Case file · Folklore / legend
Mercy Brown vampire incident
In January 1892, neighbours in Exeter, Rhode Island, exhumed members of the Brown family, believing one of the dead was draining the living.
1892 CE · 41.58, -71.54 · status: explained
The account
Several of George and Mary Brown's family had died of consumption (tuberculosis). It is the best-documented case of the New England vampire panic.
The sceptical view
The family was dying of tuberculosis, a contagious disease spreading within the household.
Connections in the atlas
- Martha Dwight exhumed, Belchertown
- Chestnut Hill Cemetery (Mercy Brown)
- Vampire (upir)
- New Ipswich exhumation
- Rachel Burton exhumed, Manchester VT
- Frederick Ransom's heart burned
- The Jewett City vampires
- 'JB 55', the Griswold vampire burial
- The Highgate Vampire
- Arnold Paole, the Serbian vampire