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.

"The vampire scare was real in New England in the 1800s." In a moment of fear during the "Great New England Vampire Panic," families were digging up their deceased relatives to ensure they ...

After 30 years, archaeologists and historians have identified New England’s only known “vampire,” reports Michael E. Ruane at The Washington Post. He wasn’t some dark, cloaked figure out ...

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 ...

Just as his mother had. They died of tuberculosis — known then as consumption. The Mercy Brown incident was the last known case of The New England Vampire panic. "Most of the time I’m dealing with the ...

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 ...

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 ...

But Michael E. Bell, author of "Food for the Dead: On the New England's Vampire," says he has unearthed unholy evidence that a form of "vampirism" existed in New England as far back as 1784 and ...

Blood of the Tribades, a modern twist on the arthouse/Hammer vampire films of the 1970s, took home “Best New England Film” at the Boston Underground Film Festival (BUFF) this past weekend.