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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello everyone, and welcome to the last day of Freak Week.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Halloween is tomorrow. Some movie you may I or give
you watching this.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
I'm sorry Halloween, but oh my gosh, what a fun week.
I definitely want to do this next year, so give
me a thumbs up if you have enjoyed this week
of videos.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
I will not be.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Posting tomorrow, even though I normally do post Tuesdays, because
it is Halloween and people you know are going to
be out doing shenanigans.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Let's go ahead and get started.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Today we are going to be talking about the real Dracula, and.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
No we're not talking about Count Dracula.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Count Dracula was a fictional character, but now they believe
that he was based on a real person from the
fourteen hundreds. And this guy was brutal guys, so I
saved him for the last day of Freak Week because
this is truly what nightmares are made of. Fun as
it is to talk about slender Man and black eyed children,
those are urban legends, they don't have sources, they're not real.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
But what I'm about to tell you today is absolutely real.
So get ready.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
But before we get started, today's video was kindly brought
to you by Audible. So awesome to have a brand
supporting a Freak Week video and an Audible is one
of my favorite things personally. As most of you guys know,
I struggle for from learning disabilities and reading has been
a challenge for me my whole life.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
But I am a very curious person, as you guys know.
I love to look into.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Everything and learn about as much as I can, and
a huge way to do that is through books. But
it's very hard with a dyslexic brain to read. It
goes a lot slower and it's a lot more frustrating.
My comprehension is just just garbage.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
So that's why I love audio books.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
I can listen to them while I do my hair
and makeup or whatever, while I'm in the car. Josh
and I like to listen to them on long trips
to the mountains. Audible has an incredibly huge selection of audiobooks,
something for everybody. The thing I love about it most
is it just makes it more convenient to read. You
can read more when it's in a convenient way. You know,
you can listen to it, like on a plane or
you're commute to work. Something like that places you normally
(01:50):
wouldn't have time to read, you can actually fill your
mind with knowledge. So Audible has offered my audience a
free audiobook and a thirty day trial at audible dot
com slash Kendle Ray. We're going to be talking about
Vlad the Impaler, and obviously in a YouTube video, I
can't go super super in depth, so I actually I
want to recommend two audiobooks for you guys this month.
They'll be link below. One of them is about the
real life and true story of Vlad the Impaler and
(02:12):
the other one.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Is the fictional story of Dracula. Just because it's fun
around this time of year.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Again, if you guys want to claim your free trial
at isww dot audible dot com slash Kendall Ray. But
let's get started today. We are going to be talking
about the real life Dracula aka Vlad the Impaler.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Quite the name.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
So the real Dracula was around from fourteen twenty eight
to fourteen seventy six, and this is his real name.
His real name actually translates to Dracula. His father's name
was Dracool, which had symbolism with dragons and also meant
the devil, so literally Dracula was son of Dracool, meaning
he was son.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Of the devil, and boy was he man.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Okay, this guy was a complete savage. There are so
many people in history who have incredibly gory passes, but
Vlad the Impaler literally might be worse than all of them,
or at least is really high up there.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
He was that bad. To his credit, he lived in
a time of.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Kill or be killed, like this is just how it was.
So it's not like he killed people just for fun.
He wasn't a serial killer. It was all war related,
but I definitely don't think that means he didn't get
some enjoyment out of it. Now, this all takes place
in Romania, so I'm going to get some words wrong.
It's just gonna happen. He was literally known to be psychotic, sociopathic,
a complete madman, and before he had started.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
I do want to mention that the historical record and
archaeology of the time is very sparse.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
So historians have had to like fill in the pieces
over the year, so it's kind of hard to understand.
But yeah, we know Dracula as a vampire, right, and
he sucked the blood of people, and there's count Dracula
in the story of Count Dracula. So Dracula was written
in eighteen ninety seven by a man named Bram Stroker.
