(Getty Images) -- Photos show a skeleton with an iron piece before being exposed at the National History museum in Sofia.
The ancient skeleton of a man, pinned down in his grave in order not to turn into a vampire, piqued interest in Bulgaria this week, where vampire tales and rites still keep their bite even nowadays.
The 700-year-old skeleton unearthed in the necropol of a church in the Black Sea town of Sozopol earlier in June -- was stabbed in the chest with an iron rod and had his teeth pulled before being put to rest.
