Vampires, Exeter and Smithsonian Magazine

This image of Mercy Brown's headstone, along with an 

article featuring Exeter, RI, appears in the 

October 2012 issue of Smithsonian Magazine.

You may remember that back in December of last year, we featured a post about a visit to our humble  litte town by Smithsonian Magazine author Abby Tucker. Abby was here to do research on an article she was writing about vampires in New England, and wanted to get the REAL story about our own "vampire", Mercy Brown, directly from EHA President Sheila Reynolds-Boothroyd.


All this was no ghost story! The Great New England Vampire Panic appears in the October 2012 issue. Not only does the article contain quotes from Sheila, as well as RI paranormal historian Michael Bell, but Exeter, RI is mentioned numerous times. 

It's well worth the read - and you may find yourself marveling over the similarities of the vampire hunters of yesteryear, and those that come to Exeter looking for Mercy's grave to this very day!