Transcript
Joe The Ghost Guy: GOOOOOO Good morning. good afternoon, good evening, where we are across the country and around the world. You are listening to Ghost Stories.
Joe The Ghost Guy: and the unusual paranormal pox. podcast. I'm indeed your spooky host. Joe the Ghost Guy.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Turned a few times. but This will give you why Because tonight... This episode contains documented history.
Joe The Ghost Guy: about Vlad III of Wallachia with the Romanian vampire folklore and Bram Stoker's fictional Dracula.
Joe The Ghost Guy: and dramatized horror scenes. the supernatural encounters Our storytelling and. Verified. are not verified historical events Yes, tonight.
Joe The Ghost Guy: There are names. that history remembers. Names. Carved in Ames.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Better or whisper. in church.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Names. buried. beneath the century A blood. Suffering. And of course. Death. But there is one name that refuses.
Joe The Ghost Guy: to remain buried. One name. That is terrified. generation. and generation. and generation.
Joe The Ghost Guy: one name that has become. synonymous. with darkness. itself. And that is...
Joe The Ghost Guy: Dracula.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Some believe. He was a merely man. a c cruel ruler. Others believe. He was a monster. were in the face of man.
Joe The Ghost Guy: And still. other. Whisper. that somewhere... In the Forgotten Mountains. of Romania Aheim. The Crumlin Walls.
Joe The Ghost Guy: of an ancient fortress something. waits. for the darkness. to return. something.
Joe The Ghost Guy: that does not breathe. Something. that does not age. Something. That is, watched centuries past. while were world above.
Joe The Ghost Guy: It's gray. has changed. Shanti. jumpti And it's very... Very. Hungry. Tonight. We are traveling back into the one. of the darkest chapters in European history.
Joe The Ghost Guy: to a lag. where bodies We're or display. unsharpened. Stay. We're armies. trembled before the cruelty.
Joe The Ghost Guy: of a single ruler. Where? Superstition. and religion. collided. with violence. Peace.
Joe The Ghost Guy: In words of legend. of the vampire. What is that? i've been be.
Joe The Ghost Guy: mentally. become attached. One of history. most feared names. but Be warned.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Dear listeners, The real history. behind Dracula. is filled with horrors. that require. No supernatural.
Joe The Ghost Guy: explanation. Because before Dracula... became a vampire. Before he heap came. A creature. the night.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Before it became. immortal count Who hunted? who haunted the pages of Gothic literature.
Joe The Ghost Guy: He was a real man. A prince. A warrior. End. Even. Execution.
Joe The Ghost Guy: whose enemies New home. has lost. The Impaler.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Our story begins. around the year. 1431
Joe The Ghost Guy: in the medieval town. Sighișoara. in Transylvania. A child was born. into a world.
Joe The Ghost Guy: of war. betrayal. and ruthless. political Ambition. Hmm. His name was Vlad.
Joe The Ghost Guy: You are but now. become known as Vlad. The third. Dracula. and eventually the world would remember them.
Joe The Ghost Guy: A far more terrifying name. Vlad Țepeș, the Impaler his father.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Vlad the Second. Drac - Cool. was associated with the order of the dragon. a civic order.
Joe The Ghost Guy: members.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Pleaded. among whose members were pledged to defend Christianity. and their political interest against their name.
Joe The Ghost Guy: enemies. A name for a cool. is associated with the dragon. while Dracula identify Vlad.
Joe The Ghost Guy: as the son of Draculian. but over the centuries The name would. in acquire a much darker medium. in the popular.
Joe The Ghost Guy: imagination. the son of dragon. the son of the devil. The Prince of Darkness.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Imagine. a young Vlad. walking through the stone corridor. the flame. of a torch. Tremaine against the walls.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Beyond these walls The world is burning. rulers. or being overthrown. families. are being slaughtered.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Children. rbn Prisoners. of political warmth, it cannot. understand. As a boy. Vlad. and his younger brother, Radu.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Radu. were held as hostages by them. Ottoman court a consequence of their fathers.
Joe The Ghost Guy: political. ambitions.
Joe The Ghost Guy: This was no supernatural imprisonment. It was something far more human. a world in which a child's freedom to be traded.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Fur. A beer. Obedience of a King. and somewhere within the world. A boy. was learning that mercy can be dangerous.
Joe The Ghost Guy: that fear can con... er... command obedience. and that the dead can send messages to the living.
Joe The Ghost Guy: We do not know. Whether Vlad. spoke these words. but the terrible. Repetition He would inquire.
