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scary to think that Dracula actually existed.

But it's a real character.

was a bloodthirsty Romanian Prince, Impaler, murderer, torturer knacker and cruel people. Gave his enemies a tormented death.

In my opinion I think that has to be among the three most evil, cruel and bloodthirsty in history.

nothing like the horror movies we see on Dracula because the brutal reality that is lived is vastly more terrifying than fiction that is reflected in the films.

warn readers that what follows are actual events from history and the harshness and cruelty of these actions should not be read by sensitive people. I myself when I read your story and write this story it gives me goose bumps the impression I had produced, I still feel dread, do not leave my amazement to think that there was a person in cold blood could do all these things.

His real n ame was Vlad Tepes III, (1428-1476), born in the city of Sighisoara, located in the province of Transylvania, now Romania in the year 1428 and was killed in the year 1476, at 48 age near Bucharest, where he was beheaded.

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still preserved the house where he was born in Bucharest is a document attesting to the birth of this character.
in good condition is also the castle where he lived, which still has an air of mystery, with some rooms made into the stone around the site, original furniture used by Vlad and spiral staircases that lead nowhere .

cruel was the son of Vlad Dracul, Prince of Wallachia, called "El Diablo" and where it comes from the nickname of Dracula, meaning son of Dracul, meaning "Son of Diablo. "Soon the child

far exceed the appalling atrocities of his father . To say that I mean Impaler was running through many of his victims from the anus or vagina, (the more fortunate were nailed in the back or the abdomen) with a blunt stick very long, as this ensures the most pain, which came out through the mouth or the shoulder and then nailed the suit on the ground horizontally even with the victim up and alive, so that the effect of weight the person is falling slowly and increasingly burying the stick in your body.

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Many of the victims still were alive when they reached the floor, which suggests that those responsible for avoiding execution through the heart to prolong the agony of their victims. In some cases the skin was nailed with a nail in the bottom to keep it up longer until the skin is torn and begin its descent through the post. It was one of the most gruesome ways imaginable died because it was slow and painful.

His macabre mind was formed from child to have a childhood marked by misfortune and bad examples, noting the atrocities that made his father, raised in an environment of war, torture, murder and savagery totally separated from God.

was hostage to the Turks to 13 years old when it was delivered along with his brother Randu by his own father as a sign of submission to the Sultan and to guarantee not to attack. After a while his father and his brother Mircea were murdered by the boyars. His father was beaten to death and buried his brother alive, so Vlad's heart was filled with a growing hatred.

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is believed that the Turks learned some forms of torture and how to execute by impalement. Although the Turks brought up and received good treatment, this is not bowed to their wishes or converted to Islam and even then it helped to take the throne of Wallachia they came to take a bitter hatred that led him to betray them several times, even going so far as to make alliances with the murderers of his father and fight battles against them, until eventually die at the hands of the Turks.

With the help of the Turks became Prince of Wallachia in middle age era dominated by the ambitions of European monarchs seeking to expand their territories and lived in constant wars. Although abundant in the Middle Ages in Europe insensitive monarch of evil heart and toughness of mind, there was none that in its brutality, cruelty and cruelty in killing was compared with this bloody murder.

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He became the most feared of all the European monarchs of the Middle Ages and even murdered in cold blood by trivial matters to the same population, even their lovers. Imposed laws on its territory whose offenses were punished with the most outrageous deaths. Reached the darkest extremes of any evil mind to kill even babies by impalement.
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his troubled mind can be seen in the engravings that remain, which can be seen when Vlad Tepes breakfast in the middle of his victims impaled and others being dismembered.

Although impalement was clearly the favorite pastime of Vlad, also enjoyed the use of other methods to those who in one way or another had been furious, usually in the privacy of their castles.

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torture methods include favorites of the Prince of Wallachia there were also the amputation of limbs, noses and ears, the removal of eyes with red hot hooks, the bottleneck, the fire, castration, skinning Exposure to the elements or wild animals, emptying the eyes, the grill and the slow destruction of breasts and genitals, especially women.

