Vlad Tepes, Vlad the Impaler, the real life dracula, is surrounded by folklore, mystery, and myth. Even during his time the ...

Also known as Vlad III, Vlad Dracula (son of the Dragon), and—most famously—Vlad the Impaler (Vlad Tepes in Romanian), he was a brutal, sadistic leader famous for torturing his foes.

Vlad Dracula was a 15th Century ruler of Wallachia in Romania, an infamously brutal military leader who was said to impale his enemies. Bathory was a 16th Century noblewoman in the kingdom of ...

Vlad the Impaler, the fearsome Romanian ruler that inspired the story of Dracula, may have cried actual tears of blood, a new study suggests. Traces of proteins found on letters he wrote in 1457 ...