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- forteana
- nottheonion@zerobytes.monster
- cross-posted to:
- forteana
- nottheonion@zerobytes.monster
According to the Times Reporter, the documentary “Vampires in Gem City” was set to expose Dayton as having the second largest vampire coven in the United States and featured the missing person’s case of 26-year-old George Phillip Gall.
It is reported that Gall went missing on October 13, 1994 after getting off a bus near the goth-themed Asylum nightclub.
The bus driver told investigators that Gall walked toward the Asylum nightclub and was never seen again. He was declared dead by the state of Ohio in 2002.
According to Times Reporter, it wasn’t until 2008 that rumors of vampires started after a retired Dayton police officer told The Dayton Daily News that a bartender at the nightclub told him Gall was killed and beheaded for an occult ritual.
It is reported that after Gall’s disappearance in 1994, Williams went to the nightclub undercover and noticed it attracted a large “gothic, vampire-like” crowd. It was while he was undercover that a bartender confided in Williams that Gall’s head was sold inside the club.
Williams told the Dayton Daily News that the bartender gave enough intricate details to make the story believable. Williams also says that Gall’s body was placed in a storm sewer tunnel accessible inside the nightclub. Officers searched for the body but did not find any evidence of the crime, but they did find “occult markings.”
According to Times Reporter, the mystery behind Gall’s disappearance has led to the birth of an urban legend, with many Dayton residents claiming to have seen a headless man approaching them in tunnels to ask where his head was.
I suspect Big Vampire is going to try and ensure this never sees the light of day (ah the irony)
Ultimately, it depends on who bought and paid for it - if it’s a Netflix original there might be nothing that can be done, if they just had the rights then someone else may. Of course, it might not be Netflix’s call - the legal department may have decided that it couldn’t be screened or it’d leave the broadcaster open to being sued. It would be a brave company who decided to roll dice on that. However, given the publicity, that’s got to make it more likely someone would take a chance on it.