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If you love a good southern ghost story, you know
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that the best haunting tales aren't just about what lurks
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in the dark. They're about the history, the mood, and
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the things left behind. If you're looking to bring a
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piece of that dark romantic magic into your own life,
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you need to know about Haunted. Located right in the
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heart of downtown Tullahoma, Tennessee, at 125 West Lincoln Street,
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and alternative. We're talking eerie home decor, dark academia apparel, oddities,
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graphic tees, and curated self-care for souls who prefer the
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shadow side of life. Can't make the trip to Tullahoma
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for all our fellow dark holiday lovers, Haunted is proud
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horror fun. Visit them at 125 West Lincoln Street in Tullahoma,
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or shop online right now at hauntedstore.net. Welcome back to
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Southern Ghost Stories. I'm the American Hauntstorian, Alan Searcy. So
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normally on Mondays, I drop a From the Bald episode.
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I did that yesterday. because there's just so much going on,
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and I wanted to shake things up just a little bit. So,
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but first, if you're enjoying the show, please leave a
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review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, wherever you found the show.
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It really helps new listeners find the show, and I
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definitely appreciate you guys listening, and any reviews are always appreciated. So,
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fall is here, and you know what that means. The
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Ghost of Gallatin Haunted Tour is back for the 2026 season.
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Join me on the historic Gallatin Square as we explore
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the darker side of Sumner County history. And here are
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the ghost stories and legends I've been collecting for years.
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True crime, a haunted governor's mansion, and there's a mannequin
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that may or may not move on its own. It's
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pretty creepy. So I've been running these tours since 2019,
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and it never fails that every week or two, someone
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will take a photo of something eerie, and I just
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can't explain it. The town was occupied during the Civil War.
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All three churches on Main Street, they were hospitals. Union
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General Ezra Payne was hanging rebel soldiers behind the courthouse
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right there on the square. North Water, it burned to
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the ground three different times during Reconstruction. So tours run
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Friday and Saturday nights through Halloween, and private tours are
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also available. I can do those during the week. You
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can go to ghostofgalveston.com for tickets and more information, or
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if you want to reach out to me about a
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private tour. And I've also got two new books out
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just in time for spooky season. I've been telling you guys,
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I know I mentioned it, I released Arson of Ghana
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a few weeks ago. And if you haven't, make sure
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to check that one out. It's a crazy story about
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a serial killer. She was the first lady executed in Ohio,
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Anna Hahn. She was a caregiver. She was a nurse
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taking care of older men, and she would just poison
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them and find ways to get in their will and
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just take all their money. It's crazy what this lady did. Like,
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Hollywood couldn't make this stuff up. So there's two more
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books I want to talk about. So Fear and Folklore Vampires.
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They're working on this off and on for several years.
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An explorer is a terrifying legend, strange beliefs, and the
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real history behind one of folklore's most enduring monsters. So
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when we hear the word vampire today, we tend to
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picture Dracula, a pale figure rising from a coffin at night,
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drinking blood and hiding from the morning sun. But in
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19th century New England, belief in the undead took a
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very different and very real form. For generations, families in
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places like Rhode Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont were sometimes
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confronted by a terrifying pattern. One member of a household
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would become sick. They would grow pale and weak. They
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would lose weight. Their eyes would sink into their face.
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They might cough violently and eventually begin coughing up blood.
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And then they would die. And sometimes afterward, another member
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of the same family would begin wasting away. Then another
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Today we know what was happening. It was tuberculosis or
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consumption is what they called it. They called it consumption
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because the disease would consume its victims from the inside.
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Tuberculosis could spread among people living in close contact which
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meant that when it entered a household several members of
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the same family might become infected. They usually did. But
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tuberculosis could also progress slowly. Someone might become infected and
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not develop serious symptoms until much later And that created
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an especially frightening illusion. A mother could die. Months later,
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her daughter would become sick. Then a son began wasting away.
