That Time New England Was Swarming With Vampires | Answers With Joe

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Vampires have been a part of folklore for hundreds of years, but in parts of New England in the 18th and 19th centuries, they were a very real. Let's talk about the New England Vampire Panic.
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0:00 - Mercy Brown
1:12 - The Gilded Age
2:21 - Vampires In Fiction
3:01 - Historical Figures
4:24 - Diseases Associated With Vampire Stories
7:24 - Tuberculosis
8:35 - 18th and 19th Century Vampire Craze
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[@longbow192]

As someone who lives in Transylvania, I'm sick and tired of the stereotype that all of us are vampires. In all my 500 years here, I've never met one, and I've asked my friends too, who have all been around longer than I, and they haven't seen one either.

[@Lucky-ll8mp]

💀 😂

[@Ptaaruonn]

Mr V. Hellsing wants to know your address. ;)

[@jeroenk3570]

I would suggest a mirror, but you probably won't see them there either 🙂

[@RealBradMiller]

Don't walk alone in Transylvania.. No vampires Remain in Romania

[@joescott]

As a Texan who does not wear boots or ride a horse to work, I get it.

[@chimpinaneckbrace]

“Mercy Brown is thought to he be the very last vampire confirmed in America.” That’s right. She was last of us. I mean the last of them…...

[@witchdoctor1394]

Joe, you don't INVITE a vampire over... They can't come into your home unless invited and you just short-circuted your first line of protection :D

[@Ilikestarwars1245]

Right???

[@lonestarr1490]

So then a picnic it shall be, including some fresh garlic bread. My late Granma's recipe.

[@Pegaroo_]

@@lonestarr1490 again a picnic would scupper that first line of defence, do you want to end up a vampire?🧛‍♂

[@joescott]

But I have garlic...

[@mjm3091]

@@Pegaroo_ Who doesn't like a little bit of immortality.

[@alexnelson5662]

Arguably, vampire reflections would show up on modern mirrors since we don't use silver nitrate anymore as the reflecting surface. Silver was considered a pure metal and couldn't interact with the undead (or it would kill them) which is why it was believed vampires wouldn't be reflected.

[@DS-mz7dy]

Good story. My son has cutaneous porphyria and it's no joke, growing up we couldn't figure out what was going on until he was properly diagnosed at Mayo. Too much sun (baseball) would cause it to feel like he was burning from the inside and he would puff up like the pillsbury dough boy. His hands would burn and we'd have to stick them in bowls of ice. Thankfully, limiting sun exposure has helped him quite a bit and now that he's in college he knows when it's time to get inside.

[@nephicus339]

Also long sleeves and big hats.

[@joeylantis22]

I’m so sorry :( I’m glad your son is getting some reprieve from this. You’re a great parent.

[@ckandrew]

I am still trying to figure out whether I have porphyria or just incurable case of polymorphic light eruption (it's supposed to get better with more exposure, but mine is just getting worse over the past twenty years). I'm so glad you were able to find a diagnosis for your son. 💖

[@joe94c]

My best friend of over 10 years has porphyria. I've seen how it's affected him too. His hands are covered in scars from before they knew what was going on

[@moniqueengleman873]

WOW. That is fairly rare. Bless your son and family. What an interesting dude 😎

[@thecaveman2951]

Can we start leaving flowers for the dad who actually had to witness and be a part of this horrific shit 😳

[@MariaMartinez-researcher]

Carmilla, by Sheridan Le Fanu, is a vampire novel that predates Bram Stoker's Dracula for 26 years.

[@JonFrumTheFirst]

You beat me to it. Stoker acknowledged Le Fanu.

[@Gefahrbabushkin]

And it's brilliant

[@modvavet]

I can only assume it's related, but there was a Carmilla in the second Vampire Hunter D movie

[@eldrago19]

The Vampyre is even older, published 78 years prior with its origins in the 1816 competition that also produced Frankenstein.

[@JoshuaGoudreau]

You rang?

[@Sam_on_YouTube]

There's a summer camp for kids with porferia. Its a nocturnal camp for kids who can't go out during the day. The Yankees invite them to play at the stadium once a summer after their ball game ends around 11PM.

