The Smithsonian magazine has a long article on “The Great New England Vampire Panic”. The story is based on the work of a consulting folklorist at the Rhode Island Historical Preservation & Heritage Commission, who has documented…
“80 exhumations […] concentrated in backwoods New England, in the 1800s” […] “The public hysteria almost invariably occurred in the midst of savage tuberculosis outbreaks”
Dr.s Nick Bellantoni, Michael Bell and Linford Fisher, who are interviewed in the Smithsonian magazine’s “Vampire Panic” article, appear in The Tillinghast Nightmare documentary. The documentary’s Facebook page has a video clip of the wonderful raconteur, CT State Archeologist, Nick Bellantoni explaining the evolution of the practice of marking graves.