Joe The Ghost Guy: makes them and on purpose. Yeah. An appropriate warning. Because the child. who had been. held hostage.
Joe The Ghost Guy: would one day become the ruler. Whose methods? horrified his enemy. and the grounds. of Wallachia. What drink?
Joe The Ghost Guy: The blood. of thousands.
Joe The Ghost Guy: The Year is 1462. and the Ottoman Empire. under Salted. Me him it The second.
Joe The Ghost Guy: It's advanced. to Wallachia.
Joe The Ghost Guy: its soldiers have Paste. dangerous enemies before. They have marched. beneath burning the city. They have. conquered.
Joe The Ghost Guy: many fortresses. Yeah. witness. A whore. a medieval warfare But what waits? for them.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Near. cargo best time. will become one of the most Notorious episodes. associated. is live. Correct.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Imagine yourself. helps. and or the main soldier. you have marched for days. Your arm It's just heavy.
Joe The Ghost Guy: your mouth. is so dry. The Sun. Rises over Grand Canyon. shrouded. in the morning i mist And when you notice. something in the distance.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Something. Stand it upright. at first. You believe. There are trees. Calm. thin trees without branches.
Joe The Ghost Guy: But the fog. begins to lift. you realize That the terrible truth. lies. There are not. trees.
Joe The Ghost Guy: They are. Wooden. Stakes. And a pun. You'll stay. are human. Bodies.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Hundreds. even thousands. A body. and various stages of decay. Some dressed.
Joe The Ghost Guy: and what remains of military. slowly. Others barely. Recognizable. wind carries. The Sick Meal. over.
Joe The Ghost Guy: of death process. purchase time. Raven. Gather over ahead. slides. cover the faces of the dead.
Joe The Ghost Guy: and the soldiers. Real life. that Good. There's no ordinary battlefield. This is simply A message.
Joe The Ghost Guy: A warning. From Vlad. Dracula. It did it. Decration. that anyone who enters.
Joe The Ghost Guy: His territory. May never. Leave it. Alive.
Joe The Ghost Guy: historical counts. Just great. a vast display in killed. victim. near Târgoviște.
Joe The Ghost Guy: is steady. Sometimes, estimated. Approximately. Twenty. thousand. People.
Joe The Ghost Guy: The exact numbers remain uncertain. but surviving description may contain
Joe The Ghost Guy: exaggeration.
Joe The Ghost Guy: but Vlad. user. You serve. impalement. As in... instrument of terror is formally part of the historical record.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Think about it. The cruelty. Required. To create. Such. It plays.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Such a wimp. day. Not a single. Execution. Not. A moment. Oh. uncontrolled rage.
Joe The Ghost Guy: but an organ. display of suffering.
Joe The Ghost Guy: It's time. Turn. the human body. into weapons. A psychological... warfare. and somewhere behind. yawn the terrible forest.
Joe The Ghost Guy: instead of real work. responsible. Why? See you. Be alert. whose enemies feared him.
Joe The Ghost Guy: more than darkness. itself. one of the most The skirt. disturbing stories. about Vlad.
Joe The Ghost Guy: claims that he enjoyed Eating. Well surrounded by his impaled victims. Subversion. even described him as different bread.
Joe The Ghost Guy: in turn that are human.
Joe The Ghost Guy: these accounts. circulated. in hostile stories. about why. and their most. to sexual detail.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Cannot. Eat. treated. as established fact. but Imagine the scene. as those stories described it.
Joe The Ghost Guy: A long table. then beneath The doc. the blackened sky. tortures. Burn on either side.
Joe The Ghost Guy: A feast has been brought. prepared. Me. and why. and surrounding the table.
Joe The Ghost Guy: or a silhouette. of the dead.
Joe The Ghost Guy: The Prince. Races and goblins. It looks appalling. landscape. He smiled.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Let me see. What become? are those who betray me.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Was he a Defender of this country A brutal tyrant? A warrior? was cruelty become... the legend History remembers.
Joe The Ghost Guy: All those. competing images. but The horror when they... The real Dracula.
Joe The Ghost Guy: did not need. Thanks. to become fear. Yeah. sharp bit Stay.
Joe The Ghost Guy: and the entire kingdom. knew what he
Joe The Ghost Guy: June 1462
Joe The Ghost Guy: that auto meaning. Army. is encamped. in Wallachia. It's... Soldiers. believe.
Joe The Ghost Guy: the darkness. offers temporary safety. The campfires. I beg of you. Love it. horses. And let's do it.
