Documentary

A Gorbal's Story

On a crisp autumn evening in 1954, hundreds of Glasgow kids descended on a graveyard to fight an imaginary vampire.

In September 1954 in Gorbals, Glasgow, rumours had spread among the school children of a terrible, 7 foot tall vampire with iron teeth. Rumour had it that this vampire had kidnapped and murdered two young boys and feasted on their corpses. Despite the adults and the police trying to calm the hysteria, the children decided that action had to be taken to bring this terrible ‘Gorbals Vampire’ to justice.