Murder, She Told

One Strange Thing: Mercy Brown, Rhode Island Vampire

Murder, She Told

Show Notes

Happy Halloween! This week I wanted to bring you a fun and fascinating Halloween season bonus from my friend, Laurah Norton of The Fall Line.

This is One Strange Thing: a podcast that brings you witty true stories of ghost sightings, strange disappearances, supernatural events and famous cryptids, creatures, UFOs and lore from small town America.

This episode is The Cure: "Mercy Brown, Rhode Island vampire—or, allegedly so—is considered to be the last of the state’s unfortunate focal points in its 19th century vampire panics; but like so many other supernatural superstitions we dig into, there’s much more beneath the surface. The Exeter Vampire panic is more complex, and perhaps distorted, than we’ve been led to believe. . . all through the haze and horror of the plague of tuberculosis."

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