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[@willmfrank]

Fun bit of trivia: This film is narrated by Eli Wallach; Vlad was the voivode of Wallachia - the land of the Wallachs. Quite a cool little connection.

[@linusp9316]

That made me laugh too. Definitely not a coincidence.

[@Missangie827]

I adore Eli Wallach-I bet he knew that

[@spearhafoc]

Apart from the fact that people from Wallachia are called Wallachians not Wallachs. It comes from the germanic word walhaz used to distinguish Celtic people. Similar to the old English word wealas (meaning foreigner, stranger) given to the Celts in Britain from which we derive Wales. Eli Wallach himself was not Wallachian he is of Polish-Jewish decent.

[@linusp9316]

@@spearhafoc Knowing that Wallach's parents were from Poland doesn't tell you much. Jewish people moved constantly over thousands of years, seeking refuge wherever they could find it. So who knows. Could be the Vlach/Βλάχος thing like you said, which is one theory, but it could be something else.

[@suzanachrys7379]

Blah Blah Blah😜😎

[@preamble2persona]

Both Vlad Tepes and the fictional Dracula were equally fascinating. How often do you come across a writer who was inspired by an aspect of Romanian history to create a dark horror story?

[@peter-df6wl]

ROMANIA ?!Romania was formed in 1859 lol

[@pikusmaximus6539]

@@peter-df6wl exactly....it was Hungarian

[@mikedevito6372]

@@pikusmaximus6539 No, it was Wallachia. Annexed by the Ottoman Empire for a time (that would be the Turks).

[@Bernie_777]

@@mikedevito6372 actually it was Țara Româneasca the name. Wallachia was the name given by the hugarians and the west.

[@Bernie_777]

@@mikedevito6372 It was never annexed by the Ottoman Empire!

[@conalcochranh3274]

As a young teenager I wrote a poem, inspired by Dracula. It was called, The Ballad of Young Sally Sinn: Here be the ballad of young Sally Sinn, pretty, athletic and perfectly slim. She had eyes of emerald with hair white as a cloud and her voice was sweet whether low, whether loud. But beneath that beauty hid an image so grim... the face of a monster called young Sally Sinn. Through the graveyard she'd creep clad only in night, leaping from shadows to give folk a fright, and with the teeth of a cat she'd even deal you a bite, our dear Sally Sinn, the daughter of night. From tomb to tomb their shadows she wore, she'd peek in windows and claw at the door, she'd spook all hounds with her glowing red eyes and chill the night with her ominous cries. She'd even feed from the babe in the warmth of its room, make pale the bride and drink from the groom. And once she was filled she'd return to her tomb, all the while dancing in the glow of the moon. On a bed of darkness she sleeps with a grin, a child of the night known as young Sally Sinn.

[@jackfahy2283]

conal cochranh3 that’s pretty good!

[@conalcochranh3274]

@@jackfahy2283 Thanks.

[@itwasagoodideaatthetime7980]

Pretty good very catchy.

[@barbarapalmer8224]

Conal cochranh3 your poem is brilliant... It has given me the creeps.. Well done. 👍

[@conalcochranh3274]

@@barbarapalmer8224 Thanks. I was 13 at the time and it was Halloween, so I decided to write something spooky.

[@jackmiller2404]

Oooooooh. I love Eli Wallach’s voice in this. Matches the mood perfectly.

[@i.p.956]

In Bulgaria we have vampires in our folklore, we called them "vampirin". They are believed to be people who were freshly buried after death but a cat jumped over their grave; or they are victims of suicide; or are people who were not christened before their death.

[@IaraGhost]

In Romania we call them strigoi, they are evil people who come after their loved ones tormenting them at night. There was this popular case in media where a man was believed to be a strigoi and they performed a ritual. The souls of the children thar died without a baptism are called moroi.

[@ionbesteliu8225]

Oh such bunk. As a Romanian I can guarantee there is no truth to the whole vampire folklore. In four centuries I have not seen a single one

[@Proto696]

We have similar belief in Manipur when dead people die if a cat jump over dead body they become undead it is called hi yang athouba

[@gerrispecker1033]

So; Every Bulgarian Jew comes back as a Vampire? I'm comin to Bulgaria.I'v always wanted to bite a pretty Slav's neck!!!!!

[@fyeelessarndra3392]

Vlad Tepes was only defending his homeland from invading armies and perhaps used gory methods of punishments to deter any other future invasions...and yet the world sees him as a villain...he held the responsibility of making sure that his people are safe, and as a ruler, he has to do it no matter the methods...that's a big responsibility...I'm not Romanian but seeing the world vilifying someone else's defender is really unfair...it's not like Vlad went out and started provoking others for fun...

[@itwasagoodideaatthetime7980]

If you ever visit Romania *DON'T* even think about making vampire or Dracula jokes. Vlad Dracula is Hero worshipped by the Romanian people. To the Romanian people Vlad is their George Washington. A man whose memory is sacrosanct & *BEYOND* reproach. He's considered to be a national Hero by them. They think of him as a man who defended his country. Against Tyrants who wished to enslave them. & they get *VERY* upset if you dare to compare him to Stoker's Dracula.

[@Moodboard39]

​@@itwasagoodideaatthetime7980Maybe they should believing and nonsense and superstition!! That's why people who stay in ignorances cuz nobody challenges them and their thinking

[@youthoughtaboutit6946]

I think he’s often thought of as villain for his treatment/punishment of his own people, even in comparison to those of the time. Making people eat their own children is a bit much, even for the average early modern/late Medieval leader. His methods were no doubt effective though.