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To people who don't understand and didn't understand bacteria and
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the mechanics of infectious disease, it could appear that the
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first person who died was somehow responsible for what was
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happening to everyone else. Something in the grave was consuming
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the living. And that idea helped fuel what has become
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known as the New England Vampire Panic. The word vampire
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wasn't necessarily what these families themselves used. This wasn't usually
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a belief in sophisticated supernatural creatures roaming the countryside at night. Instead,
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there was a folk belief that a deceased relative could
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somehow continue feeding upon the life of surviving family members.
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And there's only one way to find out. They had
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to open the grave. Across New England, there were documented
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accounts of bodies being exhumed so that relatives and neighbors
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could examine the corpse for signs that it was unnaturally preserved. Unfortunately,
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decomposition itself could provide exactly the evidence they were looking for.
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A corpse might become bloated. Fluids could emerge from the mouth.
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Internal organs could contain liquid or clotted blood. Hair and
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fingernails could appear to have continued growing as the surrounding
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skin receded. To someone unfamiliar with decomposition, these weren't natural processes.
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They were evidence that the dead person wasn't dead. Depending
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on the community, the supposed vampire might be turned face
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down in the grave. In other cases, the organs were
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removed and burned. Sometimes the ashes were used as kind
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of a medicine for the surviving family member. One of
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the most disturbing examples was discovered in Griswold, Connecticut, where
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researchers examined the remains of a man whose grave had
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apparently been disturbed several years after his death. His skull
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and thigh bones had been deliberately rearranged. Modern examination suggested
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that he probably suffered from tuberculosis or a similar lung disease.
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But the most famous case occurred much later, in 1892.
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And that's what makes the story of Mercy Brown so extraordinary.
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Mercy lived with her family in Rhode Island. Tuberculosis had
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devastated the Brown household. Her mother, Mary, died from consumption.
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Her sister Mary Olive followed. Eventually, Mercy herself became sick
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and died. Meanwhile, her brother Edwin was dying from the
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same disease. And by this point, people in the community
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began wondering whether one of the dead Brown women was
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somehow responsible for Edwin's illness. Mercy's father, George Brown, apparently
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wasn't convinced, but he eventually allowed the bodies to be examined.
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Mercy's mother and sister had been dead for years and
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had largely decomposed. But Mercy, she was different. She had
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died only a short time earlier, during a New England winter,
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and her body had been kept in cold conditions. As
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a result, decomposition had dramatically slowed. When they examined her body,
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they found it unusually well-preserved. Then they removed her heart
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and liver. There was blood in her heart. For believers,
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they had found a vampire. Of course, There was a
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perfectly natural explanation. Mercy had only recently died, and the
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winter cold had essentially refrigerated her body. Even the doctor
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present reportedly pointed to tuberculosis. But the ritual continued. Mercy's
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heart and liver were burned. The ashes were mixed into
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a preparation that was given to her dying brother Edwin
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in the hope that it would break whatever supernatural connection
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existed between the living and the dead. But it didn't.
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Edward Brown died less than two months later. What makes
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the Mercy Brown case so fascinating is the date. This
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wasn't colonial America. This wasn't the age of the Salem
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witch trials. This was 1892. By then, telephones existed. Electric
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lights were appearing in American cities. Railroads crossed the country.
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But then again, there was no antibiotic treatment. The first
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antibiotic didn't come out until 1940. So imagine being a
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family in rural New England. You watch your wife die,
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and then your daughter, then your other daughter. Now your
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son begins coughing blood and wasting away right in front
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of you. The doctor can give the illness a name,
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but he can't stop it. And your neighbors tell you
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that there's one last thing you can try. You have
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to open the graves. That's what makes the New England
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Vampire Panic so much more interesting than a simple story
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about superstition. These people weren't necessarily afraid of a monster
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lurking outside their homes. They were afraid of something much worse.
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A disease they couldn't see, couldn't understand, and they simply
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couldn't stop. And ironically, they were partly right about one thing.
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Something very really was passing from one member of the
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family to another. It wasn't the dead feeding on the living.
