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fear of roaming revenants subject of documentary
A National Geographic documentary will air next year featuring “deviant burial” find, according to an Irish Examiner article, “Skeletons reveal our ancestors’ fear of the undead”. “The skeletons from Co Roscommon date to some time in the 700s, long before vampires emerged in European folklore, but at a time when communities believed revenants, or ghosts,…