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That made me laugh too. Definitely not a coincidence.

I adore Eli Wallach-I bet he knew that

Apart from the fact that people from Wallachia are called Wallachians not Wallachs. It comes from the germanic word walhaz used to distinguish Celtic people. Similar to the old English word wealas (meaning foreigner, stranger) given to the Celts in Britain from which we derive Wales. Eli Wallach himself was not Wallachian he is of Polish-Jewish decent.

@@spearhafoc Knowing that Wallach's parents were from Poland doesn't tell you much. Jewish people moved constantly over thousands of years, seeking refuge wherever they could find it. So who knows. Could be the Vlach/Βλάχος thing like you said, which is one theory, but it could be something else.

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conal cochranh3 that’s pretty good!

@@jackfahy2283 Thanks.

Pretty good very catchy.

Conal cochranh3 your poem is brilliant... It has given me the creeps.. Well done. 👍

@@barbarapalmer8224 Thanks. I was 13 at the time and it was Halloween, so I decided to write something spooky.

Absolutely correct.

That certainly is a possibility.

@@josephbrady176 No, it was James Brolin who starred in The Car, not Burt Reynolds.

@Auxiliary Stream Services The Midnight Meat Train starred Bradley Cooper, not Ed Norton.

Actually it is good idea

How do you make letters bold?! And larger?

​@@Amanda-cd6dm To make them larger just use capital letters. To make them Bold encase the word between the * symbol at each end. You must put them right against the word. You want to make Bold otherwise it won't work.

Thank you very much for this comment. I assume you are a fellow Romanian since you know this much. 😁 That is PRECISELY how I feel when they compare him to Bram Stoker's.

In Romania we call them strigoi, they are evil people who come after their loved ones tormenting them at night. There was this popular case in media where a man was believed to be a strigoi and they performed a ritual. The souls of the children thar died without a baptism are called moroi.

Oh such bunk. As a Romanian I can guarantee there is no truth to the whole vampire folklore. In four centuries I have not seen a single one

We have similar belief in Manipur when dead people die if a cat jump over dead body they become undead it is called hi yang athouba

So; Every Bulgarian Jew comes back as a Vampire? I'm comin to Bulgaria.I'v always wanted to bite a pretty Slav's neck!!!!!

Lmao yup

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That's Markula, his cousin from New Jersey.

LMAO!!!!

His accent is not Canadian . He may have immigrated to Canada from another country thus his accent . I bet he is a vamp in a vamp documentary trying to hide truth about vamps 🧛‍♂️ v”””v 😅

​@@demonfromthemine677 Ha - his accent is from Quebec, a french-speaking part of Canada. :D

He’s accent sound québécois. At first I though he was French lol

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ROMANIA ?!Romania was formed in 1859 lol

@@peter-df6wl exactly....it was Hungarian

@@pikusmaximus6539 No, it was Wallachia. Annexed by the Ottoman Empire for a time (that would be the Turks).

@@mikedevito6372 actually it was Țara Româneasca the name. Wallachia was the name given by the hugarians and the west.

@@mikedevito6372 It was never annexed by the Ottoman Empire!

If you ever visit Romania *DON'T* even think about making vampire or Dracula jokes. Vlad Dracula is Hero worshipped by the Romanian people. To the Romanian people Vlad is their George Washington. A man whose memory is sacrosanct & *BEYOND* reproach. He's considered to be a national Hero by them. They think of him as a man who defended his country. Against Tyrants who wished to enslave them. & they get *VERY* upset if you dare to compare him to Stoker's Dracula.

​@@itwasagoodideaatthetime7980Maybe they should believing and nonsense and superstition!! That's why people who stay in ignorances cuz nobody challenges them and their thinking

I think he’s often thought of as villain for his treatment/punishment of his own people, even in comparison to those of the time. Making people eat their own children is a bit much, even for the average early modern/late Medieval leader. His methods were no doubt effective though.