[@RealBradMiller]

That is so freaking awesome!

[@ckandrew]

This is the cool fact I needed today.

[@hez5160]

1:21 When you said it happened in the 1890s my mind was blown. Relatively speaking, this is recent history. This isn't eons ago, in times forgotten. The fact that this happened so recently, when technology was booming (electricity and phones!) is crazy to me!

[@brick6347]

Very recent history. The last living living person verified to have been born in the 1890s was Emma Morano, who died in Italy in 2017... The 1890s are practically living memory.

[@hez5160]

@@brick6347 RIGHT!

[@malcolmhardwick4258]

Ford model T car was just on the horizon !

[@suicideistheanswer369]

I don't think it was that recent to be crazy

[@Lethgar_Smith]

People still believe crazy things that will drive them to commit violent acts together as a group.

[@DannyJoh]

Who needs horror movies? The diseases in our world are scary enough 😱

[@overlookers]

*Cordyceps and Chronic Wasting Disease* 👀

[@mpagirobin3805]

I think how people act during such cases is even scarier.

[@jamespaul2587]

@@mpagirobin3805 exactly, the current pandemic was greatly exaggerated from the start

[@thomashiggins9320]

@@jamespaul2587 Oh, stop. It's the *anti-vaccination* movement that's the product of irrational world-views, encouraged by pandering populist demagoguery. And nobody gives a crap about your political opinions in the discussion about a video that attempts to *debunk* bizarre beliefs based on hysteria. 🙄

[@matthewlofton8465]

Vampires were "real", werewolves were "real", and along with murder hornets there are flesh-eating bees (aka "zom bees") and zombie fungi controlling dead ants (and other animals). Throw in the Animal Conspiracy by Tim Bedore and the weirdness that various cryptids/monsters are based on and you start to figure out that maybe it's not disease we really should be worrying about...

[@jmorris023]

Similar to this story, you should do a deeper dive into that time in the early 1900s where it was common knowledge that an alien civilization lived on Mars based on the canals folks thought weren’t natural. I’d love to know more about that mindset.

[@gaywizard2000]

It's kinda like the antivax folks!

[@nephicus339]

Minor correction; because Mary Brown died in winter, the ground was frozen and so she couldn't be buried. Her body was stored in a mortuary house in the cemetery, which had no heating, and made of stone. Basically, it was a perfect fridge for corpse preservation. When spring came around and she was finally buried, she'd barely been in the ground when she was exhumed. By this point she'd been dead a few months, but the winter time preservation meant when she was exhumed from her grave she looked very 'fresh.' Also historians have noted that the origin of Vlad Tepes drinking human blood stemmed from propaganda paid for by his enemies. Labeling him as a sadist, cannibal, vampire and more. While not 100% definitive; it's likely Vlad did not drink human blood. Animal blood perhaps, in the form of blood sausage or pudding and similar dishes is likely, though. I have nothing on Elizabeth Bathery except that she was the basis for the Countess of Blood in one of the Diablo video games. Or, her legend was, anyway. I deeply appreciate this video, Joe (and fans); it's just missing the finer details. You would be hard pressed to make a detailed video on this subject that is only 10 minutes long, too. I really recommend Ask A Mortician's video on this very topic.

[@jimc.goodfellas226]

"a society gone mad- overcome by fear and suspicion" Sound familiar

[@rileymobley9570]

This is something I didn't know I needed, but thoroughly enjoyed

[@korkee1111]

Fun fact related to 6:20 Porphyric Urine often looks relatively normal when excreted but upon exposure to UV light (like the sun) it turns PURPLE! The different states like red and brown are from advanced flares and also turn almost plum colored in the sun.

[@simplethings3730]

How in God's name would anybody know something like that? 😁

[@korkee1111]

@@simplethings3730 I knew someone who had it.

[@MeltedMask]

Actually porphyria literally means purple in greece. Its caused by porphyrin molecule accumulation in body (precursor to heme, iron carrier in hemoglobin). It's highly photosensitive and create havoc in body when exposed to light

[@korkee1111]

@@MeltedMask Yeah my friend's skin was yellow from jaundice, but her veins looked purplish instead of blue like mine... there were many other physiological differences as well. She was so funny, RIP Deb.

