DNA detectives have finally discovered the identity of a long-dead vampire. The early 19th Century man was found buried with his arms in an 'X' shape across his chest - a burial practice to prevent blood-suckers rising from the grave to feed upon the living.
The remains were discovered in 1990 in Griswold, Connecticut and were determined to be those of a middle-aged man named John Barber. The man suffered from tuberculosis which causes sweating, weight loss, swollen neck and coughing up blood.
These unexplained signs of the time may have led paranoid locals to suspect vampirism. Cutting-edge laboratory and bioinformatics techniques have been used to reveal what he looked like and confirm who he was.
