While visiting Berlin, Prince Charles Alexander received a report from his military regiments detailing the inquisition of a strange vampiric plague in a rural Serbian village.  The report narrated the testimony of the locals and further described the exhumations and autopsies performed on 13 bodies of which 10 were found incorruptible with baffling signs. As the locals requested the imperial authorities to allow the execution of the dead to cease the maleficent plague, a controversy was born over the strange phenomena discovered. Upon the prince’s reception of this news, the report was immediately communicated to King Frederick William I of Prussia, who ordered the Royal Prussian Society of Sciences to delegate on the matter. At the head of the controversy, Otto vom Graben zum Stein oversaw the investigation of this matter as the king’s chamberlain, occultist, and decreed Vice-President of the Royal Society. On March 7, 1732, the Royal Society delegated over this case to determine whether the phenomena reported could be explainable through the principles of nature in medicine and science. An opinion was drafted on the 8th, and was issued to the king through the Vice President, the doctors, and members of the society on March 11, 1732.

This is a facsimile copy of this report, reproduced from printings between 1732 and 1734.