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Synced
by Bakugan

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Of all the ties that bind,

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none is more profound than family.

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In 1836, Sarah Hart welcomed

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her recently orphaned
12-year-old niece Mary

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into her New Haven, Connecticut, home.

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Mary's parents had been lost at sea.

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Sara and Mary

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found solace in each other's company.

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As the years passed,

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they became inseparable.

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It was as if they were
of one mind, one heart.

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One morning,

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as the two women worked,

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Mary collapsed.

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The cause wasn't clear.

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At first Sara thought her
niece had simply fainted,

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but no.

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Sara held Mary in her arms

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as she took her last breath.

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She was buried the next day.

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That night, Sara had a nightmare.

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Let me out of here!

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Help!

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Help!

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Help!

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She was convinced

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this had to be more than a dream.

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Could Mary still be alive?

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She begged the church
officials to unearth Mary.

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It was a somber task that
quickly turned to horror

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when they laid eyes on
Mary's lifeless body...

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fingernails torn and bloody,

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the lining of the coffin torn to shreds.

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Her face a horrid death mask.

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This really happened to Mary Hart

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on October 16, 1872.

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Waking up inside a small
box 6 feet in the earth

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is what true fright looks like to me...

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buried but not dead,

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or, even worse, buried but undead.

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I'm Aaron Mahnke, and this is Lore.

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One thing we can all be grateful for

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is that we live in an age

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when we know that dead is dead.

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But modern medicine
has redefined the line

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between life and death.

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We now have control over that line

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in a way that previous generations

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would have considered miraculous

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or the work of the devil.

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Doctors routinely stop the heart

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during open heart surgery

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and then revive the patient
with an electric shock.

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People whose brains

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have all but ceased to function

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can still be kept alive.

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Cutting an organ out of one person

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and sewing it into the body of another,

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that's no longer a notion
out of Frankenstein.

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That's what medicine
has always been about...

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finding a way to eliminate suffering

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and keep death at bay,

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even though some early methods

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may now seem barbaric.

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No matter what the era,

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the question has always been,

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"How far are we willing to go

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to keep a loved one alive?"

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In 1883, George Brown found himself

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asking that very same question.

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Census records tell us that
Brown owned a small farm

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in the rural community
of Exeter, Rhode Island.

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He had a family, and, like most

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if not all of his neighbors,

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he was Protestant.

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These were people who prided
themselves on hard work,

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self-reliance,

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and perseverance in
the face of hardship.

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This wasn't George
Brown's first encounter

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with the phantom killer.

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I'm sorry, George.

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You've seen how this ends.

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In 1883, consumption claimed the lives

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of one in four people in New England.

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His wife Mary Elizabeth
had contracted the disease

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and died an equally agonizing death.

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Now it would claim

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his oldest daughter Mary Olive.

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The newspaper wrote

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of the town's sorrow at her passing.

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The last hours she lived, they said,

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were a great suffering,

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yet her faith was firm,

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and she was ready for the change.

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George was not a religious man,

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but he prayed every night
that this terrible sickness

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would leave his children alone.

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We know from death records

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that consumption continued
to plague New Englanders.

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But for nine years,

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George's prayers were answered,

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and his family was spared.

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Edwin, turn yourself from the ladies.

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Yes, sir.

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You two have been married
for a whole year now.

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Aren't you sick of each other yet?

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With a little more work,

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there'll be more than just the
two of us by the first snow.

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Let me see.

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How long?

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A couple of weeks.

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Do they know?

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No. I'll finish.

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Nurse yourself.

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Yes, sir.

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Thomas Brandt, from over in Providence,

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his brother took ill a few months back.

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They sent him

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to Colorado Springs.

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There's a special hospital
there for treatment.

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The mountain air clears
the lungs, they say.

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Did it work for Thomas' brother?

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Thomas says he's good as new.

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So we'll sell some heads of cattle.

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I can't let you do that.

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They're my cattle, son.

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Who will help you bring in the crop?

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I will.

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Your strong sister will.

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- You must go.
- You both go.

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Both of you.

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I've lost a wife.

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I've lost a daughter.
I won't lose a son.

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Three months after
Edwin left for Colorado,

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the phantom killer
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This time it came for Mercy.

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The pandemic had
reached epic proportions,

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and after enduring the ravages
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the last remaining shred
of hope was that death

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would finally bring relief.

