The Tale of Mercy Brown
Rhode Island’s home to many a haunted house — including the one that inspired The Conjuring — but one legend you can experience without trespassing is the tale of Mercy Brown. It seemed that back in the day Rhode Island was in the midst of a vampire panic, and its most famous victim was 19-year-old Mercy Brown. After Mercy’s mother and sister died she succumbed to tuberculosis as well. Due to the panic, villagers presumed…
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