Another day, another cemetery safari, Jeff.

Yeah, we find ourselves in plenty of New England bone yards, don't we?

We do.

So today we're in Dumberston Center Cemetery in Dumberston, Vermont.

It's a pretty good-sized cemetery.

If I had to guess, there's maybe 817 graves here. 817 graves. That's incredibly

specific. Yeah, well, I've looked it up before we got here. What was still, it's a lot of burials to get

through. Oh, all right. Who are we looking for? So the good news is we're looking for the Spalding

family. So not just one grave, but a bunch of graves in a row, all with the same family name. the Spalding family. So not just one grave, but a bunch of graves in a row,

all with the same family name. The Spalding family. Got it. That should make them a little easier to

find. This is the older part of the cemetery. I'm seeing early 1800s graves here. Oh, in some

late 1700s. Hey, hey, look, there they are. Yeah, I see it. There's

about a dozen of them in a row. This is the spot, Ray, ground zero for a sinister story of a horrible

vine that ran from one grave to the next as members of the Spalding family were buried. As the vine

reached the last grave, they say the next Spalding turned into a vampire

and then soon died. We're in Vermont exploring the curse of the Dumberston Cemetery Vine.

Hello, I'm Jeff Belanger, and welcome to episode 310 of the New England Legends podcast.

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