The skeleton of a female “vampire” was uncovered by scientists in Poland in late August, the research team announced this week. The remains are suspected to be from the 17th century, belonging to a ...

Citizens of a 17th-century Polish town weren’t taking any chances when they laid to rest a woman they believed to be a vampire: She was buried with a sickle blade laid across her neck, intended to ...

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PIEN, Poland (WKRC) - Archaeologists discovered the remains of a female “vampire” in a graveyard with a sickle around her neck. Professor Dariusz Poliski led the archaeological dig with Nicholas ...

A female "vampire" skeleton was found in a 17th-century Polish graveyard. It was found restrained to prevent the dead woman from returning from the grave. The skeleton had a sickle laying across the ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Archaeologists have discovered the skeletal remains of a supposed Medieval “vampire” at a dig site ...

The woman, named Zosia, was found in Poland in 2022 with a sickle around her neck and a padlock on her foot Sculptor Oscar Nilsson's unfinished recreation; skeleton of woman who was padlocked in her ...

Researchers have used DNA analysis on an old skeleton that was found in a grave in Connecticut back in 1990. Since 1990, there was very little known about the skeleton, but researchers believed that ...

ROME -- An archaeological dig near Venice has unearthed the 16th-century remains of a woman with a brick stuck between her jaws -- evidence, experts say, that she was believed to be a vampire. The ...

Workers removing tree branches near a historic cathedral in Chelm, Poland, unearthed something unexpected when they came upon two children's skeletons in a shallow burial pit where no gravesites are ...