Sarah Ellen Roberts, the Pisco vampire

Sarah Ellen Roberts, an Englishwoman buried in Pisco, Peru, became the subject of a vampire legend. On 9 June 1993, eighty years after her death, crowds gathered at her grave.

Wikipedia records that Sarah Ellen Roberts, born Gargett, lived from 6 March 1872 to 9 June 1913. She was an Englishwoman, laid to rest in Pisco, Peru. A legend later grew that she was a vampire and a bride of Dracula. A scholarly abstract says tradition holds she faced vampirism accusations in her native England and for that reason sailed to South America. It describes her grave as a place of pilgrimage for supposed miracles worked by a "holy vampire".

Wikipedia says that on 9 June 1993, eighty years after her death, Pisco residents feared she would return to life and take revenge. Cottontown, a heritage site, says hundreds gathered at her grave for the whole day to await her return. It reports that residents hung large cloves of garlic on doors and chimney-breasts, extra police were brought into the town, and radio and television crews from across Peru set up in the cemetery. It adds that shops sold two-and-a-half-dollar "vampire kits", each holding a crucifix, a wooden stake with a mallet, garlic on a string and a booklet of the legend, along with vampire t-shirts and key rings.