So real was the fear, it became known as the "The Great New England Vampire Panic," according to Smithsonian. Scientists have rendered a 3D reconstruction (R) of a skull exhumed in 1990.

Just in time for spooky season, archaeologists have unleashed grisly new information about how a “real-life vampire” spent ... a digital scan of Zosia’s skull and made a copy using a 3D ...

Just in time for spooky season, archaeologists have unleashed grisly new information about how a “real-life vampire” spent ... a digital scan of Zosia’s skull and made a copy using a 3D ...

Suspecting that she might be a vampire, a common folk belief at the time, gravediggers shoved a rock into her skull to prevent ... the 'vampire corpses' as real descriptions, but we can also ...

The belief in real vampires stems from superstition and mistaken ... I did a bit of a dance': Detectorist finds gold 'mourning ring' engraved with skull and date in UK field ...

Whether it's the actor saddled with rumours of being a real-life vampire or the filmmaker whose ... and an unknown perpetrator removed the skull. Wax residue was reported to have been found ...

Several of the deceased had a skull between their legs and a coin in their mouth — a sign of the anti-vampire rituals common in the 19th century. “We discovered examples of belief in the dead ...

Polinski and Zagrodzka worked with Oscar Nilsson, a facial recognition expert who took a digital scan of Zosia’s skull and made ... about Zosia, the “real-life vampire,” are the subject ...