Dracula's ancestors?

• Position: Archaeology - Brief article

Last year, 3 million Americans chose to be vampires for Halloween. But the "vampires" recently discovered in Bulgaria won't be going trick-or-treating this year. Archaeologists in the town of Sozopol found two 700-year-old skeletons with iron stakes driven through their chests. Until the early 20th century, this was done to the corpses of people thought to be evil, to pin them into their grave so they couldn't rise to suck people's blood. At least 100 impaled skeletons have been found in Bulgaria, and the...