It was never confirmed that he was inspired by this story,
(03:54):
but the fact that it takes place in Transylvania not
exactly the.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Same at all. They're very different stories. But as far
just being this.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Like grewsome blood hungry type of person, he fits the
bill really well. There's so many vampire movies and Dracula movies.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
More we be more effective than thing Count.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Indeed, there's Count Dracula and Sesame Street.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
It's fine to get up and stop your feet to
this great footstumping Transylvania feet.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
You know, we had Hotel Transylvania, which is a super
cute movie.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
By the way, can you they human chize to harm you,
I'll simply say, because you're blood these girls. This is
Hotel Transylvania. All of our monster friends are right here.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
But you know, it's all playing off of this vampire world.
And Transylvania is now really known for the story of Dracula,
and there's tons of tourists that go there specifically to
learn about it. Seems like not many people know about
the real Dracula and what he did. The Vlad Dracula
was born in Transylvania. This is actually his house, or
where they think his house was. And here's what the
(05:11):
house that he was born in would look like back then,
very different than it is now, but people do go there.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
There's actually a restaurant there now.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
But his father, Dracool, was a very powerful leader, and
when he and his younger brother were younger, they were
actually all sort of hostages in that Ottoman empire because
and this is where it's like really confusing, but the
Saxons that also lived in the Ottoman Empire with them
kept them there and so they couldn't leave, and it
was all part of like a loyalty thing that they
would loyal to each other, and they promised not to leave.
(05:40):
Eventually they turned on the Dracole family and murdered Dracoul
and his other son Rodu But Vlad and another one
of his brothers survived this and fled north.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
But he'd always swore he was going to.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Take back the land for his father, and that is
what drove him pretty much the rest.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Of his life.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
So he ended up retreating to an era called Trigg
of this he knew that his life was in dangerous.
People were constantly trying to drive him out of power,
and he thrived on being powerful. That's what he was
all about, was power, just taking revenge for his father,
and he wanted to eventually rule all of the land.
He was so worried about assassins that he had a
sermont and he would make his servant taste everything that
(06:18):
he ate and drank to make sure there wasn't poison
in it. This guy was super paranoid, and I think
that paranoia made him into this like extremely.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Violent person that was willing to just kill.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Anyone who would even try to challenge his power or
be in his way. And this whole area of land
was kind of ruled by him. His brother ruled another part,
so the Saxons and then the Boyars.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
He wanted to take control of the entire.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Area and the Ottoman Empire, and his brother was actually
part of the Ottoman Empire, was supported by the Sultan
of the Ottoman Empire, and it was really hard because
the landowners often would switch their loyalty between him and
the Saxons and the Boyars. Eventually, Vlad just decided he
needed to get rid of everyone else. Vlad was known
for building these crazy castles and they were normally made
(07:03):
by slaves and he would force people to do it.
And interesting story, I saw this in a documentary I
watched on this. But they would like for building these
insane arches throughout the castle, and they would have so
many layers of bricks and they would use these like
wood stands, and they would build around, like build the brick.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Around the wood stand thing.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
And when they removed it, they would make the mason
who was the architect and built the arch it would
make him stand under it as they removed the supports
and if it, you know, came apart and fell on him,
it was his fault.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
So and he built this incredible fortress. It was like
multiple layers. They had like this insane watch tower.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
It was huge, and then they had these like crazy
looking barriers that people would have to get over, and
there was like three layers of it, so it was
very hard to get to him.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
And if anyone wanted.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
To come into his castle and try to murder him
or take him out of power, they'd have to go
through all these different layers.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
And the mo as well.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Not to mention, there's probably dudes shooting at you from
the towers above that were watched at all times. It
was three hundred square feet and he lived in the
top of it. He had this like incredible panoramic view
of the whole thing. Wyn Vlad finally decided to take
out the Boyars. He knew it was gonna be a
hard task these people everyone back then was brutal and
good at fighting, So what he did was surprise attack them.
(08:23):
He invited them all to dinner, and once they you know,
they all went through the barrier. So like, it's just
as hard to get out as it is to get it.
And he knew that the only way to remain in
power was to get rid of them, so he ordered
five hundred of them to be impaled.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
According to legend, anyway, he had them impaled five hundred off.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
The more and this is where Vlad gets his ladd
and Paler name.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Now, impaling is disgusting, Okay, if this stuff.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Makes you, I am with you. Torture for me is
really hard.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
I don't watch any scary movies like Saw or any
of that shit. Like even this kind of stuff scares me.
