Vlad II Dracul

right? Exactly.

I mean, if current law is anything to go by, he lost a couple of relatives, his beloved sister and his bride-to-be in the process when Vlad Dracul decided eventually to enter new shores like England.

As I said, it's all written down and the book is called, if not completely mistaken actually, by this documentary author called Bram Stoker.

And the book is called, I think, Dracula, as simple as that.

Stephan and Vlad Tepes? Um, family ties, Stephan's mother, um, Oltea Maria was related by blood or marriage to the Basarab dynasty of Wallachia.

This made Stefan a cousin to Vlad III and Radu, both sons of Vlad II Dracul.

The Bogdan-Must dynasty and the Basarab dynasty were interlinked by marriages and alliances and betrayals across the 15th century.

Family ties, however, did not guarantee loyalty, as we will see.

Was it too scary for them?

No, it was just, it was foreign enough to be interesting, and also he had heard stories of Vlad Dracul, and it was scary as fuck.

So he's like, you know what? Maybe that guy.

Maybe that guy's a vampire.

I'm going to give you one name, one name, and I'm thinking you're going to figure it out.

Vlad Dracul.

Yeah, he's talking about Vlad the Impaler.

Oh,

And after the fact, I just... realized that there is so much similarity between draconians and Dracula, Dracu, so it's the same linguistic roots.

So they might have kept some roots, linguistic root signatures, because Vlad the Impeller was also called Vlad Dracul.

So But in my perspective, these are different extraterrestrial races that have some inner struggling for power and control and things like that.

So I don't think they are friendly to one another.

Mm-hmm.

Um, and matter of fact, Vlad Dracula was the son of Vlad Dracul, and so Dracul means dragon or demon, depending on the translation.

Um, and so Dracula would mean, like, little dragon or little, little, or little devil or little demon, um, to show that he was the son of his father.

Sure.

I know this is spoiler alert.

I will say, okay, I don't like the fact that it's Dracula because Vlad Dracul was a cool real guy in history.

And if all you know is the pop culture Dracula, you think, oh, it's just this fantastic vampire thing.

There's actually a guy named Vlad Dracul in history, and he killed a bunch of enemies of Christendom.

And this guy was a bad dude.

He was a real person.

And he was really this important.

He could have been an aristocrat of some sort, I'm sure, back in the day.

I'm indeed your spooky host, Joe the Ghost Guy.

Turned a few times, but this will give you why, 'cause tonight, this episode contains documented history about Vlad III of Wallachia with the Romanian vampire folklore and Bram Stoker's fictional Dracula and dramatized horror scenes.

The supernatural encounters are storytelling and verified... are not verified historical events.

Yes, tonight, there are names that history remembers.

But there is one name that refuses to remain buried.

One name that has terrified generations and generations and generations.

One name that has become synonymous with darkness itself, and that is Dracula.

Some believe he was a merely, a cruel ruler.

But anyway, this guy, Vlad the Impaler, was supposedly the inspiration for Count Dracula himself.

And his father, so Vlad the Impaler's father was actually called Vlad Dracul.

So Vlad, the son was-

Do the voice if you're gonna say it.

[laughs] Dracul.

Dracul.

So Vlad the Son was Vlad Dracula.

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