400-Year-Old Skeleton Of ‘Vampire Child’ Discovered In Poland

Archaeologists in Poland have made a chilling discovery as they found the remains of a 400-year-old skeleton belonging to a young child buried in a weird manner, face-down with an iron padlock on its foot. Reportedly, the kid was believed to be a ‘vampire child’ by the villagers and such burial practice was done to calm villagers’ fears and prevent the dead from rising from the grave, reported The Daily Mail. The archaeological team from the University of Nicolaus Copernicus in Torun found the site in the village of Pien, Poland, the child’s remains were found with 30 other remains at the same location. The anthropologists believe child was between 5 to 7 years old and they found the remains in an unmarked grave within the necropolis, a term derived from Greek, which means city of the dead.