Vampire

***Vampire*** is the first episode and season premiere of the second season of the thriller horror docudrama found-footage television series Lost Tapes. It originally aired on Animal Planet on September 29, 2009.

## Plot

In Summer (July) 2009, the Redding family tried to refurbish an old house that they moved into after the father, Dennis, lost his job during the recent economic down turn. Worried about her son Eddie because of his history of sleepwalking, Sarah installs a stationary camera in his new room. Eddie is not very enthusiastic about his new surroundings, especially after he sees the door to his closet open on its own.

Eddie flips his present from his grandmother while he and his mother leave the room for a snack, the camera he left behind on the bed captures an image of the closet door closing by itself. Shortly thereafter, in the middle of the night, the door opens again and a strange, humanoid creature emerges. It creeps around the room, lingering near Eddie's bed and finally stealing his stuffed bear Ruggles. However, Eddie wakes up and screams at the sight of the creature and it flees right before his parents come in.

Eddie claims that there is a monster in his closet, but Dennis finds nothing. Suddenly, there is a scrabbling sound as something in the ceiling moves above them, which Dennis attributes to raccoons and Sarah says that he can sleep in her room. The following day, Eddie goes looking for Ruggles, following a trail of cotton to the closet. Sarah finds the shredded remains of the stuffed teddy bear, which worries her as she assumes Eddie was responsible, but Dennis dismisses it as simply being the result of their recent move. He plans to have Eddie help him fix up the house so that they can bond. Meanwhile, Eddie looks at a squirrel eating an apple core, and his parents have hired a pest control exterminator, named Stan Polanski, to deal with what they assume is a raccoon infestation.

In the basement, Polanski discovers a hole in the wall which he examines with a snake camera. His camera reveals several nests made of various debris, and he suddenly sees a strange creature in the nest in full view of his camera. As soon as the camera stops, the creature's eyes open and it attacks the camera. In the ensuing struggle, the camera manages to capture footage of the creature pulling a screaming Polanski through the wall and tearing into his throat, killing him. Dennis and Eddie, meanwhile, are having a fun time fixing the house, but Sarah notices that the exterminator has been missing for a while.

Eddie goes down into the basement to find him with his camera but drops it, discovering the nests through the now much larger hole in the wall, as well as Polanski's body. Polanski's snake camera then catches a humanoid like creature watching Eddie. One of the creatures suddenly emerges and chases Eddie up the stairs. He and his mom try to hold the basement door shut, but it breaks the door off the hinges and Eddie and Sarah flee. Suddenly, another one emerges and roars at them, chasing them through the living room, briefly appearing in full view of Eddie's camera several times.

They run into Eddie's room, and are quickly joined by Dennis. Eddie yells that there are three creatures in the house, and they barricade the door. However, one of the creatures merely punches through the door and claws a large hole, grabbing at Dennis. In desperation, he grabs a broken chunk of wood and stabs at the attacker's chest. The creature quickly bleeds out blood and disappears and the other two also flee.

The Redding family manage to escape from the house, and Stan Polanski's body was later recovered, but was mysteriously drained of blood. The nests were discovered, but there were no other signs of any unknown creatures. Shortly after the attacks at the Redding home, similar attacks were reported from a mining village sixty miles North. These new attacks prompted a reinvestigation of the Redding Case.