Joe The Ghost Guy: beneath the moon. A few guards patrol the perimeter. but beyond the fire. something. It's moving. plot Dracula.
Joe The Ghost Guy: it's preparing
Joe The Ghost Guy: the historical night. attack against the Ottoman camp. is remembered as. one of the most dramatic. episodes of his campaign.
Joe The Ghost Guy: his forces attempted to strike. at the ultimate leadership. The air.
Joe The Ghost Guy: is cold. The Forest. is silent. and erupted in people. Here we go.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Terps. collapse. Soldiers. rushing to the dark. Horses break free Men struggle. Distinguish enemies.
Joe The Ghost Guy: from either their own company.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Shadows. Move between the flames. and somewhere within. A confession. Vlad Warriors.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Search for their story. target Saltine. We have met. the second The ultimate Army.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Survive. And Vlad's desperate. campaign. 10 years. This is the historical Dracula.
Joe The Ghost Guy: not the supernatural being. Not a vampires. imaging from that. from the top there. a ruler.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Who understood the terrible power A surprise. wild. and fear. And yet... his story It's not. this It's not.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Excuse me. Not to stay. The end of the battlefield. Just long after his death another Dracula.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Foot rock. One. who's victim. would not be displayed on the stage.
Joe The Ghost Guy: they would be found. in their bed. Hail. week. and my two small words. upon the throat.
Joe The Ghost Guy: 9 and 1476 After years of... political upheaval. imprisonment. and struggles for power.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Vlad Dracula. Briefly. We came. That's cool. Wallachia.
Joe The Ghost Guy: But his final reign. would be short. He was killed. it leaked. 1476. more early.
Joe The Ghost Guy: December 1476. Likely. Need a bite.
Joe The Ghost Guy: the pure circumstances of his death. remain uncertain. a Accounts Driffer Accounts differ.
Joe The Ghost Guy: about Who killed him? And how? His body was treated afterward.
Joe The Ghost Guy: traditions have associated his Burial. We have Good night. Monastery while other theories point elsewhere.
Joe The Ghost Guy: His final resting place has never been established beyond dispute.
Joe The Ghost Guy: And... So the question remains. Where was Rod? Dracula buried.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Imagine. I forgotten grave. beneath the ruins of an old church. a stone's throw. lies beneath centuries of dust.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Yeah. Inscription was worn away. The water. drips from fur I'm Ben Mesa. don't It costed.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Now I'm mad. a grave robber. entering the chamber. centuries later. He carries a lantern. his hands. shape.
Joe The Ghost Guy: his knee He besides coffee. He lifts the lid. and say... Praise the body.
Joe The Ghost Guy: wrapped in decaying a cloth. But something is wrong. the flesh. appears untouched by time. the hands.
Joe The Ghost Guy: are falling across the The lips. or dark. and beneath them. to Well... pointed. Peace.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Who was? described. Who have described it nicely?
Joe The Ghost Guy: has disturbed. Mice. me.
Joe The Ghost Guy: that scene. It's fiction. But there is no... reliable evidence. That's why Dracula. Rose. from this grave.
Joe The Ghost Guy: But it. brought us the next terrifying part. of our story because in Easter... European book war. did not always remain.
Joe The Ghost Guy: doesn't always mean. What the dead? would remain. At rest.
Joe The Ghost Guy: long before. Bram Stoker. famous novel. communities in Eastern Europe. both stories about the wrestlers. Yeah.
Joe The Ghost Guy: and Romanian folklore. one of the most frightening supernatural figures. was there. Priyagoni.
Joe The Ghost Guy: String agoni was socialist. Period. Or... Reverence. I would. that could return. From the death.
Joe The Ghost Guy: to trouble the living. different traditions. described. them differently. Some were believed to drain.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Right? violently from their victim
Joe The Ghost Guy: others. Blame for... illness. misfortune. or unexplained deaths. and communities. where his deeds would get spread.
Joe The Ghost Guy: We'll see you out of here. No cards. Stories of returning dead. sometimes offended. and supernatural. explanation. I've tried. for tragedy.
Joe The Ghost Guy: and the fear. Happy - So powerful. that the people describe brains. to present the dance. from returning.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Now listen closely. Because this next story. is the drummer. Taisation. Inspire. I don't know. beliefs.
Joe The Ghost Guy: a small village. sweeps beneath. And now...
Joe The Ghost Guy: at the hue at the edge of the settlement Stand. and old. wooden cottage. Inside. lives a widow.
Joe The Ghost Guy: named Eleanor.
Joe The Ghost Guy: her husband. Three weeks. earlier. sense. Yes. burial. Strange things happen. What is to happen?
