This was awesome! 👌 All these amazing locations you go to I hope you’ve been doing rubbings. Some of these tombstones and monuments are beautiful! You’re blessed, man! I hope you know how appreciated you are, dude. Thanks! 🍻
The amount of research and legwork that must go into these videos is insane to think about. Thank you for making the time to share your passion and education with us.
Clicked on this so fast! Dime store adventures is always a good time and this video title is STELLAR. This channel deserves to be so much bigger. Keep up the good work!
I know who the carver is: Zerubabbel Collins. His carvings are so distinctive. There are a bunch in the Old Bennington Cemetery where Robert Frost is buried.
My friend’s family owns a funeral home, so I know that this is pretty true, although usually they can’t be buried post-September due to the ground being so cold. Most of the time we put them in a special vault in one section of the graveyard until spring, when they are able to be buried. But the vault is basically a fridge! ❤
I first learnt about New England's vampire panic mostly from Caitlin Doughty's video on Ask A Mortician a few years ago, and one thing she mentioned that really stuck with me was that this period was not pre-rennaissance, middle ages stuff. Some of it was in the mid-19th century (ahd Mercy Brown in the late 19th century), at the same time as scientific and medical advancements... Edit: also that Bram Stoker was influenced by these American vampires lmaooo
It's easy to look back and laugh, but you have to realize TB was terrifying. It was an illness that slowly sapped the life of those infected over years. It would rapidly spread across entire communities. You're forced to watch as your loved ones gradually weaken more and more. There was no cure. There was no effective treatment. There was no hope. Vampires, as silly as they are, were a tangible enemy. Something they could focus their emotions on and something they could blame for their loss, other than a cruel, inevitable fact of life. We saw similar social panic break out over the past few years even. It's not a primitive part of humanity - it's something that will always exist. When all science, logic, and reason, fail, people will turn to anything they can regardless of how silly it may be to ease their turmoil.
I wish every corner of the country (and really, the world) had good storytellers sharing the unique folklore and history of their areas. This channel is one of my all-time favorites for how cozy it is.
Thank you for pronouncing Exeter correctly, you have NO idea how infuriatingly common it is for people to pronounce it "Egg-sitter". As always, amazing video~
It is pronounced "SOCK-oh" Maine. Its an Abenaki people's word for "outlet". You continue to amaze me in how well across the board you pronounce everything.
As funny as it may seem, Henry Bowditch actually knew what he was talking about. As a mortician I'm very familiar with the process and the circumstances of decomposition and I know, just like he did, that very wet graves produce adipocere (basically hardened, wax like body fat) in corpses which usually tends to keep bodies in better stages of conservation. This whole thing has been known about ever since the 1600's but wasn't a very well known or understood phenomenon which is why it could easily be misinterpretet.
"Very heavily resemble a Dracula type vampire" That's not some kind of coincidence. Bram Stoker started writing Dracula after reading about the exhuming of the body of Mercy Brown in Rhode Island, which made the NYC newspapers he was having shipped to him in Europe.
We have head stones just like this. Hallowell, Maine has a huge cemetery with many of these. I photograph slate stones and love the different carvings. It's fun to see how styles change over the years.
I 10000% expected that "but first" to be a transition into a sponsor. Like "but first i need to tell you about pur sponsor for today's video some addictive needless bullshit!" Thank you.
Fellow historian here- REALLY like your work, mate! Love how down to Earth and unslick it is, real grassroots vibe. Cracking stuff! BUT... coz of that, you defo don't need to add a music track like at the start. It just distracts from how cool your work is!
You're a great story teller. I am from central MA,northern RI , CT area. The old Douglas Woods.. near the tri state marker. Would love to hear some more stories about the area
It always makes my day when a new video drops! Hopefully you've been spared the ire of persnickety southern Mainers, but on the off chance it ever comes up again, Saco is pronounced "sock-oh"
There is a part of Pennsylvania that was originally claimed by Connecticut, so there are probably transplants from colony Connecticut, who brought their folklore beliefs with them.
I have never heard of this superstitious belief concerning tuberculosis. I love that you are putting your sources on the screen. Which historical newspaper database are you using? Your research is excellent. Thank you.