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But only if the dead were actually dead.

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At this time in the late 19th century,

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pronouncing someone dead was
more guess work than science.

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The fear of premature burial
HAD A NAME: Tapephobia.

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And thus the birth of
the Waiting Mortuary,

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the place where the probably,

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but maybe not completely
dead could be observed.

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That is until the only
sure fire sign of death

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putrefaction.

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The best of the
establishments were adorned

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with huge floral arrangements
to mask the stench.

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Still, why wait that long
if you didn't have to?

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There were a growing
number of techniques

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that could provide a speedier verdict,

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like sticking a pin under the nail bed.

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Putting a live beetle in the ear.

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Bugle fanfares at point blank range.

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Razor cuts to the souls of the feet.

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A specially designed nipple pincer.

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Sticking a pencil up the nose.

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Once physician even developed a
hand cranked tongue-pulling machine.

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For those with sufficient means,

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there was another option,

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the safety coffin.

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Enterprising inventors,

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embracing the zeitgeist of the moment,

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proposed numerous patents

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for this emerging class
of mortuary product.

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One popular design
consisted of a long tube

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that provided light and fresh air.

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One doctor designed
a system using a bell.

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Strings were attached to the hands,

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feet, and head of the corpse,

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and if the bell rang,
the attendant would

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summon the gravediggers,

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who'd rapidly reverse their labor,

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freeing the occupant from
his terrifying predicament.

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Hence the expression,
"Saved by the bell."

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The thing is, we'll never know
just how many woke in terror

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only to die a second death.

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After several weeks in Colorado Springs,

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Edwin's health was improving.

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The therapies and fresh mountain air

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had reinvigorated his lungs.

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But, by the time Edwin came home,

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Mercy was dead.

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There we are.

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I should have been
there for her, for you.

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You know your sister.

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She didn't even want
to know she was sick.

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She knew you'd come home.

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She wanted you to stay and get well.

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You look well.

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Good to see you, son. Come on.

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Dr. Metcalf and some men are downstairs.

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They wish to speak with you.

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George.

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Samuel.

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This is Mr. William Rose.

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He lives over in Peace Dale,

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but he is Exeter born and raised.

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Mr. Rose.

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I heard about the tragedy
that's befallen your family.

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That your son has taken
a turn for the worse.

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- I have a remedy.
- Are you a doctor?

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Most certainly not.

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He's just a farmer, just like us.

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But he has experience
with Eddie's illness.

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Samuel tells me your son found relief

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from his sickness out west.

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It wasn't until he came
home it started back?

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Yes.

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I believe the young man
is in the grip of a demon.

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George, do not listen to this.

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Well, if he keeps listening to
you, Eddie will die like the others.

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Now, we've heard about this, George.

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This... This demon,

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it... it gets into
the body of a loved one

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and it kills them,

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and it keeps reaching
back from the grave

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to feast on the blood of the next

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and the next until no one is left.

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William knows. He's seen it firsthand.

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I let my wife and
four of my children die

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before I accepted the truth.

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Until I did what I should
have done from the start.

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And what was that?

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Since the demon spirit resides
in the heart of the diseased,

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we must unearth their bodies
and find out which is the host.

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You are suggesting I dig
up my wife and my daughters?

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If the body is sufficiently desiccated,

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we'll know if it is truly dead.

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But if there remains an unnatural glow,

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we must check the heart...

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for blood.

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If present, we know the
demon has taken it as a host,

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and we must burn it.

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It's Old World superstition.

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Medieval folklore. We
live in the New World.

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Well, call it what
you want, but it works.

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It saved Mr. Rose and his daughter.

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She lives now with a family of her own.

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There are things on this
earth that we cannot explain,

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but that doesn't make
them any less possible.

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We can save your only son.

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I'm sorry for your loss, Mr. Rose.

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I'd like you to leave my house. Now.

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I'll escort them out.

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Please.

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Go on, Samuel.

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How much did you hear?

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I refuse to give into that madness.

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I'm not superstitious but this plague,

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this demon has taken so many,

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and now it wants Eddie.

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What if there's something
to what they're saying?

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- What if...
- Lily.

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If we do nothing, Eddie will die.

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We both know that.

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If what they're saying could work,

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I know that Mercy would want us to try.

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I didn't know the other
members of your family.

