It’s Spooky Friday! :ghost: This week, we’re digging into a 400-year-old grave in Poland, where a teenage girl was buried with objects believed to keep her from rising from the dead. Archaeologists call burials like this “anti-vampiric.”
#halloween #october#vampire
🎙️Maria Temming
📸 Łukasz Czyżewski, D. Poliński et al./Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 2026 (CC BY 4.0)/Getty Images/Craig Barritt / Stringer/NIKOLAY DOYCHINOV
Read the full article: www.sciencenews.org/article/ancient-anti-vampire-grave-undead
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