The discovery of the graves of suspected vampires in Bulgaria may turn into a tourism gold mine, according to local news reports.
During excavations of a monastery in the city of Sozopol, Bulgaria's National Museum of History says it unearthed two skeletons that showed the deceased person had been stabbed through the heart with an iron rod.
"This was (the) customary way (in) Bulgarian medieval tradition to deal with people which were presumed to be vampires," the museum's website says.
People at the time of the burial of the skeletons, about 700 years ago, thought that stabbing the corpses multiple times with an iron rod through the heart would prevent the dead from rising and attacking the living, museum director Bozhidar Dimitrov said, according to a report from the Sofia News Agency.
Dimitrov said more than 100 such "vampire" burials have been discovered in Bulgaria over the years, according to the Sofia News Agency.
But headlines of the latest find have piqued interest in the U.S., Europe and Asia, the report said, and tour operators are fielding inquiries about what it called "vampire vacations."
Already, people were lining up at the excavation site at the monastery of St. Nicolas the Wonderworker, the Sofia News Agency reported.
Big lines for vampires could pump even more blood into the country's expanding tourism industry. Bulgaria led the European Union last year in the increase in hotel occupancy by foreigners, with numbers up almost 20% over the previous year.
No stats on how many of those folks slept with the lights on, however.
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No different from a Teabag troll, but really – can't we escape politics in stuff like this....so I have to agree!
I'm waiting for the Newark zombie tour
If they were really vampires after being stabbed wouldnt the body just turn to ash?
Blade called, he said all vampires don't die this way.
I think that is what happens when they see the sun
Reminds me of The Lost Boys..
That when sun hits them.. If you watch the ultimate documentary "The Lost Boys", you will learn that some implode, some explode, and some just die quitely... I wonder what thier teeth looked like? :>
No, that's just Hollywood.
There's no reason to travel to Bulgaria for such nonsense, I saw the picture and that's good enough for me
My aren't we the adventurous one. Ever been more than 20 miles from your home?
That's what my 96 year old gram used to say when I'd show her pictures of Europe.
This is the ONLY thing that might draw people to that backwater of Europe.
If you look even closer on the hip bone it says Made in China.
Because some people actually realize there is a world outside of the US...now please go back to washing your double wide and beating your dog.
Lol. Nice.
I worked in Brazil for about nine months and I was told that I knew and was hanging out with vampires, sure , right. but when I started to make fun and teasing the person that was informing me of this, the fear that I seen in this persons face was worth a thousand words. Go figure.
Do the skeletons have fangs?
Aren't wooden stakes required to kill a vampire?
The skeletons were at a monastery. Does that mean monks killed them, or did they hire Van Helsing?
Don't vampires turn to dust or explode when stabbed through the heart? Do the skeletons prove that the victims weren't really vampires?
Article quote: "Big lines for vampires could pump even more blood into the country's expanding tourism industry"
I see what you did there!
What does "hores" mean???
Silly story, silly comments. Fits, i guess.The ancients believed in vampires, we civilized moderns believe in politics.
nah. I'll stay home and watch True Blood. Our modern day vamps are SO sexy!!!!
First these people are made to suffer a horrible undeserved death, then the descendants of the people who killed them dig them up and try to make money off them, rather than leaving them to their eternal slumber. If they really are vampires, shouldn't taking the iron rod out bring them back to life? Humans are so weird.
Everyone know that you need a wooden stick not iron and they turn into ash or explode ... I think they turn into ash with sunlight and explode if you stab them in the heart with a wooden stick
Looks more like a modern day rapper.. I can see him say, "Yo.. Whazup"..