I really don't like torture or prolonged death that for
some reason bothers me. I can deal with death after
it's done, but it's just like the slow, torturous deaths
really get to me. And in paling, it's got to
be one of the worst things. Now, I'm not even
going to try to explain it. This woman I found
(09:15):
in this documentary explains it way better. So if you
want to listen, go ahead, I'm gonna play it now.
But if you get gross out by that stuff, you
might want to like skip forward, like twenty seconds. Now.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
The common way would be to put your enemy on
the end, the sharpened end of this steak, piss them
through the navel, through the heart, and hoist them up
and leave them to die relatively quick death. That was
from more fortunate because if you really wanted to make
an example of you, you'd take this rounded end and
he'd grease it, and then he'd pull your legs apart
(09:45):
and insert it into your rectum so through your bottom,
and gradually the steak would work its way through your body.
This might take a couple of days, okay, so you'd
be literally dying for hours.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
So graphic af right really really intense guy here, especially
the fact that he would slowly kill some of them.
I mean, that just really got to me. So he
killed almost all of them. He kept a few of
them to work on a special project. He wanted to
build a castle that was right on the border of
Wallachia and Transylvania so that he could get to the
Transylvanian sax Transylvanian Saxons were actually really wealthy. The city
(10:24):
was it was one of the most guarded kingdoms, well kept,
it would be extremely hard to get through.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
So how would work back then? Everyone you know, would
go about.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Their day during the day, and then at night there
was like a curfew and everyone comes in and close
the gates of the kingdom. So Vlad, being smart, figured
that they would be suspecting him at night. So what
he did was right before they were going to close
the gates, he brought in his troops and they killed
tons of people before they were able to get behind
the walls of the kingdom. But he went to the
city of Bersov, which is where the rich Saxons lived.
(10:55):
He killed as many people as he could, a ton
of them and impaled them, of course, and they were
left outside and paled with stakes in the ground.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Just tons of people, I mean.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Thousands, and there's a famous story of him. And this
is what really I think inspired the Dracula story is
since it took so long for people to die from impaling,
Vlad decided to pop a squat and have some dinner,
had a full meal while watching all of these people
slowly die.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
So once he had.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Conquered them, he now is the ruler of all of Wallachia,
but he still has to deal with the Ottoman Empire.
So people came from the Ottoman Empire and they had
this major altercation with him because they were wearing turbans.
They were Muslim, and he wanted them to remove their
turbans as a sign of respect to him. And when
they want to do it, because it just wasn't part
(11:45):
of their custom. It wasn't what they do. That's not
like a thing they do, remove their turbans out of respect.
He didn't understand that, and he was so angry about
it that he famously nailed their turbans to their heads,
like literally with a sledgehammer, nailed their turbans into their heads, and.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Clearly they died from that. He was invaded.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
He narrowly escaped and he and some of his people
went back to Trigga Vista, which is kind of where
he started from.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Right after his father was assassinated. He knew he was
kind of screwed.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
The Automan Empire was after him and they're a lot
more powerful.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
So he started contacting.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Other Christian kingdoms and telling them that he needed help,
writing to them, and to one of them, he sent
a package of oh man, and this is crazy, twenty
three thousand, eight hundred and eighty seven human noses that
he had cut off of his enemies over the years
in a bag.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Just sent it off, you know, Amazon Prime, that shit.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
And one of the sultans was sent to deal with
Vladnian Paler's name is Mahamed, and he even came up
upon the scene of all these people outside dead and
paled because he would just leave them there. And he
was so scared he went back and left his soldiers
to fight. There was literally about twenty thousand corpses on
sticks in front of this guy's place. Dracula knew that
(13:06):
they were closing in on him, and he was very
concerned about it. His wife actually committed suicide because she
knew if they were captured, they would all be tortured
to death, and she was so sure that that was
going to happen that she ended up jumping out.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Of the castle into the river. But he would not
give up.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
This man was really an evil genius and a lot
of people really like have respect for him looking back,
And even though it sounds insane, how can you respect
this guy that killed so many people, But this was
his time. It really was kill or be killed. If
he didn't kill them, they were going to kill him.
And maybe he did it way brutally. And I'm not
saying this guy was a homie or anything, but it's
like such a different time it's hard to even understand.
