July 1, 2025

The Field of Vampires: Unearthing Historical Fears

The Field of Vampires: Unearthing Historical Fears
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We’re taking a short break and using this time to amplify the voices of other creators we love in the true crime space. While we’re enjoying our summer hiatus, we’ve got something dark and compelling to keep your earbuds company. We're dropping an episode from Ye Olde Crime hosted by twisted sister co-hosts and our friends from the midwest - Lindsay and Madison. In this episode, they discuss the vampire fields of Poland, as well as the protective powers of iron, that superstitions are deeply rooted in Eastern Europe, and why 3D printing and facial reconstruction are so important.

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We are, we are. We are Cultivate, Cultivate, Cultivate, Cultivate, Cultivate, Cultivate,

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I'm your host, Lindsay Valenti, and with me is my

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sister and co host Mattie Stangel.

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Hello.

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Hi, we are surrounded by our furry children this sunny

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Yes, my furry child is like, ma'am, ma'am.

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this morning. We left out two of his stinkiest sweatshirts

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With a new dog.

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That's right, huh so uh yeah, just gearing up for that.

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Lots of that's a little comforts and pets and maybe

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some calming pheromone spray will be purchased in the house

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But that's fine, it's fine.

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Yeah, mm hmmm mm hmmmmmmm hm.

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So I unintentionally stuck with the paranormal ish theme oo

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with this week's topic, which we will be discussing Poland's

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fields of vampires.

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Oh ooh, this is going to be really interesting but

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also probably gross, not too gros yes, yes, o, yes, yeah,

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I just that area in vampires. They were pretty pretty

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swift and harsh.

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I remember, yeah, I remember correctly. Yeah, nipped that in

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the bud m hmm.

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Information was pulled from the following sources. A twenty twenty

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four Archaeology News Online article by Dario Radley, twenty twenty

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four CNN article by Katie Hunt, twenty twenty four Daily

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Mail article by Harry Howard, twenty twenty four Daily Mail

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article by Jonathan Chadwick, twenty twenty four Express article by

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Rebecca Robinson twenty twenty four. Lit Hub article by Ed Simon,

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twenty twenty four, Reuter's article by Thomas Holdstock twenty twenty three,

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Indy one hundred posts by Alex Daniel twenty twenty three,

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mirror posts by Ryan fahey Fahi one of those. Twenty

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twenty two Art's article by Victoria Greenboy and Rich, twenty seventeen,

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Smithsonian Magazine article by Joshua Rapp Learn twenty fifteen, Lund

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Archaeological Review article by LESSEG. Gardela twenty fourteen Givesmoto article

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by George Dvorski and a History UK article.

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Say soah, and twenty twenty four was quite the year.

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To I think we missed the.

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Year to the Year of vampires. Apparently we missed Empires. Wow,

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who know, not me missed it?

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We know now, I guess.

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Hindsight is always twenty twenty.

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It really is.

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And hey, thanks for listening. All right, picture this. Imagine

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you were out with your partner excavating with a trowel

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on a hill when you suddenly hear the sound of

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its striking metal odd right.

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Okay, yeah, I mean, unless you're taken for treasure.

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You're there for a reason. But even otter, and one

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would argue more horrifying would be to then clear away

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some of the soil and debris to discover that what

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you've uncovered is a body, but not just anybody, one

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with a sickle over its neck and an iron padlock

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on its toe.

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Mmm. I remember those legends. Yep, mm hmm.

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You discovered a vampire body, A says nec did vampire

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body mm hmmm, a sickle on.

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The neck, like around the neck, So if they would

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have tried to sit up, it would have decapitated them.

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Dang h and I bet they made those really sharp too.

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Mm hmm.

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Yeah, they got body.

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Yeah, So this was the reality a professor Darius Polinski

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and his partner Magda Zagradska in twenty twenty two outside

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the village of pn in northern Poland, where they had

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been working. They couldn't have known at the time was

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that their innocent discovery would uncover something much darker, the

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grave vampire quote unquote what now understandably. Archaeologists from Torrean's

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Nikolaus Copernicus University who were part of Darius's team, wanted

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to know more about the eighteen to twenty year old

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woman who would go on to be named Zosha. After

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uncovering the rest of her remains, which would go on

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to reveal that she had passed over four hundred years

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ago in the seventeenth century, they discovered a possible deformity

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on her breastbone that would have not only caused her

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constant and severe pain, but would have raised fears that

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she was a vampire. Okay, analysis of her skull led

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the team to believe she may have suffered from a

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health condition that caused severe headaches and even fainting. She

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also had a protruding tooth, so she had some physical deformities.

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Yeah, so she was a little different looking, is what

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it sounds like.

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When she was found, Zosha had a cap on her

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head made of silk fabric and metallic threads of silver

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and gold, which meant she would have been someone of

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high social status despite her deformities.

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DNA and chemical isotopes were used to learn more about her,

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and due to the fact that she passed away amidst

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the Swedish Polish Wars, researchers speculate that she may have

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originated in southern Scandinavia and been Swedish, thus marking her

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as a quote unquote unwonted outsider in the region.

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Hmm. But then why was she buried in such finery.

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I don't know they respected her enough to bury her

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well ish, you know, aside from the whole your vampire thing.

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Yeah, and according to an article by CNN, quote in

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the seventeenth century, was also in the grip of what's

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known as the Little Ice Age, a period of cooling

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that in some places led to crop failure and famine

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end quote. So keep that in mind. So factoring in

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the time of her death, the placement of the sickle

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over her neck and the padlock on her left big

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toe would have been used as a sort of double

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protection to ensure she couldn't rise from the grave. The

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significance of the padlock on the big toe is believed

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to symbolize the closing of her life cycle, and the

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fact that both were made from iron, which was thought

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to protect against the supernatural.

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It'd be funny if, ironically they used like limestone, because

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like lime is supposed to be like super conductive, like

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instant vampire creation.

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Darius doesn't believe that the sickle and padlock were placed

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on Zosha at the same time.

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Oh okay.

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So, according to that same interview on it with CNN quote,

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initially she was buried in the coffin in a natural position,

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with the head towards the west and on a pillow

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and the padlock on her toe. So she was buried

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with the padlock.

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Because they were concerned. They were like, hmm, she looks

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weird and she's an enemy, so let's just do this.

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Maybe because of some misfortune or the death of somebody else,

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they decided to open the grave end quote. So there

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was some external event.

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Yeah, like maybe a like a disaster, some sort of

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sickness came through shortly after she died, and she was

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the catalyst, the scapegoat.

