Jun 24, 2026 · 1 hr 28 min · 13 segments
Hey readers! This week we’re returning to the story of Dracula’s mysterious burial and the book that continues to haunt historians centuries later. As the narrator and her father explore the…
All right, so we're jumping back in with the narrator and her father traveling to Kostanovica.
Kostanovica? I'm sure I'm completely fucking butchering that.
Who knows? I'm sure we're going to, yeah, fuck that up.
Kostanovica.
Kostanovica? Kostanovica, yeah.
Just say it really fast.
I'm so sorry.
Which apparently none of us can visit because we're all klitzes and it has a lot of little chestnuts that trip the shit out of people.
So not a city we will go to.
So, and her father continues his story of reading through Rossi's letters.
And in them, he notes that he spoke out loud about finding the tomb before Hedge's death, but also in Istanbul.
So he spoke it in both places and he thinks there's a link to the consequences.
And when he receives his book back from the Smithsonian, the name of the tomb has been replaced.
With Rossi's own name,
which I want to say called it.
I want like I think I think he's right.
I think that it's about something about it being spoken that like it's like Voldemort's name.
You speak it aloud.
It summons him or something.
Yeah.
And the consequences too.
Otherwise you could just say the name and be like, you know, whatever.
And then he shows up and you're like, nevermind.
And then just, you know, keep calling him back over and over.
That'd be fun.
All right, so we're jumping back in with the narrator and her father traveling to Kostanovica.
Kostanovica? I'm sure I'm completely fucking butchering that.
Who knows? I'm sure we're going to, yeah, fuck that up.
Kostanovica.
Kostanovica? Kostanovica, yeah.
Just say it really fast.
I'm so sorry.
Which apparently none of us can visit because we're all klitzes and it has a lot of little chestnuts that trip the shit out of people.
So not a city we will go to.
So, and her father continues his story of reading through Rossi's letters.
And in them, he notes that he spoke out loud about finding the tomb before Hedge's death, but also in Istanbul.
So he spoke it in both places and he thinks there's a link to the consequences.
And when he receives his book back from the Smithsonian, the name of the tomb has been replaced.
With Rossi's own name,
which I want to say called it.
I want like I think I think he's right.
I think that it's about something about it being spoken that like it's like Voldemort's name.
You speak it aloud.
It summons him or something.
Yeah.
And the consequences too.
Otherwise you could just say the name and be like, you know, whatever.
And then he shows up and you're like, nevermind.
And then just, you know, keep calling him back over and over.
That'd be fun.
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