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The Vampire of Rhode Island

The Vampire of Rhode Island

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In 1892 a young woman named Mercy Lena Brown died of tuberculosis in Rhode Island. Her mother and sister had also died of the disease and two months later her brother was about to die from it as well. What do you do in a situation like that? Why, you dig up Lena’s grave to see if she’s a vampire, of course! Today we tell the story of one of the last “vampires” in New England, where two centuries of...

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