This skeleton, possibly of John Barber, is being studied at the National Museum of Health and Medicine. Barber, once believed to be a vampire, most likely had tuberculosis. The remains at shown at the museum in Silver Spring, Maryland, on July 23, 2019.
'Vampire' skeleton found in Connecticut
In 2019, 200 years or so after the death of the person who became the country's best studied "vampire," DNA sleuths tracked down his probable name: John Barber. The case started in 1990 when his coffin was discovered in a gravel quarry in Griswold, Connecticut.
It is the latest chapter in a project that has cast light on the eerie vampire scare in New England — Connecticut and Rhode Island especially — in the late 1700s and early 1800s, and its connection to the spread of tuberculosis, or "consumption," as it was called. Read more.
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