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The Tale of Bulgaria’s ‘Vampire Graves’

An archaeologist in Bulgaria discovered in 2014 a skeleton buried in a manner that led him to believe the deceased person was the subject of an “anti-vampire ritual.”

Speaking to the British news outlet The Telegraph, Professor Nikolai Ovcharo, who is nicknamed Bulgaria’s “Indiana Jones,” noted that the burial, which he believed took place in the first half of the 13th century, included an iron stake through the chest and the removal of the leg, measures meant to prevent the deceased from rising after death.

Bethania Palma reports.

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