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1950s

Symbolic pulp illustration of the rumoured iron-toothed vampire looming above children and gravestones, not a depiction of an established sighting.

Case file 020The Unexplained

The Vampire with Iron Teeth

In 1954, Glasgow children hunted an iron-toothed vampire through a cemetery, setting off an argument about horror comics and older fears.

Close editorial interpretation of a torn, partly collapsed canvas tent and tracks across a snowy Ural slope, referring to the discovered Dyatlov campsite rather than reconstructing the departure.

Case file 018Crime & Mystery

Mountain of the dead

Nine hikers left their tent on a frozen Ural slope; the surviving records explain much of their ordeal, but leave its first moments unresolved.