Love how you find old historical history stories that you share with us! Been watching your channel now for over a year! You always have such great details as well.
I loved hearing the stories of "vampire graves" from the New England areas. These are not at all as twisted and sick as those tales about Count Vlad. I'm Romanian, and my mother's mom and dad, grandparents, etc.,. were all from Transylvania 🧛🧛♀ and came to the US in the late 1890s or so. I just really enjoy hearing a good vampire story. It's like it's in my blood or something🩸😂😂
Fantastic work as always! Always love seeing stories from the Little Rhody! As you mentioned previously, timing was likely a huge factor in the staying power of Mercy Brown's story. Mercy died in 1892, 10 years after Robert Koch had identified the pathogen responsible for tuberculosis. However it's likely that people living in more rural and isolated communities (like the one the Browns lived in) wouldn't have known or even trusted this new information, instead relying on local superstitions and beliefs. Additionally in Mercy Brown's case (and potentially others) her heart and liver weren't simply burned but the ash from her organs was made into a tonic that was fed to her brother, Edwin, to ward off consumption. He would die two months later regardless. I think the timing near the dawn of the modern medical age in addition to a small amount of familial cannibalism turned her story into one of morbid curiosity
The first "Consumption Vampire" story I heard about was from Griswold, CT in 1990. From Smithsonian Magazine in August 2019, a "coffin, marked with tacks that spelled out “JB 55,” contained a body whose skull had been hacked from the spine and placed on the chest, which had been broken open, along with the femurs to create a skull and crossbones. JB 55 had been in the ground around five years when someone exhumed him and tried to remove his heart, part of ritual to stop a suspected vampire from preying on the living." If anyone is interested the article is called "New England ‘Vampire’ Was Likely a Farmer Named John" by Jason Daley.
I think you're right about the date being at the heart (heh) of the enduring nature of the Mercy Brown story. I've seen other sources which suggested that George thought the whole superstition was ridiculous, and only relented under protest and in order to appease some relatives and/or townsfolk. It's also possible that some of the loose ties to Edgar Allen Poe helps keep it going.
I could not imagine the misery of watching many members of your house die in just a couple years, while you can do nothing but sit there and watch. That has to be one of the saddest situations a person wouldn't want to live through.
It was called the white plague for a reason. TB is airborne, too. That’s why America has such strict laws around it, forcing you to get treatment under quarantine. Oh, and antibiotic resistant TB is now spreading. Sweet dreams.
The superstition of vampires a fascinatingly ancient thing! This superstition and its markings on the dead can be found all over. Miniminuteman has a great video he did on halloween about it. I don't know where "consumption vampires" would originate from, but humans have feared the dead returning for a VEEERRRY long time, so I wouldn't be surprised if this specific belief is also ancient.
best up and comer on RUclips right now, I remember watching the search for Rowe Spring a while ago and a lot of your other stuff and you improve every video man. I love how you utilize old newspapers to peer into the annals of history, it’s an often underused tactic in this medium and for you to use them to put things into context is awesome, quality channel.
On Simon Whipples grave there is atleast 1 more line of inscription barely visible above the dirt, any idea what it could possibly say? Id assume its a continuation of the poem but its hard to say since so much is buried
While searching for a relatives headstone in a Connecticut cemetery I realized all the headstones were facing the same direction east west. Accept for a family that was off to the side with two stones out of that family were facing north south which seemed pretty strange.
This is fantastically interesting and such a well-made video. But I think the tone needs some adjustment, honestly the desperation-fueled superstition leading to desecrating graves is a really sad phenomenon
Always makes my day to see a new video here. Woke up with a really long day ahead of me and got to enjoy my morning coffee while watching this. Great stuff. Thank you and keep 'em comin'.
All of Massachusetts is history. I grew up on an old dairy farm in north Attleboro Massachusetts and I didn’t even know it. My brother and I discovered train tracks and old parts of tractors. We talked to a guy that hay bailed the field behind us and told us there was 0 rocks in our yard we could have sold the soil it was so good. And we live 10 miles north of Providence it’s a beautiful thing.
Nelly Vaughn - RI - gravestone said “ I’m waiting and watching for you “. Gravestone had to be moved because so many people visited Mercy Brown thought to be the idea for Bram Stokers Dracula
I love your form of story telling so much. One of the interesting things is we live in the same country but every time i see one of your videos it feels like I'm seeing a whole different country.