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During the process of opening her coffin and disturbing her remains,

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her spine became twisted, likely as they were attempting to

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place her face down, so instead they chose to secure

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the sickle over her throat to prevent her from rising

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from the dead. Zoshas is the only skeleton that was

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found with a sickle around her neck.

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Man, So either yeah, she was definitely suspected of being

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a vampire or somebody just really didn't like her.

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Zosha's final resting place was unmarked and no other headstones

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or churches were in the nearby vicinity.

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What were they doing in the air, Like, what were

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they looking for?

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Were they looking for her?

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Was there like a suspected thing or like.

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I'm going to kind of get into it, but they

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were excavating the area because this area in some areas

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that are very close by are known. I don't want

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to say hotbeds, because they're not really hotbeds, but known

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places of these types of burials.

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Okay, so.

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They were digging there because they've discovered other kind of random,

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unmarked graves.

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Got it.

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This was kind of like a weird othered people burial ground.

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Almost Yes, you got it. Okay, interesting.

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Yeah, Darius believes that she was likely taken out to

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the remote location and abandoned due to fears that she

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was a vampire.

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That makes sense.

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I mean, if I was starving and everything in my

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life was turning upside down and it all kind of

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happened when that person died, I'd be afraid of her too,

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I guess.

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Historian Dan Jones notes of Zoshaw's discovery quote, I have

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to admit when I first saw the pictures, I was

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incredibly excited. I have never seen anything like this before.

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Is this a crime scene? Is this evidence of the supernatural?

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Is this evidence of a unique craze? Or are we

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in fact stepping back into an entirely different world in

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which Europe was governed by totally different rules? End quote?

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Probably a mix of all of it. Yeah, honestly.

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In an interview that Darius gave with The Times, quote

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what we know for sure is that this place, this cemetery,

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was for people who were excluded from the community. There

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are no historical sources about this place, which is very strange.

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It means that it was a cemetery for people who

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were abandoned. It has been written out of history. It

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can be assumed that for some reason, those burying the

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woman were afraid that she would rise from the grave.

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The sickle was not laid flat, but placed on the

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neck in such a way that if the deceased had

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tried to get up, most likely the head would have

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been cut off or injured.

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That's so scary.

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Ways to protect against the return of the dead include

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cutting off the head or legs, placing the deceased face

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down to bite into the ground, burning them, and smashing

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them with a stone end quote.

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I don't know how you could it.

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There must have been like it'd be really interesting to

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see what that.

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Kind of panic was at.

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That time, because you have to think, like how palpable

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is that panic to desecrate a body like that, Like well.

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Not only that, but like the body of someone who

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is of high standing as well.

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Yeah, because you're kind of going against everything at the time,

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like almost every religion, Like, you do not damage the

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physical body because that's the body that carries you to

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whatever after life you're expecting. So like, if you want

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to really you know, ruin somebody's after life, you mess

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with their bodies. So that but that's not like a

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something people take lightly.

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That's crazy.

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That like I just can't imagine it, Like I don't know,

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just really smashing the head in of somebody that's dead,

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just just in case, like kay.

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In twenty twenty four, the story of Zosia once more

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resurfaced following a facial reconstruction that had been made of her.

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Ah okay, so that's what the hotbed was is she

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got a new photo online and everybody started liking it.

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Darius and team worked with famed Swedish facial reconstruction expert

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Oscar Nielsen, who performed a digital scan of Zosia's skull

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in order to make a copy. With the aid of

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a three D printer using clay and silicone, he was

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able to give her quote unquote muscles and skin. This

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is the same archaeological reconstructionist that did the face of

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the woman from Jonestown.

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Oh wow.

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And I think he also did the one which that

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we covered too, where there was like facial reconstruction of her.

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Yeah, like how fascinating of a thing.

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Yeah, I don't know if he was involved with the

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priestess from Lulaiko the Maiden.

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That's awesome, Like how do you even how do you

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get that career?

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How do you start? I know that job?

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Like it just sounds so cool, like you get to

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be an artist and a historian and.

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Like yeah, like he so he did like a bunch

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of research into like genealogy of what people like looked

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like in that time, like based off her ancestry, but

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sort of facial features she would have had, you know,

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all this stuff, Like it's crazy.

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Yeah, like just researching like what your skin texture could

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potentially be like with the climate at the time. Because

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we have all of that information. It's just I can't

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imagine piecing that altogether. That would take so much time. Probably, Yeah,

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depending on when they engaged with him, it sounds like

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a couple of years before they would have unveiled it

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after finding her, because they found her in twenty two

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and the photo went up in twenty four.

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I'm going to send you I'm so excited. I really

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want to see.

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Oh, Wow, Okay, I'm sorry, but if she's supposedly deformed

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like what, she's really pretty.

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I think it was some sort of based off some

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of the articles that I read. The deformity was on

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her breastbone, so it's likely she had some sort of

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tumor and that's what the deformity was.

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Oh, I wonder, yeah, because that a lot of the

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time they believed like any sort of extra tumor's abscesses

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and stuff were like devil's marks. So I bet she

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was probably able to hide it well until she died.

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Potentially potentially.

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Yeah. The most chilling thing about Zosha's discovery isn't just

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the means that were taken to protect the people who

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buried her from her rising from the grave. It's the

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fact that she wasn't the only one. In fact, she

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was one of around one hundred people who have been

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buried in what is now referred to as the Field

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of Vampires.

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Okay, so this was a pretty intense panic. Then.

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The site, which is located near don Brava Helmensk in

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northern Poland, was first excavated in two thousand and five,

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and the field was used as a cemetery for around

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four generations in the seventeenth century, although there are no

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records of its existence or any features of it on

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any maps. Eerie those interred in this area include a

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pregnant woman with her fetus still in her womb, a

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woman with advanced syphilis, a man buried with the corpse

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of a child at his feet, and the remains of

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a partially exhumed child. Of the nearly one hundred graves,

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about thirty, like Zosha's bear signs of the interred being restrained.

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That's not good.

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So that's definitely likely a bury alive situation, or wasn't

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dead fully and couldn't do anything.

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Or similar to Zoshas, something was put to prevent them

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from being able to get out.

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Yeah.

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So, Zosha's is grave number seventy five at the Unmarked Cemetery,

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which is located outside the city of Bedgosht. In twenty

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twenty three, child's remains were found face down with the

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upper torso missing, and a pad lot that's similar to

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Zosha's was found beneath the legs.

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So they sounds like they were successful in doing what

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they had attempted with Zosha on this child.

