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Bulgarian Indiana Jones Finds Vampire Graves

By Hank Campbell in Science 2.0
October 13, 2014
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Submitted by Hank on Mon, 10/13/2014 - 11:37
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The precautionary principle has been around in all countries and for centuries, it seems. 

The ancient temple of Perperion, south-east of the Bulgarian capital Sofia, contains a vampire burial site containing skeletons which all have an iron rod impaled through their bodies where their heart would have been - further evidence that people really did believe that vampires could rise from the dead if they were not buried properly.

Professor Nikolai Ovcharov, called Bulgaria's Indiana Jones, has also found 700-year-old corpses ‘nailed to the ground with iron staples driven into the limbs’.  There have been two vampire burials found around there in the last two years.


Copyright REX. Link: Daily Mail

Link: The vampire graves: Archaeologists uncover medieval corpses buried with an iron stake to stop them joining the undead By Ollie Gillman for MailOnline

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