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Zosia, The Vampire of Pien
This is the tale of Zosia, the Vampire of Pien. It’s a story of fear, superstition, and the dark secrets within the earth.
In a small village in the heart of Poland, a young woman named Zosia was said to have been cursed. The villagers whispered of her supposed vampirism, of how she preyed upon the living, sucking life from their veins with her cold, dead heart. But was she indeed a monster, or was she just a victim of circumstance?
Four hundred years ago, the villagers took matters into their own hands. They wrapped Zosia’s body in chains, securing a shackle around her foot and an iron sickle across her neck. They buried her deep, hoping to keep her from rising from the grave and terrorizing the village once more.
But the chains couldn’t hold her. Some say they still hear Zosia’s chains rattling in the dead of night, a haunting reminder that she’s still out there, waiting to strike.
The villagers thought they’d silenced her but only set her free. Her spirit, trapped in her corpse, began to stir. And when the scientists from Nicolaus Copernicus University came to uncover her remains in 2022, they unleashed a horror beyond their wildest imagination.
With modern forensic techniques, they brought Zosia’s face back to life, revealing the features of a young woman, barely 20 years old, with a face…
