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The stake went in. The body groaned. The blood was fresh.
In 1727 in a small Serbian village, a soldier named Arnold Paole came home from war claiming an undead creature had bitten him. When he died in an accident, the village began to unravel — bodies drained of blood, witnesses who swore they saw him at their bedsides. When his grave was opened 40 days later, military officials found his corpse intact: long nails, grown hair, blood on his mouth. A real official report. Not folklore. Not fiction.
What Johannes Flückinger documented in his 1732 military report — the Visum et Repertum — would ignite a panic across an entire continent, and it has never been fully explained.
This week on Beauty and the Beasts, we go deep into the Balkans — Serbia and Bosnia — to explore the true origins of the vampire myth and the terrifying folklore of the Vukodlak, the wolf-haired revenant of Slavic horror.
Watch to find out what the Visum et Repertum actually said — and why the father never opened that door.
Podcast: Beauty and the Beasts