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Oh God, I couldn't confirm if that was the one

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that was like partially exhumed.

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Oh, that would make that would make sense, you know,

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since it was technically a partial body that was found.

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Darius believes the unmarked cemetery was designed specifically for the

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unwanted and excluded members of the community, considering there are

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no written records of any of the deceased, Identification of

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the victims will be a significant task, if they're even

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able to do it at all.

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Maybe not now, but hopefully in the future. I mean,

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the DNA stuff that we're seeing now is crazy, like.

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Yeah, like just last week they were like, this is

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the guy that was Jack the Ripper.

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It's crazy casual. Oh hey, we found him.

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Anyway, many of those uncovered have been buried face down,

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were weighed down with stones, or have been buried with

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coins in their mouths.

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Oh yeah yeah.

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Now, the practice of having coins placed in the mouth

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had to do with the belief that the silver would

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trap their soul in their body as well as pay

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for their passage to the underworld.

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Oh yeah, yeah, so they can use their body that

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body when they go to the underworld. Have you seen

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have you seen that Netflix show with Jeff Goldbloom as

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SEUs chaos.

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You mentioned it, and they haven't watched it yet.

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You really should they have a similar like if you

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don't have the coin, you're kind of so.

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Well, yeah, you're just trapped.

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Yeah, so Sha, in Darius's opinion, would have to have

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been especially feared to have had a sick placed about

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her neck. This practice was rare, although not unheard of.

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The belief and fear of the undead in Eastern Europe

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dates back to the eleventh century, and vampire myths in

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particular date back to the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

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The fear was that the undead would manage to crawl

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their way out of the ground and back to the

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surface in order to attack the living. These folk tales

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are very prevalent in countries like Poland and Serbia, where

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they are passed down from generation to generation.

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It really makes you wonder what started it, Like were

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people buried alive at the time and came out and

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then it just kind of became a livestale ever since,

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because I mean it's happened before. Yeah, it's not completely

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unheard of, and they didn't embalm people then, so.

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Well, this might have something to do with it. So

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in the seventh and ninth centuries, the Slavic people were

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starting their conversion to Christianity.

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Okay, what were they before pagan I believe, Okay.

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Prior to that, they cremated their dead, So the practice

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of burying their bodies was horrifying to some of them,

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and around the world many people believed that sharp tools

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forged with fire had anti demonic properties.

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Interesting.

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Yeah, so the idea of burying their dead versus releasing

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their souls via fire could have led to the belief

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in them rising from the grave, Like why didn't you

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do this, I'm supposed to be burnt to pass on?

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That makes sense, especially like I can I can imagine

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just you know, with histories shown as how awful it

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is trying to convert a massive group of people to

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a different mindset and like general lifestyle and existence.

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So being the first people.

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To bury your parents instead of burning them after generations

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and generations, that would be that would be scary.

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And as with which hysteria in the past, the beliefs

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in vampires became so widespread that it led to mass hysteria,

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even executions.

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Yeah, we're really familiar with that on this podcast.

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Yeah, it's kind of something we cover a lot.

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It's kind of a yearly thing.

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It is a yearly thing for people who passed away

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in untimely ways. So think like alcoholism or completing suicide

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being examples. You would have immediately been suspected of being

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a vampire. In order to prevent their return, their corpses

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would have been mutilated in some fashion. For example, in

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the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in the Balkans, people would

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nail corpses to the ground. H yeah, I don't like that.

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How how far do you go?

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Did they dig six feet back then too?

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I don't know, but I don't like it.

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I don't like it either.

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Could you stay right there?

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Full raver.

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More mass graves have been found since the discovery of Zosia,

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and even before her discovery. So in two thousand and eight,

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a number of decapitated skeletons were discovered at a burial

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site near I knew, I forgot to translate one and

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that damn it. I don't know Polish, I would not

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have said it la all right. In two thousand and eight,

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a number of decapitated skeletons were discovered at a burial

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site near glevisa with holes drilled through their legs or

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bricks placed in their mouths.

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Oh my god, wow, so that yeah, Yeah, there was

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a lot of intense hatred or fear or all of

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the above, like desperation because I can't imagine doing this

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to any like a body, like what. I just can't,

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especially if I knew them, Like.

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Yeah.

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So that same year, in two thousand and eight, in

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the small village of star Oripine, Privotsn, Poland, which in

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twenty twenty two had a population of ninety people, the

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Riepene Commune or cemetery was home to the graves of

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several quote unquote vampires.

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Okay.

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During an excavation of the late medieval cemetery, the skeleton

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of a man who was between forty to fifty at

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the time of his death would have discovered on the

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very fringes of the cemetery, which would have been a

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sort of punishment because he would have been like on

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the edge of consecrated ground. Right analysis revealed that he

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was tall over six feet and he suffered from a

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number of developmental anomalies, such as the crowding and distortion

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of his front teeth. More excavations were conducted in the

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same area. In twenty and nine and twenty fourteen, the

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remains of another man who was twenty to twenty five

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at the time of his death was discovered, who was

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very short, around one hundred and sixty centimeters in height,

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or just five foot three inches, which isn't really that short.

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But I don't know.

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Yeah, excuse you, that's me so like we're fine, it's average,

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all right, rude.

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Maybe they have really tall men in that area, so

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that was unusually.

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Short, like Sweden and stuff, they were taller, like Vikings

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were taller.

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I feel like they are taller people generally, so maybe that, yes,

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would be abnormally short in that area, but I could

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say to that average anyway. This man was also buried

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on the far perimeter of the cemetery, face down. His

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arms were also bent at the elbows, giving the impression

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that they had been tied together at the time he

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was buried, so tied behind his back it moved face down.

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Gosh them, they would have had to do this like

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right after death, right or.

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Like either that or they Yeah, I don't want to

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think about how they Yeah.

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Nope, don't want to think about it. Yep, they did

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it right after death.

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End of sentence. Yep, m hmm, yep.

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A fifty to sixty year old woman was buried with

484
00:29:35.960 --> 00:29:39.920
a cylindrical padlock by her shin. This type of padlock

485
00:29:40.160 --> 00:29:43.599
was really only used in the eleventh to fourteenth centuries

486
00:29:44.279 --> 00:29:47.920
and is very rarely found inside graves, with only a

487
00:29:47.960 --> 00:29:52.279
handful being discovered to date. So it was like a padlock,

488
00:29:52.359 --> 00:29:55.200
but it had this very like instead of being a

489
00:29:55.359 --> 00:29:58.319
box shape, it had this like cylinder like almost like

490
00:29:58.319 --> 00:30:00.279
you would put it around a finger or something thing

491
00:30:00.599 --> 00:30:04.200
and then lock it. It's very very unique, very interesting.

