The Curse of the Dummerston Cemetery Vine

New England Legends Podcast

Jeff Belanger

History, Paranormal, Ghosts, Folklore, Places & Travel, Monsters, Society & Culture, Legends, Newengland

4.8 • 951 Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 310 Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger take a cemetery safari to Dummerston, Vermont, looking for the graves of the Spauldings -- a family plagued by vampires in the late 1700s. They say a sinister black root creeped and crawled from one Spaulding grave to the next. When it reaches the last casket, the next Spaulding would soon get sick and then die. Was it a curse, or just bad luck during a pandemic? Either way, the Spauldings dug up their family graves and did something drastic to break the vampire’s curse.

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0:00.0	Another day, another cemetery,
0:05.0	another cemetery safari, Jeff.
0:08.0	Yeah, we find ourselves in plenty of New England bone yards, don't we?
0:11.6	We do. So today we're in Dummerston
0:13.2	Center Cemetery in Dummerston, Vermont. It's a pretty good size cemetery.
0:17.6	If I had to guess there's maybe 817 graves here. 817 graves here. 817 graves. That's incredibly specific.
0:27.0	Yeah, well I've looked it up before we got here.
0:28.8	What was still? It's a lot of burials to get through.
0:31.2	Oh, all right, who are we looking for? Oh all right who are we're looking for the
0:34.4	spalding family so not just one grave but a bunch of graves in a row all with the same
0:39.6	family name the spalding family got it That should make them a little easier to find.
0:46.0	This is the older part of the cemetery. I'm seeing early 1800s graves here.
0:51.0	Oh, in some late 1700s. Hey hey look there they are yeah I see it there's
0:56.2	about a dozen of them in a row. This is the spot ray ground zero for a sinister
1:01.2	story of a horrible vine that ran from one grave to the next as
1:05.1	members of the Spalding family were buried. As the vine reached the last grave
1:09.7	they say the next Spalding turned into a vampire and then soon died.
1:15.0	We're in Vermont exploring the curse of the Dummerston Cemetery Vine.
1:19.8	Hello, I'm Jeff Belanger, and welcome to episode 310 of the New England Legends
1:28.0	podcast.
1:29.0	And I'm Ray Oger.
1:30.0	Thanks for joining us on our mission to chronicle every legend in New England one story at a time.
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