Uploaded March 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
Welcome to another entertaining visit to Hollywood Cemetery in historic Richmond, Virginia with tour guide Bob Olsen. Today we revisit the disastrous cave-in at the Church Hill Tunnel (true story) and the vampire that escaped and made it's home at Hollywood Cemetery (not really a true story). Sit back, enjoy the video and let me know what you think in the comments. To find the exact location of the final resting places of Mr. Pool and his unwanted guest along with biographical information, links, interviews, photos and videos please visit thetombstonetourist.com/graves/w-w-pool/. Thank you for all your support!
William Pool was a well respected account manager and bookkeeper for the wealthy and influential Bryan estate. His wife died in 1913 with William passing away several years later. They are entombed at Hollywood Cemetery and you would think that would be the end of the story. Years later local residents claim that the mausoleum of W. W. Pool (dated 1913) in Hollywood Cemetery holds the remains of a vampire with the rumor that Pool was run out of England in the 1800s for being a blood-sucking creature of the night. The legend may have been influenced by the architecture of the tomb, which has both Masonic and ancient Egyptian elements, and the "WW" over the entry to the crypt looking like fangs. At the same time another version of events began on October 2, 1925, when a disastrous cave-in at the Church Hill Tunnel occurred, with tons of rock and soil crashing down on a work train, killing, trapping and wounding several laborers. Shortly after the catastrophe, eyewitnesses saw a horrific creature running from the tunnel’s end – with fanglike teeth and rolls of decomposing flesh hanging from its body. The creature is said to have sprinted into Richmond’s Hollywood Cemetery and disappeared into the mausoleum of W.W. Pool where today the iron doors remain sealed to prevent the creature from escaping.
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Welcome to another entertaining visit to Hollywood Cemetery in historic Richmond, Virginia with tour guide Bob Olsen. Today we revisit the disastrous cave-in at the Church Hill Tunnel (true story) and the vampire that escaped and made it's home at Hollywood Cemetery (not really a true story). Sit back, enjoy the video and let me know what you think in the comments. To find the exact location of the final resting places of Mr. Pool and his unwanted guest along with biographical information, links, interviews, photos and videos please visit thetombstonetourist.com/graves/w-w-pool/. Thank you for all your support!
William Pool was a well respected account manager and bookkeeper for the wealthy and influential Bryan estate. His wife died in 1913 with William passing away several years later. They are entombed at Hollywood Cemetery and you would think that would be the end of the story. Years later local residents claim that the mausoleum of W. W. Pool (dated 1913) in Hollywood Cemetery holds the remains of a vampire with the rumor that Pool was run out of England in the 1800s for being a blood-sucking creature of the night. The legend may have been influenced by the architecture of the tomb, which has both Masonic and ancient Egyptian elements, and the "WW" over the entry to the crypt looking like fangs. At the same time another version of events began on October 2, 1925, when a disastrous cave-in at the Church Hill Tunnel occurred, with tons of rock and soil crashing down on a work train, killing, trapping and wounding several laborers. Shortly after the catastrophe, eyewitnesses saw a horrific creature running from the tunnel’s end – with fanglike teeth and rolls of decomposing flesh hanging from its body. The creature is said to have sprinted into Richmond’s Hollywood Cemetery and disappeared into the mausoleum of W.W. Pool where today the iron doors remain sealed to prevent the creature from escaping.
#famousgraves #gravesite #celebritygraves #grave #vampire