492
00:30:05.079 --> 00:30:07.039
I don't know why it was by her shin, but

493
00:30:07.640 --> 00:30:08.559
you know what.

494
00:30:08.440 --> 00:30:10.920
I it just makes me think like maybe they like

495
00:30:11.039 --> 00:30:14.440
ran out of what they normally used and like made

496
00:30:14.480 --> 00:30:18.799
do with like another like what it was meant to

497
00:30:18.799 --> 00:30:20.599
be a finger or toe thing.

498
00:30:20.839 --> 00:30:21.920
Yeah, potentially.

499
00:30:22.720 --> 00:30:25.920
Another woman who was believed to have been between twenty

500
00:30:26.000 --> 00:30:28.359
and thirty five at the time of her death, was

501
00:30:28.400 --> 00:30:33.720
found buried without her head and ah yeah. And another

502
00:30:33.759 --> 00:30:36.559
woman was buried with a large boulder placed on her

503
00:30:36.559 --> 00:30:39.960
belly so she would have been unable to get up.

504
00:30:40.279 --> 00:30:40.519
Yep.

505
00:30:41.079 --> 00:30:44.680
In twenty fourteen, the remains of six I'm gonna say

506
00:30:44.720 --> 00:30:49.599
this wrong. Apotropaic burials, or burials designed to ward off

507
00:30:49.640 --> 00:30:55.440
evil okay, were compared to the remains of sixty normal

508
00:30:55.680 --> 00:30:59.559
in tournaments in the same area to try to determine

509
00:30:59.680 --> 00:31:03.680
why certain people were being viewed as vampires but not

510
00:31:03.799 --> 00:31:07.519
all of them. The team conducting the research was led

511
00:31:07.519 --> 00:31:12.319
by Leslie Gregorica from the University of South Alabama. Her

512
00:31:12.400 --> 00:31:17.920
team used radiogenic strontium isotope ratios from the enamel of

513
00:31:17.960 --> 00:31:24.640
the teeth of the remains. They compared the biogeochemical analysis

514
00:31:24.960 --> 00:31:27.920
to the same isotopes of local animals in the area,

515
00:31:28.759 --> 00:31:30.880
so to kind of determine like if they had been

516
00:31:30.920 --> 00:31:32.759
eating things where they lived.

517
00:31:33.079 --> 00:31:36.920
Yeah, Like were they actually caught like there or were

518
00:31:36.960 --> 00:31:38.160
they placed there?

519
00:31:38.720 --> 00:31:43.000
Yes? And what they discovered was that those suspected of

520
00:31:43.039 --> 00:31:47.720
being vampires were primarily locals in the area, not outsiders.

521
00:31:48.480 --> 00:31:48.799
Hmmm.

522
00:31:49.680 --> 00:31:52.920
So like in Zosha's case, she would have been an

523
00:31:53.000 --> 00:31:55.839
outlier in that she was an outsider.

524
00:31:56.319 --> 00:31:58.319
It makes me wonder if she was like prisoner of

525
00:31:58.359 --> 00:32:03.000
war or something potentially since that war was happening, or if.

526
00:32:02.880 --> 00:32:05.640
She had like cholera or something, if she some sort

527
00:32:05.680 --> 00:32:06.680
of disease.

528
00:32:06.480 --> 00:32:08.440
And passing through and died.

529
00:32:09.240 --> 00:32:11.960
So what could cause suspicion to be cast upon people

530
00:32:11.960 --> 00:32:15.039
in the area. Some theorized that it could have something

531
00:32:15.079 --> 00:32:15.880
to do with disease.

532
00:32:15.960 --> 00:32:18.839
Pandemics super common.

533
00:32:18.920 --> 00:32:21.240
Then there's like at least twelve.

534
00:32:22.960 --> 00:32:26.119
There was a cholera outbreak, and usually the first person

535
00:32:26.200 --> 00:32:29.720
to pass is viewed as the cause and the possible

536
00:32:29.759 --> 00:32:31.880
reason behind it. If we want to look at it

537
00:32:31.920 --> 00:32:33.680
through with supernatural.

538
00:32:33.000 --> 00:32:35.000
Lens, yeap patient zero.

539
00:32:35.720 --> 00:32:38.400
That same year, twenty fourteen, which was a very popular

540
00:32:38.480 --> 00:32:43.759
year in archaeology, apparently, yeah, that's of funding, an archaeological

541
00:32:43.799 --> 00:32:48.559
team in Sozopol, Bulgaria, discovered a stone tomb that was

542
00:32:48.599 --> 00:32:51.480
home to a skeleton that was held down by an

543
00:32:51.519 --> 00:32:52.359
iron sickle.

544
00:32:54.200 --> 00:32:54.839
Kind of liked her.

545
00:32:55.400 --> 00:32:57.160
Each one of its teeth had been pulled out.

546
00:32:57.920 --> 00:33:02.279
Oh, that took time, an effort, that was a choice.

547
00:33:03.000 --> 00:33:05.680
Who they think that, like the vampire couldn't bite them then,

548
00:33:07.200 --> 00:33:08.759
so yeah, like.

549
00:33:09.160 --> 00:33:10.799
Can't bite me with no teeth, bitch.

550
00:33:11.839 --> 00:33:14.640
Well, and the sickle was over the torso instead of

551
00:33:14.640 --> 00:33:16.400
by the neck like it was with Zosia.

552
00:33:17.160 --> 00:33:20.720
Ah, so they're like, you can't run after us either,

553
00:33:21.039 --> 00:33:22.160
you'll cut your legs off.

554
00:33:22.920 --> 00:33:25.720
And typically with the use of sickles, which wasn't a

555
00:33:25.759 --> 00:33:28.839
common practice. They would be placed, like I said, over

556
00:33:28.880 --> 00:33:31.680
the torso I think with the idea being that even

557
00:33:31.720 --> 00:33:34.400
if they tried to escape the grave, if they were

558
00:33:34.480 --> 00:33:37.960
cut in half by iron, their spirit would pass on

559
00:33:38.160 --> 00:33:41.440
and they would no longer be a sort of revenant.

560
00:33:42.400 --> 00:33:44.279
Okay.

