Vampire Burials

The Morbid Curiosity Podcast

Hallie Lloyd

Cryptid, Serialkiller, Science, Disease, Medicine, Scary, Skeleton, Historyofmedicine, Social Sciences, Ghost, History, Medical, Anthropology, Monsters, Archeology, Murder, Creepy, Skeptic, Paranormal, Prison

4.8 • 634 Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Archaeologists have found many unusual graves throughout Eastern Europe, graves in which stakes have been driven through the deceased's body. These burials, and the historical documents from the time, suggest that these individuals were suspected of being vampires by those that buried them. They are known as Vampire Burials, and in this episode, we explore exactly what was at stake.

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0:24.6	Thank you. The next episode will be our 50th. In celebration of 50 episodes, I'm planning an extra long one,
0:32.1	and it may take me a little more time, so don't worry if it's a little late. It's on a topic that is near and dear to my heart,
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1:03.0	Humans are fascinated by Gore-O-R-O- so the mysterious and unsolved. Interest in these disturbing and unpleasant subjects is called morbid curiosity, and it has gripped hundreds of people throughout the ages. I am one of those
1:12.9	people. My name is Hallie, and this is the Morbid Curiosity podcast.
1:47.0	Thank you. In October of this year, archaeology was in the news in a big way when the story of a Roman child from the 5th century CE went viral. The child was unearthed at L'Anacropoli de Bambini, or the Cemetery of the babies, a mass burial
1:54.0	site in Umbria, Italy. The cemetery seemed to be dedicated to the youngest victims of a malaria
2:00.0	outbreak that occurred in 450 CE.
2:03.6	Most of the children buried in this cemetery were under three years old.
2:08.6	This is quite unusual, but what was even more unusual was that many of the graves included objects
2:14.6	that the Romans associated with magic. objects such as ravens talons,
2:20.1	bronze cauldrons filled with ashes, and the bones of toads and puppies. These ritualistic
2:26.2	objects were thought to ward off evil. Even stranger than this is the discovery of this child.
2:33.2	The child was around 10 years old when they died,
2:36.0	the oldest person discovered in the cemetery so far, and they were buried with a large rock in their mouth.
2:43.0	This type of unusual mortuary treatment has been found all over Eastern and Southern Europe
2:49.0	in graves that date to the medieval era. It's thought that a
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