Where did the rumors of vampires really come from? 🧛‍♂️ In medieval Europe, unexplained disease and strange corpses convinced people the dead were rising to feed on the living. Rabies and tuberculosis made victims avoid sunlight, act violently, and cough up blood. When villagers dug up graves, they found bodies with blood at the mouth and long nails—signs of normal decay they mistook for monsters. Entire towns held vampire hunts, driving stakes through corpses or burning bodies. Bram Stoker’s D