Strigoi Vampire

Strigioi Vampire is the third episode of the third season of the thriller horror docudrama found-footage television series Lost Tapes. It originally aired on Animal Planet on October 5, 2010 and was directed by Douglas Segal. This episode continues the Enigma Corporation storyarc, previously from Zombies and this episode also is the 2nd to feature vampires.

## Plot

In Summer (August) 2010, in Silver Rock, New Mexico, the Enigma Corporation is hired to investigate the mysterious deaths of workers at an oil outpost. Noel Connor and Elise Mooney are accompanied by doctors Naomi Robeson and Seldon Fischer, wearing hazmat suits in case of a gas leak or airborne virus.

They find that the workers all died very suddenly, with fresh food still being on the tables and the phone in an office still having a dial tone. They find a dead man still seated in his office in one of the buildings, and Fischer takes a blood sample. He finds that most of the man's blood has been drained from his body.

They suddenly hear shuffling above them and part of the ceiling falls down, wrecking Mooney's hazmat suit. When nothing happens to her, they conclude that whatever killed the workers is not airborne and everyone but Fischer takes their helmets off.

They discover more bodies outside, in the same state as the man in the office. Mooney notes that one of the dead workers is holding what appears to be a wooden board ending in a sharpened point as though it were some rudimentary weapon. A black German shepherd suddenly appears, and a suspicious Mooney shoots it with a tranquilizer dart, but it flees into a container.

As they go over to the container, a man suddenly jumps out, claiming to be a worker named Clint Webber, who alone somehow survived what he described as an enormous orange sandstorm. While Robeson and Fischer conduct a medical exam on him, Connor and Mooney go to the office to look up Webber on the company profiles. They discover that the man claiming to be Webber is not him, and call for backup. As the doctors continue their examination, Fischer pulls a tranquilizer dart identical to the one Mooney shot at the dog out of Webber's mouth.

Webber suddenly acquires a demonic grin and huge fangs and kills Fischer and Robeson. Mooney receives word from headquarters that they will not be receiving backup because a quarantine had been placed over the area. They see someone who appears to be Fischer approaching, but when he ignores their warnings to not come any closer they shoot at him in suspicion, and he vanishes into thin air. Connor investigates a growling sound behind them while Mooney goes to find the dead doctors.

The dog from before appears, barking at her aggressively, while Noel (with a sharp wooden board) appears behind it, claiming it is not what it appears to be. Mooney flees, finding a truck, and attempts to drive away when "Webber" suddenly pops up from the back seat with the same demonic grin as before and lunges at her. Mooney crashed the truck, but miraculously survived, while Connor escaped with only minor injuries. The deaths of the workers and the doctors were officially attributed to a gas leak, and the company ceased operations in North America. Animal hairs and saliva samples were confiscated by the FBI, and no lab results were released to the public.