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Legends of the Living Dead - Raising Hell, Episode 4
In Exeter, Rhode Island, the grave of a vampire has become a strange kind of shrine. Mercy Brown, a young woman who died in 1892, was said to be rising from her grave and killing townspeople. They came to the cemetery by night…dug up her corpse and cut out her heart, to try to vanquish the vampire’s power. We visit the gravesite…in Romania…of the ‘real’ Dracula….Prince Vlad Dracul. Though he has become an icon of horror for most of us, to local people he’s a hero…his grave a place of pilgrimage. Another extraordinary tale from Eastern Europe…the tiny village church-yard which became the most popular burial site in Europe when word spread that miracles happened there. Local people couldn’t cope with the number of corpses…and so decided to use the skeletons to build with; amazing structures inside the church, all made from human bones. And in Edinburgh, Scotland, the enterprising couple who turned death into a business. Nineteenth century grave-robbers, Burke and Hare, found they could sell corpses to surgeons, and even turned to murdering people when the supply of cadavers ran low. They were caught at last…and we see how the skeleton of one of the murderers has been preserved ….perhaps as a warning to other would-be body snatchers.
Legends of the Living Dead - Raising Hell, Episode 4
In Exeter, Rhode Island, the grave of a vampire has become a strange kind of shrine. Mercy Brown, a young woman who died in 1892, was said to be rising from her grave and killing townspeople. They came to the cemetery by night…dug up her corpse and cut out her heart, to try to vanquish the vampire’s power. We visit the gravesite…in Romania…of the ‘real’ Dracula….Prince Vlad Dracul. Though he has become an icon of horror for most of us, to local people he’s a hero…his grave a place of pilgrimage. Another extraordinary tale from Eastern Europe…the tiny village church-yard which became the most popular burial site in Europe when word spread that miracles happened there. Local people couldn’t cope with the number of corpses…and so decided to use the skeletons to build with; amazing structures inside the church, all made from human bones. And in Edinburgh, Scotland, the enterprising couple who turned death into a business. Nineteenth century grave-robbers, Burke and Hare, found they could sell corpses to surgeons, and even turned to murdering people when the supply of cadavers ran low. They were caught at last…and we see how the skeleton of one of the murderers has been preserved ….perhaps as a warning to other would-be body snatchers.
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