GORY AND BLOODY DETAILS ABOUT THE REAL DRACULA

IN 1462, WHILE THE WAR BETWEEN THE OTTOMAN

EMPIRE AND DRACULA’S WALLACHIA WAS BEING

WAGED, SULTAN MEHMED II FLED WITH HIS

ARMY, INTIMIDATED AT THE SIGHT OF TWENTY

THOUSAND TURKISH IMPALED CORPSES ROTTING

ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF VLAD’S CAPITAL CITY

OF TARGOVISTE

DURING ONE BATTLE DRACULA RETREATED TO

NEARBY MOUNTAINS, IMPALING PEOPLE AS HE

WENT. THIS FORCED THE TURKISH FORCES TO

STOP GOING AFTER HIM BECAUSE THE SULTAN

COULD NOT BEAR THE STENCH FROM THE

DECAYING CORPSES

IMPALED CORPSES WERE DISPLAYED AS A

WARNING TO OTHERS, WHILE THEIR WHITE,

BLOOD-DRAINED APPEARANCE WITH A VISIBLE

NECK WOUND PERPETUATED THE NOTION THAT

VLAD TEPES WAS A VAMPIRE

DURING THE TIMES HE HAD TO RETREAT SO HE

WOULDN’T BE CAPTURED BY HIS ENEMIES, HE

WOULD BURN DOWN HIS OWN VILLAGES AND

MURDER HUNDREDS OF LOCAL PEOPLE ALONG

THE WAY SO THAT THE OTTOMAN ARMY WOULD

HAVE NOWHERE TO REST OR FIND WOMEN TO RAPE

IN AN ATTEMPT TO CLEAN UP THE STREETS OF

THE CAPITAL OF WALLACHIA (TARGOVISTE),

DRACULA INVITED ALL THE SICK, VAGRANTS

AND BEGGARS OVER TO ONE OF HIS HOMES

UNDER THE PRETEXT OF A FEAST. AFTER THEY

ALL HAD A DELICIOUS (LAST) MEAL, DRACULA

LEFT, LOCKED THEM ALL IN AND BURNED THE

BUILDING TO THE GROUND

WHEN HE WAS OLDER, VLAD WAS EVENTUALLY

CAPTURED AND DECAPITATED DURING A TURKISH

INVASION AND HIS HEAD WAS GIVEN TO THE SULTAN,

WHO IMPALED IT OUTSIDE HIS PALACE SO

EVERYBODY COULD SEE IT

IT IS BELIEVED THAT ARCHAEOLOGISTS WHO WERE

SEARCHING FOR SNAGOV (COMMUNE OUTSIDE

BUCHAREST) IN 1931 FOUND DRACULA’S REMAINS.

THE CONTENTS WERE TRANSFERRED TO THE

HISTORY MUSEUM IN BUCHAREST, BUT THEY

LATER DISAPPEARED WITHOUT A TRACE, LEAVING

THE MYSTERIES OF THE REAL PRINCE DRACULA

UNANSWERED

DESPITE HIS CRUELTY, DRACULA WAS VERY

RELIGIOUS AND SURROUNDED HIMSELF WITH

PRIESTS AND MONKS THROUGHOUT HIS LIFE.

HE FOUNDED FIVE MONASTERIES, WHILE IT IS

ESTIMATED THAT DURING A PERIOD OF 150

YEARS, HIS FAMILY ESTABLISHED OVER

FIFTY MONASTERIES