A papal legate to the Hungarian court described it: "It was not very tall, but stout and muscular. His appearance was cold and inspired some fear. He had an aquiline nose, nostrils dilated, a face red, thin and very long lashes that shaded a large gray eyes wide open, black, bushy eyebrows made him look menacing. He had a mustache, and his cheekbones made her face seem even stronger. A bull-necked he girded his head, which hung on a broad back a curly black hair. "

Because its army as employed reduced guerrilla tactics such as scorched earth, water wells poisoned with tuberculosis and sent to camps enemies.

In cities where no accepted him as their prince was ruthless. Executions were carried out by impalement of men, women and children, as in cases of Brasov and Sibiu, both cities inhabited by German settlers who would not trade it or did not want to pay tribute.

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This would begin his career of brutal massacres, among which are attributed to the extermination of one hundred thousand five hundred thousand people inhabiting the region between 1456 and 1462, detailed facts and documents recorded at the time, which showed his taste for blood and impalement, so he began calling "Tepes" which means in Romanian: Impaler.

A massive impalement their actions were in retaliation against the boyars, murderers of his father and older brother. Vlad performed this revenge on Easter of 1459, inviting the boyars to a great Easter dinner asking these to put on their best clothes.

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When they finished dinner, Vlad impaled sent the older, while young people were forced to go in a very long walk to a ruined castle in Targoviste, many perished on the road, but those who came still alive, were forced to build the castle of Dracula, not off their beautiful robes, which were converted into rags, while forced to build the castle, were dying of exhaustion and burn to the delight of the Impaler.

Vlad liked to arrange impalements multitudinous shapes. The most common was a series of concentric rings around the cities impaled. The height of the stake indicated the rank that the victim had had in life. Often, the left Vlad languishing for months, resulting in a horrible environment to rotting meat stench. A Turkish army intended to invade Romania turned back, appalled, when he found thousands of decomposing impaled on top of her stakes, on both banks of the Danube.

Another of his actions during his reign was when people complained about the continuing thefts suffered by thieves in their territories, as well as the poor, according to Vlad contributed nothing to the country. To eradicate this suggested a great feast in a big house on the outskirts of cities for the poor, thieves, cripples, lepers, the sick, beggars, where large viands and wine were everywhere.

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When they were all well served food and wine drunk, Vlad and his guard were planted in the house and asked all those gathered if they wanted a life free from want and worry, and that every day you give feasts as one, to which the beggars and others said yes and that was the best day of their lives. Vlad smiled and told his soldiers to close all doors of the house and set fire on it. He left no survivors. Eliminated poverty with poor finishing. These atrocities have been repeated with all the beggars in each region of his principality. Death reached 3,600.

In 1461 Hanza defeated the Turkish commander in an ambush at the border. By capturing Turkish cut off the feet and hands and put it on the border to collect his countrymen.

In 1460, 10,000 men were impaled in Sibiu. In 1461 Mehmed II, conqueror of Constantinople, a man who was not known precisely because of their disgust at the bloodshed, he turned to the said town violent vomiting sick at the sight of the Forest of the Impaler.

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This peculiar "Forest" was a valley where they had cut down all the trees for stakes. Sufficient stakes to impale prisoners more than 23,000 Turks, Hungarians, Romanians, Bulgarians and German settlers and their families impaled there, scattered throughout the valley, at the top of the sticks. He did what he wrote himself as Vlad sent a letter on January 11, 1462 the king of Hungary, in which he wrote that he had impaled twenty-three thousand, eight hundred nine and knew it well because they were cutting the head each to facilitate counting. Besides the letter also sent to the Hungarian king sacks two ears, noses and heads of their victims.

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In 1462 the Turks occupied Wallachia Tirgoviste conquering its capital, and Vlad fled to Hungary for protection, seeing that his wife committed suicide by jumping into the river and his son died during the escape, but the king of that country had him imprisoned for twelve years in the castle of Visegrád and later in Budapest, where he received special treatment as the king of Hungary was like a visitor to the castle and never even be behind bars. During his captivity kept his bloody killing and torturing sadism pigeons and mice. In 1473 he regained his freedom and his throne in 1476, the year of his death.

Vlad Tepes In 1476 he met his death in an ambush when the Turks caught him off guard with an escort of only 200 men of his guard Moldovan, who also were killed and only 10 of them survived, apparently sparked an unequal struggle to the numerical superiority of the Turks. Vlad Tepes was decapitated and his head was sent to Istanbul and exhibited publicly.

