The Mystery Of The Vampire Skeletons Buried In Ireland | Vampire Skeletons | Timeline 

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Just image. Some poor unlucky guy fell hitting his head and went unconscious. Quack doctors said he died and buried him. He woke up later and clawed his way out of his grave. He was happy to be alive. However, villagers thought he was a revenant and killed him for real. That type of thing could cause all these rumors of undead running around.

The intro to this made me think they were going to show us exhumed skeletons with vampire teeth, lol.

There might be another, more horrible explanation for this. In the 17th century (I believe) the magistrate of Edinburgh decided to dig up and open all graves, out of a suspicion that people had been buried alive. To their horror, they discovered that a large portion of the dead - I believe one third - were alive after the burial. They were found in distorted positions, or lying on their faces, and some coffins had scratch marks where the people had desperatedly tried to get out. After that, it was decreed that there must be a death watch of several days, during which the person must be observed, and only when there was no sign of life, he or she could be buried. That's the explanation behind the death watch.

The sheer glee of that one professor describing bodies exploding underground and how some bodies got nailed...dude made me giggle.

So as a person with awful eyesight. I couldn’t imagine what people thought they saw without glasses!! Could you imagine the oddities you would swear you saw. I have walked around a whole day without my glasses. It was the most distorted strange day of my life! Imagine if most things people thought was just lack of actually seeing

Professor Horton is cracking me up! I’ve never seen anyone so excited about corpse bones. 😂❤️

I'm not sure if time travelers are real or not but when I was like 4-5 years old, my father had an accident and went to this old Hmong medicine man for help. His wife had killed some chicken for us to eat. Within the week that we were there, my father and the medicine man were very enjoy of eachother's company and he told my father about the future about our people. All of the Vietnam war incident had came as said, but the most amazing thing that I remember was that he said in the future people would talk to and see eachother with a handheld mirror-like device like they are so closed together like us now together, but in reality, they are so far away from eachother, llike the other side of the world. Just like our cellular phones today. Still amazing to me because during that time the medicine man was holding me in his arms and claimed and told my father that they might not see it because of their age but for sure I'll see it.

Not sure how I ended up here, but this has been a delightful 45 minutes for a Monday evening.

I wonder.... Could people who contracted Rabies be part of the reason for vampire mythology? If you think about the symptoms of Rabies and the aversion to water and the "crazy" behavior with the urge to attack and bite other people/animals.... It could very well seem like vampirism. . . 🤔🤔🤔

My roots are from Eastern Europe, and many of these customs I have seen firsthand. In my village, before the funeral, there is some cloth pinned on the right shoulder with very long needle, then there is one nail going trough the hearth, and one nail trough the left heel. In some other places, deceased is nailed with a wooden stick trough his hearth and rooster is slaughteret on the place and coffin is sprinkled with rooster's blood. But there are funny stories about vampires. In one case, young man died and left behind woman and two children. After 40 days, her dead husband started to come in her room every night She complained to her father in law. He said he will go with her that night and wait for that vampire. With a bat. When vampire entered the room old man landed hit in direction of his face, vampire quickly run away. Next day their neighbor had broken nose.

The salem witch trials documentary i watched when i was 16 was sooo awesome. It told how a farmer harvesting his wheat didn’t notice or care or understand the patch infected with ergot fungus. Ergot was used to derive lsd. The baker bought some wheat and baked some bread. Some unfortunate few who ate the bread started hallucinating. It was blamed on witchcraft. Even other people who was having the same symptoms were judged to be witches via a witch cake. Woman who’s tripping is forced to urinate on loaf of bread, so bread infected with ergot, biproducts in bloodstream from ergot, and she was free to go if dog showed no symptoms. Most of the poor dogs ran in circles and chew on rocks until they were toothless. Sad deal all around.

The male archeologist, Mark gets very animated and almost a sadistic thrill describing the details of the brutality. Chilling.

While the comparisons to Romanian beliefs were interesting, as an Irish person I would not have used the word "identical" to compare them as they did in this program. Druidism is more complicated than fear of ghosts/zombies. I am grateful that in the end they put these bones back to rest in peace.

This was interesting enough to watch on its own merit without having a thumbnail of a skull with fangs if you really didn't find a skull with fangs don't show it on a thumbnail

After I read the title of vampire skeletons, I immediately thought, "How can this be, vampires are supposedly immortal?".