Joe The Ghost Guy: Every night. shortly Oh. after midnight. Someone one knocks upon the door.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Three time. ever before. Never two. Always three.
Joe The Ghost Guy: The first nine. Hell no. believed it was the wind. the second night. She fears footsteps outside.
Joe The Ghost Guy: the third night A voice calls her name.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Hello. Oh, no.
Joe The Ghost Guy: She freezes. It's her husband's voice. or Her husband. is dead. She approaches the door.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Who was there?
Joe The Ghost Guy: then
Joe The Ghost Guy: My love.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Eleanor begins to... Try. She places in her hand against the wooden door.
Joe The Ghost Guy: The truth?
Joe The Ghost Guy: Open the door.
Joe The Ghost Guy: She reacts. She reaches for the latch. but something. Stop, sir. beneath the door. She sees a shadow.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Two feet. and emotions.
Joe The Ghost Guy: and beside them. Adore. Liquid. slowly spread it across for reports.
Joe The Ghost Guy: The smell. of what... soil. fills the room.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Eleanor. Let me inside.
Joe The Ghost Guy: She backs away. The door handled the gifts. Turn. Slowly. and faster. that an op game becomes pound me.
Joe The Ghost Guy: OPEN I don't.
Joe The Ghost Guy: But by morning They call it... the cottage. rejection. the fire Burned out Adore. It was wide open.
Joe The Ghost Guy: and across the floor. or muddy footprints. The importance of elements.
Joe The Ghost Guy: but not leading. Back out. the villagers. Search the house. They find no trace of her. only a dark day.
Joe The Ghost Guy: apartment. Take care. and free me. deep scratches. on the inside of the bedroom door.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Was it three? What was it? here.
Joe The Ghost Guy: or had something returned from the cemetery The story. fictional. the fear. is real.
Joe The Ghost Guy: per generation. people believe. but the dead. could return to feed. upon the living. soon.
Joe The Ghost Guy: those ancient belief What helps fire a monster. war page They'd by any other.
Joe The Ghost Guy: more than four centuries after Vlad Dracula's birth. another man. would get. The name. Dracula. A new.
Joe The Ghost Guy: and terrified of life. His name. was Bram Stoker. He was the Irish right working on Victorian in Victorian Britain.
Joe The Ghost Guy: in 1897. be published. Dracula. The novel introduced readers. to count dracula And...
Joe The Ghost Guy: S dramatic. Vampire living. In a remote. Transylvanian. capsule. Stoker True, Ron. true art. Vampire Theater.
Joe The Ghost Guy: After. tradition. and historical reading. He encountered the name Dracula in a focused household. Wallachia.
Joe The Ghost Guy: and... Moldavia through the scholars debate. how much the historical Vlad the Third.
Joe The Ghost Guy: influenced the fictional count. but Stoker's. greatest achievement. Was not merely. Queen Vampire. It was. making.
Joe The Ghost Guy: The impossible. feel horrifiably real. through letters. journals. and eyewitnesses accounts. his novel.
Joe The Ghost Guy: presented the Supernatural. as something gradually Discovered. by original people and the pages of that novel.
Joe The Ghost Guy: An unforgettable nightmare. began.
Joe The Ghost Guy: A young. English. solicitor named Jonathan Harker Travels into the... Carpathian. mountains is Destination as an isolated castle.
Joe The Ghost Guy: his c client. is a mysterious. Nobleman. Gaunt. Dracula. The villagers react with terror.
Joe The Ghost Guy: When Jonathan... Mentions. the count's name. They make signs of protection. They whisper prayers. one woman.
Joe The Ghost Guy: is him. a crucifix with jonathan dismisses their warnings. Yes, and... educated man. He does not believe in vampires.
Joe The Ghost Guy: He believes in contracts. Property. businesses. and responsible. explanations of them modern world.
Joe The Ghost Guy: The reason begins to film as his carriage.
Joe The Ghost Guy: approaches the castle The horses. Drew. grew restless. Wolves gather in the darkness. and high above the mountain road.
Joe The Ghost Guy: a portrait. appears beneath the moon. Its windows are black It's towers resemble. Let's get. stare as kato Skeletal Figures The towers represent scale.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Skeletor. Fingers reaching towards the heavens. And they... And the carriage stops. A massive wooden door opens.
Joe The Ghost Guy: within the doorway is a tall Hell gentlemen.
Joe The Ghost Guy: His eyes g gleam. Beneath the heavy brows His face is strangely cold. And his face reveals.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Teeth. They have seen. unreasonably sharp.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Count Dracula?
