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Despite all attempts to persuade them otherwise, the children decided to take matters into their own hands and hundreds of them, armed with blades, stakes, crosses descended on the city's Southern Necropolis to hunt for the vampire for three nights in a row.

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This Is My Glasgow · @thisismyglasgow
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The Gorbals Vampire Mural, Ballater Street, Glasgow.

This mural, from Art Pistol Projects, is a reminder of the events of September 1954, when rumours that a seven foot tall vampire with iron teeth had kidnapped and eaten two young boys started circulating amongst local school children in the Gorbals area of Glasgow. Cont./

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