Daniel also said Vicky told him about a box that you hear voices out of LOL!

Being a governess/tutor, I would gather she assumed witchcraft trials were over and done with for over one hundred years, so she probably thought she was safe.

Actually there were witch trials in the 18th & 19th century I learned from Wikipedia.

Imagine what a scene with Burke and Nicholas Blair would be like, or Burke & Cassandra!

I could see Lovelady Powell as Julia, she does have a resemblence to GH.  Though, if she was cast, we may have seen the original plan for Barnabas to kill Julia.

The book also states that Julia was to die in a vat of acid, that's the first I have heard of that idea.

If LP backed out after Julia's first episode and then GH take over for her next appearance, it would have made for an interesting comparison

[spoiler]Perhaps after Julia's experiment turns Barnabas  into an aged man, he was to get revenge on Julia for doing that to him and then throw her into the acid vat?   Would they have been able to keep Barnabas on the show after doing that?  Unless Woodard and Burke were still around and then they did the staking.[/spoiler]

One Life to Live has had Vicki go to Heaven; Clint and Vicki  went back to 1888, where some cast members played their ancestors; the underground city of "Eterna"; Vicki also had a guardian angel named Virgil appearing now and then.

General Hospital has had Edward Quartermain as a ghost and then he turned up alive and they ignored the two years he was a ghost!

Then there's the kid aging trick which hasn't ever gone out of style, and DS never used that one.

From Yahoo News:

A researcher has come up with some simple math that sucks the life out of the vampire myth, proving that these highly popular creatures can't exist.

University of Central Florida physics professor Costas Efthimiou's work debunks pseudoscientific ideas, such as vampires and zombies, in an attempt to enhance public literacy. Not only does the public believe in such topics, but the percentages are at dangerously high level, Efthimiou told LiveScience.

Legend has it that vampires feed on human blood and once bitten a person turns into a vampire and starts feasting on the blood of others.

Efthimiou's debunking logic: On Jan 1, 1600, the human population was 536,870,911. If the first vampire came into existence that day and bit one person a month, there would have been two vampires by Feb. 1, 1600.  A month later there would have been four, and so on. In just two-and-a-half years the original human population would all have become vampires with nobody left to feed on.

If mortality rates were taken into consideration, the population would disappear much faster. Even an unrealistically high reproduction rate couldn't counteract this effect.

"In the long run, humans cannot survive under these conditions, even if our population were doubling each month," Efthimiou said. "And doubling is clearly way beyond the human capacity of reproduction."

So whatever you think you see prowling around on Oct. 31, it most certainly won't turn you into a vampire.

It's too bad they never gave a farewell between Barnabas and Magda, she simply faded away from the story.  1897 ended so fast, there wasn't anytime for goodbyes for any characters!

My roommate isn't a DS fan but he watched 1897 and loved Magda and was upset that after investing all that time in watching the story with it ending so abruptly and moving to the next plot.

He wouldn't watch DS anymore after that.

Another thing about Professor Stokes is, unlike Barnabas and Julia, he didn't have any "baggage" hanging over him.