Mercy Brown the Vampire
10-Day Shortform Challenge: Day 3
Fun Fact: There were vampires in the US.
In the 1800s, the residents of New England believed vampires had caused an alarming number of deaths. These creatures would slowly suck their victim’s blood, so that, after their inevitable deaths, they’d become vampires, too.
The residents would dig up their loved one’s bodies and burn their organs to stop the spread of the disease, despite the diagnosis of consumption from their doctors.
The most famous case is from Rhode Island. After consumption took several members of his family, George Brown’s neighbors convinced him to dig up his daughter Mercy, whose body they found well-preserved. Was it the chilly March weather?
No, she was a vampire.
They removed her heart, burned it and added the ashes to her younger brother’s medicine, only for him to die two months later.
Crazy humans.
