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BEFORE DRACULA: A History of Early American Vampire Belief

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Thursday, October 24, 2019
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm (Expired)
The Heritage Museum and Cultural Center
601 Main Street
Saint Joseph, MI 49085
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Phone: (269) 983-1191
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This iteration of the vampire predated Bram Stoker's Dracula by more than a century!  The lecture will examine the largely unknown American practice of exhuming and burning corpses thought to prey on the living in order to cure tuberculosis {then called consumption}.  He also includes a discussion of the single documented Michigan vampire incident from Mount Clemens in 1865.