Tom Slemen, a Liverpool-based writer known for compiling reader- and listener-submitted paranormal accounts, built his book "Haunted Cheshire" from stories phoned or written in by Cheshire residents who had heard his paranormal segments on local radio. Among the tales in that collection is one referred to as the Winsford Vampire, sitting alongside other Slemen-collected Cheshire stories such as a voodoo curse attached to a bus driver from Poynton and a mummified body reportedly found in the wider North West.
Beyond its place in Slemen's published collection, no independent detail about the Winsford case — a name, a date, a specific location within the town, or any description of what was actually reported — has surfaced in the sources available for this entry. Stories gathered through radio phone-ins and reader submissions of this kind are, by their nature, difficult to verify or expand on independently, and this entry is recorded honestly as one of the thinnest and most dubious in this survey: a real title attached to a real published collection, but without the supporting detail that would let it be treated as anything more than that.
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