Dracula's Castle: Myth vs. Reality | Cities of the Underworld (S1, E11) | Full Episode | History

eerie castles and jagged mountains make  romania the perfect setting for vampire tales   but look beneath the winding trails and crumbling  fortresses and you'll find the story of the real   dracula it's creepy from prisons where  his victims would await their deaths   i don't think i would want to spend a day  of my life in prison by vlad the impaler   to the cell in which vlad himself was held  hostage and passed the time by impaling mice   dart and dank baby and even the  bat caves where the legend was born   look at them they're all over the place romania's  underground is filled with secrets of its past we're peeling back the layers of time  on cities of the underworld dracula's underground romania is the largest country in southeastern  europe it's a country with a long and bloody past i'm don wildman i'm in romania home of dracula  both the legendary vampire and the real life ruler   but where does fact meet fiction the clues  are buried beneath the imposing castles   medieval villages and mysterious  hillsides of volakia and transylvania   we're headed for a subterranean world where  fact is far more terrifying than fiction today we know the name from the vampire monster  in bram stoker's dracula but in real life vlad   dracula was a 15th century prince at only 17 years  old dracula took the throne and went on to become   one of the most notorious rulers in history few  realize that although he was actually in power for   only seven years he managed to unite the province  of velocia for the first time in centuries   and how did he do it by using the most brutal and  barbaric punishment ever seen which in turn earned   him the new name vlad the impaler today much of  his legacy and the kingdom he helped to build have   been destroyed but clues that reveal who he was  and evidence of his reign of terror still remain   buried beneath the ground just 215 miles from the capital city  of bucharest lies a massive bat cave   it's among the largest in romania and  it's where the legend of dracula begins these caves like the back of his hand he  was taking me down into this cave system   that's home to several species of bats it's  a world which has never been fully explored it's hard to believe but in all there are 12 500  caves beneath this romanian landscape the cave we   were heading into is part of a 15 15-mile network  that descends more than 300 feet below the surface   okay done now we prepare to come  in yeah okay this is our suite okay yeah okay we have comfortable here  all right let's go okay let's go okay this is the gate observation here please so it's really kind of spooky what is it look at the thumbnail oh yeah oh there  they are look at them they're all over the place   all of them how cool vadim believes there's  more than ten thousand bats living in here   they hibernate in the winter and in the summer  they leave the caves to feed these bats only come   out under the cover of darkness and while on the  prowl they actually eat the equivalent of their   body weight and insects every day this underworld  was created more than 60 million years ago   now how far down does this cave go the system all  the system have 25 kilometers 25 kilometers is the   entire system this entire system yes so there's  many different exporting system because maybe   are another few kilometers which is unexplored  yet wow yeah and so it branches off into many   different tunnels and everything this is just  wonderful at different different levels okay or   something like that thank you i'm going further  down into this cave it's so cool okay don't be   very careful here oh yeah always slippery huh okay  this massive cave we were exploring stretched down   four levels so the best way to get into it  was to repel my favorite part of adventure so we can't get there by the trail so harnessing  up professionally harnessed these guys are good it was a 120 foot drop that would lead  to the deepest cavern in this system you have another 15 meters this is the last  level of that cave man this is beautiful wow   listen to echo hello jesus this place is big  you got a lot of caves you got a lot of bats yes   it's kind of understandable how people  could make the connection between romania   and vampires yeah yes yeah okay good yes so  there could be vampires in here who knows why do you think romania has such a  reputation for mystery and legend i   mean what gives the place that quality well  in my opinion the first reason is the jackpot   in the book the book yes the book was  written by bram stoker in 1897 over 400   years after vlad dracula died and the  setting for the book's famous nosferatu   is modern day romania the landscape of which is  filled with caves like the one i was exploring   so who was this real-life prince who in seven  short years left behind a legacy of terror his story begins in 1431 when vlad was born it  was the 15th century an incredibly tumultuous   and brutal time in the region dracula got his  name from his father who was a member of an   elite society called the order of the dragon it  was an elusive fraternity founded by the holy   roman emperor in 1408. in romanian dracul means  dragon so his father adopted that as his nickname   and dracula literally means son  of the dragon or son of the devil the ottoman empire and the hungarian  empire were the major powers and the   province of illaqia sat in the middle of  the tube arch enemies the hungarians and   the ottomans both used volakia as a pawn and  vlad became a crucial piece in their