I love what the farmer, Mr Burke said! His thoughts on how his land and its past belong together express my own feelings so well! The nature of our land makes it beautyful, its history enhances this beauty and makes it priceless to us. I too believe that now, as they have been extensively examined, the bones of the dead should be returned to where they were intended to be laid to rest. God bless you Sir.

13:52 Gotta admire somebody who brings such a gleeful attitude to their work.

I love Professor Horton's enthusiasm! His excitement is contagious!!! He reminds me of a history teacher I had years ago ❤️

Geez ... that professor is plain gleeful about the gruesome finds!! I get loving your work ...

I am surprised, from a medical and archeological stand point, that when handling ancient bones, gloves would not be used. Maybe those images were recreated later.

I’m thinking the large stone forced into the mouth was a punishment while the person was still alive…possibly for silencing someone speaking out against the church.

Timeline keeps getting better and better. This was a great episode!

The most sensible word to ever said was with the landowners son. Bring back the remains and give them peace once and for all.

i wish vampires were real to this day

Buddhism IS NOT a monotheistic religion. It's not even a theist religion, it's a philosophy. Where do you find these so-called experts?!

I am amazed to see the teeth are so straight and white on these skeletons. Interesting history.

Jeez, imagine being a kid running around in the woods and flipping over a rock slab to see skulls looking up at you.

The dead man didn't growl.. that was gas escaping the poor man. So sad to desecrate your own loved one bc you believe they are the living dead.

Today we are terrorized by criminal politicians. I wonder if they will be feared as much when they die and have a similar ceremony that people hundreds of years from now will excavate and ponder what was done.

What's disturbing is that scientists know how gruesome the person died and some of them are smiling from excitement.

Medieval age is really scary.

This is very interesting. I think folklore tells us a lot about the people who created it, their beliefs, and how they viewed the World and their place in it. Being surrounded by death as they were in those days and not understanding the science behind the decomposition of the bodies it's easy to see how some beliefs were held on to for centuries.

Many of us have seen images of strange cryptids...tiny skeletons, few inches high to full sized, with horns, with wings, sharp teeths in a vertical setting...fairies... ...and something could look like a vampire as well... I'm fascinated by these topics.

Medieval years was a brutal age. Getting executed by a false accusation happens very often. Even reading a book of some sort can get someone into trouble. So how about accusing someone as a Vampire because someone of authority say so?

what strickes me is the state of these teath around the stone... perfect!

As an Irish person raised in traditional Catholicism, I found this video to be all kinds of interesting. Excellent work!!🤓🖖

People were just learning about the body and death. Comma's would resemble death and that's one of the reasons of people were buried with bells outside their graves.

"We couldn't have been more wrong." A man with humble humility. Very interesting history, but I'm so thankful for not living in mid-evil times. You were either bewitched, accused of vampirism, or a changeling from a faery!

0:39: 🧛 Recent discoveries of violently deformed skeletons in Ireland shed light on our ancient fear of vampires and the undead. 6:45: 🧱 The Kilteasheen skeletons found in Ireland were buried violently with large rocks in their mouths, possibly to prevent them from returning from the dead. 12:41: 🧩 The Kilteasheen burials were intentional and deviant, with stones forcefully placed in the mouths to prevent souls from reentering the bodies. 17:02: 💀 In medieval times, the belief in revenants, or the undead, was widespread and terrifying. 22:51: 💀 The belief in vampires and undead has persisted throughout history, with reports of vampire sightings causing fear and fascination across Europe. 28:26: 🧛 The vampire myth originated in Eastern Europe and was popularized in literature, leading to real-life rituals and beliefs in Romania. 36:15: 💀 The fear of the undead has persisted for at least a thousand years, with evidence of deviant burials in Ireland dating back to the 8th-9th century. 42:01: 🧛‍♂ Deviant burials in medieval Ireland, such as stone in mouth skeletons, reveal a deep-rooted fear and belief in the supernatural. Recap by Tammy AI

"It's a very determined attempt to keep this person down..." I guess so..they haven't left their graves in centuries.

This is why I want to be cremated. So no one is digging me up hundreds of years later.

Sad and scary. I feel sorry for the unfortunates suffering the persecution & being targeted as vampires and witches

anybody who has ever had to deal with a vampire infestation understands why the measures that were taken happened.

Ireland, England and Scotland are extremely spiritual places. They are surrounded by water and water is a natural conductor for spiritual energy. There are soooo many mysteries regarding these areas. My dream is to visit these areas one day where my ancestors came from ♥️.

