Nowadays vampires and zombies are the stuff of movies, but for many ancient cultures they were seen as a very real threat. Archaeologists excavating a children's cemetery in Italy have uncovered a ...

And today in weird, fascinating, and somewhat sad history, the grave of a child who had been given a “vampire burial” in the 5th century has been uncovered in Lugano, Italy. The child was found with a ...

THE 1500-year-old corpse of a 10-year-old child has been uncovered in Italy. And somebody certainly wanted to make sure it never arose from the dead. University of Arizona, Stanford University and ...

The discovery of a 10-year-old's body at an ancient Roman site in Italy suggests measures were taken to prevent the child, possibly infected with malaria, from rising from the dead and spreading ...

In modern society, people may indulge in a whimsical belief in spooky things around Halloween. But in ancient times, people were deadly serious about the supernatural. Take the phenomenon ...