The official site of his burial is the monastery of Snagov, near Bucharest. The mystery surrounding the tomb, which is seen inscriptions, graffiti and portraits of him. An excavation was made in 1931 have two versions: one is an empty tomb and the other was found a headless body with luxurious robes.

Ten examples of his cruelty

1) Turkish Messengers
A Turkish messengers who refused to remove his turban in his presence, Vlad's back to Istanbul with the turbans nailed to their skulls.

2) Merchant Stolen
One day, a Florentine merchant came to his castle to report that they had stolen a bag of gold coins. The prince told him to return the next day. When the merchant returned the next day, thieves and all members of their families were impaled in the courtyard of the castle. Before them, Vlad on his throne and bag stolen.

Then the Impaler asked the dealer to count the coins from the bag to see if any are missing. The foreign terror counted them carefully, and probably too scared to lie, finally whispered:

-on one.

Vlad replied

"Your honesty has saved you. If you had tried to keep it, would have finished at the stake higher, along with them.

3) Merchants Caravans
happened that a German merchant caravans en route from Serbia to Hungary failed to stop at Vlad Wallachia and trade. This, upon learning of the lack of respect for him and his people, the caravans sent to capture and kill the 600 merchants who make up except for two, one of them put out the eyes and another cut his tongue and brought them back with the heads of traders to Serbia.

4) The Lover
Vlad had many lovers throughout his life, probably due to the fact that it lasted very little. A day that Vlad was upset one of her lovers to please told him she was pregnant. Vlad sent a midwife for the review and when she told him that there was no pregnancy will slit his lover's womb screaming that he wanted to see the fruit of her womb.
severely punished adultery and did not hesitate to impale all those women who were accused of it.

5) Monk Vlad
One day when walking with a monk with a forest of impaled, he was told that the stench was unbearable, but he said in a tone of sarcasm. Vlad will eyes looked fiery and ordered him impaled on the stick higher than any. When the monk and impaled the prince was asked if it smelled better up there.

6) lazy Wife
Vlad met a man working in the field that seemed devoid of women by the looks of their clothes. Asked if he was not married he said yes. Dracula did bring the woman and asked what was in his day and she told him to wash, bake bread and sew. Pointing to her husband's clothes, Dracula did not believe her and decided to impale despite the husband claimed to be satisfied with it. Then forced another woman to marry this man but not before threatening her with the same fate if it did not take care of the farmer.

7) General Dan
Another of his actions was to kill the leader of the army (voivod) Dan, because it wanted to overthrow the power of Wallachia Vlad, not before Dan dug his own grave and attend their own funerals. Occurred in 1460. He was beheaded.

8) Monks Beggars
When Vlad was visiting a village of Wallachia, he saw two monks begging. Prince asked why begging hardship if they could live without working in any church and they told him that begging could know whether or not they would enter the kingdom of heaven, to which no more ruthlessly Vlad, he told them and told them to impale and doubts would be resolved immediately.

9) Gold Cup
also placed in the plaza of the capital of Wallachia, Tirgoviste, a gold cup for everyone to drink it, but one who rob be submitted the justice of the prince. During the years of his reign, no one dared to steal the gold cup.

10) Animal torture
Even when he was imprisoned or in exile, was involved in torturing and maul birds and other small animals such as mice and squirrels

Some historians defend the character of morbid mind crazy, so bad was that even the craziest of patients could be conceived is as great cruelty. Some historians claim that they see as a hero who defended the interests of their country and that this area was always seen as a territory to conquer.

always have a very small army that has led some people to try to claim their cause saying that their cruelty was justified because it was a way to keep the enemies frightened to prevent invasion, but nothing justifies this cruelty in the killing of so much pain, even impaling babies, children and innocent women.

Its easy to decide on the death of people shown in this example: a person of the same environment that complained about the odor given off by the impaled bodies turn was executed by impalement from top to bottom at that point could "breathe cleaner air."

In 1976, the hated, said Romanian President Nicolas Ceaucesco national hero Vlad Tepes the 500 years since his death and in 2004 a coin was struck with his figure, as this is one of the leading personalities born in Romania, tributes to those who disagree because they can not give distinction who brutally murdered over 100,000 people and left for posterity the true story of horror more frightening than ever known.