Cushing Cemetery
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.
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Is Cushing Cemetery haunted?
The record holds 2 claims, 1 named entity — filed as reported, not verified. The heaviest filing is classed disputed. The archive documents the claim; it takes no position on the ghost.
The record — long form
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.
The record of claims
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.
Tourism instead dates the event to 1834 and says the heart was burned on the Green; the History Center recounts boiling and burial beneath granite among the 1890 story’s ritual details.
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.
Contrasts with History Center’s 1830 setting and different ritual. Do not merge with Frederick Ransom’s documented South Woodstock family account.
Alleged entities
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. The presence goes by Unnamed Corwin son. Reports in the file date to 1890 Vermont Standard article identified by History Center. Cemeteries keep their stories in the stones; Cushing Cemetery in Woodstock, Vermont has its version filed among them. The account appears in 'Woodstock’s Vampire'. The named presence is what turns a haunting into a household.
Sources on file
- 01Woodstock’s VampireWoodstock History Center · historical society · A2
- 02A haunted history: Vampires in Woodstock villageWoodstockVT · tourism · A3
Field notes & open questions
Discovery/enrichment pass; geographic coordinates and current visitor conditions remain to be independently verified. Evidence confidence refers to attribution, not paranormal reality.