I love how in the face of this subject the comments section is full of people talking about rabies, comas, disliking “superstition”, the foolishness of our ancestors, apotropaic rituals for keeping the dead in their graves actually being punishments for “speaking out against The Church," etc. The funny thing is that all such explanations are hypothetical at best and simple historical fiction at worst. It’s almost as if the idea of vampires still gets under our skins and we are trying to explain disturbing historical phenomena away with half understood hypotheses drawn from the prevailing intellectual attitudes of our time. You know, like our ancestors did. . .

Love this channel. Love the work.BUT Music ALWAYS TOO LOUD over talk though!! No music, subtle, quieter unnecessary music please.

Here in philippines specially moro people had belief that if a person die we need to guard the graveyard for 7 days its because of if there is no guard the person had alreay died he will comeback to life and he's going home because of his hunger he will go too that kitchen and checking some foods and if there no food he probobly eats you and it was so freaking creepy

I bet the stones were put in the mouths to stop them telling god what happened. Someone was being bad and didn’t want the truth reaching heaven.

lead cups were a lot of the problem, when filled with alcohol it creates a chemical reaction and sends someone into a death like state. That's why the term Graveyard shift came about as they tied a string to their feet and linked to a bell on the surface and someone would be there in case they were buried alive. There are more situations like this I'm sure.

The professor can't contain himself. He is so animated and his excitement is palpable.

The most interesting thing about the fangs aspect of "vampire" skeletons is that many of those who had "fangs" could have simply been survivors of scarlet fever, like myself, and have pointed teeth as a result

The only thing I'd ever seen and heard of in terms of vampires that was truly interesting is when a Navy Seal was placed on a mission with others like him and they raided a facility underground where one of his fellow spec ops people was bitten by a woman that he described as looking like a vampire. Teeth and all. It greatly disturbed him and his fellow soldiers. There were others there that appeared half human and half animal. The Seal that spoke of this said that there is nothing that has ever scared him until that day, that mission. He was told to go and kill everything in sight as were the others. If what he says was even half true, then this world is more fkd up than I thought. Update: I'll try to find the vid saved in an old phone of mine. I just haven't gotten around to it. Many are asking me for it. Also one thing to add to the story is seen is that the Seal mentioned he and the others killed the "lab" workers as well that were present.

They could have done without the dramatic music it was actually louder a lot of times than the people talking.

19:00 "...they're seen walking around, sometimes in the form of...animals..." What made the people who saw them, see some animals and think "omg that's John and Jane that died the other day!"? Also I wonder if the funerary rites involved imbibing alcoholic beverages? That, combined with grief, might cause hallucinations.

Ive always wondered if the people who dug up old bones ever get haunted or cursed.

That man was talking about bodies exploding with such delight, it was a little worrying 😕

Irish people were afraid to leave their homes after dark it was reported by an English lady who travelled the west of Ireland..The unknown, gobblins,fairies,superstion and wolves had the better of their minds afterdark, as was typical of the world until the very recent times.

Imagine if some of these fears comes from a psychic predicting that they would indeed come back out of the ground, but it was a prediction of archeologists and it became a self fulfilling prophecy..

If you try & kill someone, if it doesn’t work just apologise. You don’t need a vampire mad at you 😂

Interesting story tells us people's fear can lead them to do very brutal things.

That burial site at the end of the video does look both tranquil and peaceful.

In 1829, Dr. Johann Gottfried Taberger designed a system using a bell which would alert the cemetery nightwatchman. The corpse would have strings attached to its hands, head and feet. A housing around the bell above ground prevented it ringing accidentally.

Imagine your walking home at night and someone with long fangs just chases after you

Your videos make my 30 min on the elliptical in the morning so much easier to do. Thanks for the entertaining education!

Perhaps those that came back, were buried when they were passed out drunk, knocked unconscious, or in a coma, taken for being dead, but then revived, only to probably be actually killed horrendously, to make sure they couldn't come back.

Clare is famous in Ireland as a mystical county, I kid you nought. It was home to Biddy Early, who some claimed was a witch. She did inspire fear in some and few would disdain her and her blue bottle. The ruined cottage that was her home is still visible today and one must needs never disdain this woman even though she has repaired to the Hereafter

I bet a lot of people back in the day seen people come back to life because the medicine and health care we had was horrible so sometimes they didnt know why how the person became unconscious or if they where dead or just in a state that seems like death

This is an amazing documentary..Im just a bit bothered why they were not wearing gloves while holding the bones😅

I can't believe a channel with so much credibility actually made this video

14:15 I bet this professor is an amazing teacher! His passion for this is just immeasurable!!

