Case: GG-2026-173
Status: Historic
Documentation rating: B
Location: Kringa, Istria, Croatia
The Jure Grando Vampire Case concerns a resident of Kringa in Istria, modern Croatia, who according to a later seventeenth-century account was believed to have returned from the grave after his death in 1656. For sixteen years, the deceased Jure Grando was said to appear in the village at night, knock on doors shortly before deaths occurred, and visit the surviving spouse. In 1672, local residents reportedly opened the grave, attempted unsuccessfully to pierce the corpse with a hawthorn stake, and finally ended the disturbances by decapitating the body. The story was published in 1689 by Johan…
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