game   when young vlad was only 12 the turks helped to  get his father back onto the throne of velocia   but to repay them vlad's father had to send  vlad and his brother to the turks as hostages   if their father tried to double-cross the  turks the boys would likely have been killed   but the hungarians were circling velocia just  waiting to attack and to make matters worse   vlad's father was hated by those he ruled so in  1447 his subjects joined with the hungarians and   went in for the kill dracula's oldest brother was  buried alive and his father was assassinated by   his own people after his father's death the turks  released vlad with their own agenda they appointed   him officer of a turkish army to help him  avenge his father's murder and claim the throne   just 17 years old what vlad dracula was about  to do is far more terrifying than fiction   coming up inside one of dracula's darkest  dungeons this is lad the impaler's jail cell   and later let me show you  the dungeon of the castle   the tables are turned beneath this imposing castle  is a prison cell that held vlad dracula himself although the novel dracula  takes place in transylvania   its author bram stoker had never set foot there romania's landscape is as rugged as  its history castles and fortresses are   everywhere but none are more foreboding  than those inhabited by vlad dracula in the 15th century valakia's relationship with  its neighbors the ottoman empire and hungary   was volatile alliances constantly shifted with  the wind and the backstabbing continued even while   vlad was in power he returned to volaki in 1447  his reign of terror soon began and for the next   thirty years the volvakian throne changed hands  several times while the myth of count dracula is   frightening the story of the real man is downright  terrifying and it all started inter govista prince   vlad dracula returned home his father assassinated  and his brother buried alive he was surrounded by   enemies ottomans in the south the hungarians in  the west and always assassins operated from within   to defend his title he fortified his capital to  govern against attack and plotted a revenge so   bloody so gruesome that it would one day earn  the young prince a new title vlad the impaler at the time turgovista was the capital of velocia   which is now part of modern day romania and  was the site of vlad dracula's family fortress parts of the castle at  turgovasta still exist today   it's just a shell of what it  once was but what happened here   would cement dracula's grim legacy and today  the evidence is 30 feet beneath the castle petro vergil dia canescu is an underground  expert who could take me down into vlad's   secret world and ramona nyakshu came along  to translate hi we started at one of the   most intact parts of the fortress the  tower so this is vlad's tower huh yes   man it's beautiful before we went underground  okay we can climb if you wish we needed to go up oh yeah wow wow this is it huh this is where vlad  tepes stood looking over his lands of velocia wow   amazing in 1462 15 years after his return to  volakia alliances had changed again and vlad   was against the turks the turks counter-attacked  entering velocia with an army three times as large   as vlad's he retreated to dakovasta leaving  a path of destruction in his own homeland   he burned his own villages and poisoned  his own wells along the way so that the   advancing armies would have nothing to eat or  drink but the worst was yet to come when the   starving turkish army finally arrived  at the doorstep to dracula's fortress   a scene from a horror film lay before them vlad  had impaled ten thousand people including women   and children he watched from the tower where  we were now standing as the impaled slowly died   incredibly he actually made the stakes out of the  trees they were the actual trees with the roots   yes it was a tree with bodies in it oh my god so  he left these bodies on these spears for months   his tactic worked the turks were horrified and  retreated crying a long way that the devil himself   was at targovista but this wasn't the first time  vlad caved into his bloodlust he used torture and   impalement as an effective tool to keep order in  his kingdom he routinely rounded up enemies and   brought them to a secret prison that secret  prison still exists it's actually located 30   feet beneath this castle it's off limits to the  public but i was going in oh wow look at this so this is the actual prison cell  for his first prison cell yes here   were held until they were convicted i  see but here we have two rooms uh two   identical rooms yes from here we we are  entering another room let me go in here yeah oh yeah it's about the same size as the  other one this is vlad the impaler's jail cell   i don't think i would want to spend a day  of my life in prison by vlad the impaler   yeah not a lot of room but here it is this is the  original walls right yeah original foundation this   is the original foundation we are standing beneath  the palace we are underneath the palace here   the room i was in is thought to be one  of the prison cells beneath tragovista   it was part of a massive underground complex  of dark dungeons and elaborate torture rooms   and 30 feet above this complex would have been  turgovista castle itself at its peak the castle   was an imposing and impressive structure towering  88 feet into the sky and the subterranean prison   i was exploring was built to withstand the  pressure from this massive castle up above   while the castle has crumbled today thanks to the  simple roman arch