English Learning for Curious Minds | A More Interesting Way To Learn English

For hundreds of years, people have been afraid of blood-sucking creatures that rise from the dead.

But where does the vampire myth actually come from, what happened to the people accused of being a vampire, and what if there was a simple, biological explanation for it all?

Full transcript, subtitles and key vocabulary available on the website: https://www.leonardoenglish.com/podcasts/vampires

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For hundreds of years, people have been afraid of blood-sucking creatures that rise from the dead.
But where does the vampire myth actually come from, what happened to the people accused of being a vampire, and what if there was a simple, biological explanation for it all?


  • The start of Bram Stoker's Dracula
  • The fundamental characteristics of vampires
  • Vampires in ancient European folklore
  • Why people might have thought vampires needed to drink blood
  • Vampires being blamed for the plague
  • The Great Vampire Epidemic
  • The story of Petar Blagojević
  • John Polidori’s The Vampyre
  • Vampires & Vlad The Impaler
  • Vampires on film
  • Modern vampires
Full interactive transcript, subtitles and key vocabulary available on the website: https://www.leonardoenglish.com/podcasts/vampires

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English Learning for Curious Minds is a podcast for intermediate-advanced English learners.

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