Swedish scientists have reconstructed the face of a 400-year-old woman buried with a padlock on her foot and an iron sickle across her neck because people in her time believed she was a vampire. The ...

In 2006, an excavation of a small island in the Venice lagoon uncovered the remains of a 16th century 60-year-old woman buried with a brick in her mouth. One theory is that this brick was evidence of ...

Two years ago, archaeologists in Poland made a discovery at a gravesite they could only describe as "astonishing" — the remains of a woman with a sickle around her neck and a triangular padlock on her ...

'Tis the season for ghosts, goblins, and ghouls. None is more ghoulish than Dracula—an undead foreign aristocrat whose bloodline is multiracial and whose appetite for blood not only keeps him youthful ...