The President's Vampire: Strange-But-True Tales of the United States of America (23 page)

9. A “bark” has three masts that are square rigged on the fore and main masts and fore-and-aft rigged on the mizzenmast. This is a slightly different arrangement than a “ship” and requires a smaller crew. “Barks Brigs, Ships and Schooners.”
<
http://www.whalingmuseum.org/kendall/amwhale/am_boats.html
>.

10. “Shipwreck of the Whaling Bark, ATLANTIC.” <
http://www.ocmuseum.org/shipwrecks/atlantic.asp
>.

11
. Boston Daily Evening Transcript
, 23 Jan 1867.

12. Ibid., 12 Nov 1866.

13. Ohio Penitentiary Prison Register No.15. Feb 1889-Jan 1891, 30-32. It describes James Brown as “Medium built, forehead rounding back and medium; Nose sl. concave, slight depressed, m. deep; Chin round, Beard black, Boot 9, Hat 7, Hair thin over top of head; large scar 2X2 inches at base of back of head, a cataract on inside of both Eyes, on left forearm in India Ink a shield with three flags on each side, a spread eagle above & a circle band below also R.M.Z. beneath. An anchor on base of thumb & star to left, a heart in center of back of hand, on right forearm a woman with skirt to hip.” The “shield with three flags… spread eagle” etc., may represent the coat-of-arms of New Grenada. But who was R.M.Z.?

14.
Boston Daily Evening Transcript
, 12 Nov 1866. Brown’s “Nativity” was recorded in the Prison Register as “South Amerika”(sic).

15. “True Bill” found by Grand Jury in case of James Brown, 11 Sept 1866. With the finding of a True Bill the Grand Jury declares there is enough evidence to hold a trial and Brown was tried as Case # 339 U.S. vs. Brown.

16
. Boston Daily Evening Transcript
, 12 Nov 1866.

17. Logbook of the “Atlantic.” ODHS #797. Kendall Institute, New Bedford Whaling Museum.

18. The Charlestown State Prison also held 14-year-old serial killer Jesse Pomeroy, “The Boy Fiend,” who spent forty-one years in solitary confinement. Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti were imprisoned and electrocuted there in 1927.

19. The U.S. Government Insane Asylum is also known as St. Elizabeths. It is still operating.

20. Ohio Penitentiary Prison Register No.15., Feb 1889-Jan 1891, 32.

21. Michael E. Bell,
Food for the Dead-On the Trail of New England’s Vampires
(New York: Carroll& Graf, 2001), 18-38.

22. Mercy Brown’s story appeared on the front page of the
Providence Journal
on March 19, 1892, eight months before the
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
article about James Brown.

23. Christopher Frayling, editor,
The Vampyre: A Bedside Companion
(New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1978), 71.

24. “Shipwreck of the Whaling Bark, ATLANTIC.”

Chapter 5: One Little Indian

1. Editors of the Reader’s Digest,
Mysteries of the Unexplained
(Pleasantville, New York, Montreal: The Readers Digest Association, Inc., 1992), 39.

2. William R. Corliss,
Ancient Man: A Handbook of Puzzling Artifacts
(Glen Arm: Sourcebook Project, 1978).

3. Karl P. N. Shuker,
The Unexplained
(New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1997), 151.

4.
The Holy Bible
(New York: American Bible Society, 1611), 5

5. Shuker, 151.

6. Various Wyoming newspapers, 1932.

7. Lee Krystek’s “Unmuseum-Science Over the Edge,”
<
http://www.unmuseum.org/soearch/over1202.htm
>.

8. “Mummifed Dwarf is Found Near Pathfinder Reservoir,”
The Casper Tribune Herald
, 22 Oct 1932.

9. “Origin of Mummy Remains a Mystery,”
The Casper Tribune Herald
, 22 Oct 1933(?).

10. Ibid.

11. “Mummy Returned to its Owner Monday,”
Casper Herald Tribune
, 24 Oct 1932.

12. Eugene Bashor, “Were
TWO
Pygmy Indian Mummies Found in the Pedro Mountains in 1932?” Date unavailable, may be unpublished.

13. Telephone interview with G.G. Kortes, 2 July 2003.

14. Kate Brown, “Pedro Mountain’s Mystery Munchkin”
LATIGO
Natrona County High School, Spring 1982.

15. Ibid.

16. John Bonar, “The Mystery of the Dwarf Demons,”
Argosy,
April, 1978.

17. Ibid.

18. E-mail from Jennifer MacLeod to author 3 July 2003.

19. E-mail from Dr. George Gill to author, August 2003.

20. Bonar, “Mystery.”

21. Ibid. E-mail from Dr. George Gill.

22. “Prospecting for Gold in the United States” by Harold Kirkemo, <
http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/prospect2/prospectgip.html
>.