Thanks for another great video! Happy holidays DSA! 🎄❄️ also thanks for the amazing postcards, I look forward to it every month! i’ll have to scrapbook them :)
Captain Spaulding is the name of a killer clown in a rob zombie movie if I'm not mistaken.....wonder if that's because of a tie to this guy or just happen stance?
could have come from this Marx Brothers bit: "Hello, I must be going. I cannot stay, I came to say I must be going. I'm glad I came but just the same I must be going." ruclips.net/video/5BMtqqHRvB8/видео.html
Another phenomenal video. My mind is blown. Two of my passions in life are trees and New England history. I live in Connecticut. So cool you went to Cornwall. I love it out there. Can't wait to visit that grave. Thank you for this. Extraordinary work. 🔥 Extremely inspiring. I am dying to know how you do your research!
Yeah there's like nothing on "bone auger" that I could find, but I did find out that an "augur" is apparently a Roman priest whose job was to predict the future, it can also be used as a verb that means to foretell. If it was spelled like that then maybe they're using it in a noun form to mean some kind of bad omen, maybe a "bone augur" is a type of plant that is commonly associated with death and when it's seen growing out of a grave, it's a portent of illnesses to come to whatever family the grave belongs to. I'm kind of grasping at straws here though, that kind of makes sense but I've got nothing to back it up besides that definition. Good news though is that a new Death Metal band name just dropped and it is fire.
There are similar Italian and French words that were probably borrowed from the Roman Latin you mentioned. "bonne" or "bon" i think mean good or beautiful. "augure" means omen or wish. So bon augure=good omens or good wishes (used as a greeting?) Doesn't really make sense in this context though, because it sounds like this story is talking about something that could be seen. I can't guess if it was something in the physical world like your nicknamed plant idea, or something seen supernaturally in some way. The newspaper reporter is just as confused as i am about what the witness is talking about. Funny they printed the story's witness quotes anyway. 😄
An auger is a tool for drilling holes. From the context the story seems to be implying that there was some kind of tree or plant that was drilling its roots into graves to get at the bones. I'd guess it might be related to the story about the evil vine sneaking into the row of graves underground earlier in the video. People in the past were very reliant on plants and nature and there was all kinds of folklore related to plants. I suspect the 'bone auger' idea is a little-known and mostly forgotten aspect of that plant lore.
@@Insanabiliter_In_Linea I just wanted to say that imaging it's got something to do with Roman priests is probably a red herring. The spelling is basically irrelevant, as the whole quote is based around what a newspaper journalist wrote down about what an old woman said 170 years ago. A lot of modern spelling rules weren't even established yet, and even where they were, lots of people had bad spelling or still wrote things down wrong a lot of the time. Even today, speech recording apps constantly misspell homophones or even words that are only vaguely similar. Based on context, it's most likely the 'bone auger' was some kind of plant that was supposed to grow into graves, and very unlikely to have anything to do with Roman priests.
Great video! The vagueness on how exactly the dead were preying on the living actually lines up better with pre-18th century revenant legends in Europe. The fully-corporeal blood-drinking vampire that we know today really only emerged in Western Europe in the 1700s as advances in medicine and science reshaped these stories to be less spiritual and more materially grounded.
Another fantastic video that makes me go “WHERE DOES HE FIND THESE STORIES!?!” I can’t be the only one who thinks the gravestone cleaners in the north east could make hundreds of videos by following this guy around?
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This was awesome! 👌
All these amazing locations you go to I hope you’ve been doing rubbings. Some of these tombstones and monuments are beautiful!
You’re blessed, man!
I hope you know how appreciated you are, dude. Thanks! 🍻
“rubbings” 🙄😅😳
You have the best channel on RUclips.
Thank you for not being AI.
The amount of research and legwork that must go into these videos is insane to think about. Thank you for making the time to share your passion and education with us.
Clicked on this so fast! Dime store adventures is always a good time and this video title is STELLAR. This channel deserves to be so much bigger. Keep up the good work!
Someone who deserves getting to a million subs for sure. I love this energy so much, hope he makes many more!
