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Rhode Island, USA - Two girls who visited the grave of a 19th-century teenager whom, history says, was a vampire, died after their car missed a turn on Purgatory Road and rolled.
Two other girls survived.
Police named the dead teens as Gabriella DiPalma (17) and Elanna Zuller (16). Neither was wearing a seat belt when the car left Chestnut Hill Cemetery in Exeter, Rhode Island, after the friends visited the 1892 grave of "vampire" Mercy Brown.
They had decided to drive down the "dark, winding road" because they thought it looked "haunted".
Brown's grave is a popular destination for teens, especially as Hallowe'en approaches. Her story is considered by some to be the inspiration for Bram Stoker's 1897 book 'Dracula'.
Two other girls survived.
Police named the dead teens as Gabriella DiPalma (17) and Elanna Zuller (16). Neither was wearing a seat belt when the car left Chestnut Hill Cemetery in Exeter, Rhode Island, after the friends visited the 1892 grave of "vampire" Mercy Brown.
They had decided to drive down the "dark, winding road" because they thought it looked "haunted".
Brown's grave is a popular destination for teens, especially as Hallowe'en approaches. Her story is considered by some to be the inspiration for Bram Stoker's 1897 book 'Dracula'.
