Vlad the Impaler - The Vampire

In actual vampire folk lore across many cultures, it was rare that vampires would drain their victims via their neck. Instead, it was usually described as being through their chest cavity. Despite there being no reference to it whatsoever in his notes, many insisted that bram stoker had drawn the inspiration of dracula from the real life lad tebish the third,. Also known as flad dracul, or also known as vlad the impaler. But according to historians, there is really no evidence to suggest that flad served as the main inspiration for the count. Stoker claims he named the character dracula because he wrongly believed that dracul was the romanian word