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It was tuberculosis. So I have another book coming out also,
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and I can't forget about it. Ghost Stories and Graveyard
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Tales in Indiana. It takes you through the Hoosier state
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in search of haunted places, eerie legends, and strange stories
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from beyond the grave. One of my favorite stories is
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the Lady in Gray in Evansville, Indiana. I do events
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all over the country, the South, the Midwest, and I've
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talked to over a dozen people who've had encounters with
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this mysterious gray lady that hangs out in the library
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there in Evansville. So in Evansville, Indiana, stands one of
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the most famously haunted libraries in America, the Willard Library.
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The beautiful Victorian Gothic building opened in 1885, two years
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after its founder, Willard Carpenter, died without ever seeing it completed.
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but more than 50 years later in 1937, a library
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custodian reported an encounter that would become part of Evansville folklore.
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Early one morning around 3 o'clock, the custodian entered the
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basement to tend to the coal furnace. As he made
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his way through the darkness with a flashlight, he nearly
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walked into the figure of a woman. She was dressed
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in gray with a long dress and veil. As the
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startled custodian stared at her, the woman simply faded into
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the darkness. According to the library's own history, the experience
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frightened him so badly he quit his job shortly afterwards.
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But the gray lady, she apparently stayed. Over the decades,
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employees and visitors have reported seeing the mysterious woman throughout
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the building. Others claim to have smelled unexplained perfume, felt
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sudden cold spots, hearing strange sounds, or discovering books and
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furniture moving on its own. Some women have even reported
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feeling something touching their hair or earrings. So one popular
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theory identifies the Grey Lady as Louise Carpenter, the daughter
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of the library's founder. Louise unsuccessfully sued the library in
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the 1890s in an attempt to recover property her father
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had given to the institution. But there's no evidence proving
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that Louise is the mysterious woman, or for that matter
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that anyone knows the Grey Lady's identity. The legend became
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so famous that the Willard Library eventually installed ghost cameras,
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allowing people around the world to watch different areas of
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the building and search for the apparition themselves. And while
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generations of librarians have come and gone, according to Evansville lore,
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one woman still wanders quietly among the books. She is
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the Grey Lady of the Willard Library. So, Fear and
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Folklore Vampires and Ghost Stories in Greyberry Tales, Indiana, both
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those books are available on Amazon now. Or you can
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find them wherever books are sold. Like I said, they're
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available on Kindle. And if you have Kindle Unlimited, you
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can read them all for free. Arsenic Anna's on there,
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The Sausage King, Southern Ghost Stories, Franklin, Tennessee. All my
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books are on Kindle Unlimited. So hop over there and
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just dive right in. So this fall, grab a book.
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Come take a ghost tour and help me make this
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Halloween season a really fun and very haunted one. And
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don't forget, I'll be at Scarefest in Lexington, Kentucky. It's
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Wild Weekend, October 23rd, 25th. I'll be there Friday, Saturday,
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and Sunday in the Southern Ghost Stories booth signing books.
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I'm giving a presentation on the 25th on the Vampire Book, actually.
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I've got a presentation going. It's going to be on Vampire,
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the Vampire Panic. It's going to be a whole lot
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of fun. Who's Who of the Horror Industry is going
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to be there. Kane Hodder, Eli Roth. It's a crazy,
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crazy weekend. So be sure to check back tomorrow. Tennessee
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Tales Tuesday. It's always one of my favorite episodes, drops,
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because I'm from Tennessee. So anyways, I'll see you guys
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back tomorrow. Coming October 2nd, the gates open at Smith
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County's scariest attraction, Nightmare Hollow. Located at 160 Marina Lane, Carthage, Tennessee,
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every Friday and Saturday from 8 p.m. to 10.30, admission
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starts at $ 20 with fast pass and VIP options. Nightmare
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Hollow is a haunted trail located at Defeated Creek Marina
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and Campground. Recently rebranded from Nightmare on Marina Lane, Nightmare
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Hollow has made several upgrades for this season, including... an
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additional trail, upgraded scenes, fast pass and VIP options, and
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a gift shop featuring local vendors and merchandise featuring our
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logo and characters. Come out and see what all the
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hype is about.