these dungeons have remained the prisoners who were brought here knew  what might be coming they could be impaled   on a stake alive and left to die you know  it's one thing to hear about these guys   how vicious they were it's a whole other thing  to see where he kept his prisoners it's creepy   to be thinking about being down here by  yourself in the dark condemned to death there's no way around it it is a bizarre feeling  these dungeons hidden deep below the castle were   strictly off limits to anyone except vlad and  the few he trusted in fact most had no idea   these rooms even existed vlad didn't want any of  the prisoners relatives or friends to know where   the dungeons were in order to prevent rescue  attempts prince vlad kept the prisoners here   until their trials were over he was the judge at  these trials and for those who were found guilty   the end result was often impalement they  were held here for two or three days   until the judgment was pronounced by the prince  okay and during this time this time they were   interrogated and i have a feeling he didn't find  many people innocent we don't know that we don't   have many documents that say vlad zepesh was  an unfair man he was a very just man you could   be in prison down here for anything from lying  to stealing to infidelity vlad's goal was to   keep a tight grip on order in his kingdom and it  worked during his reign crime and corruption were   wiped out that's why even today many romanians  remember vlad as a hero and not a murderous   madman vlad punished these crimes by cutting off  limbs skinning boiling or roasting people alive   but impalement was his method of choice and it was  a slow death that could last days the stake was   usually oiled and vlad made sure the point wasn't  too sharp so the victim wouldn't die immediately   the stake was inserted into the victim and their  own weight would slowly send the stake through   their body but vlad's victims didn't always know  they were about to meet their deaths he once   invited the sick and poor to tagovista for dinner  he then locked the doors of the hall and set the   room on fire essentially eradicating poverty in  velocia at this very castle but this underground   prison was just the first of many strongholds  dracula built both above ground and below in 1457 dracula built another fortress 40 miles  northeast even more imposing than the first   it was called pinare fortress and it was the  next stop in dracula's blood-soaked underworld   oh wow look at that he was a guy who took it to  extremes look at that right there on the hill   amazing it's a 1500 step climb up the  steep hillside just to get to the entrance   oh my god look at this oh he could rule he could  command he could do everything from up here man on   both sides it's amazing the argesh river and the  valley and if any turks come up that valley man   you know it my guides adrian sandu and catalin  stoyan were waiting for me at the end of my ascent   that's quite a climb yes how you doing fine  thank you and do you thank you hello and welcome   to puernar thank you it's incredible after  years of earthquakes pinari is now in ruins   but in the 15th century it was a formidable  structure when he came to power at tagoversta   vlad's first order of business was to avenge  the death of his father and older brother   but it would take over a decade to carry out his  master plan one easter sunday vlad served a feast   to his own subjects some of which had helped to  murder his family he then impaled the old and weak   vlad ordered the able-bodied men to march 40  miles from turgovista to panari and forced   them into labor to expand his fortress in the end  after months of slave labor no one survived many   of the nobles were literally worked to death  and those left breathing were impaled what is   this oh man this was a dungeon the dungeon of the  fortress part of what vlad's captives built is a   dungeon 12 feet beneath the surface usually it's  off limits but i was given special access down be careful yes down in dracula's dungeon   you really feel like you're uh jailed for life  down here yes so how many people did he keep   down in this place just a few people yeah just  a few prisoners because he used to impale them   very quickly he didn't have that many prisoners  because he impaled him before he put him down here   wow but there's more though today this dungeon  is in ruins 500 years ago it would have been   under four levels of the castle and directly above  this room would have been dracula's master bedroom   where he could hear the cries and pleas  of his prisoners only a few feet below him pinari was one of dracula's strongest  fortresses but it was also the site   of one of his greatest tragedies vlad's mass  impalement didn't keep the turks away for long   and in 1462 they retaliated  this time they came prepared   they put dracula's own brother radu in charge of  a massive army and surrounded this castle there   seemed no way out for dracula his wife refused to  be taken alive and threw herself off the tower to   her death but dracula would not surrender  he vanished into the romanian underground   according to legend vlad dracula disappeared  into escape tunnels carved into the side of the   mountain and with the help of local peasants  fled to a nearby province called transylvania in 1462 the turks led by vlad's brother raju  took control of volakia vlad fled via underground   tunnels to the province of transylvania  in hungary to ask the king for protection   but instead of a helping hand vlad  suddenly found himself in prison vlad the