@@youthoughtaboutit6946 He didn't make people eat their own children. If I were you, I wouldn't give the German accounts of Vlad's cruelty any credence; they highly exaggerated his ruthlessness as a form of propaganda against him. In truth, he was no more ruthless or sadistic than any other medieval ruler at the time, and being the prince of a VERY small country caught between two warring factions, both of which were much larger than his, was bound to have him resort to more extreme versions of already-common punishments and deterrents (particularly against enemies of state) in order to make up for it.

That was not true. His economical reforms were not in the interests of foreign traders so they start spreading lies about him. Now we know it was only propaganda.

Eli Wallach was NOT in Gremlins. What are you talking about? Have you even watched that movie? You're also wrong about the directer of Gremlins: it was Joe Dante, not John Landis.

@@conalcochranh3274 I never said that. You appear to have written to the wrong person.

@@lynderherberts2828 Sorry, my mistake as the comment was meant for someone else. Again, very sorry for that.

Agreed. It's on my bucket list

He impalmed and killed upto 100000 people how can u admire a killer

No he was evil and a cannibal and the otteman Empire wouldent have lastet anyway and vlad wasent the only one in history who vent to battle with them in Europe.

@@michellepoulsenmogensen2103 I have no idea where you got any of that. Also, learn how to spell.

@@mariadobrincu3745 this thing Call television and please Wright in danish then

Reggie Nalder in Salems Lot!

@@richardlahan7068 I totally forgot that one, thanks! Haven't seen that in forever! Lol

Gary Oldman..yesss. Honorable ,mention David Bowie- The Hunger. ✌😸

@@PhoenixLyon Never seen the Hunger. Have to check it out if Bowie's in it. Thanks!

No Chris Lee?

Nah, I think he's Armand or Louis from the Anne Rice books. ha ha.

He is quite beautiful... came looking for this comment 💕

I KNEW I would find you. I scrolled down a look, looking for this comment.

@@deforeestwright2469 9 9 9 99 9ijii

spoiler!!!!!!

+TriviaTree Further back than him, I wonder what Vlad Tepes would think of all this.

@ Trivia tree A lesser known fact is that The name Dracula is a derivation from the Irish “Droch fhuil”the fh is silent when spoken in Irish which translates in English as “bad blood” of course the covetous British establishment who after failing to lay claim to Bram Stoker set about another of their notorious disinformation campaigns, having for centuries banned , sanctioned and criminalized this beautiful language they were loath to concede that one of the most successful novels ever written was had been inspired by Irish words , they set about distortion inventing characters who never existed or combining half truths with a little folklore. It’s seems however that in reality Stoker was very taken with tales, told him as a child , by his mother who it seems had witnessed mass burials as a young girl , that of cholera victims some of who were in actual fact not yet dead “the undead” these stories had a profound influence on a young Stoker who although he did not have any Gaelic Irish and came from the more anglicized protestant tradition did have access to those whom spoke it. The WASPs set about going to extraordinary lengths to remove any record of Stoker having used an Irish term. It is a fact that there is and always has been anti Irish sentiment among many British it is something of a tradition. And they abound with tales of Romania and dragons and so forth. It must irk many among them that Ireland’s capital is the only city on the planet to have given us three Nobel prize for literature ,winners and Stoker was not even among them.

James O,Neill it’s a shame he didn’t even get that, he deserved it for sure. Irish Gaelic is a beautiful and interesting language, especially if one would use it for an awesome novel .

Danielle Musella yeah , one can only wonder .

TriviaTree no kidding.

Sounds just like my supervisor at work - soul sucking.

Sounds like depression

"Psychic vampires" isn't anything anyone actually believes in. It's role-playing.

*WRONG!*

Aka my ex

She was interesting

This theory has long been overridden by proper historical research.

@@Angayasse really, because I have a couple of friends from that region who said its fact and I've read a few pages of her trial transcript. Just about 5 pages, but it did happen. Just saying.

