PAOLE, ARNOLD
In a case reported to the Imperial Council of War in Vienna in the 1730s, a Hungarian soldier named Arnold Paole is said to have returned from the grave. He had been killed when a cart fell on him but returned 30 days later and claimed four victims, who eventually died from loss of blood. Friends recalled Paole saying he had been attacked by a vampire himself during military service on the Turko-Serbian border but he thought himself cured having eaten earth from the vampire's grave and rubbed himself with its blood. When Paole's body was exhumed, it showed all the marks of an arch-vampire, with long hair, nails and beard and veins full of flowing blood. The body was staked with a shriek from Paole, and then burned, and the other four victims were treated similarly. Five years later, a second outbreak occurred and 17 people died. A second inquiry showed Paole had also attacked animals as well as humans. Parts of the flesh of these animals had been eaten and, in due course, had caused the new epidemic. All the new, infected vampires were exhumed, staked, decapitated, burned and the ashes tossed in the river. The killings, at last, ceased.
Source: The UnXplained edited by Damon Wilson

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