Medieval Zombies! Archaeologists Find Skeletons With Stones In Mouths and Bashed Skulls

[A B.A. Survivor]

[QUOTE=lil_n00blett;32377633]No, you can't. Does Facepunch ever read any of the news posts besides their headlines?[/QUOTE]
Wait, so you mean all those letters underneath the title thingy actually mean something?

[RaptorBlackz]

Didn't this happen to some old lady because the locals thought she was a witch/vampire.

[LethalBunny]

Maybe the plague was all a cover up for a massive zombie invasion

[Chrille]

[QUOTE=LethalBunny;32388144]Maybe the plague was all a cover up for a massive zombie invasion[/QUOTE]

Technically it's the closest we have come.

[Zoran]

Mmm.. This gives me an idea, there should be a Medieval zombie game..

[shaotek]

Didn't they put stones/bricks in the mouths of suspect vampire corpses that turned out to be bloated plague bodies leaking fluid from the mouth.

[WishesForFishes]

Grab your shotguns men!

[EmperorScorpious]

[QUOTE=Hiccuper;32380373]Is it not historians who do that? Archaeology is more concerned with the recovery of artifacts.[/QUOTE]

Historians are to archaeologists as astronomers are to astronauts.

That explain it better?

[editline]20th September 2011[/editline]

[QUOTE=Katatonic717;32389593]Grab your shotguns men![/QUOTE]

More like crossbows and claymores :v:

[Chickens!]

[quote]a large research excavation near Loch Key in Ireland[/quote]

Ireland, leading the field in anti-zombie technology since 700.A.D

You won't be making drunk jokes when a zombie eats your brains!

[CodeMonkey3]

[QUOTE=Hiccuper;32380373]Is it not historians who do that? Archaeology is more concerned with the recovery of artifacts.[/QUOTE]

Those rocks belong in a museum!

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[AzureAngelic]

[QUOTE=Bat-shit;32381327]Winner ratings?

This is horrible. Some people got rocks stuffed to their mouths and their skulls bashed in. And I'm pretty sure they weren't zombies. What the hell was done to them?[/QUOTE]

Firstly, I'm pretty sure the rocks were put in the mouths after they already died.

Second, it's just superstition. I mean, even in modern days people do a lot of weird things over superstition. It really isn't too hard to imagine medieval people thinking "oh, this man is dead, let's pop a rock in his mouth really quick so evil spirits can't get him".

I dunno about the skull bashing though. Maybe they just sucked at lowering corpses into the ground?