(13:43):
It was just such a savage generation. He did not
want to surrender. He said he would always fight to
regain power for his father. So when he and his
men left, when he and his men escaped the castle
that they were in, because they.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Knew that's where they were going to come. The Ottoman
Empire was going to come there. It was so smart.
He turned the.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Horse shoes on his horse backwards so it would look
like he was walking towards whatever he was actually walking
away from. So he was able to retreat back into Transylvania. Surprisingly,
he lived another ten years, and it's really foggy what
he did in that ten years. That ten years later
he came back and tried to fight for his land
(14:21):
back once again. No one knows how Vladmim Paler died.
They think he probably died in battle. But as much
as you know, things were just this way back then
and these were darker times.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Vlad really was evil. I think he had.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Really had the devil in him, you know. He he's
kind of like an ancient serial killer because he thrived
off of torture. He had the need to destroy, to kill,
to torture people.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
And the scariest part about it is that it's real.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Like I said, you know, it's amazing too because I
often think I'm a big beliemer in past live so
I always wonder, like wonder if I ever went through
like a terrible death like that, like way back then.
Interesting story. I want to know what you guys think
about Vladi and Paler? Did you know about him?
Speaker 2 (15:04):
But that's it for me.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Today, guys, that's a last day of Freak Week. I
want to know what did you guys think.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Of the week?
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Again, if you like this week, and you want to
see it come back next year, be sure to give
this video a thumbs up.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
For me, it was super fun. I've never done a
week straight at videos. It was a lot of.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Work, but I had a really fun time doing it,
and I hope you guys had fun learning about some
of these creepy talk If you still want to pick
up a Freak Week shirt, they are still available until Halloween.
I think I'm actually going to extend it a couple
of days, but they soon will be gone as they
are limited editions, so definitely pick one up if you
want to and you enjoyed this series.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
But that's it for me.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
I hope you guys enjoyed it, and I will talk
to you next time. By
Hello everyone, and welcome to the last day of Freak Week.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Halloween is tomorrow. Some movie you may I or give
you watching this.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
I'm sorry Halloween, but oh my gosh, what a fun week.
I definitely want to do this next year, so give
me a thumbs up if you have enjoyed this week
of videos.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
I will not be.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Posting tomorrow, even though I normally do post Tuesdays, because
it is Halloween and people you know are going to
be out doing shenanigans.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Let's go ahead and get started.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Today we are going to be talking about the real Dracula, and.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
No we're not talking about Count Dracula.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Count Dracula was a fictional character, but now they believe
that he was based on a real person from the
fourteen hundreds. And this guy was brutal guys, so I
saved him for the last day of Freak Week because
this is truly what nightmares are made of. Fun as
it is to talk about slender Man and black eyed children,
those are urban legends, they don't have sources, they're not real.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
But what I'm about to tell you today is absolutely real.
So get ready.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
But before we get started, today's video was kindly brought
to you by Audible. So awesome to have a brand
supporting a Freak Week video and an Audible is one
of my favorite things personally. As most of you guys know,
I struggle for from learning disabilities and reading has been
a challenge for me my whole life.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
But I am a very curious person, as you guys know.
I love to look into.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Everything and learn about as much as I can, and
a huge way to do that is through books. But
it's very hard with a dyslexic brain to read. It
goes a lot slower and it's a lot more frustrating.
My comprehension is just just garbage.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
So that's why I love audio books.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
I can listen to them while I do my hair
and makeup or whatever, while I'm in the car. Josh
and I like to listen to them on long trips
to the mountains. Audible has an incredibly huge selection of audiobooks,
something for everybody. The thing I love about it most
is it just makes it more convenient to read. You
can read more when it's in a convenient way. You know,
you can listen to it, like on a plane or
you're commute to work. Something like that places you normally
(01:50):
wouldn't have time to read, you can actually fill your
mind with knowledge. So Audible has offered my audience a
free audiobook and a thirty day trial at audible dot
com slash Kendle Ray. We're going to be talking about
Vlad the Impaler, and obviously in a YouTube video, I
can't go super super in depth, so I actually I
want to recommend two audiobooks for you guys this month.
