The Great New England Vampire Panic

New England's gruesome brush with supernatural hysteria did not end with the Salem witch trials in the 17^th century.  Almost two centuries later came the great New England vampire panic.  Wait… what?  Abigail Tucker is a staff writer for Smithosonian magazine – she wrote about historians who are documenting cases when rural residents set aside their Yankee piety and feverishly exhumed graves and mutilated the corpses of suspected blood-suckers.  The panic is largely forgotten by history  – but with Halloween creeping up, and our Edgar Allen Poe special airing tomorrow, we thought it was a perfect time to dig it up.