克罗地亚克林加村：1656年死的石匠，夜夜回来敲门，十六年后被人割了头

On the Istrian Peninsula in Croatia, inland there is a small village called Kringa. In 1656, a stonemason named Jure Grando died of illness in the village and was buried in the village cemetery.

Later, villagers said he had returned. At night, someone heard him walking down the street; when he reached someone's door, he would knock, and if the door answered, someone in that household would die within a few days. His widow also said that at midnight he returned home and pressed down on her body. Locals called this kind of thing a "štriгон," roughly meaning a warlock or someone who practices witchcraft.

Such stories continued for sixteen years. In between, the priest and village notables went to the cemetery to try driving a stake into his chest, but supposedly the stake would not go in.

In 1672, nine villagers dug up the grave once again. The body in the coffin had not decayed, and a slight smile remained on his face. The hawthorn stake still would not go in, and legend says it bounced back. Finally, a villager named Stipan Milišić used a saw to cut off his head; some versions say an axe. Legend says the corpse let out a scream, and a great deal of blood surged out of the pit.

After that, no one in the village ever heard the knocking at night again.

This story survives because in 1689, a scholar named Vajsalo wrote it into a large work on the Duchy of Carniola, saying he heard it from a local priest. This was more than thirty years before several Serbian exhumation cases, so today some call Grando the first "vampire" in recorded history.

As for what exactly was in the grave back then, who saw it with their own eyes, all that remains is this retelling written decades later. Kringa is still that small village in the mountains today.

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