Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A woman buried with a brick in her mouth out of fear she was an infected vampire from centuries ago had her face recreated with ...

Archaeologists discovered the remains of a 10-year-old child in what is believed to be a rare case of a so-called "vampire burial." The child's skeleton was found with a rock in its mouth at the ...

The skeletal remains of a 10-year-old child appear to be evidence of how ancient peoples tried to prevent their dead from rising and spreading disease. So called “vampire burial” discoveries are not ...

Archeologists have unearthed a fifth-century child from an ancient burial site in Italy and believe the kid was ritually buried to prevent him from rising from the dead, Sky News reports. The remains, ...

Sink your teeth into this one. Scientists have recreated the face of a 16th-century woman with a brick jammed into her mouth, an object apparently wedged there to stop her from eating the dead — as ...