@@Angayasse What theory? She most certainly killed people. Was it as many as the court documents say, probably not. However, she did and that fact was used by the powerful to wall her in and take properties. Her son I believe was allowed to keep some.

Neat

True

I'll take getting bitten by the fictional over geting impaled by the real one.

I've heard that story too. According to what I heard the rule was that the villagers were allowed to drink from the cup since each one was always placed either directly on or within a few feet of the village's well. They could drink from the cup as long as they ALWAYS returned it to it's spot where he had it put originally.

@@LotusStitchandSketch That's sounds like something Vlad would do. It was a cleverly calculated PR stunt; i.e. It was Vlad's way telling the people that he should be revered as both, a benevolent and ruthless monarch. The harsh reality was that he was the latter and not the former.

There's also a story that he placed a large bag of money. By the well in his capital just outside his castle. But no one would take so much as a single coin from it while he was alive. Because they were so afraid of him.

@@itwasagoodideaatthetime7980 Yep. You just didn't cross him. But the atrocities he committed against his own people also bred a lot of hatred and contempt for him which eventually caught up to him. Legend has it that his own people beheaded him when he fled to them for help.

​@@GTX1123 Today he is respected even revered in Romania. If you ever visit Romania *DON'T* even think about making vampire or Dracula jokes. Vlad Dracula is Hero worshipped by the Romanian people. To the Romanian people Vlad is their George Washington. A man whose memory is sacrosanct & *BEYOND* reproach. He's considered to be a national Hero by them. They think of him as a man who defended his country. Against Tyrants who wished to enslave them. & they get *VERY* upset if you dare to compare him to Stoker's Dracula.

@@CalitmeDiondell Which folklore are you talking about? We don’t have such regarding Vlad. Only forigners crazy for horror stories.. see Stoker fiction. Look for historical facts first, study our history. then come back. Ty

Well mystery always get the best of human curiosity. And i bet poeple who visit Romania realy see your country for the beauty it realy is. Well at least thats what i hope and would love to visit one day. I have met poeple from Romania and they are always verry nice and tell me about landscape and history. And as a history fanatic and culture apriciated i would deafinately love it.

As a Texan who has spent most of my life defending Dracula's case and clearing his name, I continue to be outraged at the ways he is maligned and disrespected; I am not talking about the vampire character, but the historical figure. Cheryl B. Montoya, San Antonio TX

@@CalitmeDiondell you didn't finish watching when you typed this, did you?

@@CalitmeDiondell We don t have such folklore. We don t have Dracula, vampire, even ghosts, that is more in russian and slavic folklore. For us, Vlad s physopathy was the results of a chilhood trauma and a very harsh political enviroment. We have sympathy for him.

ROTFLMAO! That was a Bloody awful pun! 😂

That sucks

Dracul, the dragon?

At least you had a dad that knew who Vlad was and knew the subject, that is great.

Your dad sounds like he had either a massive ego problem or was a Narcissist. Imagine being an adult and not being able to accept you were wrong (graciously) to a child.

Imagine you woke people tried to show respect to your father

@@germanclavijo346 I respect my father. I also enjoy proving him wrong. He borderlines being a genius so if I can prove something to him then I get great satisfaction. It's all done in fun. Now if I insisted that Vlad was non-binary then yeah, I'd be Woke.

No, that was James Brolin who starred in The Car, not Burt Reynolds. Also, the sheriff was landed in hospital because he was hit by the car door, not because he fell of his motorbike. By the way, the actor who supplied the explosives was E.G. Armstrong, not Eli Wallach. Check out The Dark and Night of the Lepus...they're strange and daft, but good fun.

you're everywhere tf 😫

@@x-s1167 What do you mean?

@@conalcochranh3274 I see Acid Glow everywhere in the comment section 🤧

Nikola Petrović ooooh intriguinging

Nikola Petrović quite intriguing. I love an intriguing tale like that .

True, people did put iron bars over a grave because they did believe that it kept the person from rising after death.

