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Saturday 8th October 2011
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Two men’s skeletons, originally buried around 700AD, were uncovered that had big-ass rocks jammed in their mouths, a practice that was later reserved for vampires.  But, since vampire folklore wasn’t prevalent in the area until the 1500’s, archaeologists now believe it was a zombie scare.
One of the men was between 40 and 60 years old, and the  other was a young adult, probably between 20 and 30 years old. The two  men were laid side by side [although buried at different times] and each  had a baseball-sized rock shoved in his mouth.
 “In this case, the stones in the mouth might have acted as a barrier to  stop revenants from coming back from their graves,” Read told Discovery  News.