Medieval Vampires

New Scientist is reporting a medieval vampire skeleton found. Of course they're not claiming the woman was actually a vampire, just that gravediggers thought she was one.

Still an interesting read.

And according to this mathematician, vampires are a mathematical impossibility. Dr. Efthimiou calculated that if once a month, a vampire fed off a human, turning that human into a vampire, the world's population would've all been turned by now. True. But very few contemporary vampire stories propose that all who are bit are turned. Most create a vampire who feeds without turning people (symbiotic relationships) or a vampire who feeds and kills. Lots of dead humans, but only rarely is one turned into a vampire.

Just in case you were curious...