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gravediggers stacked bodies in mass unmarked graves, their names lost
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Southern Ghost Stories. I'm the American Hauntstorian, Alan Searcy. So
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normally on Mondays, I drop a From the Bald episode.
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I did that yesterday. because there's just so much going on,
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and I wanted to shake things up just a little bit. So,
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but first, if you're enjoying the show, please leave a
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review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, wherever you found the show.
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It really helps new listeners find the show, and I
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definitely appreciate you guys listening, and any reviews are always appreciated. So,
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fall is here, and you know what that means. The
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Ghost of Gallatin Haunted Tour is back for the 2026 season.
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Join me on the historic Gallatin Square as we explore
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the darker side of Sumner County history. And here are
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the ghost stories and legends I've been collecting for years.
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True crime, a haunted governor's mansion, and there's a mannequin
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that may or may not move on its own. It's
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pretty creepy. So I've been running these tours since 2019,
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and it never fails that every week or two, someone
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will take a photo of something eerie, and I just
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can't explain it. The town was occupied during the Civil War.
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All three churches on Main Street, they were hospitals. Union
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General Ezra Payne was hanging rebel soldiers behind the courthouse
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right there on the square. North Water, it burned to
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the ground three different times during Reconstruction. So tours run
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Friday and Saturday nights through Halloween, and private tours are
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also available. I can do those during the week. You
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can go to ghostofgalveston.com for tickets and more information, or
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if you want to reach out to me about a
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private tour. And I've also got two new books out
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just in time for spooky season. I've been telling you guys,
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I know I mentioned it, I released Arson of Ghana
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a few weeks ago. And if you haven't, make sure
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to check that one out. It's a crazy story about
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a serial killer. She was the first lady executed in Ohio,
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Anna Hahn. She was a caregiver. She was a nurse
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taking care of older men, and she would just poison
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them and find ways to get in their will and
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just take all their money. It's crazy what this lady did. Like,
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Hollywood couldn't make this stuff up. So there's two more
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books I want to talk about. So Fear and Folklore Vampires.
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They're working on this off and on for several years.
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An explorer is a terrifying legend, strange beliefs, and the
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real history behind one of folklore's most enduring monsters. So
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when we hear the word vampire today, we tend to
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picture Dracula, a pale figure rising from a coffin at night,
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drinking blood and hiding from the morning sun. But in
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19th century New England, belief in the undead took a
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very different and very real form. For generations, families in
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places like Rhode Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont were sometimes
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confronted by a terrifying pattern. One member of a household
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would become sick. They would grow pale and weak. They
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would lose weight. Their eyes would sink into their face.
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They might cough violently and eventually begin coughing up blood.
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And then they would die. And sometimes afterward, another member
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of the same family would begin wasting away. Then another
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Today we know what was happening. It was tuberculosis or
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consumption is what they called it. They called it consumption
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because the disease would consume its victims from the inside.
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Tuberculosis could spread among people living in close contact which
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meant that when it entered a household several members of
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the same family might become infected. They usually did. But
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tuberculosis could also progress slowly. Someone might become infected and
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not develop serious symptoms until much later And that created
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an especially frightening illusion. A mother could die. Months later,
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her daughter would become sick. Then a son began wasting away.
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To people who don't understand and didn't understand bacteria and
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the mechanics of infectious disease, it could appear that the
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first person who died was somehow responsible for what was
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happening to everyone else. Something in the grave was consuming
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the living. And that idea helped fuel what has become
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known as the New England Vampire Panic. The word vampire
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wasn't necessarily what these families themselves used. This wasn't usually
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a belief in sophisticated supernatural creatures roaming the countryside at night. Instead,
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there was a folk belief that a deceased relative could
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somehow continue feeding upon the life of surviving family members.
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And there's only one way to find out. They had
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to open the grave. Across New England, there were documented
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accounts of bodies being exhumed so that relatives and neighbors
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could examine the corpse for signs that it was unnaturally preserved. Unfortunately,
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decomposition itself could provide exactly the evidence they were looking for.
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A corpse might become bloated. Fluids could emerge from the mouth.