561
00:33:45.319 --> 00:33:49.160
And it is also in extremely rare cases that researchers

562
00:33:49.200 --> 00:33:53.200
have found sickles placed above the neck, so Zosha's is

563
00:33:53.519 --> 00:33:57.599
one of very few cases they've ever run across where that.

564
00:33:57.640 --> 00:33:58.160
Was the case.

565
00:34:00.000 --> 00:34:04.160
Well, I don't know if with the work being happening around,

566
00:34:04.160 --> 00:34:07.079
then I wonder if it being by her neck was

567
00:34:07.160 --> 00:34:11.159
just because she was also potentially an enemy.

568
00:34:11.679 --> 00:34:16.559
Maybe, you know, because if if the common thread was

569
00:34:16.719 --> 00:34:20.079
that these were people that you knew that weren't being

570
00:34:20.119 --> 00:34:23.079
accused of being a vampire, even though you wanted to

571
00:34:23.079 --> 00:34:25.719
prevent them from coming out and killing you, you wouldn't

572
00:34:25.719 --> 00:34:29.840
be overly harsh about it. No, because they were like

573
00:34:30.320 --> 00:34:36.360
turning their bodies over or putting rocks on them. Although, yeah,

574
00:34:36.800 --> 00:34:40.599
we'll get to it. So in twenty twenty three, a

575
00:34:40.719 --> 00:34:46.039
mass burial site of four hundred and fifty individuals significantly

576
00:34:46.119 --> 00:34:53.480
larger was found by road workers outside Luzino in northeastern Poland,

577
00:34:54.000 --> 00:34:57.559
as they were excavating land for a road expansion that.

578
00:34:57.480 --> 00:35:02.000
To me just screams disease or famine.

579
00:35:01.400 --> 00:35:04.239
They discovered hundreds of bodies that had been buried near

580
00:35:04.280 --> 00:35:08.280
a church. The reason for their concern was that many

581
00:35:08.320 --> 00:35:11.880
of the bodies had been decapitated, with the skull placed

582
00:35:11.880 --> 00:35:15.920
between their legs. Some had bricks placed around their heads

583
00:35:16.159 --> 00:35:19.199
their head and limbs, and others had coins placed in

584
00:35:19.239 --> 00:35:23.280
their mouths, which we have seen in discussed prior to this.

585
00:35:24.159 --> 00:35:24.400
Yeah.

586
00:35:25.320 --> 00:35:28.639
An archaeologist that was called to examine the site named

587
00:35:28.960 --> 00:35:33.280
mach Stromsky noted that if it were it was believed

588
00:35:33.280 --> 00:35:36.360
you were a vampire, it was likely due to another

589
00:35:36.440 --> 00:35:40.320
member of your family suddenly dying not long after your funeral.

590
00:35:41.800 --> 00:35:44.800
So if you died and someone else in your immediate

591
00:35:44.840 --> 00:35:48.880
family passed shortly after, they thought you were the cause

592
00:35:49.480 --> 00:35:51.000
that you were ah.

593
00:35:51.800 --> 00:35:54.639
Yeap, that I was the angry spirit or the vengeance

594
00:35:54.679 --> 00:35:55.079
of thing.

595
00:35:55.719 --> 00:35:59.599
Yeah, that is why they would then be exhumed, have

596
00:35:59.679 --> 00:36:03.679
their had removed and reburied at their feet. They even

597
00:36:03.719 --> 00:36:06.159
discovered the corpse of one woman who had the skull

598
00:36:06.199 --> 00:36:09.800
of a child placed on her womb. Which is horrifying.

599
00:36:10.320 --> 00:36:12.519
That's really scary.

600
00:36:12.679 --> 00:36:16.559
That must have been a very desperate situation if they

601
00:36:16.599 --> 00:36:20.719
were doing that to quite literally everybody. Yeah, I'm sorry,

602
00:36:20.719 --> 00:36:24.039
but in a burial of that many people, when do

603
00:36:24.119 --> 00:36:27.280
you when do you pause and be like, hey, maybe

604
00:36:27.280 --> 00:36:32.159
this isn't working. Yeah, you know, like when does your

605
00:36:32.199 --> 00:36:36.360
fear and faith go like hmm, you know, I keep

606
00:36:36.440 --> 00:36:38.599
cutting these heads off and these people keep dying.

607
00:36:39.440 --> 00:36:42.400
Maybe maybe I just leave the bodies alone and just

608
00:36:43.079 --> 00:36:45.920
you know, wash my hands. But what soap?

609
00:36:50.519 --> 00:36:58.159
Yeah. In Gora Helmsk in helm Poland, two children who

610
00:36:58.239 --> 00:37:01.360
received the anti vampire barrier are believed to have been

611
00:37:01.360 --> 00:37:05.159
buried as far back as the thirteenth century, with their

612
00:37:05.159 --> 00:37:08.760
remains discovered after the removal of tree roots. So it

613
00:37:08.880 --> 00:37:13.079
was like a pre scheduled thing where they were just

614
00:37:13.159 --> 00:37:15.840
removing tree roots and then all of a sudden they

615
00:37:15.840 --> 00:37:17.679
were like, oh.

616
00:37:17.639 --> 00:37:20.159
Okay, there's a body attached to this route.

617
00:37:20.599 --> 00:37:22.280
There are some children here.

618
00:37:23.079 --> 00:37:23.360
Better.

619
00:37:24.320 --> 00:37:30.360
The excavation, led by doctor Stany Swas Goulb, an archaeologist

620
00:37:30.519 --> 00:37:36.199
with the Lublin Voivodeship Conservator of Monuments, discovered that the

621
00:37:36.239 --> 00:37:39.079
pair were buried in an area that had not previously

622
00:37:39.119 --> 00:37:42.960
been associated with any known cemetery, got it, So.

623
00:37:43.000 --> 00:37:48.039
Yeah, this was definitely an outlayer field of unwanted.

624
00:37:48.960 --> 00:37:53.599
What makes this discovery unique is that the skull of

625
00:37:53.599 --> 00:37:57.039
one of the children had been intentionally removed and placed

626
00:37:57.199 --> 00:37:58.639
face down in the grave.

627
00:37:59.360 --> 00:38:02.119
Ooh, that sounds symbolic.

628
00:38:03.039 --> 00:38:05.280
The rest of their body had been held down by

629
00:38:05.320 --> 00:38:06.599
heavy stones.

630
00:38:07.119 --> 00:38:09.800
So I wonder if this was the first kid that

631
00:38:09.960 --> 00:38:11.000
got sick or something.

