Gadsden Hotel, Douglas
The following article entitled ‘Ghosts said to mingle with guests at haunted Arizona hotel’ by Tim Gaynor of Reuters appeared on the Canadian CNEWS website on 31 October 2012
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East 9th Street, Gravesend
On 15 August 2012 the New York Daily News featured the following story by Mark Morales entitled ‘Gravesend woman’s sci-fi tale about living in a haunted house featured in SyFy reality show’.
Jewett City Vampires
The following article by Megan Baird entitled ‘In 1854, vampire panic struck Connecticut town’ was published in the Register Citizen on 2 November 2008.
GRISWOLD, Conn. (AP) — In May of 1854, the Ray family of Jewett City was frantic.
Nancy Levi New England Vampire
The Foster town records dated 14 October 1892 give the following account of the case of Nancy Levi who was died of consumption on 6 April 1827 but was subsequently exhumed and burned in a belief that this could prevent further deaths of the disease in her family.
The Great New England Vampire Panic
Over the last few weeks I have been adding articles about some of the vampires found throughout New England that were associated with tuberculosis deaths.
Consumption Vine, Dummerston
Tuberculosis has been known by various names throughout history, phthisis, scrofula, Pott’s disease, white plague and of course, consumption. There are several cases throughout New England where a fear of the disease and the lack of medical knowledge to treat it, led to people seeking a supernatural explanation and a cure in old folklore.
Woodstock Vampire
Named after Woodstock in Oxfordshire, England, Woodstock was first settled in 1768. Six decades later, in 1829 a case of vampirism linked to consumption was suspected.
Rachel Burton (nee Harris), Vampire of Manchester
Captain Isaac Burton and Rachel Harris (stepdaughter of Esquire Powel) married on March 8, 1789. Unfortunately the marriage did not last long and she died of consumption (Tubercolosis) on 1 February 1790, after which she was considered by some to have become a vampire.
Mary Lena Brown, Chestnut Hill Baptist Church Cemetery
Rhode Island has a few cases that were by some considered to involve vampires. One of these suspected vampires was Mercy Lena Brown who died of consumption (tuberculosis) on 18 January 1892, aged 19.
The Horror of Gyb Farm edited by Richard Holland
Within this book, The Horror of Gyb Farm, Richard Holland has collated and edited the works of a pioneering and yet relatively unknown paranormal researcher, Frederick George Lee (born 1832-1902). Between 1875 and 1894 F.G.
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