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Can we live with ourselves,

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if no matter how improbable?

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This could work. And
we didn't even try it.

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I don't know.

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Please.

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George Brown was being
asked to do the unthinkable:

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exhume the bodies of his family to see

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if they were, in a way, still alive.

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It was a ritual with a name.

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Therapeutic exhumation.

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To ensure that the
dead were really dead.

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The idea was born some
hundred years earlier

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from the work of George Stahl,

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one of Germany's most respected doctors.

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Stahl was obsessed with understanding

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what separated life from death.

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He believed that an invisible life force

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flowed through the human body...

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and this force keeps
the lungs breathing,

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the heart beating, the blood liquid.

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He called that force the animus...

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the soul.

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Decomposition could only begin

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once the soul had left the body.

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But we now know that Stahl had it wrong.

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But people back then thought
it was cutting-edge science,

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and used it to justify
their own superstitions...

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that some souls remain in their corpses.

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And to sustain themselves,

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those souls feed on the living,

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spreading disease as they feast.

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This strange combination
of bad science and folklore

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was brought to America
by German Army surgeons

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who aided the British in
the American Revolution.

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When a town was plagued by Consumption,

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they would exhume the corpses.

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If they discovered flesh that
hadn't decomposed sufficiently

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or blood that hadn't coagulated,

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it could mean only one thing:

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the soul was still trapped in the body.

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The heart would be surgically
removed and cremated.

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Thus the soul would be put
to rest once and for all.

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And the living would be safe.

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He awoke screaming.

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He's burning up.

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Shh, shh.

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Eddie.

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Shh, shh.

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Shh.

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Mercy!

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Stay with him.

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We are practical men,

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you and I. Aren't we?

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I don't believe in demons,
Harold. I know you don't.

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After all I've lost, I
barely believe in God.

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God forgive me.

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00:24:23,671 --> 00:24:27,133
But Rose claims this
remedy saved his daughter.

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Am I being... selfish

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not to at least allow them to try to

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bring Edwin some relief?

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The Germans discovered

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consumption is caused by bacteria.

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I don't care about the... the cause,

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I care about the remedy.

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They told us it was hereditary,

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now it's a bacteria?

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Next is a parasite.

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00:24:58,456 --> 00:24:59,707
I don't know what to believe in.

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You cannot abandon your faith

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00:25:05,546 --> 00:25:07,548
just because you've
fallen on hard times.

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00:25:07,590 --> 00:25:10,259
That is what faith is there for.

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00:25:10,301 --> 00:25:13,429
I know. That's true.

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00:25:13,471 --> 00:25:16,307
But, at this point...

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my belief is that
William Rose offers hope.

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False hope.

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He will fail, too.

341
00:25:26,776 --> 00:25:27,902
If he fails, he fails.

342
00:25:32,031 --> 00:25:36,577
But I'll know I've tried everything
in my power to save my boy.

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00:25:36,619 --> 00:25:38,454
What are you willing to believe in

344
00:25:38,496 --> 00:25:40,665
if it makes you less human?

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00:25:42,458 --> 00:25:43,876
Will they forgive me,

346
00:25:43,918 --> 00:25:46,295
my family, my neighbors?

347
00:25:49,507 --> 00:25:52,343
Could I forgive myself if I
didn't at least let them try?

348
00:25:52,385 --> 00:25:55,805
There's no medical science
to anything they are saying.

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00:26:01,686 --> 00:26:03,104
You're a good friend, Harold.

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00:26:03,145 --> 00:26:04,897
You're my only friend in this...

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00:26:04,939 --> 00:26:06,649
a good doctor.

352
00:26:08,234 --> 00:26:12,697
But your medical science
has done... nothing.

353
00:26:19,287 --> 00:26:22,081
George Brown
lived in a strange time

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00:26:22,123 --> 00:26:24,834
where scientific discoveries
were rapidly changing

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00:26:24,875 --> 00:26:27,169
how people engaged with the world,

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00:26:27,211 --> 00:26:29,463
and how they imagined the future.

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00:26:29,505 --> 00:26:34,719
Science was producing miracles
on an unprecedented scale.

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00:26:43,811 --> 00:26:47,064
And yet medicine still fell short.

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00:26:50,318 --> 00:26:53,237
Doctors were often in the
dark when it came to knowing

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00:26:53,279 --> 00:26:56,324
what caused the diseases
that were ravaging so many.