[@filthycasual8187]

@@youthoughtaboutit6946 He didn't make people eat their own children. If I were you, I wouldn't give the German accounts of Vlad's cruelty any credence; they highly exaggerated his ruthlessness as a form of propaganda against him. In truth, he was no more ruthless or sadistic than any other medieval ruler at the time, and being the prince of a VERY small country caught between two warring factions, both of which were much larger than his, was bound to have him resort to more extreme versions of already-common punishments and deterrents (particularly against enemies of state) in order to make up for it.

[@timelesstimeless6892]

That was not true. His economical reforms were not in the interests of foreign traders so they start spreading lies about him. Now we know it was only propaganda.

[@lynderherberts2828]

It's so cool to hear Eli Wallach do the narration. Great actor and fine man.

[@conalcochranh3274]

Eli Wallach was NOT in Gremlins. What are you talking about? Have you even watched that movie? You're also wrong about the directer of Gremlins: it was Joe Dante, not John Landis.

[@lynderherberts2828]

@@conalcochranh3274 I never said that. You appear to have written to the wrong person.

[@conalcochranh3274]

@@lynderherberts2828 Sorry, my mistake as the comment was meant for someone else. Again, very sorry for that.

[@lunereaper9713]

I am utterly obsessed with vampires, any and all folklore, and I adore Bram Stoker's Dracula. But, I am also a major history buff and have done quite a lot of my own research on Vlad III. I admire Vlad, his true self. I admire how much he cared for and fought for his country and people. He might've seemed harsh in many of his actions, but I believe that his decisions were justified and well-thought out. He did what he thought was best for the safety of his people. If I ever get the chance to visit Romania, I'd love to leave some flowers at his grave and his castles to show my admiration.

[@JB-hl1qx]

Agreed. It's on my bucket list

[@aishaali9963]

He impalmed and killed upto 100000 people how can u admire a killer

[@michellepoulsenmogensen2103]

No he was evil and a cannibal and the otteman Empire wouldent have lastet anyway and vlad wasent the only one in history who vent to battle with them in Europe.

[@mancu3745]

@@michellepoulsenmogensen2103 I have no idea where you got any of that. Also, learn how to spell.

[@michellepoulsenmogensen2103]

@@mancu3745 this thing Call television and please Wright in danish then

[@angelcitygirl]

15:28 There's Dracula right there!!! Smooth talking, intense eyes, slight Eastern European accent. Come on people!

[@demonfromthemine677]

His accent is not Canadian . He may have immigrated to Canada from another country thus his accent . I bet he is a vamp in a vamp documentary trying to hide truth about vamps 🧛‍♂️ v”””v 😅

[@FrankGordonA]

​@@demonfromthemine677 Ha - his accent is from Quebec, a french-speaking part of Canada. :D

[@BlueSwampyCraft]

He’s accent sound québécois. At first I though he was French lol

[@peter-df6wl]

😂

[@lavendergal2508]

Maybe the type of person referenced as a vampire in these early days was actually what we call today a serial killer

[@josephbrady176]

Absolutely correct.

[@conalcochranh3274]

That certainly is a possibility.

[@conalcochranh3274]

@@josephbrady176 No, it was James Brolin who starred in The Car, not Burt Reynolds.

[@conalcochranh3274]

@Auxiliary Stream Services The Midnight Meat Train starred Bradley Cooper, not Ed Norton.

[@johnbon8817]

Actually it is good idea

[@elizabethreed5178]

Vlad Tepes aka Vlad the Impaler is very much a hero in his native land of Wallachia. Elizabeth Bathory, the Blood Countess of Hungary, is not. She was one of the many inspirations for Dracula, and her trial transcripts are still available. She was convicted of murdering over 600 young virgins in the 16th century all to help her retain her aging beauty. Because she was nobility, she was not allowed to be executed, so they walled her up alive in her castle and fed her thru a slot in the door. It took her three years to die.

[@joshdelaet3536]

She was interesting

[@Angayasse]

This theory has long been overridden by proper historical research.

[@elizabethreed5178]

@@Angayasse really, because I have a couple of friends from that region who said its fact and I've read a few pages of her trial transcript. Just about 5 pages, but it did happen. Just saying.

[@terintiaflavius3349]

@@Angayasse What theory? She most certainly killed people. Was it as many as the court documents say, probably not. However, she did and that fact was used by the powerful to wall her in and take properties. Her son I believe was allowed to keep some.

[@paigescaffidi9587]

Neat

[@raminomelu]

What the crew that filmed this did not know - that beautiful looking chap with dark hair and blue eyes is Vlad himself.

[@deforeestwright2469]

Nah, I think he's Armand or Louis from the Anne Rice books. ha ha.

[@theangriestcatintheworld]

He is quite beautiful... came looking for this comment 💕

[@MyAngelina123]

I KNEW I would find you. I scrolled down a look, looking for this comment.

[@emmettfenton2821]

@@deforeestwright2469 9 9 9 99 9ijii

[@sophiedesaesilva8831]

spoiler!!!!!!

[@itwasagoodideaatthetime7980]

If you ever visit Romania *DON'T* even think about making vampire or Dracula jokes. Vlad Dracula is Hero worshipped by the Romanian people. To the Romanian people Vlad is their George Washington. A man whose memory is sacrosanct & *BEYOND* reproach. He's considered to be a national Hero by them. They think of him as a man who defended his country. Against Tyrants who wished to enslave them. & they get *VERY* upset if you dare to compare him to Stoker's Dracula.

