Gilles Garnier: how Dole tried a wolf-man
Attacks on children prompted a werewolf hunt and then prosecution of a hermit living near the forest.
Insufficient evidence#0231
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Observations
Documented events, historical claims and public reports. Event dates and review status are listed separately; unidentified does not mean extraterrestrial.
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Mykonos: the vroucolacas whose heart was burned
A botanist witnessed an exhumation and disputed villagers’ attribution of night-time disorder to a murdered peasant.
Insufficient evidence#0229
Jure Grando: knocking at Kringa’s doors
A dead neighbour supposedly wandered for sixteen years; villagers ended the terror by opening his grave and cutting off the corpse’s h…
Insufficient evidence#0227
Peter Stumpp: the execution of a man printed as a werewolf
A pamphlet linked murder accusations with a diabolical belt and presented the execution as a public warning.
Insufficient evidence#0211
Arnaut Paole: an old grave behind a new investigation
Military specialists opened graves after a series of deaths, while villagers linked the crisis to a neighbour burned years earlier.
Insufficient evidence#0209
Petar Blagojevic: nine deaths and a demand to open a grave
Villagers connected a rapid series of deaths to a buried neighbour and insisted on exhumation.
Insufficient evidence#0207
Old Thiess: the werewolf who said he protected the harvest
Court records from 1691–1692 preserve the account of a man who called himself a werewolf. He described a struggle for crops rather tha…
Insufficient evidence#0121
Drawsko: what sickle burials reveal about fear of the dead
Unusual burials with sickles and stones became known as vampire graves. Archaeology establishes the treatment, while its precise meani…
Under review#0119
Mercy Brown: a family tragedy turned into a vampire story
In March 1892 Exeter residents opened family graves in an attempt to stop consumption. What the ritual tells us, and why it does not e…
An explanation exists#0117