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  • 16th-Century ‘Vampire’ Buried With Brick in Her Mouth — to Stop Blood-Sucker From Eating the Dead

    03/22/2024 4:55:42 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 26 replies
    New York Post ^ | March 22, 2024 | Alex Mitchell
    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 Italian locals believed she was a vampire. The spooky story begins at a mass grave discovered on the Venetian island of Lazzaretto Nuovo, a location used as a bubonic plague quarantine in the late 1500s and 1600s. In 2006, archeological studies found some bodies that were buried centuries ago. “When they supposedly identified a vampire, one of those responsible for the plague according to popular myth at the time, they...
  • Face of 19th-Century 'Connecticut Vampire' Reconstructed

    01/08/2023 5:07:05 PM PST · by SunkenCiv · 23 replies
    Heritage Daily ^ | January 3, 2023 | Markus Milligan
    Researchers have revealed the face of the 'Connecticut vampire' using forensic facial reconstruction.In 1990, archaeologists excavating a 19th century grave in the town of Giswold, located in Connecticut, United States, found that the human remains were arranged to form skull and crossbones, a practice performed during The New England Vampire Panic to prevent a suspected vampire from rising from the grave.The New England Vampire Panic was a period of terror and mass hysteria during the 19th century, caused by an outbreak of consumption that was blamed on vampires.Consumption, known today as tuberculosis (TB), is an infectious disease caused by the...
  • They assure that the closest “black hole” to Earth is a “vampire” star system

    09/21/2022 7:30:12 PM PDT · by Beowulf9 · 10 replies
    https://mesonstars.com ^ | September 6, 2022
    The black hole considered until now as “the closest to Earth” was discovered in 2020 just a thousand light years from our planet. However, a group of scientists concluded that it consists of a “vampire two-star system” in a rare and short-lived evolutionary stage. The theory of the experts is that the binary system was captured shortly after one of the stars sucked the atmosphere of the other. In this line and according to the scientific journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, they would be two luminous stars, but with very different angular separations and orbital movements. The study was carried out...
  • "Vampire Grave" in Bulgaria Holds a Skeleton With a Stake Through Its Heart

    10/14/2014 12:14:26 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 31 replies
    smithsonian ^ | 10/13/2014 | rachel nuwer
    Archeologists in Bulgaria haved uncovered a 13th century staked "vampire" at Perperikon, an ancient Thracian site in the south of the country, Archaeology reports. The remains once belonged to a man who was likely in his 40s. An iron rod had been hammered through his chest "to keep the corpse from rising from the dead and disturbing the living," Archaeology continues, and his left leg had also been removed and placed beside the corpse. Clearly, this man's neighbors did not trust his remains to stay put. As Nikolai Ovcharov, the archeologist in charge of the dig, told the Telegraph: "We...
  • Padlocked 'vampire' grave found in Poland with sickle over neck

    09/11/2022 5:22:32 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 50 replies
    Heritage Daily ^ | September 6, 2022 | Nicholas Copernicus University
    The concept of a blood-sucking spirit, or demon consuming human flesh has been told in the mythology and folktales of almost every civilisation throughout the centuries.One of the earliest vampiric depictions stems from cuneiform texts by the Akkadians, Samarians, Assyrians and Babylonians, where they referred to demonic figures such as the Lilu and Lilitu.During the late 17th and 18th century, the folklore for vampires as we imagine became rampant in the verbal traditions and lore of many European ethnic groups.They were described as the revenants of evil beings, suicide victims, witches, corpses possessed by a malevolent spirit or the victim...
  • Healthy 'Vampires' Emerge From Graves In Medieval Polish Cemetery

    06/01/2016 9:06:39 AM PDT · by C19fan · 11 replies
    Forbes ^ | June 1, 2016 | Kristina Killgrove
    Archaeologists excavating a Medieval cemetery site in Kałdus, Poland, recently discovered hundreds of graves — among them, they found 14 anti-vampire burials. Some of these people were decapitated, others buried face-down, and still more were weighted down with stones. One of the major theories about ancient “vampire” graves is that people buried in this way were unhealthy or disabled, causing their compatriots to treat them differently in death because of their physical differences in life. A team of researchers set out to investigate diseases apparent on the bones of these 14 so-called vampires.
  • ‘Vampire’ Serial Child Killer Who Escaped From Prison Is Beaten to Death by Vigilantes

