Buffy ain't got nothin' on vampire slaying...

Romanian villagers decry police investigation into vampire slaying

wow, vampires are real!

interesting things I never knew:
1. they only attack family members
2. you can stop someone from becoming a vampire by putting a long sewing needle in their belly buttons before burial
3. you can tell a vampire by digging them up: although they were buried on their backs with hands folded, they will be found on their sides or on their bellies usually with their hands to their sides -- and often, they have blood on their mouths, and their bodies don't decompose.
4. the "stake through the heart" thing came about because you have to keep the heart from jumping around when you are trying to burn it after pulling it out of the (un)dead body.

and here, I thought all you needed to do was be a good looking, svelt, butt-kicking girl to slay vampires.

take that Buffy!