Plagues and moving corpses During the 18th century, the German military collected datas of an enourmous spread of TB in the east of Europe. This development caused a vampire hunt that searches its equal in history. TB is a highly infective disease of the lung spread by contact with those who suffer from it and even by contact to corpses died of this disease decades ago. Some of the symptoms let the infected persons hallucinate about ghosts attacking them and choking them to death while shaken by high fever. The fact that eastern Europeans commonly have a strong belief in mythological vampires and felt the need to exhume the TB victims after death again when the infection started to kill other members of the same family led to another phenomenon that added to the hystery infecting half of Europe. In this century, nearly nothing was known about the decomposing process of corpses. Corpses were burried often less than two feet below the surface of earth. When the process stated, the corpses started to swell because of gases developing in the interior, the skin peeled off and showed a reddish layer below, blood colored water soundfully exited from the corpses mouth and nose. The corpse sometimes even moved a bit. This all in addition to the fact that most of the family members of the first victim and also people who have had physical contact to the corpse died led to the belief that this corpse was a vampire, feeding on the lifes of the others for an indeed very long time. Essays were written by the meds of the German military who were sent to survey the phenomenon, mass exhuminations followed during the course of which the dead body was staked to the ground, decaptivated and humiliated in several other ways. The knowledge of this plague nowadays led to the conclusion that the mystery about vampirism has been revealed. How could they know...