If you’d like to dress as the REAL Count Dracula this Halloween...
Wear a red hat and carry a spike. Bram Stoker’s real-life inspiration was a real prince of a guy. Vlad Dracula, born in Transylvania in 1431, grew up to rule the Romanian region of Wallachia. He proudly took the name Dracula, Son of the Dragon, from his father, Vlad Dracul. He was nicknamed Vlad Tepes, or Vlad the Impaler. It seems Vlad had a real fondness for impaling friends and foes alike. Anyone hoping to invade Wallachia would first have to navigate their way through Vlad’s 2 mile forest - made entirely of corpses impaled on spikes.
Although there’s no evidence that he liked to drink it – there’s no doubt he was one blood-thirsty dude. In 1456, the Count invited local nobility to dine with him. After dinner, the old or frail guests were impaled on the spot. He marched the rest of them to his run down castle and put them to hard labor restoring it. The unfortunate guests who didn’t die during renovations wound up impaled alive on the spikes outside the castle for some creepy curb-appeal.
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