New England is full of such unmarked family plots, and the 29 burials were typical of the 1700s and early 1800s: The dead, many of them children, were laid to rest in thrifty Yankee style, in simple ...

They were for Rhode Islanders living in the 19th century, and it's that belief that gave the state its own vampire tale: the legend of Mercy Brown. Mercy Lena Brown (who was called "Lena" by her ...

This investigative documentary follows a team of archaeologists searching for the hard evidence behind chilling vampire myths, from the discovery of bodies staked into their coffins on the island of ...