Mar 10 2009Remains Of Vampire Woman Found In Grave
What is being hailed by some as the world's first vampire remains have been discovered in a mass grave in Venice, Italy. The woman (who I suspect was a vampire-witch hybrid) was buried with a brick wedged in her mouth, which apparently has some link to being to vampiracy.
During the Middle Ages, many believed that the plague, or "Black Death," was caused by "vampires" chewing on their shrouds after death. According to Borrini, grave-diggers put bricks in the mouths of suspected vampires to stop them from spreading the disease this way.
Borrini, of the University of Florence in Italy, says that the partial corpse he exhumed offers the earliest "exorcism evidence against vampires" to have been forensically examined.
Interesting -- so vampires are buried with stuff in their mouths? Because one time my buddy Jimmy Jimmereeno and I found a naked dead man under a bridge with his own penis stuffed in his mouth. He didn't look like like a vampire though -- he looked Italian.
Hit the jump for another picture of how the skeleton was found.
'Vampire' Found in Mass Grave [aolnews]
Thanks to Pat and Sam, who are going to be buried with diamonds in their mouths because this is the ice age, son.
Reader Comments
1. Pat - March 10, 2009 10:38 AM
Mmm diamonds are delicious.
2. koOPa - March 10, 2009 10:38 AM
Sweet!
3. Dave - March 10, 2009 10:40 AM
Bricks? Couldn't they put something awesomer in there?
4. Stephan - March 10, 2009 10:44 AM
thats deep.
5. -Lmega5- - March 10, 2009 11:16 AM
i shat brix...
6. gizmoduck - March 10, 2009 11:24 AM
lycans are way better
7. I'm a Computer - March 10, 2009 11:25 AM
maybe she choked on the brick?
8. OJ's Mom - March 10, 2009 11:30 AM
This story really makes me appreciate modern science. Wow.
9. Daisy - March 10, 2009 11:54 AM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake becauser the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never BAck Down where Max gets thrown out a window and then gets arrested for disturbing the peace.
10. Delgo - March 10, 2009 12:02 PM
Robert Pattison is so
11. Kup - March 10, 2009 12:33 PM
all wrong.!! this was clearly the unearthing of a gentleman who died while eating a big mac left under the heat lamp too long.
12. -Lmega5- - March 10, 2009 12:34 PM
brix were shat....and then gargled.
13. LSDiesel - March 10, 2009 12:51 PM
@11, sorry, that was dumb.
14. naas - March 10, 2009 12:58 PM
Well clearly she was felating a statue when she went...
15. Ash - March 10, 2009 1:23 PM
I reckon they should have shoved Daisy in that things mouth n never EVER dig it up again.
16. Hannukah Montana - March 10, 2009 1:24 PM
That's how the term "flat out bricks" originated. And I know Daisy is gonna love that when I flat-out-bricks on her mouth.
17. Milkman - March 10, 2009 2:04 PM
Ever since she lost her teeth, she was the most popular cork soaker in school
18. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - March 10, 2009 2:06 PM
I expected this to be way cooler when I read the headline.
19. Commodores - March 10, 2009 2:24 PM
She's a brick---------mouth!
20. HaySeeJay - March 10, 2009 5:03 PM
LOL at #19
21. formerly SPELLINGNAZI© - March 10, 2009 7:27 PM
They must not have gotten the memo from Dr. Van Helsing about using wooden stakes...or rapid firing crossbow bolts dipped in holy water.
22. tomthegoodguy - March 10, 2009 9:59 PM
clone the bitch
23. Clamdigger - March 11, 2009 8:31 AM
Now that is a nasty cramp...brings back memories, Linda Lovelace I miss you.
24. Spikey DaPikey - March 11, 2009 11:41 AM
Nom nom nom
25. sierra - March 31, 2009 9:33 AM
wat is it subpose to be a women with a brick im her mouth
26. Keff - April 4, 2009 10:23 AM
Vampires were believed to be able to chew through the burial shroud and would then proceed to feast on the corpses in surrounding graves. One believed that by putting a stone in their mouths, this would not occur. (The term used is "Masticatione Mortuorum" - the Chewing of the Dead, also title of a book from the 17th century about vampire myths. See http://europeanhistory.about.com/library/bldyk6.htm)
27. STOMPY - June 10, 2009 3:09 PM
http://www.geekologie.com/2009/04/dangerously_delicious_the_bak4.php#comment-114353
28. . - June 23, 2009 7:04 PM
lol at 24