A couple of weeks ago I talked about the vampire scare of 1888. While that was a pretty orderly vampire scare (as these things go), there does seem to have been at least ONE case of vampirism in the city. Dr. Charles V. Dyer. It’s always an odd feeling to be able to see theface of…
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The Vampire Hunt in Lincoln Park, 1888
The Vampire Scare of 1888 was an orderly one, as these things go. In September of that year, people in Lakeview gathered in a little place on Clybourne, just above Fullerton, at which Justice of the Peace Albert Thalstrom told them all about some real cases of vampirism – cases when (consumption) tuburculosis was running…