Abnormally Normal
In Romania, fears of the strigoi, once-human monsters who need blood to survive, have circulated for hundreds of years.
In fact, in 2005, The Guardian covered a vampire-slaying ritual in a Romanian village, performed after deceased laborer Petra Toma's family decided he'd become a strigoi in 2003. Six men exhumed the body, staked it, sprinkled it with garlic, and opened Toma's ribcage with a pitchfork. "They took out his heart, burnt it and drank the ashes in a glass of water," a neighbor of Toma's told the outlet.