America's Hidden Stories Sezon 2 Odcinek 4: Vampires in America

From the American Revolution to the end of the 1800s, a mysterious ritual spread across New England…and beyond. Graves were broken into, the organs of the dead were burned and turned into horrifying forms of medicine. The reason why: to ward off vampires. Over time, stories of these exhumations vanished into rumor and legend, but new evidence has brought these ghoulish practices back to into fo-cus. So, were 19th century farmers really fighting vampire? Or were they facing off against a predatory phantom that was even deadlier?