They Burned Her Heart and Fed It to Her Brother _The Real Mercy Brown Story_
In March of 1892, in a frozen farm town in Rhode Island, a group of neighbors carried a nineteen-year-old girl out of a stone crypt. She had been dead for two months. A doctor cut her open, the men standing around said her heart still had blood in it, and they burned it on a rock. Then they stirred the ashes into a drink and handed it to her dying brother.This is the story of Mercy Brown, and the New England "vampire" panic that Mercy's name has come to stand for.In this episode, we cover:
A family that buried a mother and two daughters in eight years, and a son who followed the same path…
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