1892年，罗得岛一家人为了救病人，把死去女儿的心脏挖出来烧了

In New England, USA, in the nineteenth century there was a wave of "vampire panic," related to a disease: tuberculosis, then called "consumption."

In Exeter, Rhode Island, a farmer named Brown lost several people in a few years: first his wife, then his eldest daughter, then his son Edwin fell ill. Later his youngest daughter Mercy, nineteen, also died, in January 1892.

The neighbors said the dead were sucking the blood of the living. They went to the father and asked to dig up graves. The father disagreed at first, but was eventually persuaded.

In March 1892, several men and a doctor opened three graves. The first two had long since rotted into bones, but only Mercy's corpse, because it was winter and kept in a semi-underground cold storage, remained fairly intact, with "fresh blood" in her chest cavity. The doctor examined it and said it was normal, not a vampire.

But the villagers still took out her heart, burned it to ashes on a stone, mixed the ashes into a potion, and had Edwin drink it.

Two months later, Edwin still died.

This is one of the last recorded vampire exhumations in America. Some say Bram Stoker read reports of this case when writing Dracula. Mercy's grave is still there, and people often leave things on her tombstone, such as flowers and coins.

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