Eat Your Heart Out, Mercy Brown: America's First Vampire

Ghoulish Tendencies

English - October 20, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 120 MB - ★★★★★ - 64 ratings
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During the New England Vampire Panic, townspeople exhumed their loved ones, burned their hearts, and fed the ashes to the ill in hopes it would heal them. However, Mercy Brown is one of the best documented cases of the exhumation of a corpse to perform such rituals with goals to banish an undead manifestation - to get rid of the "vampire."

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Researched, Written, Edited & Produced by Gabi Fiore

Music by Dan Moretti