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00:26:58,534 --> 00:27:03,372
Like the consumption that had
decimated George Brown's family.

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00:27:03,414 --> 00:27:07,335
Though the bacterium that caused
the disease, M. Tuberculosis,

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00:27:07,376 --> 00:27:09,462
had been discovered ten years earlier,

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00:27:09,503 --> 00:27:13,758
as of 1892 there was still no cure.

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00:27:13,799 --> 00:27:16,635
Which left plenty of room
for less scientific remedies

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00:27:16,677 --> 00:27:20,222
to keep their iron grip on
people's practices and beliefs.

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Like the belief that a heart, long dead,

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could still exert some
sort of terrible power

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draining the life from the living.

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00:27:43,162 --> 00:27:47,833
Now, any bodies we unbury
and find they have not rotted,

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00:27:47,875 --> 00:27:50,169
then it's proof they
walk the earth at night.

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00:27:53,297 --> 00:27:56,634
Who was the first taken?

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My wife, Mary Elizabeth.

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00:28:00,471 --> 00:28:02,556
Then that's where we start.

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00:28:05,518 --> 00:28:07,520
May God understand and guide us.

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00:29:01,657 --> 00:29:02,992
Mary Olive died next?

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00:29:30,811 --> 00:29:32,855
- You have your answer.
- Yes.

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00:29:34,231 --> 00:29:35,524
The answer is, this is over.

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00:29:35,566 --> 00:29:36,901
You've seen for yourselves.

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00:29:36,942 --> 00:29:38,027
Return them to their rest,

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00:29:38,068 --> 00:29:40,279
and go back home to your families.

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00:29:40,321 --> 00:29:41,322
Mercy.

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00:29:41,329 --> 00:29:44,331
Mercy was alive when her
mother and sister died.

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00:29:44,366 --> 00:29:45,409
It can't be her.

385
00:29:45,451 --> 00:29:47,661
But what if it is?

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00:29:47,703 --> 00:29:49,330
She'll come for your boy.

387
00:29:49,371 --> 00:29:51,373
She'll come for our boys.

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00:29:53,417 --> 00:29:54,376
We have to know.

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00:30:20,528 --> 00:30:22,446
Three months,

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00:30:22,488 --> 00:30:24,240
and yet her skin is fresh

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00:30:24,281 --> 00:30:26,283
as if still taking nourishment.

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00:30:26,325 --> 00:30:27,409
She's not dead.

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00:30:28,827 --> 00:30:30,412
Look at her.

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00:30:30,454 --> 00:30:31,789
At night she lives.

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00:30:31,830 --> 00:30:34,416
The body was kept in the shed

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00:30:34,458 --> 00:30:36,794
awaiting spring thaw for burial.

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00:30:36,835 --> 00:30:39,171
The cold preserved her, not a folk tale.

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00:30:39,213 --> 00:30:42,132
A demon would be smart to use her.

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00:30:42,174 --> 00:30:44,260
She doesn't need to
crawl up from the ground.

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00:30:48,389 --> 00:30:49,598
We have no choice.

401
00:30:51,392 --> 00:30:52,560
It must be done.

402
00:30:53,769 --> 00:30:56,063
Samuel.

403
00:30:56,105 --> 00:30:57,314
You will not touch her.

404
00:30:57,356 --> 00:30:59,775
Don't you understand?

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00:30:59,817 --> 00:31:01,986
This is as much for her
sake as it is Eddie's.

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00:31:07,032 --> 00:31:10,869
If you do this then
Mercy can rest in peace...

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00:31:10,911 --> 00:31:11,954
and save your son.

408
00:31:19,169 --> 00:31:20,129
What do I do?

409
00:31:23,382 --> 00:31:24,800
Can you do it?

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00:32:16,268 --> 00:32:19,688
The heart is where the demon lives.

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00:32:19,730 --> 00:32:22,900
If we find fresh blood,

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00:32:22,941 --> 00:32:24,193
we'll know she carries it.

413
00:32:40,250 --> 00:32:41,210
There.

414
00:32:43,587 --> 00:32:45,005
You see it?

415
00:32:45,047 --> 00:32:46,423
The blood is coagulated

416
00:32:46,465 --> 00:32:50,344
as it should be after
three months frozen.