[@Amanda-cd6dm]

How do you make letters bold?! And larger?

[@itwasagoodideaatthetime7980]

​@@Amanda-cd6dm To make them larger just use capital letters. To make them Bold encase the word between the * symbol at each end. You must put them right against the word. You want to make Bold otherwise it won't work.

[@thakyou5005]

Thank you very much for this comment. I assume you are a fellow Romanian since you know this much. 😁 That is PRECISELY how I feel when they compare him to Bram Stoker's.

[@chiefprimo5827]

I believe in Dracula. He's the one who come to my house every month asking for my rent

[@josettesantana5169]

Lmao yup

[@makeupboss3568]

🤣🤣🤣

[@saimashapi3819]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@RangerHouston]

That's Markula, his cousin from New Jersey.

[@notnice3721]

LMAO!!!!

[@jarniwoop]

I like the knot trick in the grave to keep the vampire busy. Just a thought , if a victim's hair was braided would the vampire be compelled to untie them first?

[@patriciafitzgerald1521]

There's also the psychic vampires. They don't need blood, they drain your energy.

[@itwasagoodideaatthetime7980]

Sounds just like my supervisor at work - soul sucking.

[@amberfierstein1294]

Sounds like depression

[@delusionnnnn]

"Psychic vampires" isn't anything anyone actually believes in. It's role-playing.

[@ivorytower99]

*WRONG!*

[@CosmicComicChronicles]

Aka my ex

[@sbenton62]

Who remembers Max Schreck? Who doesn't love Bela Lugosi? Honorable mention goes to Gary Oldman.

[@richardlahan7068]

Reggie Nalder in Salems Lot!

[@sbenton62]

@@richardlahan7068 I totally forgot that one, thanks! Haven't seen that in forever! Lol

[@PhoenixLyon]

Gary Oldman..yesss. Honorable ,mention David Bowie- The Hunger. ✌😸

[@sbenton62]

@@PhoenixLyon Never seen the Hunger. Have to check it out if Bowie's in it. Thanks!

[@obsidiandwarf]

No Chris Lee?

[@Nikola5982]

200 movies based on Dracula!!! Good thing Bram Stoker isn`t alive to collect movie royalties. He`d make J.K. Rowling look like a pauper.

[@daniellemusella1594]

+TriviaTree Further back than him, I wonder what Vlad Tepes would think of all this.

[@jamesoneill2933]

@ Trivia tree A lesser known fact is that The name Dracula is a derivation from the Irish “Droch fhuil”the fh is silent when spoken in Irish which translates in English as “bad blood” of course the covetous British establishment who after failing to lay claim to Bram Stoker set about another of their notorious disinformation campaigns, having for centuries banned , sanctioned and criminalized this beautiful language they were loath to concede that one of the most successful novels ever written was had been inspired by Irish words , they set about distortion inventing characters who never existed or combining half truths with a little folklore. It’s seems however that in reality Stoker was very taken with tales, told him as a child , by his mother who it seems had witnessed mass burials as a young girl , that of cholera victims some of who were in actual fact not yet dead “the undead” these stories had a profound influence on a young Stoker who although he did not have any Gaelic Irish and came from the more anglicized protestant tradition did have access to those whom spoke it. The WASPs set about going to extraordinary lengths to remove any record of Stoker having used an Irish term. It is a fact that there is and always has been anti Irish sentiment among many British it is something of a tradition. And they abound with tales of Romania and dragons and so forth. It must irk many among them that Ireland’s capital is the only city on the planet to have given us three Nobel prize for literature ,winners and Stoker was not even among them.

[@makeupboss3568]

James O,Neill it’s a shame he didn’t even get that, he deserved it for sure. Irish Gaelic is a beautiful and interesting language, especially if one would use it for an awesome novel .

[@makeupboss3568]

Danielle Musella yeah , one can only wonder .

[@makeupboss3568]

TriviaTree no kidding.

[@nikolapetrovic4814]

Near my hometown in rural Serbia there is a grave some 200+ years old with thick, heavy iron bars over it, like a cage. Now, that could be to prevent grave robbing but it's only one grave and its isolated from the main graveyard, there isn't any name on it or any identifying marks. Superstition was rampant in Serbia at that time.

[@maraazura]

Nikola Petrović ooooh intriguinging

[@makeupboss3568]

Nikola Petrović quite intriguing. I love an intriguing tale like that .

[@onefeather2]

True, people did put iron bars over a grave because they did believe that it kept the person from rising after death.

[@MsBeachLizard]

@@onefeather2 There was also the issue of actual grave robbing by folk called “the resurrectionists.” The medical field-specifically the surgical field-was coming into being. Teachers and students of surgery were actually paying resurrectionists to rob fresh graves for fresh corpses to practice on. A lot of ppl would go thru great lengths to keep their dearly departed in the ground long enough to decay so the grave robbers wouldn’t take the loved one. But Nikola says it was just one grave, so likely not grave robbing-unless this was someone of extreme stature who may have been an outcast or buried nameless to keep ppl from robbing the body bc of a morbid sense of attraction.... Nonetheless very intriguing.

[@michellepoulsenmogensen2103]

@@MsBeachLizard i dont think that happent in the jugoslavia but in England ore it is another good American story.

[@DonJuanMarco1994]

The real Dracula is more bloody than the vampire one. 😨

[@n.amaral2847]

True

[@KianoUyMOOP]

I'll take getting bitten by the fictional over geting impaled by the real one.

