Episode 37: MERCY BROWN and the Vampires of New England
New England in the 1800s was gripped with a vampire panic. Belief in the undead rising from their graves at night to feed off the living, spreading pestilence and disease, was rampant, and as families watched their children grow sickly and pale, struggling to breathe and withering away, they saw no choice but to seek out the offending creatures of the night, by digging up their corpses, hacking out their hearts and livers, burning them, and then consuming the ashes. It was seen as the only way to cure the affliction. In reality, tuberculosis was spreading throughout the small farms and…
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