@@onefeather2 There was also the issue of actual grave robbing by folk called “the resurrectionists.” The medical field-specifically the surgical field-was coming into being. Teachers and students of surgery were actually paying resurrectionists to rob fresh graves for fresh corpses to practice on. A lot of ppl would go thru great lengths to keep their dearly departed in the ground long enough to decay so the grave robbers wouldn’t take the loved one. But Nikola says it was just one grave, so likely not grave robbing-unless this was someone of extreme stature who may have been an outcast or buried nameless to keep ppl from robbing the body bc of a morbid sense of attraction.... Nonetheless very intriguing.

@@MsBeachLizard i dont think that happent in the jugoslavia but in England ore it is another good American story.

@Tianna Elizalde Very Cool Indeed!

So cool would have *LOVED* to have been there to hear it.

I had watched another YT video about Lena Brown , it was interesting.

Yeah! 😃 I’ve watched that movie so many times I have it on DVD 📀 I thought it was an awesome movie 🎥 . Plus Dracula was really hot 😉😉 I have never seen a portrayal of him with blonde hair though which I thought was quite cool 😎

King Buns 😂😂😂😂

Look *_deep_* into my eyes... do I look stoned??

XD

Hotel transylvania??

I don’t sound like that blah blah, blah blah.

what yourself there in quarantine buahahahaha

Greetings 👋👋

Greetings too👋😊

🤣 killing boredom. Stay healthy, safe and sane!💚💜💛

Three months later...... yes, we are in quarantine. Greetings fellow humans.

What?

I really don’t think so

Girls can be so silly and cute

With the blue eyes? Agreed!!👍

he is on his 50s now

WTF is wrong with you? You've got it all mixed-up! Tom Cruise was the hero in Legend, not Val Kilmar. And it WAS Tim Curry who played Darkness in Legend, not Michael Ironside. Get your facts straight from now on.

@@conalcochranh3274 ???

@@sbenton62 What?

I remember that. That was a lonnnng time ago. Loved … Tales from the Darkside and Tales from the Crypt too.

Did you see Lestat and Louis??

Probably a heroin addict

Write it out!!!!!

Watch "abe Lincoln, the vampire hunter" great movie.

Love it

Is it Bam Stokers?

Dracula means Son of The Dragon, Dracul means The Dragon.

@@brandondavis7777 Thank you. The colors for the Order of the Dragon are red and black. For reasons one can only speculate about, there are many businesses here in San Antonio, mostly restaurants and car service entities, where the employees wear red and black uniforms. Dracula/Vlad Tepes has supporters here. -- Cheryl B. Montoya

Dracula, not Dracul.

​@@brandondavis7777 Ah so you're familiar with the knights of the dragon? or maybe you don't know how these people signed their own names? I could have said drakuglia and still been correct and you'd still come and incorrectly corrected me. are you romanian Brandon? sit down.

Ain't that just how it be? I bet this dude is white.

william dolezal, sounds like you're both semi-illiterate.

You obviously didn’t watch much of it.

He still is - - - - - - to the Romanian Tourist Bureau

Chad Castagana that is very true

He did what needed to be done at the time.

@@chadcastagana9181 He still is considered a hero by most Romanians nowadays, regardless of age.

He was a psychopathic sadistic murder not a hero.....

vampir and vârcolac are in romanian, very similar phonetically. do serbs have strigoi as well?

@@nufiprost no, we don't have strigoi

same in turkish vampir

Fiodor El Gato wat is shlevovitz lol that stuff is w000000 if u kno u kn0 slovein n friend knocked me out 2 shots 😆😆😆

vampire is serbian word. The English term was derived (possibly via French vampyre) from the German Vampir, in turn derived in the early 18th century from the Serbian vampir (Serbian Cyrillic: вампир).