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Internal organs could contain liquid or clotted blood. Hair and
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fingernails could appear to have continued growing as the surrounding
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skin receded. To someone unfamiliar with decomposition, these weren't natural processes.
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They were evidence that the dead person wasn't dead. Depending
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on the community, the supposed vampire might be turned face
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down in the grave. In other cases, the organs were
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removed and burned. Sometimes the ashes were used as kind
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of a medicine for the surviving family member. One of
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the most disturbing examples was discovered in Griswold, Connecticut, where
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researchers examined the remains of a man whose grave had
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apparently been disturbed several years after his death. His skull
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and thigh bones had been deliberately rearranged. Modern examination suggested
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that he probably suffered from tuberculosis or a similar lung disease.
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But the most famous case occurred much later, in 1892.
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And that's what makes the story of Mercy Brown so extraordinary.
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Mercy lived with her family in Rhode Island. Tuberculosis had
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devastated the Brown household. Her mother, Mary, died from consumption.
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Her sister Mary Olive followed. Eventually, Mercy herself became sick
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and died. Meanwhile, her brother Edwin was dying from the
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same disease. And by this point, people in the community
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began wondering whether one of the dead Brown women was
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somehow responsible for Edwin's illness. Mercy's father, George Brown, apparently
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wasn't convinced, but he eventually allowed the bodies to be examined.
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Mercy's mother and sister had been dead for years and
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had largely decomposed. But Mercy, she was different. She had
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died only a short time earlier, during a New England winter,
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and her body had been kept in cold conditions. As
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a result, decomposition had dramatically slowed. When they examined her body,
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they found it unusually well-preserved. Then they removed her heart
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and liver. There was blood in her heart. For believers,
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they had found a vampire. Of course, There was a
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perfectly natural explanation. Mercy had only recently died, and the
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winter cold had essentially refrigerated her body. Even the doctor
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present reportedly pointed to tuberculosis. But the ritual continued. Mercy's
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heart and liver were burned. The ashes were mixed into
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a preparation that was given to her dying brother Edwin
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in the hope that it would break whatever supernatural connection
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existed between the living and the dead. But it didn't.
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Edward Brown died less than two months later. What makes
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the Mercy Brown case so fascinating is the date. This
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wasn't colonial America. This wasn't the age of the Salem
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witch trials. This was 1892. By then, telephones existed. Electric
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lights were appearing in American cities. Railroads crossed the country.
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But then again, there was no antibiotic treatment. The first
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antibiotic didn't come out until 1940. So imagine being a
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family in rural New England. You watch your wife die,
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and then your daughter, then your other daughter. Now your
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son begins coughing blood and wasting away right in front
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of you. The doctor can give the illness a name,
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but he can't stop it. And your neighbors tell you
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that there's one last thing you can try. You have
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to open the graves. That's what makes the New England
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Vampire Panic so much more interesting than a simple story
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about superstition. These people weren't necessarily afraid of a monster
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lurking outside their homes. They were afraid of something much worse.
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A disease they couldn't see, couldn't understand, and they simply
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couldn't stop. And ironically, they were partly right about one thing.
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Something very really was passing from one member of the
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family to another. It wasn't the dead feeding on the living.
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It was tuberculosis. So I have another book coming out also,
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and I can't forget about it. Ghost Stories and Graveyard
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Tales in Indiana. It takes you through the Hoosier state
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in search of haunted places, eerie legends, and strange stories
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from beyond the grave. One of my favorite stories is
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the Lady in Gray in Evansville, Indiana. I do events
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all over the country, the South, the Midwest, and I've
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talked to over a dozen people who've had encounters with
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this mysterious gray lady that hangs out in the library
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there in Evansville. So in Evansville, Indiana, stands one of
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the most famously haunted libraries in America, the Willard Library.
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The beautiful Victorian Gothic building opened in 1885, two years
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after its founder, Willard Carpenter, died without ever seeing it completed.
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but more than 50 years later in 1937, a library
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custodian reported an encounter that would become part of Evansville folklore.
