The New England Vampire Panic wasn’t over yet.

In 1892, nineteen-year-old Mercy Lena Brown died oftuberculosis in Exeter, Rhode Island. Less than two months later, her body was examined for signs that she was somehow consuming the life of her dying brother, Edwin.

And what they found inside her heart convinced some of thepeople standing there that they had found exactly what they were looking for.

In Part 2 of our deep dive into the New England VampirePanic, Casey and Dave dig into the Mercy Brown incident: why her body was so well preserved, how blood can remain in a heart after death, why her heart and liver were burned, and whether Edwin actually drank his sister’s ashes.

We also investigate the claim that Mercy Brown inspired BramStoker’s Dracula, meet a Rhode Island “vampire” who probably wasn’t one at all, examine archaeological evidence of an alleged anti-vampire burial, and ask why these rituals survived long after doctors knew tuberculosis was aninfectious disease.

Was Mercy Brown really New England’s last vampire?

Not exactly.

But the true story may be stranger than the legend.

Because sometimes history, medicine, folklore—and oneextremely unfortunate corpse—come together in a way; That's Kinda Paranormal

Long before vampires sparkled, brooded in castles, or became Halloween icons, New Englanders were digging up their dead to stop them from feeding on the living.

In Episode 47 of That’s Kinda Paranormal, Casey and Dave dive into the New England Vampire Panic—a bizarre and very real period of American history when tuberculosis swept through families and communities, leaving people desperate for an explanation. With little understanding of how the disease spread, some became convinced that deceased family members were returning from the grave and draining the life from those they left behind.

We’re getting into the strange rituals used to stop suspected vampires, exhumed bodies, burned organs, and some of the most infamous cases—including Mercy Brown, whose story became one of the last known vampire incidents in New England.

Was it superstition? A desperate attempt to understand a terrifying disease? Or was something a little stranger happening in those old New England cemeteries?

Grab a wooden stake and maybe leave the garlic at home, because… That’s Kinda Paranormal.

Deep in the rainforests of Java, something is said to be flying overhead—and apparently, it has a habit of announcing itself.

This week on That’s Kinda Paranormal, Casey and Dave dive into the legend of the Ahool, a massive bat-like cryptid reportedly lurking in the jungles of Indonesia. We get into where the story came from, the sightings that helped build the legend, and the theories about what people may—or may not—have actually seen.

Is the Ahool an undiscovered giant bat? A misidentified animal? A surviving creature science hasn’t caught up with yet? Or is this another case of humans seeing something weird in the woods and immediately making it everyone else’s problem?

Join us as we dig into the history, possible explanations, and enduring mystery of one of Indonesia’s strangest cryptids.

Because a giant screaming bat hiding in the jungle?

That’s Kinda Paranormal.