Archeologists Discover Vampire Skeletons in Ireland Hundreds of
years ago when the fear of vampire was very real, a common
belief in many countries was that vampires not only fed on
blood, but that they also spread the plague. At the time
villagers took an assortment of precautions to keep vampires
from terrorizing them, everything from putting a brick in a
corpse’s mouth to hammering nails into various body parts to
keep them in their grave. The brick was placed to keep the
"vampire" from eating its grave shroud, eating others and from
spreading the plague. In 2006 the skeleton of a 16th-century
woman with a brick jammed between her jaws was discovered in
Italy, proof that the belief in vampires was very real during
those times. No such discovers have been made since then – until
now. Archeologists have unearthed two 8th-century skeletons with
rocks jammed into their mouths in Kilteasheen, Ireland. What
makes this discovery even more interesting than the one in Italy
is that this predates the emergence of va