On June 10, 1909, the news that tells the account of an alleged vampire
surfaced the pages of Neues Wiener Journal, a popular Vienna newspaper. It was related
to the deaths of the number of children, which they blamed on a vampire.
They believed that Countess Elga became a vampire and was responsible for the
surprising number of death. The number of fatalities that year at the Carpathian
Mountains is beyond the average rate.
Franz Haartman
Testimony on Countess Elga
Based on
account of Franz Hartman, who lived in a town not far away from the said
castle:
"Two years ago I was living at Hermannstadt, and being
engaged in engineering a road through the hills, I often came within the
vicinity of the old castle, where I made the acquaintance of the old castellan,
or caretaker, and his wife, who occupied a part of the wing of the house,
almost separate from the main body of the building. They were a quiet old
couple and rather reticent in giving information or expressing an opinion in
regard to the strange noises which were often heard at night in the deserted
halls, or of the apparitions which the Wallachian peasants claimed to have seen
when they loitered in the surroundings after dark. All I could gather was that
the old Count was a widower and had a beautiful daughter, who was one day killed
by a fall from her horse, and that soon after the old man died in some
mysterious manner, and the bodies were buried in a solitary graveyard belonging
to a neighboring village. Not long after their death an unusual mortality was
noticed among the inhabitants of the village: several children and even some
grown people died without any apparent illness; they merely wasted away; and
thus a rumor was started that the old Count had become a vampire after his
death. There is no doubt that he was not a saint, as he was addicted to
drinking, and some shocking tales were in circulation about his conduct and
that of his daughter; but whether or not there was any truth in them. I am not
in a position to say."
More Strange Occurrences
After
some time, the property became a possession of a family relative, but it was
believed that he did not reside in the castle. He just instructed someone
to maintain the house and make sure it is still in its best form. One day
two men came to visit the castle, a young lawyer and a man of literature.
There was nothing so remarkable in the old place since most of the stuff was
sold. But when they come across this old painting, the young lawyer
claimed that the oil painting blinked its eyes and was smiling. On the
same night, the visitors formed a ring on the table, and the table started to
move and formed the word ELGA; they asked the person that maintained the castle
about some information regarding Elga and was surprised to know that the person
in the painting they just saw was that of Countess Elga.
Countess
Elga's spirit also manifested in the writer's presence. It was also followed by
unexplained experiences by the servants inside the castle. The writer
also received an invitation to Countess Elga. He hired a policeman to
investigate the incident, and the police reported that he saw nothing but a black
carriage as if waiting for someone to arrive. Shortly after the report
went public, the terrified public burned the castle to cinders. Strangely, the
high mortality rate among kids also ceased after that incident.
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