The cases of Vampires all over the world before, during and after “Dracula” both seduces and frightened u but the case of Mercy Brown, the Rhode Island Vampire now here's a FRIGHTENING story!!!!
Mercy Brown has the distinction of being the last of the
North American vampires-at least in the traditional sense. Mercy Lena Brown was a farmer’s daughter and
an upstanding member of rural Exeter, Rhode Island. On March 17, 1892, Mercy’s body was exhumed
from the cemetery because members of the community suspected the vampire Mercy
Brown was attacking her dying brother, Edwin.
The Brown family had tragic loss after loss. Consumption (known to us today as pulmonary
tuberculosis) took its first victim from the Brown family in Dec. 1883 when it
took Mercy’s mother, Mary Brown. Seven
months later, the Brown’s eldest daughter, Mary Olive, also died of
consumption. The Brown’s only son, Edwin
contracted the disease and was sent away for treatment. But the treatment could not help Edwin as he
continued to get worse, so he returned home to die. Mercy by this time had contracted the disease
as well and shortly died after Edwin returned.
Her grave is located in Exeter,
Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Number 22 behind the Chestnut Hill Baptist
Church.
George Brown began to panic!
He had lost his wife, two daughters and now his only son. The doctors
back then had no explanation for what had taken the lives of his family. Rumors of vampires in this area were commonly
talked about back in the 1800’s. George
felt his family was cursed. He was
willing to do ANYTHING to stop the evil that was plaguing his family. He WAS EVEN willing to dig up the body of his
deceased daughter, remove her heart, burn it, and feed the ashes to his son
because he felt he had no other choice. YUCK!!! YUCK!!! YUCK!!!! (Sorry, but that
is YUCKY)
Folklore says that after that….Mercy turned over in her
grave!!! There’s a newspaper report that
says she wasn’t actually interred in the ground. She
was actually buried in an above-ground crypt, because bodies were stored in the
wintertime when the ground was frozen and they couldn’t really dig a hole. When the spring came, they would bury
them then.
Because of the questions concerning Mercy’s body, they had her
body examined. The report stated that “her
heart and liver had blood in it. And it
was LIQUID blood which meant to them that is was FRESH”!
Even though Mr. Brown believed that “cutting out the heart
of a vampire, burning it and feeding it to a victim, would kill the vampire and
the victim would have the curse of the vampire broken and would heal, Mr. Brown’s
son still died a couple months later.
Today some claim to see Mercy Brown’s spirit near her
headstone. Others have also spotted a
glowing ball of light above her grave.
Is Mercy looking for her HEART or her next “taste of BLOOD”?????
I would LOVE to know if anyone else have heard about Mercy or has visited her grave. :)
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