On a sunny day in November of 1990 three young boys decide to sneak off and play in the gravel pits at a local landscaping store for the afternoon. Little did they know that they were about to open a doorway into the world of colonial American vampires. 

This week we plunge head first into the strange and mysterious practice of vampire exhumations. Along the way we'll uncover the stories of a serial killer hiding in a sleepy Connecticut town, an ancient family graveyard that seemed to appear from out of nowhere, and finally we'll share the tale of Mercy Lena Brown, the last American vampire.  Happy Hallowmonth fiends!

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Article on Mercy Brown from NewEngland.com

The Smithsonian's coverage of The New England Vampire Panic

How Tuberculosis shaped fashion

NY Times article on the discovery of JB 55

The Walton family graveyard

Article on the last American vampire

Vintage Chicago Tribune Article on Mercy Brown

Ötzi the Iceman

Children of Llullaillaco

Sister Mary Wilhelmina Lancaster

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