[@jasonhare8540]

I met a vampire once. Ate his entire box of cereal ... Very chocolatey *Also , Don't forget when you log on to KZbin go to your subscriptions page and not the homepage if you want your favorites to pop up . It took me an embarrassingly long amount of time to figure that out 🤣

[@dinosaurus4189]

Me too, He taught me my numbers and lived on Sesame Street.

[@nephicus339]

Also the notification bell next to the subscription button. Click and set to 'All'

[@megancole1275]

I read a book once where they connected vampire stories with Type 1 Diabetes. Untreated T1D would cause the person to be pale and weak and yet ravenous. Diabetic coma may be the reason for vampires ‘coming back to life’. Another symptom could be sensitivity to light or having their gums recede and bleed.

[@jeffbertjeffbertson4805]

As a Rhode Islander, really cool to see you cover this joe!

[@VioletEnds]

Dracula by Bram Stoker is not actually the first time that someone took the folk tales of Vampires and novelized them. Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu predates it by more than 20 years

[@tenebrousoul9368]

Darnit! You beat me to it!

[@1MFlying]

Varney has them both beat. lol

[@BLACKMODS2000]

And even earlier! Polidori wrote The Vampyre in 1816, the Year Without a Summer, during some stormy nights at Villa Diodati. And more awesome, it was written as part of a game by Lord Byron, Polidori (Byron's doctor), Percy Shelley and no other than... Mary Shelley!! So the same nights at the same place we, humankind, got two of the cornerstones of the popular culture that would flood the entertainment industry for the next two centuries! In my opinion, Shelley's Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a much important piece of culture, since the Romantic Vampire genre would have to be refined to achieve what it is today, but nontheless is pretty impressive what a volcanic winter can do for human literature.

[@vnikyt]

@UCXLVss4ZlfiIuTsncJAofag thanks!

[@rodneykelly8768]

I have worked "Graveyard" shift for the last 17 years. I consider myself to be a "Professional Vampire."

[@j4y167]

Recently been working as armed security on the graveyard shift, love it. I'm only 22, been doing night shift work mostly for the last 2 years. Have you noticed any long term health impacts from it at all?

[@megacandid8789]

Damn 17 years, whats your sleep schedule?I did graveyard for a couple months as a teen, it was the strangest thing watching the sun go down, then up, and then go to bed lol.

[@sukhpreetsinghmankoo]

Jay has valid question, your body should be studied.

[@j4y167]

@@sukhpreetsinghmankoo fr, I'm tryna find out about all the fallout ghoul type mutations in gonna get

[@lisaspikes4291]

Yeah, me too! Night shift is natural for me. The thing I hate is any event, like holidays or family celebrations, are held during the day. Which, for me is right in the middle of my sleep cycle. Other than that, I’m cool with it.

[@DarkPrince14]

Joe, you are great my friend you've been entertaining me for a while now and I thoroughly enjoy and appreciate it! Thanks man, keep up the great work!

[@Victoriaisyou]

Yes I agree! After discovering you recently, I've binged watched most of your videos in a short span of time. lmao Never give up on entertainment, Joe. Every video is golden!

[@fazergazer]

In stressful times people become deluded. And the deluded become people

[@tophers3756]

Two things: a vampire being damaged by sunlight wasn't part of the lore until the silent film "Nosferatu". Despite being widespread in popular culture thanks to the Internet, ergot was only associated with witches (specifically the trials of 1692) because of a very recent hypothesis that was widely promoted by its creators. It's pretty much been debunked due to the symptoms which don't just "turn off and on" like cases of "bewitching" and the fact ergot poisoning symptoms don't closely fit historical Salem records. Plus there were no deaths from being "bewitched " and ergot would've killed at least some.

[@XSemperIdem5]

There's a Netflix show called Dracula about a nun and Dracula and I like that Dracula truly thought the sunlight would kill him and in the end he learned it was harmless to him. Good touch.

[@squirlmy]

interesting. I think Americans generally want to think our forefathers weren't so ignorant and barbaric, and the ergot theory excuses them a bit. Maybe the fact that they were tortured to death in the name of Christianity, too.

