Dod Miller / Getty Images A little more than a century ago, vampires stalked Rhode Island. Or rather, New England farm families were digging up dead relatives suspected of being vampires and ...

The tale he always returns to is in many ways the quintessential American vampire story, one of the last cases in New England and the first he investigated as a new PhD coming to Rhode Island in ...

For more than a hundred years, in the 18th- and 19th-centuries, a vampire scare gripped rural New England, with townsfolk believing that invisible spirits were preying on their loved ones.

Vampires have been a part of folklore for hundreds of years, but in parts of New England in the 18th and 19th centuries, they were a very real. Let's talk about the New England Vampire Panic.

And, perhaps most surprisingly of all, one of the last big vampire scares occurred in 19th century New England, two centuries after the infamous Salem witch trials. In 1892, 19-year-old Mercy ...

This created the lore of one of one of the most popular New England’s vampire stories. But New England has many ghost, vampire and witch stories. New England legends has an app to help people ...

There's a ton of mystery and lore that surrounds vampires, those blood-sucking creatures of the night, but what really inspired those tales? One related event caused the New England Vampire Panic!

So real was the fear, it became known as the "The Great New England Vampire Panic," according to Smithsonian. Scientists have rendered a 3D reconstruction (R) of a skull exhumed in 1990.

The results were presented at a conference in 2022. New England was swept by a "vampire panic" When archaeologists talk about "vampires" they don't mean the blood-sucking immortal beings seen in ...

Tracing the family trees of the GEDmatch matches led to ancestors with the surname Barber living in New England in the 18th ... a 19th Century Vampire Buried in Griswold, Connecticut.

Is it a memoir of a man's relationship with a friend or with a New England vampire? NPR's Shannon Bond talks to Paul Tremblay about his deliciously confusing thriller, "The Pallbearer's Club.