How Anna Maria Von Stockhausen returned six times from the dead

This is the corpse of Anna Maria Von Stockhausen, bound to prevent her from rising from the dead.

She was accused of being a witch and a vampire during the Middle Ages, in the time of the Black Plague.

It is said that she returned from the dead six times. First, she was hanged—only to claw her way out of the grave. The townspeople captured her in a nearby village and quickly drowned her in a lake, tying her to a plank. Her lifeless body was retrieved multiple times from the water and reburied, only for the grave to be found empty two days later.

They say her decomposing body was seen moving around her old home, dripping with worms, dirt, and water. She was dragged out again, a stake driven through her heart, and buried once more.

A guard was posted at her grave, and it seemed she was finally gone. But when the guard didn’t return to the village for four days, a local priest went looking and found his rotting corpse near the post, his throat torn out and chewed.

Anna had vanished again.

She was finally tracked and captured near the edge of town. A furious crowd burned her at the stake, tying her to a scarecrow in a cornfield. But a sudden storm extinguished the flames, burning only her lower half.

The tale caught the attention of a vampire hunter and religious fanatic. He approached this tormented woman, witnessed the storm, and said, “God must have other plans for you.” Unlike the others, he bowed and asked: “Woman, why won’t you go to your death?” A shrill, raspy voice answered — she had cursed the villagers for accusing her.

Anna begged to be buried elsewhere, far from where the villagers kept laying her to rest. It was a simple request, but she warned that if they didn’t honor it, she would keep returning… and no man or force could stop her from spilling the blood of everyone in the village.

So, they did as she asked — and the rest is history.

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