417
00:32:50,386 --> 00:32:52,012
Then we can't take any chances.

418
00:32:52,054 --> 00:32:56,433
We must take the heart and the liver...

419
00:32:56,475 --> 00:32:57,434
to be certain.

420
00:33:18,205 --> 00:33:19,456
Burn it.

421
00:33:23,502 --> 00:33:27,089
Then make a tonic of the
ashes and give it to Edwin.

422
00:33:27,131 --> 00:33:28,215
A tonic?

423
00:33:28,257 --> 00:33:30,134
It's how I saved my daughter.

424
00:34:44,625 --> 00:34:45,667
Take this.

425
00:34:45,709 --> 00:34:47,878
I can't. I can't.

426
00:34:52,633 --> 00:34:54,468
I could never, I...

427
00:34:57,137 --> 00:34:58,138
Listen to me.

428
00:35:00,808 --> 00:35:03,060
If it offers even the
slightest hope of a cure,

429
00:35:03,101 --> 00:35:05,562
you know Mercy herself would
implore you to drink it.

430
00:35:05,604 --> 00:35:06,939
Please.

431
00:35:10,984 --> 00:35:13,612
If not for yourself,

432
00:35:13,654 --> 00:35:14,780
then for me.

433
00:35:20,160 --> 00:35:21,745
Come on, son.

434
00:35:21,787 --> 00:35:22,746
This is where we are.

435
00:35:24,039 --> 00:35:25,123
This is where we are.

436
00:35:29,461 --> 00:35:32,464
I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

437
00:35:33,298 --> 00:35:34,550
I know, I know.

438
00:35:39,805 --> 00:35:40,806
I'm sorry.

439
00:35:43,976 --> 00:35:44,977
Good job.

440
00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:53,610
The family
waited for the impossible,

441
00:35:53,652 --> 00:35:56,780
and prayed for Edwin's recovery.

442
00:36:23,265 --> 00:36:25,976
But on May 2nd, 1892,

443
00:36:26,018 --> 00:36:29,104
almost two months after
drinking the tonic,

444
00:36:29,146 --> 00:36:31,440
Edwin Brown passed away.

445
00:36:31,481 --> 00:36:33,901
He was 24 years old.

446
00:36:33,942 --> 00:36:36,987
George had taken the extraordinary,

447
00:36:37,029 --> 00:36:39,948
some would say barbaric action,

448
00:36:39,990 --> 00:36:42,242
to save his child.

449
00:36:42,284 --> 00:36:44,286
And he'd failed.

450
00:36:52,669 --> 00:36:56,131
Newspapers condemned George
Brown and the people of Exeter

451
00:36:56,173 --> 00:36:59,384
as remnants of a less enlightened time.

452
00:36:59,426 --> 00:37:01,720
The articles mocked them for believing

453
00:37:01,762 --> 00:37:04,848
a monster could escape from the grave.

454
00:37:04,890 --> 00:37:07,517
And they gave that monster a name:

455
00:37:07,559 --> 00:37:08,602
The Vampire.

456
00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:17,861
The story became a tabloid
sensation around the world.

457
00:37:17,903 --> 00:37:21,615
A clipping was found among
the papers of a writer.

458
00:37:21,657 --> 00:37:24,826
Bram Stoker.

459
00:37:24,868 --> 00:37:27,704
And the book inspired by Mercy's tale,

460
00:37:27,746 --> 00:37:30,082
I'm sure you've already guessed that.

461
00:37:30,123 --> 00:37:31,124
Dracula.

462
00:37:40,258 --> 00:37:43,053
The vampire tale quickly
moved from the printed page

463
00:37:43,095 --> 00:37:44,513
to the Silver Screen.

464
00:37:49,017 --> 00:37:51,311
And it's never really gone away.

465
00:37:56,942 --> 00:37:59,152
It's more than a little ironic.

466
00:37:59,194 --> 00:38:00,862
In many ways,

467
00:38:00,904 --> 00:38:03,573
thanks to the efforts of her father,

468
00:38:03,615 --> 00:38:05,492
Mercy Brown,

469
00:38:05,534 --> 00:38:07,995
the first American vampire,

470
00:38:08,036 --> 00:38:09,955
is still alive...

471
00:38:09,997 --> 00:38:11,123
today.

472
00:38:11,309 --> 00:38:15,044
Synced
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