Case: GG-2026-004
Status: Historic
Documentation rating: B
Location: Exeter, Rhode Island
The Mercy Brown Vampire Incident occurred in March 1892 in Exeter, Rhode Island. It remains the most famous, late-stage case of the New England Vampire Panic—a period during the 19th century when widespread tuberculosis (then called "consumption") outbreaks drove frightened rural communities to turn to folk remedies involving exhuming deceased relatives to stop the spread of illness.
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