Joe The Ghost Guy: my house
Joe The Ghost Guy: gentlemanton has entered the home. of a monster. and before long. he will discover that he is not.
Joe The Ghost Guy: A guest. He is A prisoner.
Joe The Ghost Guy: At first, Count Dracula. appears. courteous He speaks private. up but Politely. it is He discusses England.
Joe The Ghost Guy: He asked Jonathan questions about London But there's something. deeply unnatural boredom. He never seems to eat. He is absent during the daylight.
Joe The Ghost Guy: There are no servants And whenever Jonathan wanders through the castle, He finds. the doors. that are law. And then...
Joe The Ghost Guy: It becomes the moment of the day. Changes everything. Jonathan Shavey He looks in the mirror. that counts. suddenly appears behind them.
Joe The Ghost Guy: But in the mirror... There is no reflection. Jonathan turns. Dracula Stands directly behind him. and the Count's eyes are fixed upon a small cut.
Joe The Ghost Guy: On Jonathan's face. a single drop of blood rolls down his chin. Dracula's expression changes.
Joe The Ghost Guy: is lips. Drew back. His eyes. turned into hunger. Bear's eyes burn with hunger. And for some terrible instant.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Charlton. Sees the monster beneath the ward the the nobleman's skin. The Celt lunges. But the crucifix Jonathan wears interrupts him.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Dracula retreats. and Jonathan. begins to understand. the castle. is not merely And. ancient fortress It's a prison.
Joe The Ghost Guy: It's a tomb.
Joe The Ghost Guy: It is a feeding ground. one night Jonathan enters. The chamber. where he has began.
Joe The Ghost Guy: I wonder... Warn not to sleep He lies down. The moonlight spills across the floor. Then he feared Then here's laughter.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Soft. Beautiful. A natural. Three women. emerge from the shadows. Their faces are pale.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Their lips are red. Their eyes glitter with. A terrible hunger. They move towards jonathan One kneels beside him.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Their hair brushes against his throat. you feel He feels their breath. Cold. as the grave Her mouth. opens.
Joe The Ghost Guy: And two. sharp teeth approaches skin
Joe The Ghost Guy: he is mine.
Joe The Ghost Guy: the women Choral. The Count. stands in the doorway. furious. His face is... Twisted. with rage for a moment Jonathan understands something.
Joe The Ghost Guy: even more horrified. Than the experience of vampires He is sudden. He is surrounded by creatures. that feed upon human life.
Joe The Ghost Guy: And the only reason... He is still alive. That Dracula. has not finished. using him.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Dracula. has plans beyond his castle. He attends to travel to England. He aborts a vessel called Demeter.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Or he calls it. as it boards the vessel called the Demeter. He begins his journey. The ship carries boxes of earth.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Earth from his homeland. Earth. that will allow the vampire to rest far from his ancient castle.
Joe The Ghost Guy: But. during the voyage something terrible begins to happen The crew members. disappear. One. by
Joe The Ghost Guy: A sailor. vanishes during the night watch. Another. is never seen after entering the cargo hold. and remain the remaining men.
Joe The Ghost Guy: become frightened. They speak of a strange figure. Moving through the ship. A tall man. Hail. Silent.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Up. peering where no man should be. The Captain. tries to remain order. to maintain order. But each night.
Joe The Ghost Guy: brings another disappearance And as the ship approaches England, The Crew. is almost. Gone.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Imagine. The captain alone at the wheel. His hands. We're stiff with cold. Storm. It's. Tyrion.
Joe The Ghost Guy: as tearing the ship apart. He knows something. has killed his crew. He knows it is still aboard. And he knows. that whatever it is.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Must not be allowed. Take the ship. without. Resistance. He binds himself to the wheel
Joe The Ghost Guy: The waves crash over the deck. Lightning. illuminates. the cargo hat. And there... for a fraction of a second stands it tall.
Joe The Ghost Guy: black figure. motionless. watching. The captain screams into the storm. But the figure does not move It simply smiles.
Joe The Ghost Guy: When the Demeter reaches Would it be? The Captain. is dead. and a large black dog. leaps from the ship.
Joe The Ghost Guy: and disappears in the darkness. The Count. has arrived. England. has become. It's new. hunting ground And the nightmare is only...
Joe The Ghost Guy: Just beginning. In England, dracula's hunger Turns towards a young woman named Lucy.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Westenra.
Joe The Ghost Guy: She is beautiful. Kind. for life. But night. after the night. She begins to waken or skin.
