Vlad Tepes, Vlad the Impaler, the real life dracula, is surrounded by folklore, mystery, and myth. Even during his time the stories about his famed impalings traveled all around Europe.

While the life of Vlad the Impaler had long since ended, the enduring legend of Dracula was just beginning. Was Vlad Dracula the only inspiration for Bram Stoker’s best-selling vampire?

Vlad the Impaler, the fearsome Romanian ruler that ... He's widely thought to be the source of bloody European legends that were later connected to the folklore of "vampirism" to create the ...

New research shows that Vlad the Impaler may have cried tears of blood. This condition, known as hemolacria, adds another bloody footnote to the legend of the famously brutal monarch. Vlad the ...

Among their findings: the Romanian prince was not a vampire, but he may have wept tears of blood, consistent with certain legends about ... be related to Prince Vlad the Impaler, who wrote and ...

Vlad the Impaler is a name that many know of ... However, his personal life and conditions are highly based on legends, with the recent discovery of scientists confirming a condition he manifested ...

Vlad III — known as Vlad the Impaler or Voivode (Prince ... which helped create his legend. In a 2011 documentary about the Carpathian mountains, King Charles, who was then the Prince of ...

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 ...

But now it seems that Vlad the Impaler, namesake of Bram Stoker's 1897 ... which may have inspired the legends about Dracula. We know for certain that Vlad Drăculea — merciless defender of ...