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February 12, 2005
not quite Vlad
It was just before midnight as Gheorghe Marinescu and five of his relatives crept into the graveyard in the small Romanian village of Marotinul de Sus. They knew which plot they were looking for – a simple earth grave with a wooden cross bearing the name Petre Toma – and quickly, but quietly, set about digging.
When they had dragged the body out, they waited. Then, at the stroke of 12, Marinescu began the ritual that they had been planning for weeks, one that had passed from generation to generation in their family. They drove a pitchfork through Petre Toma’s chest, opened it, drew out his heart and then put stakes through the rest of his body. They sprinkled garlic over the mutilated corpse and then, carefully, laid it back in its grave. […]
The scene last July would fit readily into any number of films about vampires and the Dracula legend but Gheorghe Marinescu is real.
(via Orrin Judd)
Posted by Anthony Perez-Miller at February 12, 2005 01:13 AM