Joe The Ghost Guy: grows pale. Her strength disappears. She suffers. Strange dreams. and two small marks appear on her neck.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Doctors. struggled to understand her condition. Her friends. become. Increasingly, Desperate than the professor Abraham von Helsing.
Joe The Ghost Guy: enters the story. He is the physician. and scholar familiar with the ancient legends of the undead. And he begins to suspect.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Something dreadful. Lucy. is not suffering from any ordinary illness. something is visiting her. at night.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Something. is still with her blood. Something. that should have remained. Buried. Despite. attempts to save her.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Lucy. dies. Her loved ones mourn. Her coffin is sealed. And she is late to rest.
Joe The Ghost Guy: soon as frightening reports become circulating. Children have been found on... wandering near the cemetery some speak of a beautiful woman who appears after dark others.
Joe The Ghost Guy: are discovered as small wounds upon their throats. Van Helsing Fear is the impossible. has happened. Lucy.
Joe The Ghost Guy: has returned. But as the... young woman. They loved. but as one. of the undead. Van Helsing was Hey.
Joe The Ghost Guy: has er Van Helsing and his companions. Enter Lucy's tomb. They approached the coffin. Slowly. They open it.
Joe The Ghost Guy: The coffin. is empty. They wait. and wait. And wait. Then...
Joe The Ghost Guy: They hear footsteps. A woman's. Soft laughter. Figure. emerges from the darkness. It was Lucy.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Her bare clothes. are pale. Her face. It's beautiful. But her lips... or stained. with blood.
Joe The Ghost Guy: She carries a child in her arms. When she sees the men She lets the child fall. Her eyes settled upon. Arthur.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Holmwood. The man. who had loved her. She smiles.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Come. to me, Arthur.
Joe The Ghost Guy: He takes. a step. forward. But Van Helsing stops him. Because the woman... standing before them.
Joe The Ghost Guy: is no longer. Lucy, they knew. She is. a Vampire. and the hunger in her eyes.
Joe The Ghost Guy: is unmistakable. In Bram Stoker's novel, Lucy is ultimately released from her undead existence.
Joe The Ghost Guy: through a horrifying ritual. Evolve in a state driven through her heart. It is one of them. Story's most disturbing moments.
Joe The Ghost Guy: the monster is destroyed. but the people. who loved Lucy. must confront the terrible sign. Terrible sight of her body.
Joe The Ghost Guy: A tragedy of Dracula is not only... that he kills It is that he transforms the dead into instruments of terror.
Joe The Ghost Guy: and people. who survived must face the unit nightmare of destroying someone. They wants love.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Dracula's next victim. is Mina Harker. Jonathan's wife. Intelligent. Determined. and deeply involved.
Joe The Ghost Guy: in the effect to understand. and stop the vampire. But Dracula is not merely a beast driven by hunger. He is cunning.
Joe The Ghost Guy: He can manipulate. He can threaten. You can enter the rides. of their enemies and turn their greatest fears against them.
Joe The Ghost Guy: One night the vampire reaches Mina. The encounter leaves her... bound. to him by a terrible supernatural connection.
Joe The Ghost Guy: She fears. that she may eventually become a creature like him. her companions. Race Defined.
Joe The Ghost Guy: account. before it's too late. they reach his properties. They destroy his. place of refuge.
Joe The Ghost Guy: They follow. the evidence. that leads them back towards Transylvania. and slowly. Dracula begins to lose his advantage.
Joe The Ghost Guy: for the first time. The Hunter. is being hunted. The pursuit carries the group back. to the Carpathian.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Mountain. Winter. Clothes around them The sky. grows dark. A wagon. races towards Dracula's castle.
Joe The Ghost Guy: carrying the box. and watch the count rests. is protectors. Flight. to deliver him before sunset.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Jonathan Harker and Quincy Morris struggled to reach him. to reach the coffin. Van Helsing and the others. Fight to prevent. Dracula's escape.
Joe The Ghost Guy: The final moments approach. The sun is descending. The shadows grow longer. and within the box. by these the creatures That is right.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Death across the two counties. strengthen forces. er Jonathan forces the coffin open. The Count's eyes. Start.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Stare. oh poor upwards. for one terror moment. The vampire seems to you understand. That is it. that his countries of darkness.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Bert. Terrible moment, the vampire. seems to understand that his centuries of darkness are ending Then the final attack. comes and Dracula.
