Recently a friend asked me if I knew much about vampire history in New York. I didn’t. Mostly because there isn’t much from a historic perspective, the closest is the New England Vampire Panic . The Panic that hit the United States in the 1730s was largely a response to tuberculosis and normal human decay. But neither of those topics were broadly, or scientifically understood enough at the time. The fun fact is that Bram Stoker took more from the New England Vampire Panic and

One of the most famous tragedies from colonial New England was the Salem Witch Trial's. These trials took place about a century earlier than the New England Vampire Panic , and yet the Vampire Panic is much less well known. Let's talk about the history of the New England Vampire Panic. When Tuberculosis came to South Eastern Connecticut and Rhode Island in the 1730s, it wasn’t immediately clear what was happening. By the 1800s when the Vampire Panic was in full swing, Tubercu