impaler terrorized his people for  five long years until 1462 when he was the   one running for his life he was captured  and held for years as a political prisoner   but even the thick walls of this fortress  couldn't contain dracula's evil ways   his bloodlust continued in the dark dungeons of  this medieval castle it is called hunendora castle   the original fortress was built here during the  roman times and over the centuries was transformed   into the castle that held dracula it has seen  sieges withstood cannon fire and was even burnt   to the ground many times but despite its active  past the skeleton of the castle is still here   and my guide serene tinker knew exactly where  the off-limit places were this is only original   door that we have this is the seoul original wow  it's made from oak with uh iron that's beautiful   this is another area that we are not showing to  the tourists okay private access yes what you   can see in here is the wall from a 14th century i  was getting special access into the 14th century   fortress believed to have held the man behind  the myth between his second and third reigns   but seven centuries ago this castle  would have looked much different   the old fortress had only a single tower and  was built on a solid bedrock foundation with   stones gathered from nearby mountains but in  the 15th century it began the transformation   into both stronghold and palace with tensions  still high with the turks it needed to be safe   but it also needed to be a castle fit for a  king in 1441 the hungarian king added seven   towers he also added grand halls guest rooms  and a chapel the unique engineering combined   lake gothic styles with early renaissance making  this castle an architectural marvel but that's not   all by building a castle on top of an existing  fort he created an interior and an underground serene led me to these restricted passages  deep below the castle hey look at that wow how cool oh it keeps on going   this underground tunnel was quickly put to use  to defend the castle in the brutal middle ages   during a siege these subterranean spaces allowed  the king to live comfortably up above while his   loyal army was down below defending him so this is  where the battle is waged yes yes the gunfighters   uh standing here with a gun hanging  on this wall because was very heavy   we are now facing the first guns in the history  and this one is a hole for ventilation because   it was a lot of smoke sure and they could  die in here yeah yeah this maze of military   tunnels snaked all through the castle let  me show you another part of that tunnel   but this palace's underground is an  important part of dracula's darker days let me show you the dungeon of the castle  the dungeon at hunadora castle is one of   the few prisons to have ever held vlad the impaler   wow he is cool this is the prison cell  yes jesus these were not nice places   dark and dank baby i'm pretty cold wow you just  don't want to be helpless near a place like this   do you know for sure this prison cell was small  and made of stone there was no heat and during   the cold transylvanian winters the temperature  could fall well below freezing vlad ended up in   here as a result of the constant power struggle  in the region his brother radhu who held the   throne in volakia was allied with the turks and  vlad's imprisonment secured radu's place of power   much like when he was a child  vlad was still a valuable pawn   so when he came to the hungarian  king for help he was imprisoned like most dungeons in medieval europe this  isn't some place you want to spend the night   it's a dark and eerie subterranean space experts  believe dracula spent 12 years in prison here   and while confined to a cell the former prince  kept up with the impaling he would stake spiders   roaches and even mice according to prison guards  he skewered the pests with slivers of wood   peeled from the floorboards and displayed  the impaled like trophies on his windowsill   supposedly dracula was mesmerized  after impaling his victims   they say he would fixate on their tiny death  twitches until they finally stopped moving   in prison vlad remained the impaler and  outside alliances shifted once again   after 12 years of captivity here the hungarian  set dracula free in 1475 he got his chance to   reclaim the throne when his brother raju died of  syphilis a year later vlad reconquered velaqia   today few realize that beneath this castle  sits a subterranean space that once imprisoned one of the world's most ruthless leaders vlad's reign of terror wasn't the  only treacherous period in romania   during world war ii romania found itself  making and betraying alliances once again   in 1940 romania joined sides with the axis  powers supplying the axis with oil grain   and other industrial products to fuel the war  machine because of this romania became a main   target of the allied forces by 1944 romania  switched sides and then it was a luftwaffe   targeting romanian soil but regardless of  alliances during world war ii bombs were a   constant threat the romanians needed someplace  safe to hide and that place was underground i was heading to a little-known treasure buried  beneath transylvania to a massive salt mine that   could provide salt to the entire world for 100  more years and was the perfect spot for a bomb shelter this is a long and mysterious passageway isn't  it it is my guide don mara knew the salt mine   story better than anyone and could easily  navigate these immense dark tunnels   how long is this 526 meters we will pass through  this tunnel and then we