Mineral Point Vampire

In 1981 -Mineral Point, Wisconsin, sightings were reported about an alleged vampire lurking on the Graceland Cemetery.  The police officer John Pepper claimed that he encountered the beast he described as a tall man with a pale white face and wearing a cape. The accounts of this encounter will be the birth of the legend of the Mineral Point Vampire.

 

The First Encounter with the Mineral Point Vampire

 

The incident happened at the end of March 1981. The officer claimed he pursued the said vampire but failed to track the creature when he jumped over a barbed-wire fence that measures around 6-feet tall.  Pepper and the other police officers analyzed the area to find evidence and found strange footprints on the snowy site in the morning. The beast was never seen again.  There were no other reports about the Mineral Point Vampire after that incident.  Police ruled it out as a prankster, but the perpetrator was never caught. It wasn't until 2004 that the legend regained its popularity.

 

The 2004 Incident

 

After the 1981 encounter with the Mineral Point Vampire, a strikingly similar event happened last 2004.  On March 14, 2004, the police received numerous calls about someone sitting on a tree just outside the apartment complex.  The man would allegedly leap and attack anyone who would pass.  The description given by those reports bears a description that is eerily alike to what John Pepper encountered in 1981.  The police pursued the suspect, and they also found footprints.  They followed the footprints only to end in a 10-ft concrete wall.

 

The 2008 Incident

 

The incident was followed by a 2008 report of a couple attacked by a white face man wearing a cape.  The couple reported the incident to the police station on July 11, 2008.  According to them, they were fishing when they heard something strange under the wooden surface. Thinking that it was an animal, one of the witnesses stomped on it to scare the animal away, but it only captured the beast's attention. Both of them froze in horror as they saw a caped person. To defend themselves from the attack, they threw a flashlight at the alleged Mineral Point Vampire. It gives them a moment to flee the scene and escape the beast.  Again, the police were unable to catch the caped man.

 

 

Mineral Point in Wisconsin is one of the oldest cities in the US. People have different theories on how the story about the Mineral Point Vampire started. Some believed that it is related to the Ridgeway Phantom of 1870 or the ghost of the Haunted Walker House.