In Eastern Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries, people were so superstitious about vampires that anyone suspected of being a blood-sucking monster was buried in a way to prevent them from rising from the dead. Some had their legs cut off while others were placed in their graves face-down or smashed with a stone. Recently, archaeologists found one such "vampire" in Poland that had been fastened to the earth with a sickle.
The sickle was placed with the blade over her throat so that if she attempted to rise from the dead, it would chop her head off. What's more, there was a padlock on her left big toe to symbolize "the impossibility of returning." Go inside this bizarre discovery and the chilling history behind it:
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