The truth about 'vampire' tombs scares America

From the scary legend .

Beginning 200 years after the inquisition in Salem (USA) took place in the late seventeenth century, a frightening rumor emerged that farmers in the state of New England saw their dead relatives. know the grave team come to life and go everywhere to suck blood.

Pictures of the Salem trial in the US in the late seventeenth century.

Rumors of vampires spread everywhere. Many people tell each other that a Countess vampire called Dracula wanders everywhere, where he stops will form a powerful army of vampires.

Meeting a "satisfied" person , he would use two long fangs, bite his neck and suck blood - feeling like enjoying a good meal. The earl even made beautiful girls with "fresh" blood to make concubines, and then produced more vampires.

The picture depicts vampires of old vampires, collecting many new "centipede legs".

Together they devastated, collected many new "centipede legs". Fear covers a large area. It is believed that once the dead has returned to the grave, they will live off the blood of the living and become a true nightmare. They sow suffering, disease and, ultimately, suck the blood of any unfortunate person in contact to continue to exist.

According to exorcists, families in New England unearthed the graves of their loved ones on suspicion that they had turned into blood-sucking demons. A folklore researcher has recorded about 80 such graves in Rhode Island, USA.

Many graves have been unearthed in New England.

In some recorded cases, the dead were turned face-down, but most had their hearts removed or had a bone disturbance. For example, sections such as the skull and thigh bones are cluttered on the ribs and spine. The results of an inspection in a grave excavation show that the decapitation of the body along with other injuries takes place five years after the person dies.

In 1892, members of the Mary Brown family were attacked by a mysterious disease, which in turn died with persistent coughing up blood, leaving only the youngest son, Edwin.

Therefore, it was believed that the members of the Mary family were vampires, so the people around the region flocked to unearth the graves of family members to perform exorcisms.

Pilling through the heart is one of the ways that many people believe will prevent the dead from turning into vampires.

There are many ways to handle a corpse that is said to be a vampire. It is believed that this way will prevent a dead person from turning into a vampire: placing a large stake through the heart, stabbing the heart with a silver knife, inserting a large brick into his mouth, beheading .

The closing of an iron rod to the body of the corpse is considered the most effective way to prevent the resurrection of the dead. Because of believing in the effect of piercing piles, for a long time, New England people continued to excavate their loved ones' graves and stake in accordance with the instructions of the hunters.

. to the truth

According to the researchers, the excavation of suspected vampires came from Eastern Europe, and then spread to Western countries like France and England in the 1700s, before invading rural New. England - where vampires obsession erupts and spreads.

They also believe that the source of this fear of vampires began due to an infectious disease . In New England, in this case the death was due to tuberculosis and others began to fall ill with it.

Famous tomb of the alleged vampire of New England.

At that time, people did not know the source of the disease was caused by bacteria and kept blaming the dead to return to the world and suck blood from relatives.

So the methods of exorcism were applied, from excavating graves, staking piles, beheading, burning corpses, or any other way they could hear from elsewhere.

Often New England vampire hunters find what they want to see when they open the coffin lid: many natural decay marks, like swollen bodies and blood oozing from the mouth, nose, ears, just like depicted in the legend of bloodsucking demons.

However, for whatever reason, it is because of this event that this land was dubbed the land of vampire hunters.

According to The Boston Globe, vampire purges still remain a hallmark of New England history and researchers continue to uncover the buried mysteries confusing among ordinary tombs. in the cemetery.