I'm so glad y'all are commenting because it got into my reco feed. Thanks never heard of this channel. I'm excited to watch.
@@dabzprincess92 You really need to binge watch, seriously! I haven't found a story yet that wasn't interesting!!
"so instead I'm gonna tell the story from this log" you are a pioneer in RUclipsrs chatting about superstitions from woodsy places, this is on brand
This channel is quickly becoming one of my favorite on the platform. Also just want to shoutout the aspect ratio
I know who the carver is: Zerubabbel Collins. His carvings are so distinctive. There are a bunch in the Old Bennington Cemetery where Robert Frost is buried.
wait that is the best name ever
@ agree
Pretty sure it's biblical, but i can't for the life of me remember where it's mentioned in chapter verse.
@spacehonky6315 he's a bunch of books, including Haggai, Zechariah, Ezra and Chronicles 1, as far as I remember
I've been to that cemetery and it's so beautiful.his work is also very popular throughout the northeast
I love how the backup when not being able to go to the locations is "this log"
With a "widow maker" right behind him. Brave man.
If you bury someone in new england in october or later, it would kinda be like putting them in the fridge until may
My friend’s family owns a funeral home, so I know that this is pretty true, although usually they can’t be buried post-September due to the ground being so cold. Most of the time we put them in a special vault in one section of the graveyard until spring, when they are able to be buried. But the vault is basically a fridge! ❤
I first learnt about New England's vampire panic mostly from Caitlin Doughty's video on Ask A Mortician a few years ago, and one thing she mentioned that really stuck with me was that this period was not pre-rennaissance, middle ages stuff. Some of it was in the mid-19th century (ahd Mercy Brown in the late 19th century), at the same time as scientific and medical advancements... Edit: also that Bram Stoker was influenced by these American vampires lmaooo
It's easy to look back and laugh, but you have to realize TB was terrifying. It was an illness that slowly sapped the life of those infected over years. It would rapidly spread across entire communities. You're forced to watch as your loved ones gradually weaken more and more. There was no cure. There was no effective treatment. There was no hope. Vampires, as silly as they are, were a tangible enemy. Something they could focus their emotions on and something they could blame for their loss, other than a cruel, inevitable fact of life. We saw similar social panic break out over the past few years even. It's not a primitive part of humanity - it's something that will always exist. When all science, logic, and reason, fail, people will turn to anything they can regardless of how silly it may be to ease their turmoil.
I wish every corner of the country (and really, the world) had good storytellers sharing the unique folklore and history of their areas. This channel is one of my all-time favorites for how cozy it is.
Thank you for pronouncing Exeter correctly, you have NO idea how infuriatingly common it is for people to pronounce it "Egg-sitter".
As always, amazing video~
It is pronounced "SOCK-oh" Maine. Its an Abenaki people's word for "outlet".
You continue to amaze me in how well across the board you pronounce everything.
something so strange about walking around a graveyard and litigating the lives of these dead folk.
keep it up.
👍
24:42
The one you have in North Cumberland is actually in North Smithfield. The actual one in North Cumberland is Abigail Staples.
As funny as it may seem, Henry Bowditch actually knew what he was talking about. As a mortician I'm very familiar with the process and the circumstances of decomposition and I know, just like he did, that very wet graves produce adipocere (basically hardened, wax like body fat) in corpses which usually tends to keep bodies in better stages of conservation. This whole thing has been known about ever since the 1600's but wasn't a very well known or understood phenomenon which is why it could easily be misinterpretet.
"Very heavily resemble a Dracula type vampire"
That's not some kind of coincidence. Bram Stoker started writing Dracula after reading about the exhuming of the body of Mercy Brown in Rhode Island, which made the NYC newspapers he was having shipped to him in Europe.
These videos are so good for when I'm feeling nostalgic for New England
We have head stones just like this. Hallowell, Maine has a huge cemetery with many of these. I photograph slate stones and love the different carvings. It's fun to see how styles change over the years.
45mins! What a treat! Just one thing about the vine theory… Dumb and Dummerston 😂
Been such a slow streaming day at work, youre a sound for sore ears
I 10000% expected that "but first" to be a transition into a sponsor. Like "but first i need to tell you about pur sponsor for today's video some addictive needless bullshit!" Thank you.