Joe The Ghost Guy: is this is destroyed The fictional vampire's reign has ended. but As a legend.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Will never die
Joe The Ghost Guy: Today, visitors travel to Romania. in search of Dracula. They climb stone. stairways explore medieval castles.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Walked through shadowy corridors and look across the Carpathian Mountains. Imogene. Imagine a time.
Joe The Ghost Guy: when rulers fought for survival. And... fire and steel. but the real historical geography. is more. can yeah Connected.
Joe The Ghost Guy: than the legends suggest.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Poenari Fortress High above the... Argeș River the the ruins. uh Poenari Fortress.
Joe The Ghost Guy: are strongly associated with Vlad III. The fortresses stand upon the deep. Mountain Ridge. It's... Rain its.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Ruined walls. Overlook D. surrounding landscape. Imagine standing there. at sunset The wind moves through the broken stone.
Joe The Ghost Guy: The force blew. Turns back black And... somewhere. the distance. Raven's Cry.
Joe The Ghost Guy: the walls themselves. Do not pro - approve a haunting. but they belong. to a landscape of Janelle Ad...
Joe The Ghost Guy: genealogy violent medieval history Bran Castle is fortunately... promoted as Dracula's castle.
Joe The Ghost Guy: its towers and narrow passageways. Team almost. Designed. Break off the course story. Yes, it is not the castle described by Bram Stoker.
Joe The Ghost Guy: And it's direct. historical connection. to Vlad III. It is limited. And. Debated.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Its fame comes largely from his from its appearance. and associated with the Dracula's legend. Corvin Castle.
Joe The Ghost Guy: another dramatic Romanian fortress. Corvin Castle. sometimes connected to legends. surrounding Vlad. stories about his imprisonment.
Joe The Ghost Guy: were circulated. but the historical reality. Reality is disputed. These places remained.
Joe The Ghost Guy: us that Dracula. exists in two worlds. the world of the medieval history. and the world of Gothic imagination.
Joe The Ghost Guy: And sometimes... the second world. becomes too powerful. ever it begins to obscure. the first And now...
Joe The Ghost Guy: Dear listeners, We leave. the historical record. that falls. Our final. fictional nightmare. a story about what...
Joe The Ghost Guy: might happen. If the legends. are true. Romania present day. Deep. The mounds. Stan and...
Joe The Ghost Guy: Abandon. Chapel. It's Roof. was partially collapsed. It's windows. are broken.
Joe The Ghost Guy: beneath its altar. lies a sealed chamber. and for generations. Villagers have refused to enter. after sunset They speak of strange sounds.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Footsteps underneath the stone floor. A voice. Speaking in a tongue, uh, in a A tongue. No living villager understands.
Joe The Ghost Guy: and a bell. that sometimes rings. Even. Though the chapter's bell has been removed. decades ago. one of one October evening.
Joe The Ghost Guy: historian named Adrian enters the chapel. He carries a flashlight. A camera. and an old manuscript. The manuscript contains...
Joe The Ghost Guy: a reference to a forgotten burial chamber. and adrian believes that it may leave. It may lead to a remarkable discovery.
Joe The Ghost Guy: He approaches the altar. There beneath the layers of dust. he finds An iron ring.
Joe The Ghost Guy: em embedded in the stone floor. He pulls. Nothing happens. He pulls the gear. This time.
Joe The Ghost Guy: The stone shifts. is Though a staircase descends. Into darkness. Adrienne. Switches on as flashlight.
Joe The Ghost Guy: and begins to climb down. Step. After step. After step. than the air. grows colder.
Joe The Ghost Guy: and the bottom he finds a narrow chamber. The walls. are lined with old barrel All niches. And the far end stands a wooden...
Joe The Ghost Guy: Yeah. At the far end stands an iron door. its surface. Bears. the image of a dragon. Adrien approaches.
Joe The Ghost Guy: He notices. Something scratched into the metal. a warning.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Do not waken. The one. who waits.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Adrian laughs nervously. Heh. Just another medieval superstition. He pushes the door.
Joe The Ghost Guy: It opens. inside stands a single stone coffin.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Hello? The lid. is covered with dust. and upon the coffin Lies a... a rusted sword.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Adrian raises his camera. He takes a photograph The flash illuminates the chi chamber. for one fraction of a second.
Joe The Ghost Guy: You see something. Stand behind the coffin. A tall figure. We're black. He spins around. Nothing.
Joe The Ghost Guy: His flashlight flickers. He checks his camera. in the photograph There's a figure. is clearly visible.
Joe The Ghost Guy: with a pale face. Dark hair. and eyes that seemed to stare directly into the lens. Adrian.