23. Bashor, “
TWO
Pygmy Indian Mummies.”

24. Bonar, “Mystery.”

25. Ibid. E-mail from Jennifer MacLeod.

26. Ibid.

27. “Ivan P. Goodman Dies in Denver,”
The Casper Tribune Herald
, 12 November 1950.

28. Bonar, “Mystery.”

29. Ibid. “Ivan Goodman Dies in Denver.”

30. E-mail from Lee Underbrink to the author, 23 July 2003.

31. E-mail from George Hebbert to the author, 20 August 2003.

32. “Youth Finds Odd Mummy in Wyoming,”
Sheridan Press
, 21 October 1932.

33. 
The Travels of Marco Polo
translated from the text of L.F. Benedetto by A.C. Ricci (London, G. Routledge & sons, ltd. 1931), 283-284.

34. “Sunoco- Three Star Extra” (transcription, 3 March 1950), 2.

35. Ibid., 4.

36. Album 404 (?) Field Museum of Natural History.

37. E-mail from Edward Meyer, Archivist, Ripley Entertainment. Inc. to the author, 20 August 2003.

38. Ibid. Brown, “Pedro Mountain’s Mystery Munchkin.”

39.
Blakiston’s Illustrated Pocket Medical Dictionary
(New York: McGraw-Hill, 1952), 43.

40. National Institute of Mental Health. <
http://www.ninds.nih.gov/health_and_medical/disorders/anencephaly_doc.htm
>.

41. Anencephalic Babies
<
http://www.georgetown.edu/research/nrcbl/hsbioethics/unit1_3.htm>.

42. Anencephaly
<
http://www.angelfire.com/mn/michaelashope/anencephalyfact.html
>.

43. Lethal neonatal Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome
<
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=10215548
>.

44. Telephone interview with Barry Strang, 22 June 2003.

(45)
. Wyoming Epidemiology Bulletin
: Vol. 3, No. 1 and 2 (combined) January-June 1997.

46. Bonar “The Mystery of the Dwarf Demons.”

47. Sarah Emilia Olden,
Shoshone folk lore, as discovered from the Rev. John Roberts, a hidden hero, on the Wind River Indian reservation in Wyoming
(Milwaukee, Morehouse Publishing Co., 1923), 6-11.

48. “The Fairies” by William Allingham. Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919.
The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.
<
http://www.bartleby.com/101/769.html
>.

49. Maria Leach, ed.,
Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary of Folklore, Mythology and Legend
(New York: Funk & Wagnalls Co., 1949-[50]), 635.

50. Shamanism, Dream Symbolism, and Altered States in Minnesota Rock Art. Kevin L. Callahan M.A. Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota
<
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Oracle/2596/mnra1.html
>.

51. E-mail from Dr. George Gill to the author, 21 August 2003.

52. E-mail from Dr. George Gill to the author, 18 June 2003.

53. E-mail from Dr. George Gill to the author, 17 June 2003.

54. E-mail Lee Underbrink to the author, 16 September 2003.

55. Bashor, “Were
TWO
Pygmy Indian Mummies Found in the Pedro Mountains in 1932?”

Chapter 6: A Horror in the Heights

1. “Baltimore Steel Industry Called Goal of Reds,”
The Evening Sun
(Baltimore), 11 July 1951.

2. Letter from F.P. O’Neill, Reference Librarian, Maryland Historical Society to author, 30 November 2002.

3. “Fear in The Night: Phantom Prowler Terrorizes O’Donnell Heights Residents.”
The Sun
(Baltimore) 25 July 1951.

4. Ibid.

5. “O’Donnell Heights Greets Roof-Climbing Phantom,”
The Evening Sun
(Baltimore), 25 July 1951.

6. Ibid. “Fear in the Night.”

7. Ibid.

8. Ibid.

9. Ibid.

10. “O’Donnell Heights Greets Roof-Climbing Phantom.”

11. “‘Phantom’ Hunters Fined $10 Each,”
The Evening Sun
(Baltimore), 26 July 1951.

12. “Phantom’ Looms Atop School; Police Find Ventilation Pipe,”
The Sun
(Baltimore), 27 July 1951.

13. Ibid.

14. Ibid.

15. Ibid. “Fear in the Night.”

16. Ralph Ellison,
Invisible Man
(New York: Random House, 1980), 332.

17. Robert E. Bartholemew and Erich Goode “The Mad Gasser of Botetourt County,”
Skeptic
, Vol. 7, No. 4, 1999.

18. Phone interview with Mrs. Adeline Buskirk, 10 December 2002.

19. Jane Bromley Wilson, The Very Quiet Baltimoreans (White Mane), 49.

20. David J. Skal,
V is for Vampire
(New York: Penguin Books 1996), 62.

21. E-mail from William Michael Mott to author, 12 May 2003.

22. Robert Burton,
The Anatomy of Melancholy
(New York: Vintage Books, 1977), 188-192.