will enter the salt mine   so 1 500 feet this is the yes and how far  below the ground are we about right now we   are about uh five meters and then we will be  10 15 and most about 50 meters 50 meters down   this mine is among the largest in europe covering  almost 54 000 square feet that's more than an acre   and it's among the oldest and  most important in transylvania   the color is surprising of this i mean  it's quite yes actually the walls are black   natural color of salt is white and the massive  salt is translucent but in the second world war   the thought mine was used as a shelter and that  is why the walls are black they made fire here   to get warm and to prepare food during world  war ii romania lost much of its land and vlad's   former empire was essentially cut up into pieces  romania sustained heavy bombing throughout the war   thousands sought refuge in the empty salt  mines like this one throughout the country   this empty cavity in particular was the perfect  bunker it was 150 feet below the surface   and could sustain massive bombings and its  arch supported ceilings ensured the shock   waves from bombs couldn't destroy it when  the war was over and people moved back to   the surface romania was under communist rule  the iron curtain wouldn't be lifted until 1989   but the history of this salt mine goes back much  further than world war ii in fact this natural   salt deposit is 13 and a half million years old  so you're saying this salad wall is all salt   yes it is all salt it is it's tasty i'll take  that little piece there that's salt yes it is   how much salt is down here still there's about uh  38 billion tons of salt 38 billion tons of salt   yes still remaining in these mines yes exactly  i can't even conceive of how much that really is   on this site in the second century the  romans began mining this precious commodity   a process that would continue to be done here  by hand until the 20th century today the mine   is made up of several large rooms some over 100  feet deep all the salt mine was done by hand so   only hand tools nothing no explosives or other  machines or mechanical machines so are we seeing   pick axes yes exactly everything and how  many people were working down here the most   were about 300. long before the salt mines  provided safety to romanians they were   seen as a source of income for the different  generations and civilizations that lived here   salt was as good as gold and was  used as currency in the ancient world   roman soldiers were paid with salt or solarium  argentums the root of the english word salary   the greeks even traded salt for slaves  creating the expression not worth his salt   down this way so the person with  the salt was the one with the power   that meant i was walking in an ancient gold mine  look how huge this is unbelievable how high is   that that is 40 meters 40 meters 120 feet and  if i was up there what year would that have been   1868 1868 and we're standing where 1932. so they  did all that in about yes maybe 50 years amazing   when vlad came to power the abundant salt  deposits of transylvania were still being mined   vlad dracula also used the seemingly  innocent commodity for more sinister actions   it is said that he would skin the feet  of his prisoners coat the wounds in salt   and let goats lick it off just another way to  keep order in his volatile land from the romans   paying their soldiers to vlad's use of salt  for punishment to saving lives in world war   ii these salt mines have always been  an important lifeblood in romania vlad dracula ruled the province of velocia three  separate times for a total of nearly seven years   but it's what he left below the ground that's most  impressive over the years vlad had gained himself   many enemies but some of his greatest enemies were  members of his own family at the time there was   no clear plan for succession of the throne which  meant that all princes within the dynasty had the   right to rule so brother fought brother for power  during the height of his second reign vlad built   a new palace on the outskirts of the province  it was a fortress that would solidify his power in 1459 vlad turned a small fort in the remote  town of bucharest into a princely palace now   called kurteveke he built a massive citadel  and surrounded it with his loyal subjects and   wealthy merchants and bucharest soon grew into a  political and economic power unfortunately like a   lot of medieval buildings the palace was ravaged  by constant warfare and fires and today much of   kurtiavek is in ruins but deep beneath the ground  a small piece of vlad's grand palace still remains   gabrielle constantine was my key to getting into  one of vlad's most famous fortresses and monica   finlay would translate i'm glad to welcome us  huh yes he's our friend looks very stately today   okay let's go inside today  the entrance is easy to miss   but just 10 feet beneath our feet lies the  very foundation that established a new capital oh it's amazing it's huge huh this subterranean  space is all that remains of the fortress   responsible for the development of modern day  bucharest long before the bustling metropolis   existed here this area was a sleepy village  of farmers and small merchants peddling their   handicrafts when vlad arrived he took an ordinary  observation tower and transformed it into a ten   thousand square foot fortress complete  with a royal residence and marketplace   but this was more than just a place  for local farmers to sell their crops   it was where vlad dracula established his  slave trade vlad allowed non-christians   