A historical marker near Factory Point Cemetery records the story of Rachel Harris Burton, whose body was reportedly exhumed and burned around 1792 after townspeople feared she had become a vampire. The episode belongs to the documented New England vampire panic surrounding tuberculosis and other unexplained illness.
Filed under folklore: stories a place tells about itself, passed down and still repeated.
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Source: wgpfoundation.org/historic-markers/manchester-vampire/