a museum in Stockholm. Credit: Wikimedia Commons
11. Was The Atlas Vampire A Real-Life Dracula?
In 1932 in Stockholm, Sweden, the body of a 32-year-old sex worker named Lilly Lindstrom was found in her apartment. She would invite strange men into her apartment so they could pay her for sex, but she unknowingly brought in a man who was a real vampire.
Lindstrom’s body was found lying face-down on her bed. Her killer was having sex with her at the time of her death, because she was naked, and they left behind the condom. They beat her over the head, and then drained her body of almost all of its blood. The police found traces of saliva on her neck, and a blood-stained gravy ladle in the apartment. This lead the police to believe that the killer was drinking her blood. Lilly Londstrom’s regular clients were interviewed, as well as her friend who lived in the apartment below her, and yet no one had seen the man who killed her. The evidence is still on display in a museum in Stockholm.