampire hunters were sure it could not be either of them. Mercy's body was being kept in the graveyard's crypt for burial in the spring when the ground thawed, so suspicion next fell on her mortal remains. After opening the crypt, the small crowd discovered her body in an unspoiled condition and her hair and fingernails had also grown. The superstitious pack were sure that they had found their vampire. Mercy's heart was cut out, burned and the ashes were given to Edwin as the cure for the vampire's curse. Edwin Brown died two months later. A friend of Bram Stoker sent him a clipping of the local news paper report on this spooky event and it is believed Stoker took some inspiration from it for his classic book, Dracula.