Fellow historian here- REALLY like your work, mate!
Love how down to Earth and unslick it is, real grassroots vibe. Cracking stuff!
BUT... coz of that, you defo don't need to add a music track like at the start. It just distracts from how cool your work is!
You're a great story teller. I am from central MA,northern RI , CT area. The old Douglas Woods.. near the tri state marker. Would love to hear some more stories about the area
I mean, I love these videos but my only question is how do you do your research? It's so good!
Either way, how sad it must've been to see someone pass away like that.
Thank you for another great video!
Saco is pronounced like “sock-oh” ❤
It always makes my day when a new video drops! Hopefully you've been spared the ire of persnickety southern Mainers, but on the off chance it ever comes up again, Saco is pronounced "sock-oh"
There is a part of Pennsylvania that was originally claimed by Connecticut, so there are probably transplants from colony Connecticut, who brought their folklore beliefs with them.
Search your fav search engine for
Connecticut Western Reserve
Can’t believe this channel isn’t bigger yet! Every video is a masterpiece!
This has got to be my favorite youtube channel. Thanks for all the great historical videos!
Fantastic story teller. Thank you.
I absolutely love the music! Almost better that the stories themselves!
I have never heard of this superstitious belief concerning tuberculosis. I love that you are putting your sources on the screen. Which historical newspaper database are you using? Your research is excellent. Thank you.
I knew about this history, but to actually see you touring around finding each grave is so cool! Thanks so much for sharing!
That was absolutely wild. Sometimes with social media today I think people believe bizarre things. We've got nothing on the past.
Love how you find old historical history stories that you share with us! Been watching your channel now for over a year! You always have such great details as well.
1:38 what song is this? this slaps hard for just describing an accused vampire
I loved hearing the stories of "vampire graves" from the New England areas. These are not at all as twisted and sick as those tales about Count Vlad. I'm Romanian, and my mother's mom and dad, grandparents, etc.,. were all from Transylvania 🧛🧛♀ and came to the US in the late 1890s or so. I just really enjoy hearing a good vampire story. It's like it's in my blood or something🩸😂😂
20:19 "right off the bat" 😏
If you wanna find some New England vampires go to Rhode Island.
Fantastic work as always! Always love seeing stories from the Little Rhody!
As you mentioned previously, timing was likely a huge factor in the staying power of Mercy Brown's story. Mercy died in 1892, 10 years after Robert Koch had identified the pathogen responsible for tuberculosis. However it's likely that people living in more rural and isolated communities (like the one the Browns lived in) wouldn't have known or even trusted this new information, instead relying on local superstitions and beliefs. Additionally in Mercy Brown's case (and potentially others) her heart and liver weren't simply burned but the ash from her organs was made into a tonic that was fed to her brother, Edwin, to ward off consumption. He would die two months later regardless. I think the timing near the dawn of the modern medical age in addition to a small amount of familial cannibalism turned her story into one of morbid curiosity
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Love your channel!
Always so amazingly well researched! Love the stories and the newspaper clips
The first "Consumption Vampire" story I heard about was from Griswold, CT in 1990. From Smithsonian Magazine in August 2019, a "coffin, marked with tacks that spelled out “JB 55,” contained a body whose skull had been hacked from the spine and placed on the chest, which had been broken open, along with the femurs to create a skull and crossbones. JB 55 had been in the ground around five years when someone exhumed him and tried to remove his heart, part of ritual to stop a suspected vampire from preying on the living." If anyone is interested the article is called "New England ‘Vampire’ Was Likely a Farmer Named John" by Jason Daley.
Yeah, I’m sure there are other undocumented cases as well.
Watching this 18 hours after I got the notification, because I wanted to save it for a peaceful moment with tea and cookies
I think you're right about the date being at the heart (heh) of the enduring nature of the Mercy Brown story. I've seen other sources which suggested that George thought the whole superstition was ridiculous, and only relented under protest and in order to appease some relatives and/or townsfolk. It's also possible that some of the loose ties to Edgar Allen Poe helps keep it going.
I could not imagine the misery of watching many members of your house die in just a couple years, while you can do nothing but sit there and watch. That has to be one of the saddest situations a person wouldn't want to live through.