632
00:38:12.039 --> 00:38:15.199
They discovered the presence of post holes at the site,

633
00:38:15.400 --> 00:38:18.239
which led researchers to believe that it had been marked

634
00:38:18.280 --> 00:38:21.800
at one point in time and monitored to ensure that

635
00:38:21.840 --> 00:38:23.760
the dead did not rise from the grave.

636
00:38:25.000 --> 00:38:29.119
I can't even fathom living in a time where this

637
00:38:29.480 --> 00:38:31.159
was just common.

638
00:38:31.840 --> 00:38:32.719
It was just normal.

639
00:38:33.360 --> 00:38:35.079
Yeah, how scary.

640
00:38:35.960 --> 00:38:38.639
God, No wonder why everybody died like when they were

641
00:38:38.679 --> 00:38:42.920
like thirty two.

642
00:38:42.719 --> 00:38:47.840
Stress near the grave. Three more children were discovered in

643
00:38:47.880 --> 00:38:51.679
a pit. Analysis on the enamel of their teeth and

644
00:38:51.760 --> 00:38:57.599
the bones of their jaw revealed traces of copper, potassium, permanganate,

645
00:38:58.400 --> 00:39:02.119
and gold. It's theorized that they may have been part

646
00:39:02.199 --> 00:39:06.840
of a potion designed to treat and cure vampirism.

647
00:39:06.719 --> 00:39:10.159
Which would have killed them. Because you can't you can't

648
00:39:10.199 --> 00:39:14.000
process the minerals like that in your body.

649
00:39:14.800 --> 00:39:18.079
So, because this was five children that were all next

650
00:39:18.079 --> 00:39:20.320
to each other, I'm wondering if this was some sort

651
00:39:20.360 --> 00:39:26.039
of disease that children would be particularly susceptible to. Because

652
00:39:26.039 --> 00:39:28.000
it didn't say how old the bildren were either.

653
00:39:28.679 --> 00:39:33.079
Right, it makes me want it sounds like like kids

654
00:39:33.159 --> 00:39:36.000
that would play together or something all got the same

655
00:39:36.039 --> 00:39:40.079
illness and then were treated as such.

656
00:39:40.639 --> 00:39:41.280
God.

657
00:39:43.000 --> 00:39:45.599
Due to the number of excavations that have taken place

658
00:39:45.679 --> 00:39:50.719
around Eastern Europe, primarily in Poland, historians and researchers have

659
00:39:50.760 --> 00:39:53.760
started to theorize why certain people may have been buried

660
00:39:53.800 --> 00:39:57.719
the way they were. Those who completed suicide or were executed,

661
00:39:57.880 --> 00:40:00.599
What have their bodies treated much differently than of high

662
00:40:00.639 --> 00:40:01.400
moral standing?

663
00:40:02.159 --> 00:40:03.840
High moral standing? Sure?

664
00:40:04.079 --> 00:40:07.760
Yeah, I really wonder what constituted is high moral standing

665
00:40:07.800 --> 00:40:08.119
at the.

666
00:40:08.079 --> 00:40:13.159
Time those that were you know, died of natural causes,

667
00:40:13.360 --> 00:40:17.039
you know whatever, The bodies of these individuals would likely

668
00:40:17.079 --> 00:40:21.519
have been dragged, burned, quartered, or just tossed them to

669
00:40:21.599 --> 00:40:25.599
a grave or pitez. And the list is endless. Really,

670
00:40:26.159 --> 00:40:30.920
if you died tragically, you weren't baptized, you were a sleepwalker.

671
00:40:31.360 --> 00:40:35.000
If you had debt, if you had birthmarks, a disability,

672
00:40:35.440 --> 00:40:39.239
if you were sly or cruel, any of those reasons

673
00:40:39.360 --> 00:40:42.039
or more could have viewed you as a potential vampire.

674
00:40:42.079 --> 00:40:42.679
After death.

675
00:40:43.360 --> 00:40:45.440
It's tough time. It was a.

676
00:40:45.400 --> 00:40:51.599
Tough time to die and not have your body mutilated and.

677
00:40:51.599 --> 00:40:56.519
To just exist like sounds like there were lots of judgments.

678
00:40:58.039 --> 00:41:01.000
If you want to learn more about the words of

679
00:41:01.159 --> 00:41:04.880
Darius and his team and their efforts to uncover the

680
00:41:04.920 --> 00:41:08.559
true identity of Zosia, It's part of a documentary that

681
00:41:08.639 --> 00:41:13.039
was produced by Caravan Media titled Field of Vampires, which

682
00:41:13.079 --> 00:41:16.000
came out in October of twenty twenty four and was

683
00:41:16.039 --> 00:41:19.320
released as part of PBS's Secrets of the Dead series.

684
00:41:20.199 --> 00:41:20.559
Cool.

685
00:41:21.280 --> 00:41:23.760
My final thing I want to note is some words

686
00:41:23.800 --> 00:41:29.559
that Oscar had to say regarding Zosha's reconstruction quote. It's

687
00:41:29.599 --> 00:41:32.719
emotional to watch a face coming back from the dead,

688
00:41:33.159 --> 00:41:35.800
especially when you know the story about this young girl.

689
00:41:36.440 --> 00:41:39.639
It's really ironic in a way. These people burying her,

690
00:41:39.880 --> 00:41:42.000
they did everything they could in order to prevent her

691
00:41:42.039 --> 00:41:44.760
from coming back from the dead. We have done everything

692
00:41:44.800 --> 00:41:46.800
we can in order to bring her back to life.

693
00:41:47.440 --> 00:41:51.159
I'm used to reconstructing faces, but in this case. Also,

694
00:41:51.320 --> 00:41:54.119
I'm looking forward to giving her some human dignity back.

695
00:41:54.679 --> 00:41:59.679
She deserved something better end quote. They all did, and

696
00:41:59.760 --> 00:42:05.400
that is Zosia and the various fields of vampires that

697
00:42:05.440 --> 00:42:07.880
you can find in poland Crazy.

698
00:42:08.639 --> 00:42:13.119
It's so fascinating, Like I just I just so wish

699
00:42:13.159 --> 00:42:17.280
that we could hurry up and advance our technology even

700
00:42:17.360 --> 00:42:21.599
more to learning more because like growing up as a

701
00:42:21.679 --> 00:42:26.800
kid in the eighties and nineties, you know, we had

702
00:42:26.800 --> 00:42:31.519
our fascination with this, and it's like in our favorite

703
00:42:31.559 --> 00:42:34.639
stories back then are like coming back now with DNA

704
00:42:35.000 --> 00:42:38.440
and it's so cool, Like you kind of don't want

705
00:42:38.440 --> 00:42:39.360
to know what you do.