[@kitefan1]

I liked the ergot theory for part of it. Partially because as I got older I began to wonder how could a middle-aged elder be fooled by a lying 12 year old? And because of the story about the little dog going nuts after being exposed to urine from a sick person. Don't know if the dog story is true, but that would be poisoning. There was a French village that was poisoned by ergot from rye in 1951, the Pont-Saint-Esprit mass poisoning. The Pont-Saint-Esprit incident is well documented. In Salem, it made sense to me that it was kicked off by the ergot and followed by moral panic or mass hysteria.

[@nasis18]

A Joe video about vampires? Yes!

[@humourlessjester3584]

I live where there are still some areas where monster myths are still well passed down and talked about and in many cases those who are labeled as these mythical creatures would often be people who suffer from some yet to be identified mental disorder. Honestly sad sometimes when you see someone caged up for being an identified monster by the local towns folk and knowing that they're just individuals with unfortunate conditions.

[@melissanelson149]

currently critical care hospital nurse. really appreciate the historical and social context for these diseases. right on. that's a talent to bring all this together and share

[@kalrandom7387]

That was a nicely sanitized picture of the impaling, impaling actually worked fine shoving a stick up The Poop Shoot and then out the mouth wasn't supposed to be a really fun way to die.

[@Thurgosh_OG]

The thing is that impaling was quite common across europe, Vlad just used it a bit more than others.

[@kalrandom7387]

@@Thurgosh_OG yes sir, I was just stating that the picture he used was very sanitized because it had people just kind of impaled in the center and then stood up instead of how impaling actually worked. I've seen things were they talk about Vlad and thousands would be impaled the way I described. But his rep went far, some would just surrender or drop their arms and run away.

[@ramblingRJ]

This is probably why the series " Dark Shadows" took place in New England.

[@Qsie]

Recently joined as a patron, see a video on the origins of vampires... Immediately grateful I joined, love getting to hear this stuff early!

[@Sam_on_YouTube]

I have a friend with hyperteychosis. She's running for Congress in Ohio. Hoping to be the first bearded lady in Congress. She won the Democratic primary, but its a GOP district, so its a long shot.

[@dannyarcher6370]

I mean, the Dems are always gunning for the first (insert supposedly marginalised demo here). That said, bearded lady is at least a real thing and not a women thinking she's a man.

[@shrekfrog]

hope the best for her, she sounds like one hell of a trailblazer!

[@dannyarcher6370]

@@shrekfrog I know. Think of all the bearded women out there whose contributions to society are being lost!

[@ryandavis4448]

🤦

[@suziecreamcheese211]

Gr0$$.

[@johnrobinson4445]

So...they had Red Hats back then, too? Got it. Crazy times have come again! 447

[@TheWretchedOwl]

As someone with a food allergy to garlic and a sensitivity to sunlight I find this sort of thing interesting.

[@shogoth]

Hi Joe, as always fascinating subject and a fantastic video! Thanks! Could you take a look at the Highgate Vampire in London? It happened in '70s!

[@20kilo]

I just realised your channel are the only one that I watch the videos without read the title, love the content and it always bring something intersting to my day. Thanks for the hard work!

[@just_a_stump]

This is the first time a video from a channel I'm subbed to hasn't shown up in my sub feed! I'm so glad it was in my recs!!!

[@kwnorton5834]

Love this. Have been referring to these times we are living through to the Salem Witch Trial repeatedly.

[@edwardr5084]

The problem is the witches are in control.

[@coffeeandcannabis]

Every year, I put together local ghost stories and creepy events for my family and I to check out and learn about. We actually visited Mercy Brown's grave also with a couple others! So much interesting history in New England.

[@_CatandEye]

So excited when I seen you posted this, I’m on a vampire craze.

[@TrippaMazing87]

It always feels good when one of your favorite KZbinrs makes a video about your home region!

[@nickmeredith002]

The story behind Elizabeth bathory is fascinating. I'd love if Joe did a video about that.

[@lunacouer]

I will never get tired of the stories you tell from this era.