    10/15/2021 3:54:35 PM PDT · by sitetest · 17 replies
    Daily Beast via msn ^ | October 15, 2021 | Jamie Ross
    A man described by Kenyan authorities as a “bloodthirsty vampire” who allegedly killed at least ten children, in some cases by sucking blood from their veins and leaving them to die, has been lynched by a furious mob. The case of Masten Milimo Wanjala, 20, came to its grim conclusion Friday, two days after the alleged child-killer escaped from custody hours before a court appearance over the murders of 12 and 13-year-old children. He was arrested in July over the disappearance of two kids, but officials said he then admitted to killing ten over a sickening five-year spree. Kenyan police...
  • Lin Wood: “Wow! I am getting an increased volume of death threats tonight”

    01/01/2021 6:24:14 PM PST · by BlackFemaleArmyColonel · 160 replies
    Twitter ^ | 1 Jan 21 | Lin Wood
    Wow! I am getting an increased volume of death threats tonight.
  • Dracula is Having a Pop-Culture Moment

    03/31/2020 6:58:33 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 31 replies
    CBR.com ^ | MAR 22, 2020 | Bea Caicoya
    Dracula-centric projects, from Universal's remake to Renfield to the series The Brides are blooming. But what brought the Count back? Vampires are at the top of the horror-movie monster pyramid, and their fans have enjoyed watching them onscreen almost since the dawn of film as a medium. In the past decades alone, interest has peaked with Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Twilight, True Blood and The Vampire Diaries. However, despite being adapted many times, Dracula hasn't been a huge deal in pop culture since Francis Ford Coppola took the Count out for a spin in 1992, when the director adapted Bram...
  • Leaked Bernie Sanders 2020 campaign rider calls for candidate's hotel room to be FREEZING and for staff to 'stock up' on honey packets for his tea if available - as well as check for 'leaky faucets or slow flushing toilets'

    01/17/2020 3:41:09 AM PST · by Libloather · 65 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 1/16/20 | Matthew Wright
    Senator Bernie Sanders likes his hotel rooms cold and does not like slow flushing toilets, according to a leaked tour rider from his 2020 presidential campaign. Referred to as the 'Senator Comfort Memo,' the document offers specific arrangements that need to be met for Sanders' hotels, food, drink, family and staff. Marked 'confidential: for campaign staff use only, not for circulation,' the two-page memo is dated April 10, 2019 and was first reported by the Smoking Gun Wednesday. **SNIP** Sanders requests that rooms have a down comforter or at least one extra blanket and also asks that they come stocked...
  • Soulless Undead Mosquitos

    11/01/2019 5:37:05 AM PDT · by NOBO2012 · 2 replies
    MOTUS A.D. ^ | 11-1-19 | MOTUS
    Today is All SaintÂ’s Day, which I believe is still a holy day of obligation in the Roman Catholic Church. Like All SoulÂ’s Day which is tomorrow it is mostly ignored in the U.S. even though it is the religious basis for yesterdayÂ’s celebration of Halloween. All-HallowÂ’s-Eve intermingled with the Celtic pagan festival of Samhain (summerÂ’s end) centuries ago and evolved into todayÂ’s hyper-secularized holiday that Americans spend billions on each year. The holiday has morphed into something far more hollow than hallow, consumed as it is now with images of horror and terror intended to strike fear in our...
  • Buttigieg says he won’t be the first gay president if elected

    06/16/2019 9:41:05 PM PDT · by conservative98 · 99 replies
    NY Post ^ | June 16, 2019 | 9:02pm | Chris Perez
    Mayor Pete Buttigieg doesn’t believe he’ll be the first gay president if elected in 2020. “I would imagine we’ve probably had excellent presidents who were gay — we just didn’t know which ones,” he told “Axios on HBO.” “I mean, statistically, it’s almost certain.” Asked if he possibly knew which commander-in-chief was playing for the other team, the Democratic hopeful said: “My gaydar even doesn’t work that well in the present, let alone retroactively. But one can only assume that’s the case.”
  • Is Planned Parenthood Re-Directing Blood From Babies They've Butchered To 'The Elite'....

