VLAD THE IMPALER: THE REAL MAN BEHIND DRACULA

Episode 7 | Human History — IndividualsIn this History episode we focus on Vlad the Impaler — the 15th-century Prince of Wallachia who left a forest of twenty thousand impaled Ottoman bodies outside his capital city, stopped the most powerful sultan in the world cold, and four centuries later became the inspiration for the most famous monster in Western literature.This episode covers his childhood as an Ottoman hostage, his father's murder and his brother buried alive, the campaigns he fought and the methods he used, his imprisonment by the Hungarian king, and the story of how Bram Stoker encountered the name Dracula and built a vampire mythology from a medieval Wallachian prince.He was not a vampire. He was something more disturbing.#HistoryMystery #VladTheImpaler #Dracula #MedievalHistory #HistoryPodcast