Some people did with covid : (
I have a friend who lost I think four family members.
It was called the white plague for a reason. TB is airborne, too. That’s why America has such strict laws around it, forcing you to get treatment under quarantine.
Oh, and antibiotic resistant TB is now spreading. Sweet dreams.
The superstition of vampires a fascinatingly ancient thing! This superstition and its markings on the dead can be found all over. Miniminuteman has a great video he did on halloween about it. I don't know where "consumption vampires" would originate from, but humans have feared the dead returning for a VEEERRRY long time, so I wouldn't be surprised if this specific belief is also ancient.
The rural areas of Central and Western NY are a lot like Vermont and Massachusetts in my experience.
30:36 tillingast is also a Lovecraft character
Have I ever told you how happy it makes me when I see you've uploaded a new video? You're my boy!! Thaaannk youuuuu!!!!
best up and comer on RUclips right now, I remember watching the search for Rowe Spring a while ago and a lot of your other stuff and you improve every video man. I love how you utilize old newspapers to peer into the annals of history, it’s an often underused tactic in this medium and for you to use them to put things into context is awesome, quality channel.
Another great episode! Great research and story telling!
On Simon Whipples grave there is atleast 1 more line of inscription barely visible above the dirt, any idea what it could possibly say? Id assume its a continuation of the poem but its hard to say since so much is buried
While searching for a relatives headstone in a Connecticut cemetery I realized all the headstones were facing the same direction east west. Accept for a family that was off to the side with two stones out of that family were facing north south which seemed pretty strange.
*except
We’re used to your log desk by now.
This is fantastically interesting and such a well-made video. But I think the tone needs some adjustment, honestly the desperation-fueled superstition leading to desecrating graves is a really sad phenomenon
The mention of Whateley is going to make the eyes of Lovecraft fans bug out. 9:25
The algorithm led me to this channel via Matches 860... he does a video on these graves too. But not as studied.
Hurray for Capt. Spalding !
Always makes my day to see a new video here. Woke up with a really long day ahead of me and got to enjoy my morning coffee while watching this. Great stuff. Thank you and keep 'em comin'.
These are the most interesting videos on RUclips I stg
I've always heard "Elisha" as sounding like "Elijah," with the long "eye" sound. Is putting the accent on the first syllable more accurate?
I’d love if you came to hardwick MA there is so much history
All of Massachusetts is history. I grew up on an old dairy farm in north Attleboro Massachusetts and I didn’t even know it. My brother and I discovered train tracks and old parts of tractors. We talked to a guy that hay bailed the field behind us and told us there was 0 rocks in our yard we could have sold the soil it was so good. And we live 10 miles north of Providence it’s a beautiful thing.
To put Mercy Browns being exhumed in 1892 in context, Benz had been buildings cars for 7yrs by then.
Nelly Vaughn - RI - gravestone said “ I’m waiting and watching for you “. Gravestone had to be moved because so many people visited
Mercy Brown thought to be the idea for Bram Stokers Dracula
I get a smile when I see you have posted a new video! You are a true great story teller! Always enjoyable!
TB was, for a long time, thought to be spread by vampires.
I love your form of story telling so much. One of the interesting things is we live in the same country but every time i see one of your videos it feels like I'm seeing a whole different country.
Thanks for another great video! Happy holidays DSA! 🎄❄️ also thanks for the amazing postcards, I look forward to it every month! i’ll have to scrapbook them :)
Can someone please tell me the name of the music in the very beginning of the video?
He uses a couple times on this channel and I really like the Vsauce type vibe
In Five Straight Rows by Mini Vandals!
I hope you get way more popular, you have some interesting subjects and you can put together quite a presentation.
Saco is pronounced Sock-o in Saco, ME
Captain Spaulding is the name of a killer clown in a rob zombie movie if I'm not mistaken.....wonder if that's because of a tie to this guy or just happen stance?
could have come from this Marx Brothers bit:
"Hello, I must be going. I cannot stay, I came to say I must be going. I'm glad I came but just the same I must be going."
ruclips.net/video/5BMtqqHRvB8/видео.html
Rob Zombie got the character name from the Marx bros. movie
Another phenomenal video. My mind is blown. Two of my passions in life are trees and New England history. I live in Connecticut. So cool you went to Cornwall. I love it out there. Can't wait to visit that grave. Thank you for this. Extraordinary work. 🔥 Extremely inspiring. I am dying to know how you do your research!