[@priestessmikokikyo77]

@@KianoUyMOOP if you were vlad enemy. but he was tolerable to his allies!

[@sbenton62]

I've seen a lot of vampire documentaries over the years, and this is one of the best. Thank you very much for posting this.

[@conalcochranh3274]

WTF is wrong with you? You've got it all mixed-up! Tom Cruise was the hero in Legend, not Val Kilmar. And it WAS Tim Curry who played Darkness in Legend, not Michael Ironside. Get your facts straight from now on.

[@sbenton62]

@@conalcochranh3274 ???

[@conalcochranh3274]

@@sbenton62 What?

[@susmitade5374]

Very informative narration. It makes the story of Dracula all the more interesting.

[@BltchErica]

36:24 That's so crazy. Me and my friends love going to the Snagov forest next to the lake. I had no idea he was buried around there, it's such a random place.

[@AcidGlow]

*Fascinating stuff. I like these videos* ✅🙂

[@conalcochranh3274]

No, that was James Brolin who starred in The Car, not Burt Reynolds. Also, the sheriff was landed in hospital because he was hit by the car door, not because he fell of his motorbike. By the way, the actor who supplied the explosives was E.G. Armstrong, not Eli Wallach. Check out The Dark and Night of the Lepus...they're strange and daft, but good fun.

[@x-s1167]

you're everywhere tf 😫

[@conalcochranh3274]

@@x-s1167 What do you mean?

[@x-s1167]

@@conalcochranh3274 I see Acid Glow everywhere in the comment section 🤧

[@GTX1123]

Legend has it that Vlad the Impaler used to put a very expensive gold chalice in the middle of the town square from village to village all over Romania. People so feared him that it was never once stolen.

[@LotusStitchandSketch]

I've heard that story too. According to what I heard the rule was that the villagers were allowed to drink from the cup since each one was always placed either directly on or within a few feet of the village's well. They could drink from the cup as long as they ALWAYS returned it to it's spot where he had it put originally.

[@GTX1123]

@@LotusStitchandSketch That's sounds like something Vlad would do. It was a cleverly calculated PR stunt; i.e. It was Vlad's way telling the people that he should be revered as both, a benevolent and ruthless monarch. The harsh reality was that he was the latter and not the former.

[@itwasagoodideaatthetime7980]

There's also a story that he placed a large bag of money. By the well in his capital just outside his castle. But no one would take so much as a single coin from it while he was alive. Because they were so afraid of him.

[@GTX1123]

@@itwasagoodideaatthetime7980 Yep. You just didn't cross him. But the atrocities he committed against his own people also bred a lot of hatred and contempt for him which eventually caught up to him. Legend has it that his own people beheaded him when he fled to them for help.

[@itwasagoodideaatthetime7980]

​@@GTX1123 Today he is respected even revered in Romania. If you ever visit Romania *DON'T* even think about making vampire or Dracula jokes. Vlad Dracula is Hero worshipped by the Romanian people. To the Romanian people Vlad is their George Washington. A man whose memory is sacrosanct & *BEYOND* reproach. He's considered to be a national Hero by them. They think of him as a man who defended his country. Against Tyrants who wished to enslave them. & they get *VERY* upset if you dare to compare him to Stoker's Dracula.

[@sbenton62]

"All much in the same vein" nicely done

[@itwasagoodideaatthetime7980]

ROTFLMAO! That was a Bloody awful pun! 😂

[@alancooper5147]

That sucks

[@JaneDoe-sz9oy]

Till this day I remembered the book Dracula written by Bram Stoker, my mother still has it on her bookshelf, and I thought Dracula/vampires existed. It made be believe to not go to Eastern-Europe to avoid coming across one. Now I am older and find it funny how one thinks as a child.

[@catycika4856]

Me being Romanian looking at all that vampire nonsense made me feel so uncomfortable

[@alinasaiko7675]

@@CalitmeDiondell Which folklore are you talking about? We don’t have such regarding Vlad. Only forigners crazy for horror stories.. see Stoker fiction. Look for historical facts first, study our history. then come back. Ty

[@cynthiarichardson8189]

Well mystery always get the best of human curiosity. And i bet poeple who visit Romania realy see your country for the beauty it realy is. Well at least thats what i hope and would love to visit one day. I have met poeple from Romania and they are always verry nice and tell me about landscape and history. And as a history fanatic and culture apriciated i would deafinately love it.

[@cherylmontoya2697]

As a Texan who has spent most of my life defending Dracula's case and clearing his name, I continue to be outraged at the ways he is maligned and disrespected; I am not talking about the vampire character, but the historical figure. Cheryl B. Montoya, San Antonio TX

[@bleedingmasque.6193]

@@CalitmeDiondell you didn't finish watching when you typed this, did you?

[@Laura_Seicean]

@@CalitmeDiondell We don t have such folklore. We don t have Dracula, vampire, even ghosts, that is more in russian and slavic folklore. For us, Vlad s physopathy was the results of a chilhood trauma and a very harsh political enviroment. We have sympathy for him.

[@cassidyhausmann-mason4537]

About the American vampire burial, I thought it sounded really familiar, and then I remembered why. The archaeology professor at my university was one of the assistants on that dig, and told us the story in class!

[@itwasagoodideaatthetime7980]

@Tianna Elizalde Very Cool Indeed!

[@itwasagoodideaatthetime7980]

So cool would have *LOVED* to have been there to hear it.

