{"podcast":{"title":"New England Legends Podcast","slug":"new-england-legends-podcast-726559","podcast_index_feed_id":726559,"rss_url":"https://newenglandlegends.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"https://ournewenglandlegends.com/","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/6/4/9/f/649f6506b2bf394a/1000_100118.jpg","author":"Jeff Belanger","episode_count":160,"summary":"Twice each week, legend hunter, author, and historian Jeff Belanger and radio host Ray Auger explore the ghosts, monsters, aliens, folklore, history, roadside oddities, true crime, and legends of New England in this award-winning podcast. If you give us about twenty minutes, we'll give you something strange to talk about today. The bizarre is closer than you think!","last_synced_at":"2026-09-22T14:18:18.631113+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-england-legends-podcast-726559"},"episode":{"title":"FtV - The Vampire of Cumberland","slug":"ftv-the-vampire-of-cumberland","published_at":"2026-07-20T14:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-england-legends-podcast-726559/ftv-the-vampire-of-cumberland","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-england-legends-podcast-726559","url":"https://newenglandlegends.libsyn.com/ftv-the-vampire-of-cumberland-0","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/newenglandlegends/FTV-178-Cumberland-Vampire.mp3?dest-id=1244321","summary":"Welcome to New England Legends From the Vault – FtV Episode 178 – Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger search for a vampire buried in a tiny family cemetery in Cumberland, Rhode Island. In February of 1796, the father of Abigail Staples petitioned the town to exhume her body and perform some experiments in an effort to save his other daughter, Lavinia who was dying from consumption. Some believed if Abigail was indeed a vampire, perhaps they could break the spell to save Lavinia. This episode first aired February 6, 2020 Listen ad-free plus get early access and bonus episodes at: https://www.patreon.com/NewEnglandLegends Buy Jeff Belanger's new book Wicked Strange New England on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4lMkM3G Check out Jeff's new underground publication Shadow Zine! https://shadowzine.com Listen to Ray's Local Raydio! https://localraydio.com/","meta_description":"Welcome to New England Legends From the Vault – FtV Episode 178 – Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger search for a vampire buried in a tiny family cemetery in Cum…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1268,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/new-england-legends-podcast-726559/episodes/ftv-the-vampire-of-cumberland/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-england-legends-podcast-726559/ftv-the-vampire-of-cumberland.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}