Monday, February 07, 2005

Family Jailed for Vampire Slaying?

Last week, six men were jailed for ripping out the heart of a corpse they believed was 'undead'. As Monica Petrescu in Bucharest writes, to many Romanians, vampires are not legend but terrifying reality
It was just before midnight as Gheorghe Marinescu and five of his relatives crept into the graveyard in the small Romanian village of Marotinul de Sus. They knew which plot they were looking for – a simple earth grave with a wooden cross bearing the name Petre Toma – and quickly, but quietly, set about digging.

continue reading here:

http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/02/06/wvamp06.xml

I want to visit this region sooo bad. Think I can convince the wife to make a trek to Bucharest? I'm sure my brother and sister-in-law, Nick and Cassie, would be up for it. :)

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