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Dr. Michael E. Bell | Micro-Biotic Adversaries, Paranormal Folklore, and New England Vampires

My Family Thinks I'm Crazy

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I Don't Want You to Do It Just Because I'm Not Going to Do It

The letter was written on Monday, July 21st, 1788. Colonel Elijah Williams of the Stockbridge Mass. sent it to a friend in Stratford,. His daughter had been taken with bleeding inwardly at Hartford and raised blood several times since. The lungs were not dissolved but had left in them, though not fresh but clotted. There was blood in the lungs perhaps several spoonfuls together which appeared to him much like the blood drawn from the person's arm that had stood 26 hours. As I never saw in a grave opened, they have to receive the dead. Before I am unable to judge how long after burial it is before bodies usually are reduced to dust. And these instances

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