Just in time for spooky season, archaeologists have unleashed grisly new information about how a “real-life vampire” spent her final moments. An elite female “vampire” who died some 350 years ago was ...

RESEARCHERS have uncovered a medieval graveyard of “vampire children” buried with protections to stop them rising from the dead. The site was dug up in Koszalin, northwest Poland, with two child ...

A GRAVEYARD of “child vampires” has been unearthed where victims were buried with padlocked feet and knives across their throats. Archaeologists found a child skeleton on a dig at the 17th century ...

Polish archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a woman thought to be a vampire. The grave for the female ‘vampire’ dates back to the 17th century, when fears about people returning from the dead ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

The skeletal remains of a female "vampire" were found in a 17th-century Polish graveyard — with a sickle across her neck to prevent her rising from the dead. Professor Dariusz Poliński from Nicholas ...

An analysis of the burial site of a so-called "child vampire" has revealed gruesome details about how superstition drove a twisted child burial in 17th Century Poland. In August, the remains of a ...

Lab scientists are trying to understand why some corpses buried in northwestern Poland were singled out for special anti-vampire treatments, such as putting a sickle around the neck. There is another ...