[@wBkSlayer]

This channel is a real treat :) Have a good day Joe

[@GoldenCherri]

Great video (It's only been out for a minute) everything about it is perfect

[@Alexander-Kurtz]

The Bride of Corinth by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, written in 1797 is probably the first piece of literature dealing with the theme of the undead. Although the story is inspired by a story from Phlegon de Tralles, a Greek writer and freedman of the emperor Hadrian, who lived in the 2nd century AD. There is also a story from the book "One Thousand and One Nights", written around 750 AD, called the Honour of the ghoul.

[@sakinapdf]

this was genuinely so interesting to watch... thank you Joe! really appreciate your hardwork :)

[@img4573]

As a Rhode Islander I love hearing people talk about our folk tales, feels like no one ever talks about this little state thank you 🙏

[@simplethings3730]

If you elect an idiot to Congress y'all would be in the news every other week. Though I gotta admit the competition is getting pretty heavy.

[@autohmae]

ohh, it gets worse, you might want to view "What's The Dumbest Thing an American Has Ever Said To You? | Part 2 | Hot TikTok 2021" at 5:41

[@img4573]

@@autohmae LMFAO damn that hurt

[@autohmae]

@@img4573 now that said, these are some of the dumbest people in the US who said stupid things like that. So don't feel bad !

[@brandonlawson2460]

Good job joe! Another great video!

[@giovannybaez2648]

You go girl!

[@michaelteal391]

"We even had the germ theory of medicine...although it hadn't fully _germ_inated" Thank you for the tomatoes, I'll be here all week.

[@perennials118]

Lol'd at the HF sponsor. Was literally just putting in my weekly order whilst watching this video. Handy tip about the garlic and vampire test 😂

[@artdonovandesign]

Terrific episode, Joe! Thank you :)

[@oneminuteofmyday]

My brother used to insist that I am a vampire. I am allergic to sunlight/UV light and get very sick when I go outside or near windows, even when wearing high SPF sunscreen. It is extremely difficult to draw blood from me, to the point I don’t even bleed when they pull the needle out. I am also allergic to garlic. lol. I’ve been tested for porphyria multiple times and am currently working with a university hospital because nobody can figure out what is wrong. It’s obviously genetic, as my brother’s daughter also has the same issues. That will teach him to make fun of a vampire. 🧛🏻‍♀️

[@fred9222]

Fun video Joe. Thanks as usual.

[@quinnkaurich7937]

Should be mycobacterium tuberculosis, not microbacterium. Great video as always!

[@Warhawk76]

You beat me to it. My microbiologist side was definitely triggered!

[@focusstudios1296]

Great video, thanks Joe!

[@shaylascarroll9803]

I live about 30 minutes away from the largest TB hospital in Kentucky. The owners and historical society have been holding tours and overnight tours to help restore it. It’s quite an interesting place to visit

[@JusNoBS420]

Joe Scott should be wearing a shirt that says “Answers with Me”

[@shadowcult464]

Very smooth plug for your sponsor. Great over view of the topic plenty of detail. No stone unturned in research. Simple light click bait project examining a specific and troubling feature of culture.

[@BOTGRINDER]

Last podcast on the left is doing a salem trial series right now that is really good!

[@thescotsmantechnologyrevie2138]

I LOVE your Matt Walsh shirt! ❤️💕💖

[@Mrdrooly123]

Might be my favorite episode you've ever made!!

[@ashleycraddock2090]

You're channel is awesome, keep up the great work!

[@jasonkinzie8835]

I'm pretty sure that a Vampire's vulnerability to sunlight came about in the 1920s in cinema. Bram Stoker's Dracula walked around in sunlight.

[@vezokpiraka]

This still happens in Romania lol. The last vampire killing (exhuming the corpse and burning stuff) happened in like 2010 here and that's just what came out. It probably still happens.

[@MrOtistetrax]

Love ya, Joe. Stay cool.

[@andrewohara5935]

“Have an eye opening rest of the week” has to be the greatest outro ever

[@Sgt-Gravy]

Hello fresh is not designed for bachelor or bachelorette life... just saying

[@lloydfromfar]

Woa, I didn't expect that, good investigation! :O

[@rayb4faybrown975]

First time I’ve heard a defense for Elizabeth Bathory and it being a smear campaign. I want to know more about this 🧐

[@aimeem]

Yeah, you should look it up, it's a fascinating story. Iirc the king owed her money and thought of this wonderful to avoid having to pay it back...

