Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted
Oct 20, 2026 · 20 min · 10 segments
In this episode of Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted, Jack explores the chilling true story of Rod Ferrell, the teenager who called himself Vesago and became the leader of a group known as the Vampire…
Jack OsbourneHost
During the 1980s, America became obsessed with the idea that teenagers were being seduced by the occult.
Daycare centers were accused of elaborate satanic rituals that, in many of the most famous cases, were never substantiated.
But at almost exactly the same time, another character was getting a makeover, the vampire.
Anne Rice's Interview with a Vampire arrived in 1976, and through the '80s and '90s, her Vampire Chronicles helped turn the vampire into something more complicated, beautiful, tortured, sexual, immortal, an outsider who lived by different rules.
Teenagers, leather jackets, motorcycles, nightlife, a secret family, eternal youth.
Bram Stoker's Dracula, Interview with the Vampire with Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt, goth clubs, industrial music, and in 1991, the tabletop role-playing game Vampire: The Masquerade.
Rod didn't grow up with a vampire as simply something hiding outside your bedroom window.
He grew up during the moment when the vampire became aspirational, powerful, immortal, misunderstood, part of a secret family.
If you grew up a troubled kid who feels completely powerless in your own family, I can actually understand why that fantasy might be attractive.
During the 1980s, America became obsessed with the idea that teenagers were being seduced by the occult.
Daycare centers were accused of elaborate satanic rituals that, in many of the most famous cases, were never substantiated.
But at almost exactly the same time, another character was getting a makeover, the vampire.
Anne Rice's Interview with a Vampire arrived in 1976, and through the '80s and '90s, her Vampire Chronicles helped turn the vampire into something more complicated, beautiful, tortured, sexual, immortal, an outsider who lived by different rules.
Teenagers, leather jackets, motorcycles, nightlife, a secret family, eternal youth.
Bram Stoker's Dracula, Interview with the Vampire with Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt, goth clubs, industrial music, and in 1991, the tabletop role-playing game Vampire: The Masquerade.
Rod didn't grow up with a vampire as simply something hiding outside your bedroom window.
He grew up during the moment when the vampire became aspirational, powerful, immortal, misunderstood, part of a secret family.
If you grew up a troubled kid who feels completely powerless in your own family, I can actually understand why that fantasy might be attractive.
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