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Posted on 01/08/2023 5:07:05 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Researchers have revealed the face of the 'Connecticut vampire' using forensic facial reconstruction.
In 1990, archaeologists excavating a 19th century grave in the town of Giswold, located in Connecticut, United States, found that the human remains were arranged to form skull and crossbones, a practice performed during The New England Vampire Panic to prevent a suspected vampire from rising from the grave.
The New England Vampire Panic was a period of terror and mass hysteria during the 19th century, caused by an outbreak of consumption that was blamed on vampires.
Consumption, known today as tuberculosis (TB), is an infectious disease caused by the Mycobacte-rium tuberculosis (MTB) bacteria. The disease generally affects the lungs, causing a chronic cough with blood-containing mucus, fever, night sweats and weight loss.
Across the states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont, outbreaks of tuberculosis spread amongst family members and households. So severe was the epidemic, that it claimed around 2 percent of the region's population from 1786 to 1800.
When a tuberculosis sufferer died, it was assumed that they consumed the life of their surviving relatives who also became ill from tuberculosis due to their close proximity to those already infected. To protect the survivors and ward off the symptoms of consumption, the bodies of those who died were exhumed to examine for traits of vampirism.
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Ironically, the superstitious nitwits probably exposed themselves to the TB by this idiotic practice.
Some day the climate cultists and Covid terrorists will be laughed at the same way.
Barnabas Collins. Gotta be.
There is no “Giswold”, CT. There IS a Griswold. Estelle Griswold was the Planned Parenthood operative who won at the Supreme Court in “Griswold vs. Connecticut”, the infamous forerunner of Roe vs. Wade.
Ahhh yes. The northeast ever rational
Excellent
I went to high school with Nick Bellantoni, the emeritus CT state archeologist. He investigated a grave from that era that had very partial human remains but included a wooden stake that had been driven though the center of mass, I guess one couldn’t be too careful.
Yeah, I missed the typo before posting it. Founded by some relatives too. :^)
I used to drive through Griswold regularly when I worked a contract at the Foxwoods Casino. Never had a reason to do anything there, though. Connecticut is small enough, if your work takes you to different parts of the state for deliveries or installations, you wind up going in or through 3/4s of every town and city in the state. No unincorporated county territory . . . didn’t even know what that was until college.
Is this a matter of “The Connecticut Vapire,” as in a renowned public figure, or a matter of an unknown dead person suspected at that time to be a vampire? Also, to me - and I can often be naive - a vampire is bodily defined by a distict dental arragement called “fangs.” The attendant images here come close to showing those.
Better safe than sorry, or better yet, try some of that old time Yankee homebrew...
The 2nd one.
Which one is the vampire?
Barnabas Collins: Old-school vampire; not sparkly.
Yep. I’d recognize him anywhere!
‘Face
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