Fantastic! Just fantastic! Thank you again.
Its all real. Every word of it.
Yeah there's like nothing on "bone auger" that I could find, but I did find out that an "augur" is apparently a Roman priest whose job was to predict the future, it can also be used as a verb that means to foretell. If it was spelled like that then maybe they're using it in a noun form to mean some kind of bad omen, maybe a "bone augur" is a type of plant that is commonly associated with death and when it's seen growing out of a grave, it's a portent of illnesses to come to whatever family the grave belongs to. I'm kind of grasping at straws here though, that kind of makes sense but I've got nothing to back it up besides that definition.
Good news though is that a new Death Metal band name just dropped and it is fire.
There are similar Italian and French words that were probably borrowed from the Roman Latin you mentioned. "bonne" or "bon" i think mean good or beautiful. "augure" means omen or wish. So bon augure=good omens or good wishes (used as a greeting?) Doesn't really make sense in this context though, because it sounds like this story is talking about something that could be seen. I can't guess if it was something in the physical world like your nicknamed plant idea, or something seen supernaturally in some way. The newspaper reporter is just as confused as i am about what the witness is talking about. Funny they printed the story's witness quotes anyway. 😄
An auger is a tool for drilling holes. From the context the story seems to be implying that there was some kind of tree or plant that was drilling its roots into graves to get at the bones. I'd guess it might be related to the story about the evil vine sneaking into the row of graves underground earlier in the video. People in the past were very reliant on plants and nature and there was all kinds of folklore related to plants. I suspect the 'bone auger' idea is a little-known and mostly forgotten aspect of that plant lore.
@@chrisball3778 Yeah I know what an auger is, I was just saying I couldn't find anything about the phrase using that spelling.
@@Insanabiliter_In_Linea I just wanted to say that imaging it's got something to do with Roman priests is probably a red herring. The spelling is basically irrelevant, as the whole quote is based around what a newspaper journalist wrote down about what an old woman said 170 years ago. A lot of modern spelling rules weren't even established yet, and even where they were, lots of people had bad spelling or still wrote things down wrong a lot of the time. Even today, speech recording apps constantly misspell homophones or even words that are only vaguely similar.
Based on context, it's most likely the 'bone auger' was some kind of plant that was supposed to grow into graves, and very unlikely to have anything to do with Roman priests.
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Considering the fact that you could get then tb from cows milk.as it was raw ,unpasteurized .
@john green - this is related to TB
Simon Whipple is buried in North Smithfield Rhode Island not Cumberland
Aww Hell Yeah!
So good! Thanks, mate ♥️
Ah yes pettibone the distant relative of sillybone
The undead creature called a Wright is more accurate than a Vampire.
Thanks for another quirky video. Keep up the good work
Christmas came early this year!! New video let’s go!! ❤
Love the video. Crazy thing is why would they even bury them in a graveyard. But I guess that's a Catholic thing.
I love the interesting stories you find buried in Folklore and the way you present them. This criminally underrated stuff as always.
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Great video! The vagueness on how exactly the dead were preying on the living actually lines up better with pre-18th century revenant legends in Europe. The fully-corporeal blood-drinking vampire that we know today really only emerged in Western Europe in the 1700s as advances in medicine and science reshaped these stories to be less spiritual and more materially grounded.
I love these videos, you always have the most interesting topics.
Im getting some WitchFinder General vibes here on this one 😂
I wonder how did the vampire folklore turn into vampires who supposedly sucked the blood out of their victims' necks?
Another fantastic video that makes me go “WHERE DOES HE FIND THESE STORIES!?!”
I can’t be the only one who thinks the gravestone cleaners in the north east could make hundreds of videos by following this guy around?
So cool to see you in woodstock! hoped youd make it to my area of new england at some point, keep up the amazing work
Another interesting piece of history told by a rivtingbstory teller. Thank you as always!
Small correction. Saco Maine is pronounced Sah-co not say-co