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Aug 14
18m 20s

When the Dead Came Back

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In the winter of 1892, the quiet town of Exeter, Rhode Island, became the stage for one of New England’s most infamous cases of vampire panic. Tuberculosis, then called “consumption”, was killing families one by one, and superstition filled the gaps science couldn’t explain. When 19-year-old Mercy Brown died, neighbors whispered she wasn’t at rest… that she was undead and feeding on her brother from beyond the grave. 
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