1.   Neurologist Juan Gomez-Alonso has formulated an unusual medical hypothesis, an explanation for the origin of vampire legends.

2.   Once undertakers began to handle burials, vampire legends began to die out.

3.   Such questions infuriate Romanian historians, who are indignant at being stuck with a national vampire legend.

4.   Among the sillier things about the vampire legend to Brooks is the premise that Dracula needs blood to live.

5.   Brits, Americans and Irish living in Romania, dressed as ghosts and vampires, traveled to the region where the vampire legend was born to celebrate Halloween.