Some internet users took the opportunity to share the claim that the monarch supposedly was related to Vlad the Impaler, also known as Prince Dracula (or "Count Dracula" in fictional tales), and ...

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 ...

Also known as Vlad the Impaler, the military ruler is said to have likely killed over 80,000 people, many by impalement, as per historians. A new chemical analysis of the letters penned by the ...

It is widely believed that Bram Stoker's fictional character was inspired by a formidable 15th century Romanian governor named Vlad the Impaler. The medieval prince had a taste for impaling ...