706
00:42:41.039 --> 00:42:42.800
It's like do you want to keep the mystery alive

707
00:42:43.000 --> 00:42:46.480
or do you want to close the chapter for good?

708
00:42:46.679 --> 00:42:51.079
Yeah, like how do you want to preserve or revive

709
00:42:51.159 --> 00:42:52.000
their humanity?

710
00:42:53.320 --> 00:42:55.519
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couple of ways you can reach out to us. You

734
00:44:10.360 --> 00:44:13.960
can email us at Yell Crime podcast at gmail dot com,

735
00:44:13.960 --> 00:44:17.079
where you can send us story ideas, share any spooky

736
00:44:17.119 --> 00:44:19.880
stories you may have, fun gifts, or even just to

737
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say hello.

738
00:44:20.840 --> 00:44:23.199
You can also reach out to us via snail mail.

739
00:44:23.400 --> 00:44:27.840
Remember mail our mailing address is Yield Crime Podcast po

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Box three four one, Wyoming, Minnesota, five five zero nine two.

741
00:44:33.400 --> 00:44:35.760
Fun fact. We like to send out thank you cards

742
00:44:35.760 --> 00:44:38.320
with fun stickers you can't get at our shop, so

743
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it's worth the cost of a stamp.

744
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And this week's listener question comes from carry in and

745
00:44:45.400 --> 00:44:48.239
she would like to know a rockfall traps you in

746
00:44:48.280 --> 00:44:51.239
a cave system with a bear. What do you do?

747
00:44:51.960 --> 00:44:56.639
Become best friends with that bear and sleep hibernate with

748
00:44:56.719 --> 00:45:01.440
them and then go scavenger berries in the spring. I

749
00:45:01.599 --> 00:45:04.559
just live happily ever after with it, and or it

750
00:45:04.719 --> 00:45:06.760
just kills me and eats me and goes to sleep.

751
00:45:06.800 --> 00:45:10.920
It's fine, but I hope we become friends. That's very

752
00:45:11.000 --> 00:45:13.840
much like the White Lady trope.

753
00:45:14.559 --> 00:45:17.440
Yep, we become bad friends.

754
00:45:18.960 --> 00:45:24.280
Got got got that doalk exactly?

755
00:45:25.280 --> 00:45:27.840
I would do something similar. I'd be like, let's be

756
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best friends. We're gonna go on silly misadventures together after

757
00:45:32.119 --> 00:45:36.119
we get out of this cave, yep, and we'll go

758
00:45:36.320 --> 00:45:38.159
take down the patriarchy. It'll be great.

759
00:45:38.239 --> 00:45:41.400
Yeah, write it into the sunset and we'll you know,

760
00:45:41.519 --> 00:45:43.960
climb trees and ship would be great.

761
00:45:44.280 --> 00:45:48.039
Go play in the water together, scratch our backs, on bark.

762
00:45:48.880 --> 00:45:52.280
Yeah, hang out with salmone.

763
00:45:51.440 --> 00:45:53.400
Do some fishing. I'm gonna go Fiashan.

764
00:45:53.960 --> 00:45:54.760
Yeah you could.

765
00:45:54.800 --> 00:45:59.480
I mean the bear would obviously love trying smoked salmon

766
00:45:59.559 --> 00:46:02.360
for the first time. You can't do that without thumbs.

767
00:46:03.079 --> 00:46:07.960
Mm hmm. You cannot cook salmon without thumbs. No, very difficult.

768
00:46:08.679 --> 00:46:12.519
You're welcome Bear's friends. Yep.

769
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That's how you came because before you got locked in

770
00:46:15.119 --> 00:46:16.679
that cave, you had smoked salmon with you.

771
00:46:17.079 --> 00:46:19.119
There you go, yep, there go.

772
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All right, If you want to send us some questions,

773
00:46:23.039 --> 00:46:25.840
you can slide into our DMS or you can email

774
00:46:25.960 --> 00:46:29.599
us at your Crime podcast at gmail dot com. On

775
00:46:29.639 --> 00:46:31.719
that note, what is something good you'd like to share?

776
00:46:32.320 --> 00:46:35.480
I'm trying to think because it's just like nothing bad

777
00:46:35.519 --> 00:46:39.280
has really happened, right, But I've been like in a

778
00:46:39.360 --> 00:46:41.840
sick fog for a little bit. So one of the

779
00:46:41.840 --> 00:46:48.760
thing's really great at the moment. Oh, I don't know.

780
00:46:48.840 --> 00:46:53.360
I I started. I have a new hyper fixation snack

781
00:46:53.519 --> 00:46:54.440
that I've been making.

782
00:46:54.960 --> 00:46:57.440
What's that? It's uh So.

783
00:46:58.880 --> 00:47:03.360
They came out with a new cereal called Oreo Puffs. Okay,

784
00:47:03.480 --> 00:47:07.599
and it's like cocoa puffs but Oreo. And then they

785
00:47:07.639 --> 00:47:12.639
have the marsh little marshmallows as like the cream, and

786
00:47:12.960 --> 00:47:16.199
I've been making like a pseudo puppy chow with it.

787
00:47:16.519 --> 00:47:19.960
I was fancy last time in brown some butter, got

788
00:47:20.000 --> 00:47:24.719
some pistachio butter and peanut butter, and then I put

789
00:47:25.079 --> 00:47:28.719
collagen powder in it to like pretend that I'm getting

790
00:47:28.760 --> 00:47:30.840
some sort of nutrition around the snack.

791
00:47:31.519 --> 00:47:34.360
Sure, sure, right, and then.

792
00:47:34.199 --> 00:47:37.239
I melt like a little bit of chocolate chips, not

793
00:47:37.320 --> 00:47:40.320
a lot, because I like to have the peanut butter

794
00:47:40.840 --> 00:47:44.440
the nutty taste forward, and then I coat it and

795
00:47:44.480 --> 00:47:50.320
then eat it whenever I'm low, so i've been. I

796
00:47:50.360 --> 00:47:52.400
made some this morning and I was like, heck, yeah,

797
00:47:52.480 --> 00:47:57.400
I made a fresh batch. Nice a reo puff puppy

798
00:47:57.599 --> 00:48:02.800
chow kind of question mark, but yeah, I was baking

799
00:48:02.840 --> 00:48:05.800
a little bit again, which was nice. It always makes

800
00:48:05.800 --> 00:48:09.079
me happy being sick. I haven't done a lot of

801
00:48:09.079 --> 00:48:11.960
it because I don't want to be typhoid.