[@makeupboss3568]

I had watched another YT video about Lena Brown , it was interesting.

[@kingbernabe734]

dracula : look deep into my eyes... bleh bleh bleh

[@altheasantos6479]

King Buns 😂😂😂😂

[@dunkndognuts9829]

Look *_deep_* into my eyes... do I look stoned??

[@iibeats.sisters8992]

XD

[@kalypsobabiee9360]

Hotel transylvania??

[@richardkranium2944]

I don’t sound like that blah blah, blah blah.

[@celycely219]

i believe we all here in quarintine, greetings:D

[@fortisfortuna5091]

what yourself there in quarantine buahahahaha

[@maraazura]

Greetings 👋👋

[@zarwine7080]

Greetings too👋😊

[@eileeneram]

🤣 killing boredom. Stay healthy, safe and sane!💚💜💛

[@Aj85234480]

Three months later...... yes, we are in quarantine. Greetings fellow humans.

[@joebenzz]

I never thought id see a documentary about Dracula narrated by Tuco.

[@humblysoftlygentlypaxprofu6997]

In Greece it was believed that the only reason that could make a man raise from his grave was only to fulfill a pro.ise or an oath he had given before his death and only rose to fulfill it.Then he returned peacefully to his grave while beautiful incense filled the area.

[@dcorgard]

It CANNOT be coincidence that someone with the Surname "Wallach" is narrating this - if it is, that'd be absolutely amazing!

[@judilynn9569]

The young historian is ridiculously handsome.

[@conalcochranh3274]

What?

[@cocochocs3126]

I really don’t think so

[@joshdamsma]

Girls can be so silly and cute

[@kristennelson3190]

With the blue eyes? Agreed!!👍

[@Luzitanium]

he is on his 50s now

[@DROPPINLINES24-7]

what we do in the shadows is the best documentary about vampires.

[@jamiecee4960]

Watching the movie Dracula on Netflix. It's actually really good. A different take on it.

[@lisatsuda]

Watch "abe Lincoln, the vampire hunter" great movie.

[@VernonDsouza]

Love it

[@gabecaballero3402]

Is it Bam Stokers?

[@Pashasmom1]

There is an ok movie from 2013 called Dracula: The Dark Prince. Actor Luke Roberts is Dracula and Jon Voight plays Van Helsing. It's like this was Dracula's side of the story.

[@emilykhine3743]

Yeah! 😃 I’ve watched that movie so many times I have it on DVD 📀 I thought it was an awesome movie 🎥 . Plus Dracula was really hot 😉😉 I have never seen a portrayal of him with blonde hair though which I thought was quite cool 😎

[@jasoncollins1702]

Those opening movie clips are not from Lugosi's Dracula. They're from White Zombie, which isn't a vampire film.

[@gitana8281]

Bela Lugosi is my most favourite Dracula. I loved this documentary; thank you for sharing this. ❤️😊🙏

[@richarai592]

After learning his true history I liked Vlad alot 🔥. He was a badass that sometimes people need for the good. I am still fascinated and interested in this Dracula franchise after him but that doesn't take anything from his real life work that he did for his people✌️.He was a show stealer 🔥.

[@joshdelaet3536]

Vlad Tepes was a national treasure.

[@chadcastagana9181]

He still is - - - - - - to the Romanian Tourist Bureau

[@joshdelaet3536]

Chad Castagana that is very true

[@auroramariealmeara8622]

He did what needed to be done at the time.

[@Erika-xm2mi]

@@chadcastagana9181 He still is considered a hero by most Romanians nowadays, regardless of age.

[@SK-uj1hz]

He was a psychopathic sadistic murder not a hero.....

[@makeupboss3568]

This was quite interesting, and learning about other stories surrounding the vampire madness here in the US. I have always been long fallen to the lure of the vampire legends around the world. Thank you for the post .

[@daviddas9818]

He's gorgeous

[@TheMeJustMe75]

As a kid, my dad always argued with me that a guy named Dracula never existed. I never said he was a vampire but he was real. My dad would say there was a guy named Vlad Tepes but never a guy named Dracula. He would always say "You watch too much tv." Then years later, I got one of the biographies of Dracula and showed my dad in the book where the name came from and he went on this tangent that it wasn't true. I just laughed at him and said"accept that you aren't right and move on." About a year later, my dad read the same book and proceeded to tell me about Vlad Tepes' history like he was teaching me something. I just patted him on the shoulder and said "Don't believe everything you read. Dracula never existed, you watch too much tv!" My dad just sat there staring at me like he realized I was saying exactly what he said to me as a kid.

[@johandewitt9911]

Dracul, the dragon?

[@onefeather2]

At least you had a dad that knew who Vlad was and knew the subject, that is great.

[@teresafarrell6457]

Your dad sounds like he had either a massive ego problem or was a Narcissist. Imagine being an adult and not being able to accept you were wrong (graciously) to a child.

[@germanclavijo346]

Imagine you woke people tried to show respect to your father

[@TheMeJustMe75]

@@germanclavijo346 I respect my father. I also enjoy proving him wrong. He borderlines being a genius so if I can prove something to him then I get great satisfaction. It's all done in fun. Now if I insisted that Vlad was non-binary then yeah, I'd be Woke.

[@itswhatyoumakeit6950]

Human beings are far more scary, especially the ones with stolen/too much power.

[@Luzitanium]

the human mind is much more dangerous than a wild animal

[@Kalleosini]

I thought this was going to be about Vladimir "Tepes" Dracul but I ended up with people dying from consumption. aint that just how it be sometimes.

