A Popular History of Unpopular Things

The New England Vampire Panic


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Join Kelli as she explores the exhumation and re-killing of Mercy Brown, a girl suspected of being a vampire feeding off of her living relatives in a small town in Rhode Island, 1892.

Intro and Outro music credit: Nedric

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Sources:

Food for the Dead: On the Trail of New England Vampires by Michael Bell
The Great New England Vampire Panic by Abigail Tucket for the Smithsonian

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