    06/06/2019 11:13:58 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 60 replies
    allnewspipeline.com ^ | June 6, 2019 | By Stefan Stanford
    FULL TITLE: Is Planned Parenthood Re-Directing Blood From Babies They've Butchered To 'The Elite' To Help Them Achieve Immortality? The Blood Of The Young Is Huge Business To Satanic Globalists ============================================================== - The Democrats 2020 Party Slogan Should Be: 'The Blood Of The Innocent Must Flow' ============================================================== If Christians and other Conservative Americans needed any more evidence of what we're up against in 2019, we get it from this recent story over at The Sun which the Drudge Report had linked to just days ago. Titled "TO INFINITY & BEYOND From ‘young blood’ transfusions to apocalypse insurance – weird ways...
  • PD: 2 Satan-worshiping girls planned to kill middle school classmates, drink victims' blood

    10/24/2018 5:10:11 PM PDT · by Hojczyk · 26 replies
    WFTS ^ | October 23,2018 | Mary Stringini
    BARTOW, Fla. — Police say two middle school girls, who worship Satan, armed themselves with knives in a foiled plot to violently kill classmates and drink their blood at school on Tuesday. The 6th and 7th-grade girls attend Bartow Middle School, police say. At 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, the Bartow Police School Resource Officer assigned to the school was summoned to the principal's office in reference to an armed juvenile complaint. The investigation revealed that the students armed themselves with knives, and planned on attacking fellow students during the school day. "Fortunately, they were intercepted by school staff hiding in a...
  • Trevor Noah Asks Ocasio-Cortez: 'How Do You Pay for All These Ideas?'

    07/28/2018 6:58:31 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 90 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | July 27, 2018 | Lauratta Brown
    Rising Democratic socialist star Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez explained to Trevor Noah on “The Daily Show” Thursday how she planned to pay for the ideas that she campaigned on in her stunning primary defeat over fourth-ranking House Democrat Joe Crowley (NY).After Ocasio-Cortez went through the main things she wants government to pay for, including Medicare for all and education, Noah brought up the more practical side of things.“You always see people coming in with economic arguments, and they say, look, these numbers don’t really add up,” he argued. “You know, in order to get healthcare for everybody, this is what it would...
  • The flight of the Vampire: Fascinating history of Britain's most iconic WWII fighter jet

    10/29/2017 4:13:03 PM PDT · by DFG · 41 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | 10/29/2017 | Rod Ardehali
    The fascinating history of one of Britain's most iconic fighter jets has been told for the first time in a new book. The de Havilland Vampire was developed during the Second World War and was the first single engine jet fighter to enter service in the RAF, making its maiden flight in September 1943, before officially entering service in April 1946. The aircraft, which has had several incarnations, holds a number of distinctions across its rich history including being the first jet aircraft to land and take-off from an aircraft carrier, while it was also the first jet to cross...
  • Vampire scare in Malawi has killed at least 8 people

    10/20/2017 10:46:28 AM PDT · by bgill · 19 replies
    kxan ^ | Oct. 20, 2017 | NBC
    Since September, a vampire scare has triggered mob violence in Malawi that has killed at least eight people accused of being bloodsuckers. The vampire rumors appear to have originated in neighboring Mozambique, although it’s not clear what sparked them. Belief in witchcraft is widespread in rural Malawi, a country in the southern section of Africa. Authorities say they are struggling to convince the population that the vampire rumors are not true.
  • Bruce Springsteen's "Badlands" done to Forever Knight

    Bruce Springsteen's "Badlands" done to Canadian vampire/cop show, Forever Knight. Nick Knight, brought across in the crusades, has been trying over the centuries to undo his bad decision to become a vampire.
  • Barbara Pierce Bush To Give Speech in SUPPORT of Planned Parenthood

    02/27/2017 7:58:05 AM PST · by Enlightened1 · 36 replies
    GP ^ | 02/26/17 | Ryan Saavedra
    The Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas has announced that Barbara Pierce Bush is going to be the keynote speaker for the 2017 Annual Luncheon according to Planned Parenthood’s website.   Former President George W. Bush’s daughter, Barbara Pierce Bush, is the CEO and co-founder of Global Health Corps. In the Mission & Vision section of the GHC website it states that “We believe that every person has the right to live a healthy, dignified life.”   The President of Planned Parenthood, Cecile Richards, and Barbara Pierce Bush have a mutual connection – Hillary Clinton.  
  • Conspiracy theorists produce photographic 'evidence' that suggests Vladimir Putin is IMMORTAL (tr)

    12/15/2015 3:21:40 PM PST · by dware · 63 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 12.15.2015 | Chris Spargo
    A photograph from almost 100 years ago has some on social media convinced that Russian leader Valdimir Putin is immortal. The picture, taken in 1920, shows a Russian solider who has an uncanny resemblance to the country's current leader. What's more, another photo taken of a Russian solider in 1941 also looks just like Putin and the man who was pictured 20 years prior. Some think this is definitive proof that Putin is much more than a 63-year-old workout buff with a penchant for riding horses shirtless.