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Early one morning around 3 o'clock, the custodian entered the
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basement to tend to the coal furnace. As he made
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his way through the darkness with a flashlight, he nearly
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walked into the figure of a woman. She was dressed
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in gray with a long dress and veil. As the
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startled custodian stared at her, the woman simply faded into
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the darkness. According to the library's own history, the experience
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frightened him so badly he quit his job shortly afterwards.
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But the gray lady, she apparently stayed. Over the decades,
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employees and visitors have reported seeing the mysterious woman throughout
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the building. Others claim to have smelled unexplained perfume, felt
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sudden cold spots, hearing strange sounds, or discovering books and
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furniture moving on its own. Some women have even reported
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feeling something touching their hair or earrings. So one popular
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theory identifies the Grey Lady as Louise Carpenter, the daughter
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of the library's founder. Louise unsuccessfully sued the library in
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the 1890s in an attempt to recover property her father
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had given to the institution. But there's no evidence proving
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that Louise is the mysterious woman, or for that matter
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that anyone knows the Grey Lady's identity. The legend became
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so famous that the Willard Library eventually installed ghost cameras,
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allowing people around the world to watch different areas of
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the building and search for the apparition themselves. And while
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generations of librarians have come and gone, according to Evansville lore,
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one woman still wanders quietly among the books. She is
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the Grey Lady of the Willard Library. So, Fear and
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Folklore Vampires and Ghost Stories in Greyberry Tales, Indiana, both
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those books are available on Amazon now. Or you can
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find them wherever books are sold. Like I said, they're
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available on Kindle. And if you have Kindle Unlimited, you
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can read them all for free. Arsenic Anna's on there,
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The Sausage King, Southern Ghost Stories, Franklin, Tennessee. All my
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books are on Kindle Unlimited. So hop over there and
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just dive right in. So this fall, grab a book.
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Come take a ghost tour and help me make this
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Halloween season a really fun and very haunted one. And
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don't forget, I'll be at Scarefest in Lexington, Kentucky. It's
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Wild Weekend, October 23rd, 25th. I'll be there Friday, Saturday,
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and Sunday in the Southern Ghost Stories booth signing books.
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I'm giving a presentation on the 25th on the Vampire Book, actually.
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I've got a presentation going. It's going to be on Vampire,
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the Vampire Panic. It's going to be a whole lot
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of fun. Who's Who of the Horror Industry is going
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to be there. Kane Hodder, Eli Roth. It's a crazy,
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crazy weekend. So be sure to check back tomorrow. Tennessee
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Tales Tuesday. It's always one of my favorite episodes, drops,
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because I'm from Tennessee. So anyways, I'll see you guys
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back tomorrow. Coming October 2nd, the gates open at Smith
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County's scariest attraction, Nightmare Hollow. Located at 160 Marina Lane, Carthage, Tennessee,
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every Friday and Saturday from 8 p.m. to 10.30, admission
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starts at $ 20 with fast pass and VIP options. Nightmare
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Hollow is a haunted trail located at Defeated Creek Marina
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and Campground. Recently rebranded from Nightmare on Marina Lane, Nightmare
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Hollow has made several upgrades for this season, including... an
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additional trail, upgraded scenes, fast pass and VIP options, and
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a gift shop featuring local vendors and merchandise featuring our
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logo and characters. Come out and see what all the
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hype is about.
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200 years ago, Louisville, Kentucky was known as the graveyard
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of the West. Yellow fever hit the town so hard,
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gravediggers stacked bodies in mass unmarked graves, their names lost
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to time. A century later, the Ohio River rose and
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swallowed the city whole. The bodies it pulled from the
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ground floated up against the cast-iron storefronts, bumping against the
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glass like they wanted back inside. This fall, Old Fashioned
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Express invites you to climb aboard the haunted trolley tour
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and take a trip back in time through Louisville's grim history.
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Ride a vintage trolley through the gaslit streets of Old Louisville,
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the Highlands, and downtown. And, if you dare, abandon the
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safety of your trolley to walk the darkened streets where
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terrible tragedies occurred. Reserve your seat now at oldfashionedexpress.com and
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use the code podcast10 for 10% off. We're waiting for you.
