Storical Halloween Special: Mercy Brown AND THE NEW England Vampire Panic

We all know about Eastern European vampires but did you know that right here in America we had our own vampire panic? Yup. It turns out New England was kind of a scary place the first 200 years of colonial and then American rule. Listen to today’s episode to learn about the New England Vampire Panic and Mercy Brown, the teenaged purported vampire. Further Reading The Great New England Vampire Panic , Smithsonian Magazine The Last American Vampire , History Food for the Dead: On the Trail of New England’s Vampires by Michael E. Bell

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Storical Halloween Special: Mercy Brown AND THE NEW England Vampire Panic is an episode from Storical Podcast by JT Siems.

This episode is 00:09:29 long.

This episode was published on Oct 31, 2022.

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