[@brandondavis7777]

Dracula, not Dracul.

[@Kalleosini]

​@@brandondavis7777 Ah so you're familiar with the knights of the dragon? or maybe you don't know how these people signed their own names? I could have said drakuglia and still been correct and you'd still come and incorrectly corrected me. are you romanian Brandon? sit down.

[@williamdolezal9184]

Ain't that just how it be? I bet this dude is white.

[@inkyguy]

william dolezal, sounds like you're both semi-illiterate.

[@K3vinK]

You obviously didn’t watch much of it.

[@comesahorseman]

I still remember a television series called "Dark Shadows", a soap opera/vampire tale mashup. It was fun, if a bit predictable.

[@TheCatzMeowMix]

I remember that. That was a lonnnng time ago. Loved … Tales from the Darkside and Tales from the Crypt too.

[@JB-hl1qx]

Theres many stories and folklore about vampires in the French quarter in new Orleans. I had a very creepy experience there late one night that was unexplainable! I'll never forget it .

[@swithinbarclay4797]

Did you see Lestat and Louis??

[@sendhelp6537]

Probably a heroin addict

[@StraightOuttaPocket7]

Write it out!!!!!

[@Bildgesmythe]

History may suffer from Bram Stoker's tale, but tourism prospered.

[@GMKGoji01]

I've seen clips of Universal's Dracula, and this documentary is already creeping me out.

[@tselengbotlhole750]

GMKGoji01 Pictures 🤣🤣🤣I have just tuned and your comment has made me even more curious

[@fiodorelgato8031]

In serbian, the word for vampire is 'vampir'. 'Vukodlak' means werewolf

[@nufiprost]

vampir and vârcolac are in romanian, very similar phonetically. do serbs have strigoi as well?

[@fiodorelgato8031]

@@nufiprost no, we don't have strigoi

[@cetGT3]

same in turkish vampir

[@lissamelone9230]

Fiodor El Gato wat is shlevovitz lol that stuff is w000000 if u kno u kn0 slovein n friend knocked me out 2 shots 😆😆😆

[@Έκπληξηρυσός]

vampire is serbian word. The English term was derived (possibly via French vampyre) from the German Vampir, in turn derived in the early 18th century from the Serbian vampir (Serbian Cyrillic: вампир).

[@GTX1123]

I'm sorry, but I just can't get beyond "Tuco" (Good, the Bad & the Ugly) narrating this video, LOL (R.I.P. Eli Wallach - a GREAT actor)

[@swithinbarclay4797]

So, not ALL vampires are as lovely as Lestat de Lioncourt. For many of us, Lestat remains our all-time favorite "vamp".

[@NajwaLaylah]

Not the best documentary, but I love Eli Wallach's voice.

[@NecaMeca1389]

"in the Romanian tongue" :)

[@229masterchief]

I kept finding myself time and time again listening to this doc at night as I drift off to sleep lmao

[@minime7375]

I just wanna add for the international audience, the name Dracula has nothing to do with evil etc. Vlad’s father (iirc) was awarded a high distinction for being a defender of christianity, the ordo draconis (“order of the dragon”) is called. He wore that dragon medal and his courtiers gave him the name Draculea/Dracula which in old romanian means dragon and the nickname kinda stuck with their family. Vlad the Impaler’s real name is Vladislav/Vlad III Basarab “Dracula”. Technically that translates into Vlad the Dragon. And he wasn’t a count, he was the king of Wallachia (not Transylvania), one of the historical Romanian provinces. They’re both Romanian provinces but Wallachia is largely the southern part and Transylvania the western. Bran is not “Dracula’s castle”

[@brandondavis7777]

Dracula means Son of The Dragon, Dracul means The Dragon.

[@cherylmontoya2697]

@@brandondavis7777 Thank you. The colors for the Order of the Dragon are red and black. For reasons one can only speculate about, there are many businesses here in San Antonio, mostly restaurants and car service entities, where the employees wear red and black uniforms. Dracula/Vlad Tepes has supporters here. -- Cheryl B. Montoya

[@Alusnovalotus]

my god, the music is scarier than the actual show......

[@r.awilliams9815]

Meh...the real Vlad Tepes was FAR scarier than some silly neckbiter.

[@chipperleon7204]

Dont let a Romanian hear You say that

[@harmoneylove6886]

J

[@gothbattyy]

@@chipperleon7204 I’ve said it straight to a Romanians face. He wasn’t offended. Grew up Romanian his whole life and is one of the ones who is absolutely disgusted by Vlad Tepes.

[@Laura_Seicean]

@@chipperleon7204 We are not offended, we know he was cruel but his madness came from chilhood trauma and a crazy political enviroment. Those fes his psychopathy.

[@escapistfromhell1543]

@@gothbattyy I wouldn't enjoy hearing someone say that. I didn't really agree with Vlad's methods of dealing with his people but when one has to rule over so many people who only saw their own interest I don't know how else you can deal with that. Despite his methods i see Vlad Tepes as a hero who did what he could for the good of his country

[@starwrasfan1]

I love the video, and I used to live in Connecticut, I never knew this happened.

