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with had something deadly may have one stock to the villages
up the win
it was a very very frightening thing
with killing a lot of people your
historical evidence indicates people believed vampires
were behind a series of deaths the 19th century do strange graves investigated
by monster quest told
this again prove a creature got to be a myth
when I met a lot of people who claim to be dampers
when I feel I can feel that russians for my body
I've become very very powerful
using state-of-the-art technology monsterQuest examines the evidence
in the past in my a lower predict unmarked graves
all these things can give somebody an idea that oh my goodness
the body it is still a lot and tests to people who say
they are vampires today I have the results are for complete blood count
one point in almost went up to 2 that meter I've never seen over one T the
witnesses around the world record
the night sleeping tight
Commission signs searches for
on monsterQuest in the peaceful cemeteries are doing Linda
there is evidence other nominees presence that haunted
the past I'm that evidence does the word
vampire no
is the key to a plague of fear that swept through small towns and villages
over the course of more than one hundred years
beginning in the late seventeen hundreds
thousands of people were dying each year other mysterious disease
is the explanation medical
or other world
at least some began calling the deadly condition
the vampire grouch global wintertime
you never really saw what was killing you so as bill just %uh dropping like
flies
they would go into got that first person that died believing that he was the
cause
the idea that illnesses caused by dead people
is universal it seems a small step from the idea that the
dad can come back to kill you legends a vampire stretch back thousands of years
consigns known prove or disprove the existence
to do that you must define with a vampire is
today we think a blood-sucking count
who sleeps by day in stock by night biting the victim's neck with long fangs
but that's a modern idea inspired by Hollywood
in ancient times about on par with someone who was found dead
that somehow preyed upon the living stealing their life force
for their blood I
in India develop our appeared as woman with forearms
name Cali
legends in Malaysia describe a woman named lines we're
with long black hair and nails and in eighteen century New England
the vampire was described as a person risen from the grave
to somehow steal the life force or blood
from the living a vampire something that that can survive without
praying on others monsterQuest will go to New England evaluating the evidence
behind the epidemic
alleged vampire killings little
the investigation will also dole far into the vampire legends of Europe
looking for the source
on the New England phenomenon
finally the investigation focuses on the present
using medical and industrial technology to seek
physical traces vampirism
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and
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I'll the New England investigation begins in Griswold Connecticut
were in 1820 a man is laid to rest in the town cemetery next to his wife and
daughter
my his name is lost to history
but a pattern of nails on his coffin indicates
that his initials would JB and that he died at age 55
JB's coffin is buried and forgotten
major gradually replacing the cemetery
that contains him base he was a farming family cemetery where they bury their
dead in the backyard
in nineteen ninety 180 years after his death
children at play in a gravel pit stumbled across a skeleton
had a full-scale archaeological excavation in Sue's
and the 19th century skeletons up twenty-nine people were discovered
doctor nicholas bill and Tony
the state archeologist Connecticut Google was first on the scene
the discovery the bones JB great but when the team began to excavate JB's
grape
they made a shocking discovery the evidence shows JB's body was exhumed
mutilated and his bones rearranged into an ex
the symbol of death the femurs or the five balls had been
dislodged from the in atomic opposition and cost
over the chest area
it happened about five years after his death and only to him
and none of the others here he said a fine individual
skillfully in in atomically in their position
his scholar have been decapitated then rotated to face the West
also his are rips had been broken into
a question of course re I was why I'm
because no records of who JB was exist
history cannot tell us why he was suspected of being a vampire
put science might JB's bones are now held in the military medical
archive in Washington DC home
an analysis of those bones could explain his cause of death
and provide clues to why such elaborate rituals were undertaken
I'm and there are several other suspected them hard cases
that also could offer evidence for the investigation
when I first encountered the this vampire thing
I thought it was probably if not you need just a very very rare thing
the more research I did the more cases I am covered it had to be a lot more
widespread
than most people with think Michael Bell is an author
and anthropologist the new he's been studying vampire legends for forty years
bill is turned up an important new PC evidence
in a small Connecticut town called Wellington
no he and bill in Tony together will pursue clues found in obscure newspaper
article from Wellington
one of the town's hardest hit by a mysterious and deadly plague
some what is this new case thing you said you've got good so
a letter to the local newspaper from the town clerk
of Wellington at the time and he's basically complaining
about what he calls a foreign quack doctor who's been
