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The Dark History of Rhode Island: Mercy Brown, the Vampire of Exeter


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In the winter of 1892, the small farming town of Exeter, Rhode Island, became the center of one of the strangest events in American history.

When a mysterious illness began taking lives one by one, the townspeople turned not to medicine—but to myth.
And at the center of it all was a nineteen-year-old girl named Mercy Brown.

Was she the victim of a deadly disease… or the cause of it?

Join me in the Map Room as we uncover The Dark History of Rhode Island: Mercy Brown, the Vampire of Exeter—a chilling true story of fear, folklore, and the desperate things people do when science fails them.

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