criminals and captured turks to be sold as  slaves and soon this area began to thrive   but little do they know that this boom  in economic and cultural development   would eventually light the spark for the founding  of modern day romania's capital city traces of   dracula's original design still remain if you know  where to look so i can see the wall the original   as well yes from that time but this is different  here yes all right so we have the different eras   of construction this being vlad tepes's fortress  with the river stone and the mortar and this is   a newer construction and that's much newer over  there for almost two centuries vlad successors   built their own extravagant castles right on top  of the existing structure essentially burying all   that remained of vlad dracula's original design  today these passageways snake beneath the streets but in dracula's days this would have been  the ground floor of his palace and marketplace   to later rulers it would have been the basement  they expanded vlad's palace creating a structure   even larger than his 10 000 square foot complex  it contained a private garden in the middle   and administration buildings and living quarters  would have been directly above the rooms i was in   in the late 18th century a new castle  was built not far away and eventually   this castle fell into disrepair and homes  were built around it until finally during   the communist era buildings covered the entire  area effectively paving over romania's dark past   most have no idea that this piece  of dracula's life still exists   but if he had never built this retreat romania's  capital city of bucharest might never have been vlad dracula built curtiveca at the height of  his power but just a few short years later his   final reign would come to an end but not even  his death could bring an end to his legacy   ask any romanian where vlad the impaler is buried  and they'll tell you about a darkened church on a   remote island accessible only by boat but like  his life vlad's death is shrouded in mystery   some say his skeletal remains were stolen others  say he's buried near his treasure of gold or in   a tunnel that runs beneath the lake whatever the  case vlad seems to have eluded his fate once again   by going underground in ancient myths souls  often have to cross a body of water to reach   the afterlife the underworld so somehow it  seems fitting that we have to cross a lake   to reach what legend says is the  romanian burial site of vlad dracula approaching it you wouldn't think that this   deserted looking island could be  just 25 miles north of bucharest   snagoth island is so secluded it's easy to imagine  vlad dracula wanting to spend eternity here but much of his medieval island  retreat has crumbled with time   donna matate is a guide trying to  get to the bottom of vlad's legend   she agreed to take me to see the real life dracula  that is really something oh yeah yeah it was built   by dracula by his order this year well here this  one here yes so it is from 15th century middle   of the 15th century yeah there's water down here  the reason is very good first of all dracula build   a prison and with the prisoners he built this  bounty i see really they dug with their hands   during the construction of this well dracula  is rumored to have placed a bag of gold next   to it as a symbol of his power he claimed that  as long as he lived no one would touch the gold   and he was right legend says the gold  remained there until the day he died   but the gold isn't here anymore ah somebody took  it unfortunately it is no more leaving that's true but there's one structure on the island  that has lasted through the years   an 11th century church vlad's chosen burial site wow you can feel his presence oh here we go there  he is look at him look at him oh hello yes   he is here glad the impaler yes  this is his tomb this is his talk   yes this is his system his remains are under  here now we think so this is the mystery some   of the people says that he couldn't have been  buried in a church after many things he did just about every aspect of vlad dracula's  death and burial remains a mystery   most sources say that he was finally killed  in battle and beheaded by the turks in 1476   the turkish version ends with vlad's  head displayed on a stake in istanbul   as visible proof of vlad the impaler's demise but  those who revere his legacy say that his friends   buried his head on athoes mountain in modern day  greece so why not put these rumors to rest in 1935   a group of archaeologists tried to do just  that but what they found buried beneath the   site where i was standing brought more questions  than answers they discovered some rich growth very   fitted for a prince they discovered a special  ring with the coat of arms of dracula vlad's   bones were never found much like the many myths  inspired by bram stoker's vampire count dracula   many mysteries surround the fate  of the real life vlad the impaler today dracula's regions of volakia and  transylvania are part of modern day romania and   vlad dracula has left a lasting impression there  but his legacy goes well beyond the fortresses   churches and even the capital city he helped to  create vlad ruled for a short span of nearly seven   years it's hard to fathom but during that time  it said he killed between 40 and 100 000 people mystery will always surround the  real-life prince called dracula   and who knows what other secrets  he's left for us in the underground you

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Published: Wed Dec 30 2020