[@itallia666]

Bloody bloody good docu ! Plus in never seen such a beautiful looking chap, he of th dark locks, strangely mesmerising blue eyes, they musta hunted high & low to find him & put him in this docu. He's bloody perfect as th 21st c Prince Vlad, I couldn't take my peepers off him, too beautiful- scary 😦

[@spol]

To say that the people back then didn’t realize they were just looking at a decaying body seems a bit of a stretch. He had supposedly been dead for multiple years. Pretty sure he would have been very decayed by then so finding a body that didn’t look decayed is spooky enough not to mention them saying the nails had been shedded? Very strange stuff but hopefully just myth

[@twstf8905]

Haha wait a minute! lol I Don't remember any Vampire movies, (or television shows,) in which the creature's canine teeth grow under the presence and influence of the full Moon lol that's always been more of a Werewolf thing. 😅 Edit; and, driving a stake through the Vampire's heart is NOT the only one that shows up in fiction! (Has that guy even ever _seen_ a Vampire movie?! What's his role or purpose here, in this program again?) (I'm just sayin' ✌)

[@sgili586]

Lestat told me to watch and then said "I'm going to give you a chance I never had". Which choice do you think I chose? 🦇

[@hatimaji6268]

Awesome that it is narrated by Eli Wallach :)

[@spiderlime]

when we consider that the bat was a symbol of darkness in european lore long before the discovery of vampire bats in the fifteenth century, it's puzzling that the connection with vampires wasn't made earlier...

[@emll7027]

What about the coronavirus?

[@cherylmontoya2697]

In TEXAS, the Mexican Free Tail Bat is our official state flying mammal. The largest bat colonies in the world are in Texas, not far from San Antonio and mostly out in the hill country. Now, in reference to the Order of the Dragon, the largest dragonflies in North America are found in Texas. -- Cheryl B. Montoya

[@allhobsessed]

I like the narrator's voice so much!

[@frenchartantiquesparis424]

Who is this gorgeous man who shows up at 15 minutes with the blue eyes and dark hair...?

[@dungpow9009]

He is the subject of the video

[@inkyguy]

FrenchArtAntiques Paris, he is indeed gorgeous. He is identified as Canadian scholar Benjamin Leblanc.

[@inkyguy]

Dungpow, hardly. The subject is the origins of the vampire myth.

[@dungpow9009]

@@inkyguy Lol, I know. He looks like the modern epitome of a vampire though.

[@frenchartantiquesparis424]

@GW S It's been about 20 years, so maybe his pretty boy looks have faded now...

[@Choices2aa]

I would love to see Bathory this is so good.

[@rageknight8445]

This documentary has to be uploaded not long after I started watching True Blood. What a coincidence.

[@terintiaflavius3349]

True blood has been out for over ten years. This release coincides with netflix release of its Dracula release made with the bbc

[@cherylmontoya2697]

Like I said, there are no coincidences. In the spring of 2014 there was a series about Dracula (as a vampire, in modern times) that was being shown; the series was canceled at the end of the first season, possibly because the ratings coming from Texas were poor; the time slot was replaced by another series called "Night Shift," the title having raised a red flag about another vampire-related series; it turned out to be something of a soap opera in a medical setting, filmed, of all things, at the hospital in San Antonio where my son was born! -- Cheryl B. Montoya

[@jeffnickel4648]

The Bran Castle tour is lots of fun

[@paulagwhyte1720]

Uh, can we stop talking about Vampires for a second and acknowledge that amazingly good-looking French-Canadian guy at 15:21 ?? I mean, WOW! And he's in my country....We've got some handsome men here! Lol!

[@MyAngelina123]

I just thought he was portraying a modern Vampire, they showed him walking, then he starts speaking vampire 😌😏😏

[@conalcochranh3274]

Yes it WAS Bram Stoker who wrote Lair of the White Worm, not H.P. Lovecraft. Get your facts straight. By the way, Clive Barker wrote Rawhead Rex, not James Herbert. Avid reader, eh?

[@paulagwhyte1720]

@MariLeiv Lol! Isn't he? Wow!

[@conalcochranh3274]

@MariLeiv Christina Triks wrote TAUNTING THE BEAST, not J.K. Rowling. Rowling doesn't have the brains or the nerves to write something as controversial as TAUNTING THE BEAST. The twist ending of that book is downright freaky and it bothered me for weeks. Even now I get the chills just thinking about it. That poor woman...she just didn't see it coming. I'll never look at vicars and Oxford in the same way again.

[@paulagwhyte1720]

@@maddiewicks3146 I know!!

[@whitewolf8644]

Why he do my main man Vlad like this? He was a hero, Bram. 😒😂

[@tomjohn8733]

The moguls were able to travel great distance without food or water, drinking the blood of their horses...

[@cringemuch1243]

That Benjamin Leblanc fellow looks like the archetypal vampire himself

[@Sameoldfitup]

"Up on melancholy hill There's a plastic tree Are you here with me Just looking out on the day Of another dream."

[@sunflower7045]

I have written a screenplay about Lamia. If only I had met the right people. Oh well. This is quite interesting, and supports my research for the story.

[@k-1llmatic832]

Not a single mention of Count Duckula:/

[@PhantomSinger1]

Or Bunnicula.

[@pmasbarbosa]

Or even Dr Acula

[@michaelbaughman8910]

Have you forgotten BLACKULA!?

[@ZeldaLover6]

I’m so happy that it’s not just me who remembers Bunnicula.

[@TheCatzMeowMix]

Or… Count Chockula.

[@stardresser1]

This is perfect for a mid October night...

[@Adara007]

This was an interesting documentary. For another interesting take on vampires, I highly recommend "Carpe Jugulum", the wonderfully insightful and laugh-out-loud funny novel in the comic fantasy series known as the 'Discworld' by the late, great Sir Terry Pratchett.