I'm only reminded that people will never change. Civilization doesn't equal culture and culture is a fine fabric

12:24 Why is the team handling the bones without gloves?!

This is a fantastic documentary. Incredibly well done and interesting. I would LOVE to see more!

I love hearing and reading almost everything about Ireland. 💕Just not the constant wars that seem to have never stopped. The wars are just too wrong.😒

The awful and unjust way they died such sudden and untimely deaths is absolutely horrific! It is not surprising that some people would worry that they had reason to return and seek revenge for what happened to them!! Some believe if the death was sudden and violent they might return and not even know that they had died! I can’t imagine how awful it is to have lost a loved one to such sudden and horrific violence and then have the terror that they would return as a nightmarish monster seeking revenge on the living! It’s heartbreaking to think about someone mourning their loved one, and also being terrified of them at the same time!

CRAZY FACT. the man who played SHULTZ on hogans hero,s made arrangements to be taken to where he grew up because of so many fond memories of the place, and he was, but the cemetery owners didn't tell people that they were only renting the plots and their families would have to pay again in roughly 40 years for his plot, he didn't have family to pay it, a RU-vid explorer found his headstone at the edge of the cemetery in a long trench a while back and asked them why they had done it. Mass headstones were piled in the long ditch and they told him that when nobody pays for it they toss the persons stone and sale the plot again and put the new one on top of the first sometimes they removed the body and burned it to dust also , it's insane, Google it. , it's true

Perhaps the ones with stones in their mouth were speaking against the king or something, and the guy wrapped around the stone was an escaped criminal.

Great documentary. Well done.

The idea I came up with while watching this was that perhaps they were trying to deny them their resurrection at the end of days. Part of this suggested that they were oriented differently from the average internment.

they can find 30 skeletons but can't find any of the babies buried in old mother and baby homes

Oddly enough it is true that these people rose from the dead even though they were buried in a deviant way. The archeologists have brought them back to life, but only because of the oddities of their burial.

Developers are still building over ancient, and even not so ancient, graveyards today. It is horrible IMO to desecrate the resting places of people that cannot protect their own graves. I love forensic science. I once wanted to be an archeologist, as did many a young person. Very interesting and informing documentary. Thank you for sharing it with us. I have experienced evil in person, so I do not discount any of the old stories. There is more going on in our world than we can imagine individually.

How could these archeologists just tell that these were vampires? So many do Not believe that vampires are real, or even could be. Why would they even suggest that might be an option?

There may not be actual vampires, but the vampire legend will certainly live forever.

On some level these archaeologists act like happy ghouls.

Us: vampires don't exist. Our ancestors: vampires don't exist... anymore. You're welcome

Before I watch this, I work in Ireland and I know a fellah who has massive canines. It could be an Irish gene. They really are quite extraordinary.

Thank you so much for uploading this video. It is helping me get through the pandemic!

Once again we are given a very intriguing piece. Thank you! The comment on Purgatory is slightly askew, however. The Catholic Church teaches that those in Purgatory are assured of Heaven. They could not return to do harm as this would make them unworthy of Heaven. They could only return to ask for prayer or perform some good. There is a museum of artifacts in Rome that touch upon this.

In philippines we called them "MARANHIG" a kind of high class immortal zombies

I'm always fascinated by how nice the teeth are in those skulls...

I believe if we are buried instead of cremated, then our bodies should not be encased in a concrete vault and casket that is air tight. I believe if buried, we should do so in such a way to allow the body to break down and return nutrients and minerals to the earth. Judt my opinion.

I just love history...that's all

I just want to know if the archaeologists were threatened in any way while they were digging up these graves? What was the response from the locals who lived nearby when they found out they were digging them up?

I live in Ireland and this had me horrified.

There are stories among American veterans of wounded troops who took on vampiric characteristics. If they were bleeding out slowly, they would try to drink blood when their volume got low enough. Once transfusions started they stopped trying to bite the nurses. Maybe that is what happened to those Irish and British folk. It sounds like they were warriors.

Wow... This was a good documentary! Thanks for sharing! 😊

I love watching these kind of stuff in 3 or 4 in the morning

She doesn't have to manually piece the skull back together. You 3D scan each fragment then let an AI run through all the iterations to see where each piece fits. The skull would be recreated in virtual space and if desired the researchers can use the data to do a physical restoration or just use a 3D printer to get a physical model.