VAMPIRES, Case study #004125
A Hungarian soldier was billeted on a farm near the Austro-Hungarian border at one point in the 18^th century. He was eating with the farmer and his family one evening when they were joined by an old man. The soldier noticed that the family were very frightened of the man, who simply touched the farmer on the shoulder and then left. The next morning, the farmer was dead. Apparently, the old man was the host's father and had been dead for ten years. The soldier told the story to other men in his regiment and the old man was soon labelled a vampire. Alarm soon became so widespread that the infantry commander investigated. Along with some other officers and a surgeon, he took the family's statements under oath and eventually opened the old man's grave. His body looked like that of a man who had died recently - not ten years earlier - and "his blood was like that of a living man". The commander ordered the vampire's head be cut off and the body was laid to rest again.
Source: The UnXplained edited by Damon Wilson

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