[@Alex-zs3kn]

Also many of the stories about Vlad the Impaler are thought to be Ottoman smear campaigns.

[@msr98111]

Good video Joe, thanks!

[@OvelNick]

"Dipped his bread in his blood..." blood coagulates quickly. Probably like jam at that point. Rabies is the most terrifying diseases that I've ever, legitimately, worried about. I've had to have shots on 3 separate occasions. IT SUCKS! But if you have ever seen a case of a human exhibiting the symptoms it's very much worth it. Especially since that by that time they exhibit those symptoms they're guaranteed to die. The following week is the things that night terrors hope they never become.

[@sylviahoffman9440]

Thank you so much for this video. It explains a lot of things about the misinformation of TB and excellent background for the vampire legends.

[@neoncharge2964]

The first episode of Lore on Amazon is based on the story of Mercy Brown

[@renatacantore3684]

Thank you for sharing the origins of Vampires 🧛🧛‍♂️ 🧛‍♀️ you are a great storyteller 🏆👏🏼

[@reneesaneptune]

Actually, Bram Stoker's Dracula was inspired by the novella, Carmilla, written by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. It predates Dracula by 26 years and provided creative inspiration for Stoker's novel.

[@smatthieu138]

I’m a Rhode Islander, and I drive by the grave regularly!

[@spitfirered]

Great Video Joe!

[@joyl7842]

8:59 quite an important sentence right there. Humans are exceptionally skilled at finding patterns.

[@slync7129]

Love your vids Joe! 👍🏻

[@rachel_rexxx]

You got me vampires for my birthday! Thanks man

[@HarryBuddhaPalm]

Vampires being killed by sunlight isn't part of traditional vampiric folklore. It comes from the movie "Nosferatu". Even in the novel, Dracula wasn't hurt by sunlight. He just didn't like it. That book is only 130 years old. Vampires didn't have fangs, either.

[@lunacouer]

It's kinda interesting that even today, the vampire myth is continually evolving. Like you said, the sunlight part came after Nosferatu. He also was a terrifying monster, but today they're all sexy and seductive, lol. We keep adapting and changing their qualities. We laugh that people used to believe that they were real, but here we are, still telling vampire stories and "updating" them to fit in with current culture.

[@nephicus339]

@@lunacouer With Marvel's Morbius, we're reverting to monsterous vampires instead of vampires dipped in stripper glitter.

[@oneminuteofmyday]

@@nephicus339 It makes sense that glitter would be associated with vampires. Once you bring glitter into the house and open the jar, it will come and go freely. You’ll think the glitter is gone, but suddenly it is there again.

[@Sara3346]

@@nephicus339 It was one property, why can't you calm down about it after all these years?

[@nephicus339]

@@Sara3346 I am calm. Why are you so butt hurt about a youtube comment about a years old franchise?

[@nanaafiayeboah3905]

The tittle really goes with the story Love it

[@Henchman1977]

Been to Salem twice. Cute town, good for walking around.

[@duser]

Some kinda cool association between prophyria and vampires. one of the treatments of prohyrea is to give the affected person glucose and hemin (precursor to heme, the non-protein part of hemoglobin that acts like a socket for the iron atoms). This actually stops the accumulation of the toxic substances that cause the symptoms and prevents disease progression. Acute Intermittent Porphyria causes Polyneuropathy, including damage to the central nervous system. It is theorized constant damage over time made sufferers from AIP get early-onset behavioral changes. In their 40s, sufferers may become highly aggressive and loose some rationalizing capability, basically becoming maniacs. Now you can see how the picture kinda fits. People suffering from AIP in the past might have been normal in their early life, except for the red urine. Their body may have developed a taste for bloody heme-rich foods as a way to provide for a vital nutrient they couldn't produce. Over time, they would loose their mental capability, increasing in aggression reducing in rationalizing ability. If someone well-known and powerful in ancient times had this disease, a legend of this person being a blood-thirsty monster may have been produced. Again this is all just a theory

[@mauricemunoz242]

I just love this channel….!!!!

