Lafayette Vampire

I'm not saying that I believe in nor am afraid of vampires.

I am saying that there is no f-ing way I am visiting the gravesite of Fodor Glava at any time other than broad daylight in the summer when my family is with me and when there are plenty of kids in the skate park across the street from Glava's gravestone... oh.. and the tree growing directly out of where his heart was buried.

In the Lafayette City Cemetery rests a gravestone for Fodor, who had immigrated to Lafayette from Transylvania and died in December 1918 at the time the entire town had been quarantined due to the Spanish Flu epidemic.

The site, most popular at Halloween, is pretty easy to find and the grave is located on the north end of the cemetery alongside the roadway, about mid-block. It is a small, flat stone marker.  While the story of Fodor being an actual vampire has been, well, de-fanged, the site is still a paranormal center and local legend spot with the association between Fodor and blood-sucking being primarily associated with his Transylvanian origins.

Yeah, still.... I am not going by myself to check it out at night.