kinda pushing this prescription this killer
the Cure exhume the body and look for vines growing through the cough
pick up those fines takeout the vital organs
you burn all that stuff and that takes care of the problem
the letter writer claims he witnessed a local man named Isaac Johnson exhume the
bodies of his two children
to perform a cure this two hundred and twenty year old letter is the
only written evidence for the period that connects the epidemic
with something other-worldly or supernatural
on
Bell and bill in Tony need to find the Johnson children's bodies
if they can the bodies could provide evidence why some movies do in lenders
were believed to be vampires
they decide to head to Wellington with the letter originated
and with the Isaac Johnson family may have to perform the rituals
it describes the new we want to check
cemeteries death records obituaries
old newspapers you know it's a long search but it's possible
the bill things New England's vampire believes may have originated
in the Eastern Europe on I don't think they invented it all by themselves here
I'm sure that this practice
this European drive to it's identical
to what's been done in Eastern Europe for centuries the rituals there were
inspired by stories told
vampires and passed from generation to generation
is there any scientific proof ODIs vampire tales
at least one is based in fact
that centers on a woman in sixteenth-century hungry
account is named Elizabeth battery a real person
born in 1560 she became a renowned for her blood ***
eventually becoming known has the blood
compass the legend has it that one day she is in room getting ready
one ever handmaidens I guess got cut or something and blood ended up on her face
and she wiped it away she noticed that her skin was wider younger looking
underneath
she became transfixed by blood
Glide is intimately involved in life and death
in sacks in giving birth and cleansing
in healing and so glad is involved in so many human transactions
that it has come to be understood as a sacred substance
no and battery began a brutal *** spree
killing her female servants for their blood Soto to set something on your mind
that if she were to
regularly basin this blood and really douse yourself with it
she would I look young longer and she started bathing in blood
for millions their biggest town is like 650 girls died in her hand could she was
eventually jail for crimes
and died behind bars there is no solid evidence battery ever actually
drank the blood over victims and no way to scientifically
tester for vampire treats but her story helped fuel the fears about empires
already rampant in the Eastern Europe these fears led to mutilations of the
day
to break the vampire occurs and there is evidence many of the European victims
may have been suffering from the disease
possibly the same one that afflicted the suspect in vampires in with
can medical science provide immense
until they diet and disease
they exhibit these symptoms which might be confused with
or attributed to the samper's
means the investigation into the vampire scare in nineteenth-century New England
is focusing first on the only solid physical evidence
ever discovered the bones are the man identified only by the initials
JB on an analysis of his bones may explain why he died
good why he was mutilated can't be definitively proven
because there is no written record of him but there is a record have another
vampire craze
this one in Exeter Rhode Island it took place in 1892
about seventy years after GB dying
newspaper accounts tell the tale 19-year-old mercy brown
who died of a mysterious films the same illness that killed her mother
and older sister before then she had a brother named at one
got sec Mercy's father was desperate to save his son
Edwin people in the family and the community went to Mercy's father
George Brown and put pressure on him really to
come out to the cemetery and and
try the soul folk remedy they believe that Mursi had become
vampire after she died and was rising from her grave stealing the line force
have her brother in New England it was like an evil spirit was inhabiting
wanna your family members heart and that evil spirit was drawing blood from a
living
to sustain itself
to confirm their suspicions mercies coffin was exhumed
two months after she died they were looking for signs that
something was keeping this supposedly dead body
ha with a life and fresh the eye-witnesses apparently saw the signs
they were looking for
the talk about hair and fingernails growing
the face beamed flush in ragged and full of color
this was all the proof they needed to act
mercies heart was cut out and burned to ashes
but that was only the first part of the ritual to break
the vampire's curse according to the newspaper's
the I'll said the ashes to her brother and one
didn't do it when much good because that when
passed away and make my
but was the brown family really being wiped out by something supernatural
or is there a scientific explanation for what the eye witnesses saw
mercy brown died a what they call consumption
at least that was the official cause of death
her body remains buried solar fact
can't be verified by the investigators them
but in nineteenth-century America consumption claimed more lives
than any other disease
consumption was the original name for tuberculosis
an ancient and deadly disease that has plagued civilizations
reaching back five millennia tuberculosis
is an infectious disease that's passed by
droplets a sputum that carry the tubercle bacillus
dog Lawrence Ozias as in New York position
person loses weight
person coughs person has fever person get short of breath
decreased energy it's a chronic wasting condition
home but real