"Now that you are willing to understand, you have taken the first step to understand. You think then that those so small holes in the children’s throats were made by the same that made the hole in Miss Lucy?"
"I suppose so."
"Then you are wrong…it is worse, far, far worse."
"In God’s name, Professor Van Helsing, what do you mean?" I cried.
He threw himself with a despairing gesture into a chair, and placed his elbows on the table, covering his face with his hands as he spoke.
"They were made by Miss Lucy!"
– Bram Stoker
Dracula, Chapter 14. In a conversation with Dr. Seward, Van Helsing reveals the shocking truth that Lucy has become a fully-fledged vampire, with a lust for blood to survive, and is responsible for the child abductions happening in London. A local newspaper reported the children were temporarily abducted at Hamstead Heath – where Lucy was buried – by a strange woman the youngsters named the "Bloofer Lady." When the children returned home, they had strange wounds on their necks.