He's gorgeous

GMKGoji01 Pictures 🤣🤣🤣I have just tuned and your comment has made me even more curious

"in the Romanian tongue" :)

Love White Zombie / Rob Zombie. The HARDER THE METAL… THE BETTER!!!

the human mind is much more dangerous than a wild animal

I just thought he was portraying a modern Vampire, they showed him walking, then he starts speaking vampire 😌😏😏

Yes it WAS Bram Stoker who wrote Lair of the White Worm, not H.P. Lovecraft. Get your facts straight. By the way, Clive Barker wrote Rawhead Rex, not James Herbert. Avid reader, eh?

@MariLeiv Lol! Isn't he? Wow!

@MariLeiv Christina Triks wrote TAUNTING THE BEAST, not J.K. Rowling. Rowling doesn't have the brains or the nerves to write something as controversial as TAUNTING THE BEAST. The twist ending of that book is downright freaky and it bothered me for weeks. Even now I get the chills just thinking about it. That poor woman...she just didn't see it coming. I'll never look at vicars and Oxford in the same way again.

@@maddiewicks3146 I know!!

He is the subject of the video

FrenchArtAntiques Paris, he is indeed gorgeous. He is identified as Canadian scholar Benjamin Leblanc.

Dungpow, hardly. The subject is the origins of the vampire myth.

@@inkyguy Lol, I know. He looks like the modern epitome of a vampire though.

@GW S It's been about 20 years, so maybe his pretty boy looks have faded now...

What about the coronavirus?

In TEXAS, the Mexican Free Tail Bat is our official state flying mammal. The largest bat colonies in the world are in Texas, not far from San Antonio and mostly out in the hill country. Now, in reference to the Order of the Dragon, the largest dragonflies in North America are found in Texas. -- Cheryl B. Montoya

GUNN Sir Terry his name is forever carried on the Clacks.

Or Bunnicula.

Or even Dr Acula

Have you forgotten BLACKULA!?

I’m so happy that it’s not just me who remembers Bunnicula.

Or… Count Chockula.

Terrible series!

@@Bonita.ch1 I thought it was pretty good at least the first 2 episodes

Blood is lives

That's a quote from the holy bible God bless you from a muslim

I just found that series the other day lol.

Dont let a Romanian hear You say that

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@@chipperleon7204 I’ve said it straight to a Romanians face. He wasn’t offended. Grew up Romanian his whole life and is one of the ones who is absolutely disgusted by Vlad Tepes.

@@chipperleon7204 We are not offended, we know he was cruel but his madness came from chilhood trauma and a crazy political enviroment. Those fes his psychopathy.

@@gothbattyy I wouldn't enjoy hearing someone say that. I didn't really agree with Vlad's methods of dealing with his people but when one has to rule over so many people who only saw their own interest I don't know how else you can deal with that. Despite his methods i see Vlad Tepes as a hero who did what he could for the good of his country

True blood has been out for over ten years. This release coincides with netflix release of its Dracula release made with the bbc

Like I said, there are no coincidences. In the spring of 2014 there was a series about Dracula (as a vampire, in modern times) that was being shown; the series was canceled at the end of the first season, possibly because the ratings coming from Texas were poor; the time slot was replaced by another series called "Night Shift," the title having raised a red flag about another vampire-related series; it turned out to be something of a soap opera in a medical setting, filmed, of all things, at the hospital in San Antonio where my son was born! -- Cheryl B. Montoya

Was most likely a slow day at the site. Might as well have some fun hehe

@564markis Impalement came from Middle east from Neo-Assyrians, Babylonians and later Ottoman during their conquest of Greece. I'm half Serbian and i know for a fact that Ottomans were practicing impalement prior to horror stories of Vlad. He was taken away from his parents and his country as payment for the "blood tax" like many thousand of Romanian, Bulgarian and Serbian boys during that time.

But you have to admit that Vlad the impaler perfected it. After all he didn't get that nickname for nothing.😁

*Bey

@@filipematias5127 Yes. Kaziklu Bey translates idiomatically as Lord Impaler.

Kaziglu Bey.

Also the reasoning is just hilarious. Someone has a bad dream triggered by grief and the logical thing to do is to go desecrate your relatives grave.