CUSHING CEMETERY
Cemetery — Cloudland Road and River Road, Woodstock, Windsor County, Vermont
Status: Historic site · Access: Access unknown
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Cemetery associated with a nineteenth-century vampire story whose central identity remains unverified.

Cushing Cemetery is a cemetery in Woodstock, Vermont. Cemetery associated with a nineteenth-century vampire story whose central identity remains unverified. Reported lore and claims include: The History Center traces a Corwin-family vampire story to an 1890 Vermont Standard account alleging a June 1830 burial. It finds no corresponding burial record or contemporary newspaper report.

Cushing is the dug — the 'Corwin boy' that's the '34's exhumed, the 'vampire feared' that's the town's panic. The 'burned heart' is the cured — the 'iron pot' that's the ashes' hold, the 'Green beneath' that's the reburial's spot. The 'boys dug' is the woke — the 'screams' that's the night's sound, the 'never disturbed' that's the warning's failed.
The 'consumption' is the named — the 'TB' that's the sickness's truth, the 'family next' that's the spread's path. The 'New England way' is the folk — the 'exhume burn' that's the remedy's form, the 'Vermont's own' that's the panic's home. Cushing is the emptied — the 'Corwin gone' that's the grave's state, the 'Green holds' that's the ashes' now.
The file keeps Cushing: the dug boy, the burned heart, the woke screams, and the emptied grave.
Cushing Cemetery is the archive's Vermont file — the grave emptied to stop a vampire.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
Cushing Cemetery is the archive's Vermont file — the New England vampire panic's ground.
A grave keeps its empty — the file's suggestion being that Cushing's hold is the exhumed: the 'Corwin' that's the dug's name, the 'Green beneath' that's the ashes' hide, and the 'boys screamed' that's the warning's proof.

FILED CLAIMS — 2 on record, reported not verified
· [Disputed] vampire legend: The History Center traces a Corwin-family vampire story to an 1890 Vermont Standard account alleging a June 1830 burial. It finds no corresponding burial record or contemporary newspaper report. Unnamed Corwin son is the name the reports keep returning to. Cemeteries keep their stories in the stones; Cushing Cemetery in Woodstock, Vermont has its version filed among them. The account is disputed — even the folklore has factions. The account appears in 'Woodstock’s Vampire'. The creature is part of the place's name now — whatever it was.
  source: Woodstock’s Vampire (https://www.woodstockhistorycenter.org/articles/2022/10/4/woodstocks-vampire)
· [Disputed] vampire legend: Tourism gives an 1834 Corwin episode and a heart burning on the village Green; its own article acknowledges absent Corwin records. The figure answers to Unnamed Corwin son in the retellings. A cemetery in Woodstock, Vermont accumulating ghost reports is almost tautological — but this is the one the record kept. Sources disagree about it, which makes it honest folklore: contested, retold, unsettled. 'A haunted history: Vampires in Woodstock village' carries the account. Cryptid or not, the report made the map — which is its own kind of existence.
  source: A haunted history: Vampires in Woodstock village (https://www.woodstockvt.com/a-haunted-history-vampires-in-woodstock-village-other-tales/)

SOURCES — 2 cited
· Woodstock’s Vampire — Woodstock History Center
  https://www.woodstockhistorycenter.org/articles/2022/10/4/woodstocks-vampire
· A haunted history: Vampires in Woodstock village — WoodstockVT
  https://www.woodstockvt.com/a-haunted-history-vampires-in-woodstock-village-other-tales/

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