[@Ryan-pz4dh]

“Don’t ever invite a vampire into your house, silly boy. It renders you powerless!” - Max, The Lost Boys 1987

[@trickyricky2903]

*goes to front door, removes welcome matt

[@bdrenfro]

Thanks for being a voice for intellectuals in North Texas.

[@teethgrinder83]

I remember seeing a vid of a man in the Wikipedia article on rabies showing a man going through a bought of hydrophobia (fear of water) and he was trying to get a sip of water but each time he looked at the cup you can see the fear in him, it's a fascinating but horrible thing to see. Rabies really is a scary disease. The vid is still there if anyone's interested, it was recorded by some Dr's in a Vietnamese hospital in 2007. He likely died not long after 😔

[@thunderrumble9521]

You go, Joe

[@MrAdrianeagle]

3:13 quick correction here, "Dracul" translates into "Satan" or "The Devil" in romanian, doesn't mean Dragon But anyway, cool story Joe, always nice to see one of your videos popping up :)

[@hesjustthisguyyaknow]

the dragon was synonymous with satan at the time. the origin of his name being dracul was because he was given to the holy roman emperor in luxembourg as a child (standard practice for solidifying treaties). being raised in the court, vlad II joined an order of knights called the order of the dragon, whose symbol was a dragon broken under a cross. when he returned to wallachia to rule the locals called him vlad dracul because he brought with him the symbol of the dragon under the cross.

[@exogen115]

I live in Exeter RI, and drive by this place on average twice a day, Never new the whole story, thanks!

[@riddle7911epic]

My little state does not get much attention, but when it does, it usually involves something crazy like vampires

[@hyperretroactivehyperretro5992]

Man listening to Joe while I play Supreme Commander is very relaxing….

[@bigboy_tron2231]

Hey joe I’ve basically watch every single one of you’re videos and love them. By far my favorite are on unidentified objects, because of you’re non biased view and you’re way of explaining things. Could we get an update on the « flying tic tac » or the new video shown in congress that was film from inside the cockpit?

[@nancyt.7134]

I was already to pontificate about Varney the Vampire, penny dreadfuls, and Carmilla... but lots of others beat me to it. Anecdote. The story goes that Lauren Bacall's grand daughter was enamoured of the Twilight series, and had her mother watch the first movie. Apparently Bacall got a copy of Nosferatu and gave it to the grand daughter saying, THIS is a vampire.

[@kaneddavis]

Thanks!

[@Sam_on_YouTube]

Stoker only got the NAME from Vlad Dracula. The manuscript was essentially complete before he had heard of him. When he heard the name, he adopted it for his story, but the story was otherwise pretty much done by that point.

[@willmfrank]

If you look at Stoker's notes (and some pages have been published in several annotated editions) you'll see confirmation of Sam's comment -- Stoker went through his notes and crossed out the vampire's original name "Count Vampyr" (🤨) and wrote in "Count Dracula."

[@Sam_on_YouTube]

@@willmfrank Thanks. I had heard about this, but was a little worried I was repeating misinformation. I looked for the original name and couldn't find it. I saw a review of his notes online, but not the actual notes. There is apparently a pretty extensive book of his notes. They were discovered in the 1970s and it answered a lot of scholarly questions about his writing.

[@willmfrank]

@@Sam_on_KZbin Hi Sam. You're very welcome. Check this out: Here's a link to the "Dracula" episode of Professor Christopher Frayling's excellent documentary series "NIGHTMARE! The Birth of Victorian Horror." In this clip, Prof. Frayling shows us Bram Stoker's personal papers and notes. Enjoy! kzbin.info/www/bejne/bmnIlXqijJh3ipY

[@Alex-zs3kn]

Consumption was used to refer to any lung disease. This was often TB, but a lot of cases were probably lung cancer. Which makes sense since tobacco use was common and most people cooked over wood fires in their homes, while heating their homes with wood or coal.

[@Sithhy]

I love learning about medicine & crazy beliefs from the 1800's

[@_shanek]

A snippet from “Lost Boys”. Obsessed with that movie when it came out ! ! 👍🏻👍🏻🇦🇺

[@chrstfer2452]

Hey, that one of a lighthouse like 6s in was actually marblehead not salem!! Lol love you Joe

[@Mizgrievoux]

This kicked ass.