Much like the Salem Witch Trials, the New England Vampire panic was born out of fear and the unknown, or maybe even just the fear of the unknown. There were upwards of 80 victims of the panic, Mercy Brown was just one of them, but, one of the most famous and probably the muse for the character Lucy in Bram Stokers novel Dracula.
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Below is a list of resources used during the research and telling of this story. (partial)
Information
http://exhibits.hsl.virginia.edu/alav/tuberculosis/
https://allthatsinteresting.com/mercy-brown-vampire
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6628164/mercy-lena-brown
https://www.history.com/news/the-last-american-vampire
https://www.ufoinsight.com/the-bone-chilling-case-of-mercy-brown/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-great-new-england-vampire-panic-36482878/
https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/01/16/the-story-of-mercy-brown-new-englands-last-vampire/
Videos
(this is the one Hayley wouldn’t let me finish listening to)
and of course Ancestry.com, MyHeritage.com, Newspaperarchives, FamilySearch.org
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