The students at Csiky Gergely high school in the western
Romanian city of Arad were about to take an exam Friday morning when they found
bats flying around the room. Others appeared to be sleeping with their wings
spread out on the floor.
School official Mirela Aldescu told Romanian daily Adevarul
that the creatures had probably flown in overnight through open windows. She
says that rather than disturb them they took the exam in another classroom.
Transylvania was home to Vlad the Impaler, the 15th-century
ruler who inspired Bram Stoker’s “Dracula,” which has spawned dozens of movies
and superstition about garlic, holy water — and vampire bats.