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  Mercy Brown's story is the legendary inspiration for Bram Stroker, HG Lovecraft and many other authors. It's surmised that she is the mother of the entire vampire genre in fact. Was she a vampire? Probably not. But I'm also related to a lot of extraordinary women with supposed supernatural abilities so that must be taken into consideration.  A quick google search will give you lots of information about what happened to Mercy Brown in New England in 1892. Here is a 6 minute video overview if you don't have time to go down a rabbit hole right now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTvYlWJPWtw Vampire legend Mercy Brown is my 13th cousin twice removed. Angela Jossy  → Carl Jossy your father → Inez Isadora Imus his mother → Jiles Herbert Imus her father → Hiram M. Imus his father → Charles Lemuel Imus his father → Lucy Imus his mother → Ann Buck her mother → Abigail Gould her mother → Thomas Disbrow her father → Margaret Walton his mother → Elizabeth Lynne Cromwell her moth...

My ancestors seem to be very committed to three things: building things (castles, churches, monasteries etc.), leadership (in the church and/or in government) and science (also known as astronomy/astrology, alchemy or the healing arts). Check out this incredible example of things they built:  Castell Tregrug aka Llangibby Castle Photo source:  https://medievalheritage.eu/en/main-page/heritage/wales/llangybi-tregrug-castle/ "The history of Llangibby Castle is a tale of three castles, one of which has a claim to be one of the largest in the country, and one wasn't a castle at all. We also look at one of the key figures of the Civil War in Monmouthshire - the Royalist turned Parliamentarian turned Royalist, clubman Sir Trevor Williams. Meanwhile Goff examines - and raises questions about - one of the most notorious crimes in the history of South Wales: The Llangibby Murders of 1878." - Little Knowledge Podcast  VIDEO LINK Elizabeth de Clare, Lady De Burgh It was originally ...