LACONIA — The cold and dark of a New England November can summon eerie thoughts to a wandering mind, even today. It shouldn’t surprise then, at one time, some New Englanders believed that the undead walked among them in the dark bowers of the night.
Feeding upon their kin, these “ghouls” petrified families for more than 100 years. Scores of families exhumed their loved ones looking for the "spectral ghoul" that plagued them. Accounts and actual newspaper articles help tell the story of how people once took desperate measures to rid themselves of what we now know as the New England Vampire.
Join author and paranormal investigator Thomas D'Agostino at Laconia Public Library at 6 p.m., on Thursday, Nov. 12, for a fascinating discussion of New England’s superstitious past.
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