Learn the Origin of Elvira from Cassandra Peterson Herself

This video has been floating around forever. It’s been floating around so long that a great number of today’s fanatics don’t even know it exists. But they know Elvira exists, and therefore, this video, and explanation of Elvira’s origin, is pretty awesome.

Cassandra Peterson, not in full Elvira getup takes the time to recap how she became the now iconic (and extremely sexy) horror host that may very well have eclipsed every horror host to come before.

Get ready, millennials, it’s time for a history lesson!