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Legends Vault and revisit another legendary episode. Hey kids, welcome to the vault. Welcome to the

vault. This week, we are exploring the Rhode Island Vampire. First aired March 28th, 2019. Enjoy. There are such beings as vampires. Some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past, give proof enough for sane people's... Jeff, what are you reading? Oh, Bram Stoker's Dracula. Oh, Oh, that's a classic. I love that. Yeah. Now, why are you reading it to me in a graveyard in Exeter, Rhode Island, though? Because just behind us, Ray, lie the remains of Mercy Brown, the Rhode Island vampire. I'm Jeff Belanger, and welcome to episode 84 of the New England Legends podcast.

If you give us about 10 minutes, we'll give you something strange to talk about today.

And I'm Ray Osier. We appreciate you joining us on this mission to chronicle every legend in New England one week and one story at a time.

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podcasts, or wherever you're listening right now. But do us a favor and post a review. Tell your friends, because that's how others find us. All right, Jeff, so you're telling me there's a vampire buried right behind us in Chestnut Hill Cemetery? Well, that's what some locals believed back in 1892, and what they did about it was so gruesome that it made the news. Oh, man. All right, so let me grab some garlic, holy water,

and a wooden steak while we set this up.

It's the early 1880s in the southern Rhode Island town of Exeter, and locals are on edge because

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