Here are a few stories from various books, websites and people
about hauntings in Rhode Island. Please check back often as
we will be adding more stories that wecome across as well
as stories that people submit to the site!
Exeter Chestnut Hill
Cemetery
Newport The Breakers
North Kingstown Haunted Cemetery
Wakefield Brookside Manor
Exeter
The ghost of a 19 year
old girl whose grave was violated haunts the old family graveyard,
the Chestnut Hill Cemetery. Mercy Brown died
on January 18, 1892. Two months after her death, her father
dug up her grave because he thought she might be a vampire,
responsible for the deaths of his wife and oldest daughter
as well as the strange weakness suffered by his son and him.
It turned out that they were actually suffering from tuberculosis
but George Brown thought a vampire was sucking the life out
of them. Brown and a group of people, including the district
medical examiner found that Mercy had moved in her coffin.
When the doctor removed her organs, he squeezed blood from
her liver and heart, which made them believe that that she
was indeed a vampire. To keep her from raising from the dead,
he burned her heart and liver on a rock near the grave, and
then used the ashes to make a medicine to cure himself and
his son. This medicine did not work.
Over the years there have
been many reports of seeing a strange blue light moving slowly
through the cemetery. It is believed to be Mercy's spirit,
displaced from her violated grave.
Directions:
Exeter is in central Rhode Island off of exit 5 from I-95,
near the Kent/Washington County line. From exit 5, take highway
102 towards Exeter and follow the signs to Chestnut Hill Baptist
Church. Behind the church is Rhode Island Historical Cemetery
No. 22. Brown's grave is at the center of the small cemetary.
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Newport
The ghost of Cornelius Vanderbilt haunts her
former home, now the Breakers mansion. The mansion was built
in 1895 and was once owned by the Vanderbilts. Today, tourists
and employees at the now museum believe her spirit never left.
Directions: Newport is on the
the south coast of Newport Island on Rhode Island Sound in
Newport County. Take highway 114 south from Providence to
the island. The Breakers Museum's phone number is 401-847-6543.
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North Kingstown The
graveyard, called the Chadsey-Gardiner Cemetery, is very haunted.
People have seen spirits walking through the graveyard at night and have seen
lights flashing with no explanation.
Directions: The Chadsey Gardiner
Cemetery, noted as a Rhode Island historical cemetery, is
located near the corner of School Street and Harrington Road
in North Kingstown, which is in Washington County. It is next
to the Red School House on School Street and is partly enclosed
by the remains of an old stone wall. county
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Wakefield
According to the a former inkeeper, Brookside
Manor has been haunted since 1965. Several workmen
and artisans have been visited by the ghost of Charles Fletcher,
the person responsible for turning the house into a grand
manor from a simple farmhouse. Also, there are reports of
pillows in particular that have disappeared and mysteriously
reappeared.
Directions: Brookside Manor
is located on 380-B Post Road in Wakefield, which is in Washington
County. Their phone number is 401-788-3527. county
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