FIELD OF VAMPIRES

8.30pm, Sunday, SBS Viceland

In a field in Poland, archaeologists made a strange discovery.

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It was the body of a woman but with a sickle placed across her neck and a padlock placed over her big toe.

Research later suggested the padlock was placed there first and the sickle came later after her grave was dug up again.

The reason: they thought she was a vampire - more of the undead variety than the traditional bloodsucker of literature and movies.

When the villagers had dug her up, they found the padlock was unlocked. Believ

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