802
00:48:11.559 --> 00:48:13.719
Mary, So yeah, that's fair.

803
00:48:14.400 --> 00:48:17.119
Yeah, So I kind of put that on pause for

804
00:48:17.199 --> 00:48:19.679
a couple of weeks. So it's nice to start making

805
00:48:19.760 --> 00:48:21.880
my own stuff again, how about you.

806
00:48:23.000 --> 00:48:28.320
I am next week grateful that I will be going

807
00:48:28.360 --> 00:48:32.679
on vacation. Next week. Right now, it is like stressing

808
00:48:32.760 --> 00:48:36.119
me the fuck out because I have so many things

809
00:48:36.119 --> 00:48:39.280
that need to get done before I leave. Like literally

810
00:48:40.119 --> 00:48:43.920
literally the day before I fly out, I have to

811
00:48:44.039 --> 00:48:47.840
fill my vehicle with girls Scout cookies. Have my co

812
00:48:48.000 --> 00:48:50.239
leader come and take some of them from me, so

813
00:48:50.360 --> 00:48:54.880
there is inventory outside of my house because cookie sales

814
00:48:54.920 --> 00:48:58.039
start the day that we fly out, and I will

815
00:48:58.159 --> 00:49:04.679
not be there to be dispersing cookies to our troop members, so.

816
00:49:05.519 --> 00:49:08.559
Which is is a crime in Minnesota.

817
00:49:09.719 --> 00:49:12.480
We're not doing on hand inventory anyway. We're focusing more

818
00:49:12.480 --> 00:49:15.840
on doing booth sales. But still if people sell cookies

819
00:49:15.880 --> 00:49:17.519
and they want to be able to give them the

820
00:49:17.519 --> 00:49:21.039
people that they sold to, I will not be there. Thankfully,

821
00:49:21.119 --> 00:49:23.480
my co leader is going to be taking inventory from me,

822
00:49:23.880 --> 00:49:26.679
not all of it, but she'll be taking inventory. And

823
00:49:26.800 --> 00:49:29.119
I'm like, you need to come to me because there's

824
00:49:29.119 --> 00:49:31.960
gonna be too many moving pieces in play for me

825
00:49:32.039 --> 00:49:36.159
to be able to drive to you and back, and

826
00:49:36.239 --> 00:49:38.239
all the other things that need to be taken care.

827
00:49:38.039 --> 00:49:42.559
Of, so like making sure all your work stuff is

828
00:49:42.599 --> 00:49:46.480
good before you go, making sure your kids school stuff

829
00:49:46.519 --> 00:49:47.719
is good before you go.

830
00:49:48.480 --> 00:49:49.679
Packing for everybody.

831
00:49:50.679 --> 00:49:55.400
Animal one of our friends, their daughters are going to

832
00:49:55.480 --> 00:49:58.400
be checking in on the critters while we're gone.

833
00:49:59.039 --> 00:49:59.920
Definitely appreciate it.

834
00:50:01.239 --> 00:50:07.119
Yeah, Lindsay had asked me to do it, but and

835
00:50:07.199 --> 00:50:12.159
I said yes initially, but one of her baby critters

836
00:50:12.199 --> 00:50:14.320
needs worms, and I can't.

837
00:50:14.400 --> 00:50:16.239
I can't do it. I just can't do it.

838
00:50:16.760 --> 00:50:19.519
I would be I just have a feeling I would

839
00:50:19.559 --> 00:50:23.280
like throw them at her, and that's just not fair, like,

840
00:50:23.760 --> 00:50:27.400
you know, like I just be like, and she has

841
00:50:27.440 --> 00:50:29.360
a bunch of like worms.

842
00:50:30.559 --> 00:50:33.199
She deserves better than my anxiety.

843
00:50:34.000 --> 00:50:40.079
Yeah. Yeah, and I recognized that probably that would probably

844
00:50:40.079 --> 00:50:43.280
be the case if she hadn't woken up from rumation.

845
00:50:43.639 --> 00:50:45.800
It would have been fine because all you would have

846
00:50:45.800 --> 00:50:47.000
had to do is just put.

847
00:50:46.840 --> 00:50:50.920
Water in her dish for the the ecosystem.

848
00:50:51.159 --> 00:50:55.119
Yeah, but now that she is awake, it's like she

849
00:50:55.159 --> 00:50:57.599
needs food. She could probably last a week without eating.

850
00:50:57.840 --> 00:51:01.559
But that's not fair how she's been brummating. She doesn't

851
00:51:01.559 --> 00:51:03.760
have a whole lot of excess weight to lose, so

852
00:51:03.840 --> 00:51:07.559
she needs to eat. So it'll all be fine. I'm

853
00:51:07.599 --> 00:51:10.079
not too concerned about it. There are a lot of

854
00:51:10.639 --> 00:51:13.800
things I've already taken care of, like holding mail and

855
00:51:13.840 --> 00:51:18.079
all that fun stuff. So it's just there's a lot

856
00:51:18.079 --> 00:51:20.360
of other things that need to be taken care of

857
00:51:20.440 --> 00:51:24.039
that I'm just like, but as soon as we're on

858
00:51:24.079 --> 00:51:26.159
the plane, it won't matter anymore and it'll be fine.

859
00:51:26.199 --> 00:51:28.719
No, it'll be fine. It is what it is.

860
00:51:28.760 --> 00:51:31.199
You did what you could and now, oh no, all

861
00:51:31.239 --> 00:51:35.119
you have to do is exist in a nicer place.

862
00:51:36.920 --> 00:51:40.679
I hope if you plan on doing nothing, it is

863
00:51:40.719 --> 00:51:43.039
the most empty headed, lovely thing ever.

864
00:51:43.519 --> 00:51:45.599
I hope. If you're wanting lots.

865
00:51:45.360 --> 00:51:47.719
Of adventure, it's the most adventurous time ever.

866
00:51:48.360 --> 00:51:52.800
I hope it's whatever you're needing, because you definitely deserve

867
00:51:53.320 --> 00:51:54.360
a week long vacation.

868
00:51:55.280 --> 00:51:57.079
Thanks. Should we shut her down?

869
00:51:57.840 --> 00:51:59.920
Let's shut her down, all right?

870
00:52:00.960 --> 00:52:03.400
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Lindsay

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And I'm Madison and we'll see you next time with

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another tale as oh, this crime