Case: GG-2026-162
Status: Historic
Documentation rating: A
Location: West Morava, Serbia
The Medveđa Vampire Panic was a documented outbreak of vampire belief in Habsburg-controlled Serbia that culminated in an official military-medical investigation in 1732. Villagers connected a series of deaths with Arnold Paole, also recorded as Arnont Paule or Arnaut Pavle, a deceased hajduk who was said to have previously encountered a vampire and later returned from the grave to attack local residents. Several years after Paole's reported exhumation and destruction, another cluster of deaths revived fears that vampirism had spread through the community. Austrian military surgeons subsequent…
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