Although the picture did authentically date to the 1920s, captions identifying it as "the real Dracula's castle," and implying it was abandoned at the time the photo was taken, were not factually ...

THE "true" home of Dracula where bloodthirsty Vlad the Impaler lived is set to open to the public. Until five years ago, Poienari Castle in the city of Curtea de Arge, Romania, had been left ...

While there's some debate about who the first real-life vampire was ... Vlad rather than the fictional vampire. Bran Castle, ...

Even more than a century after publication, the character of Count Dracula remains one of the ... there and certainly didn’t live in the castle which now stands there. The same year of his ...

She led a privileged life ... to her castle to receive an education. With these legendary vampiric tendencies, it is said that she is the part inspiration behind the 1897 horror novel Dracula ...

Cloaked in a black cape like the infamous count himself, 10-year-old Niklas Schuetz runs through the dark corridors of a hilltop castle in search of the truth about Dracula. “He was a Romanian ...

From the countess who bathed in blood to the real Dracula, here are some of the scariest real-life figures ... level gentlemen's daughters) to the castle, either to act as maidservants or ...