site at the ancient temple of Perperion, south-east of the Bulgarian capital Sofia. The so-called ‘vampire graves’ contain skeletons which all have an iron rod impaled through their bodies where their heart would have been. In the 13th and 14th centuries, many Eastern Europeans held the belief that vampires were real, scores of people were killed because they were thought to be vampires. However it may be possible that some towns had a ritual of hammering a stake into dead people’s hearts to make sure they did not join the undead, even if there was no suspicion of them being a vampire.Archaeologists have unearthed what they believe to be a vampire burial
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