Joe The Ghost Guy: looks towards the coffin. The lid. is moving. He backs away. The lid.
Joe The Ghost Guy: The coffin lid stands aside. A long... white. hand appears His fingers crawl around the stone.
Joe The Ghost Guy: than a face. fills the chamber. No. Ancient. almost gentle.
Joe The Ghost Guy: The Voice.
Joe The Ghost Guy: No.
Joe The Ghost Guy: A dream. Cannot move.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Long. Have I slept?
Joe The Ghost Guy: Darkness. Adrian reaches. desperately for the door. His fingers touched the cold iron. With the door.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Slam shut. He screams. It's flashlight. turns on again. and the figure is standing directly before him.
Joe The Ghost Guy: a tall man. and a black cloak. His face is... Hill. And expressionless. His eyes are dark. and hollow.
Joe The Ghost Guy: And when... he opens his mouth His teeth are long. Sharp. and wet with blood. Adrienne. terrified.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Who are you? the Vigor. the figure. leans forward. A cold. And...
Joe The Ghost Guy: settles upon Adrian's shoulder. And the voice answers.
Joe The Ghost Guy: I have been hole. many things. Peace.
Joe The Ghost Guy: A prince? A monster?
Joe The Ghost Guy: End. Dracula.
Joe The Ghost Guy: A search party arrives at the chapel. they find. Adrian's camera. His flashlight. His notebook. But Adrian.
Joe The Ghost Guy: is gone. The Stone Coffin is empty. and across the dusty floor. Two sets of footprints.
Joe The Ghost Guy: One belongs to Adrian The other appears to have been made. by a man wearing an ancient. Leather boots. both sets.
Joe The Ghost Guy: See you. uh tour. Listen. Both sets lead towards the staircase but only one set continues outside.
Joe The Ghost Guy: near the chapel. Entrant someone. has written a message in the dust. Five words
Joe The Ghost Guy: Good night. it Belongs. To me.
Joe The Ghost Guy: And somewhere... far away. A wolf. begins to howl.
Joe The Ghost Guy: so Who was Dracula? Was it a thirsty vampire? Immortal creature. Who wondered? The centuries? and search our human blood?
Joe The Ghost Guy: You monster. who could transform into a bat. Command walls? and disappearing to miss? No historical evidence.
Joe The Ghost Guy: establishes any of these supernatural claims. But there was. It wrote Dracula. who ruled. Wallachia.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Powerful enemies. whose methods a Punishment. becomes infamous.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Who's Impulsion. survived long. after his death
Joe The Ghost Guy: And centuries later... an Irish novelist. took the name of Dracula. and gave it the world. a different kind of monster. the one that would live.
Joe The Ghost Guy: forever. in literature. and on theaters. and on cinema screens. and on television screens. Thanks.
Joe The Ghost Guy: and the nightmares. of generations. And perhaps the most frightening part... of his story is not the vampire.
Joe The Ghost Guy: It is the realization. that human beings are capable. of creating horrors as disturbing. as anything imagined.
Joe The Ghost Guy: and supernatural fiction. Vlad Dracula's victims. did not need to fear. and immortal. creature. They feared.
Joe The Ghost Guy: a living ruler. his armies His executioners. is terrible. Punishments. And that is.
Joe The Ghost Guy: what makes the real history. So unsettling. Because when the... candles burn out.
Joe The Ghost Guy: when the coffin Close it. and wolves. Stop howling. The fictional. Vampire.
Joe The Ghost Guy: disappears. but historical. Suffering. Remain. And still... After more than five... hundred years.
Joe The Ghost Guy: We speak his name. Drac - Cue love.
Joe The Ghost Guy: So tonight... when the wind Rouse your windows. When you hear Something moving. Yeah. behind Your bedroom door.
Joe The Ghost Guy: When you... Waken in the darkness. and feel that someone is standing beside your bed Remember. The legend. Remember the warnings.
Joe The Ghost Guy: And remember, the most terrifying rule. of every vampire story. Sometimes the monster does not need. To break down your door Sometimes.
Joe The Ghost Guy: It is simply. Wait for you. to invite it inside.
Joe The Ghost Guy: it may come in.
Joe The Ghost Guy: And the Unusual Paranormal Podcast. where the unexplained. becomes terrifying.
Joe The Ghost Guy: And when the dead... and still have stories to tell. Until our next journey into darkness. Keep your doors locked. Keep your candles burning.
Joe The Ghost Guy: And never forget. Some legends are born from nightmares. others. are born from history. and Dracula. has been born.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Stay spooky friends