[@itwasagoodideaatthetime7980]

GUNN Sir Terry his name is forever carried on the Clacks.

[@johnstuartkeller5244]

"There are two kinds of Draculas, my friend: the kind that come in by the window, and the kind that makes a forest of his enemies." - Professor von Tuco

[@kev3d]

Observation: Jumbled bones Conclusion: Vampire Seems legit.

[@VemiX1000]

Was most likely a slow day at the site. Might as well have some fun hehe

[@K8E666]

It’s simply the age old fascination with life, death and the misunderstanding of the various stages of decomposition. Add to this our fascination with blood that’s existed since the beginning of time and you have the perfect recipe for vampirism. In ancient times for example, women would lose blood every month and remain perfectly healthy while a man who looses blood from injury or disease would most likely die. It would’ve been completely mind-blowing. Ancient Greeks and Egyptians knew that blood was everything - the life blood - and that any major loss of it was fatal. Dark blood and coagulation in festering wounds would mean a lingering, painful death. We then moved on to ‘bleeding’ the sick using leeches or shallow cuts in an attempt to ward off disease and return balance to the body. Most people have never watched a body decompose, it’s absolutely fascinating. Gases build, fluids leak from every orifice, the tissues begin to contract causing the skin to recede which makes both hair and nails appear longer. The skin starts to slough away which in poor light might well have appeared as ‘new’ skin forming. There’s a website where - if you’re so inclined - you can watch the stages of decomposition via video cam from the grave. It’s obviously not for everyone but it does give you a greater understanding of what we are and where we end up. After all, Death is the great equaliser....

[@cetGT3]

34:50 for those whom are wondering the spelling of the title "Kazikli Bay"... kazik means a stake.... Bay means someone of higher stature !

[@filipematias5127]

*Bey

[@willmfrank]

@@filipematias5127 Yes. Kaziklu Bey translates idiomatically as Lord Impaler.

[@thomasmagee4565]

Kaziglu Bey.

[@sweakerthan]

Fascinating video. Does anyone know the reasoning behind using clips from White Zombie as opposed to Dracula when showing Bela Lugosi though? Assuming it was just a mistake during editing?

[@TheCatzMeowMix]

Love White Zombie / Rob Zombie. The HARDER THE METAL… THE BETTER!!!

[@inkyguy]

0:47: un, it isn't just "damsels" he drains of "their life blood."

[@leahparker9033]

Desecrating someone's body was probably just the final insult of long years of bullying.

[@GeanAndradeADV]

Hi everyone! I like the history the Dracula.

[@anthonyquinn7132]

That young monk guarding the grave has seen things 👀🥺

[@JMeara]

I didn't believe in vampires until I lived in Daytona.

[@Frazzled_Chameleon]

Who knew vampires were so OCD over knots?

[@anthonyapost]

The new Dracula series on Netflix brought me here lol "blood is life"

[@Bonita.ch1]

Terrible series!

[@anthonyapost]

@@Bonita.ch1 I thought it was pretty good at least the first 2 episodes

[@jasonabbott1094]

Blood is lives

[@theguyver4934]

That's a quote from the holy bible God bless you from a muslim

[@KoltiraMemeweaver]

I just found that series the other day lol.

[@raquelf.1962]

Interesting. Dracula is one my favorite books.

[@Kenoshino]

"Vampir" isn't a Hungarian word it's Serbian, also "vukodlak" isn't Vampire in Serbian but Werewolf... It's disgusting what people have done to Vlad Tepes, the guy was a Hero who fought for his people and to be honest impaling wasn't something invented by Romanians but by the Ottoman turks.

[@Kenoshino]

@564markis Impalement came from Middle east from Neo-Assyrians, Babylonians and later Ottoman during their conquest of Greece. I'm half Serbian and i know for a fact that Ottomans were practicing impalement prior to horror stories of Vlad. He was taken away from his parents and his country as payment for the "blood tax" like many thousand of Romanian, Bulgarian and Serbian boys during that time.

[@celestebivin1659]

But you have to admit that Vlad the impaler perfected it. After all he didn't get that nickname for nothing.😁

[@TheMeJustMe75]

Fascinating guy! Research Order of the Dragon, that's also interesting history.

[@v.dargain1678]

Same.

[@4FYTfa8EjYHNXjChe8xs7xmC5pNEtz]

Hmm, get hit with an ad every six minutes, or find something else to watch. I wonder which I'll choose.

[@AkDragosani]

Love Dracula Stories 🧛‍♂️

[@huntergathererwoman4401]

This documentary looks like it was from the 1990's

[@K3vinK]

Same

[@swithinbarclay4797]

It certainly WAS made before the movie, "Interview With the Vampire" came out, which helped make the creator of the novel franchise, Anne Rice, more mainstream.

[@alancooper5147]

U look like ur from the 20's

[@jehugo66]

1996

[@SK-uj1hz]

Probably because it is... what a stupid comment..

[@allannahk]

If you want to watch something really good about Vampires watch ‘What We Do In The Shadows’ It’s amazing. There’s a film and two series and they’re wonderfully written. If you’re a fan of Vampire films you’ll appreciate them and all the in jokes.

[@AC-th4ci]

Nobody in the comments is simping for that Canadian student, I’m surprised 🤔

[@DragonKingYT]

He just said folklore he is a skeptic don't listen to skeptics they give you misinformation I am related to the Royal Transylvania Gypsys