Theodore ("'Fodor" or "Todor") Glava Born: August 1, 1875 or 1877 Died: December 4, 1918 (41 or 43 Local lore says that Glava, once a tall, thin and very pale man, was a vampire in Lafayette, Colorado. Legend believes after Glava passed away and was buried, the townsfolk saw his gravestone (with the mention of Transylvania), and dug up the grave and drove a wooden stake through his heart and reburied him. (Not an uncommon occurrence of that time. See New England Vampire Panic.) Notice the tree on his grave plot? Some say that tree grew from the stake that was driven through his heart... Legend also has it that a tall, thin, dark figure can be seen walking through the Lafayette cemetery late at night and it is believed to be the Mr. Theodore Glava, the Lafayette Vampire himself. According to The Lafayette Leader, Vol. XV, no. 41, dated December 6, 1918, Glava was an Austrian Miner employed at the Simpson Mine and died suddenly on December 4, 1918, following an attack of influenza. It was reported that he had recovered from the flu and was out on the town the night before his death. Glava shares the grave with fellow coal miner (and fellow vampire?) John Trandafir from Romania, who died on the same day, from pneumonia, as reported in The Lafayette Leader, Vol. XV, no. 50, dated December 13, 1918. Trandafir was 27.
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