Researchers have unearthed the skeletal remains of a "vampire child" in a Polish graveyard. The child was buried face down with a triangular padlock on its foot. Anti-vampiric burial techniques such ...

Sokopol, Bulgaria, could soon join the ranks of popular vampire sites, such as Dracula's Castle in Romania and the Vampire Museum in Paris. Archaeologists excavated two suspected "vampire" graves in ...

The graves were found during renovations of a wall near a medieval worship space. Screengrab from Lubelski Wojewódzki Konserwator Zabytków's Facebook post Long before our understanding of disease, ...

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Near the child's grave was the body of a 3-year-old girl, archaeologists say. Her hands and feet had been weighed down with stones - another form of a vampire burial to keep the evil away. She, too, ...