They'll be link below. One of them is about the
real life and true story of Vlad the Impaler and
(02:12):
the other one.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Is the fictional story of Dracula. Just because it's fun
around this time of year.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Again, if you guys want to claim your free trial
at isww dot audible dot com slash Kendall Ray. But
let's get started today. We are going to be talking
about the real life Dracula aka Vlad the Impaler.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Quite the name.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
So the real Dracula was around from fourteen twenty eight
to fourteen seventy six, and this is his real name.
His real name actually translates to Dracula. His father's name
was Dracool, which had symbolism with dragons and also meant
the devil, so literally Dracula was son of Dracool, meaning
he was son.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Of the devil, and boy was he man.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Okay, this guy was a complete savage. There are so
many people in history who have incredibly gory passes, but
Vlad the Impaler literally might be worse than all of them,
or at least is really high up there.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
He was that bad. To his credit, he lived in
a time of.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Kill or be killed, like this is just how it was.
So it's not like he killed people just for fun.
He wasn't a serial killer. It was all war related,
but I definitely don't think that means he didn't get
some enjoyment out of it. Now, this all takes place
in Romania, so I'm going to get some words wrong.
It's just gonna happen. He was literally known to be psychotic, sociopathic,
a complete madman, and before he had started.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
I do want to mention that the historical record and
archaeology of the time is very sparse.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
So historians have had to like fill in the pieces
over the year, so it's kind of hard to understand.
But yeah, we know Dracula as a vampire, right, and
he sucked the blood of people, and there's count Dracula
in the story of Count Dracula. So Dracula was written
in eighteen ninety seven by a man named Bram Stroker.
It was never confirmed that he was inspired by this story,
(03:54):
but the fact that it takes place in Transylvania not
exactly the.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Same at all. They're very different stories. But as far
just being this.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Like grewsome blood hungry type of person, he fits the
bill really well. There's so many vampire movies and Dracula movies.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
More we be more effective than thing Count.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Indeed, there's Count Dracula and Sesame Street.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
It's fine to get up and stop your feet to
this great footstumping Transylvania feet.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
You know, we had Hotel Transylvania, which is a super
cute movie.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
By the way, can you they human chize to harm you,
I'll simply say, because you're blood these girls. This is
Hotel Transylvania. All of our monster friends are right here.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
But you know, it's all playing off of this vampire world.
And Transylvania is now really known for the story of Dracula,
and there's tons of tourists that go there specifically to
learn about it. Seems like not many people know about
the real Dracula and what he did. The Vlad Dracula
was born in Transylvania. This is actually his house, or
where they think his house was. And here's what the
(05:11):
house that he was born in would look like back then,
very different than it is now, but people do go there.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
There's actually a restaurant there now.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
But his father, Dracool, was a very powerful leader, and
when he and his younger brother were younger, they were
actually all sort of hostages in that Ottoman empire because
and this is where it's like really confusing, but the
Saxons that also lived in the Ottoman Empire with them
kept them there and so they couldn't leave, and it
was all part of like a loyalty thing that they
would loyal to each other, and they promised not to leave.
(05:40):
Eventually they turned on the Dracole family and murdered Dracoul
and his other son Rodu But Vlad and another one
of his brothers survived this and fled north.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
But he'd always swore he was going to.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Take back the land for his father, and that is
what drove him pretty much the rest.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Of his life.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
So he ended up retreating to an era called Trigg
of this he knew that his life was in dangerous.
People were constantly trying to drive him out of power,
and he thrived on being powerful. That's what he was
all about, was power, just taking revenge for his father,
and he wanted to eventually rule all of the land.
He was so worried about assassins that he had a
sermont and he would make his servant taste everything that
(06:18):
he ate and drank to make sure there wasn't poison
in it. This guy was super paranoid, and I think
that paranoia made him into this like extremely.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Violent person that was willing to just kill.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Anyone who would even try to challenge his power or
be in his way. And this whole area of land
was kind of ruled by him. His brother ruled another part,
so the Saxons and then the Boyars.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
He wanted to take control of the entire.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Area and the Ottoman Empire, and his brother was actually
part of the Ottoman Empire, was supported by the Sultan
of the Ottoman Empire, and it was really hard because
the landowners often would switch their loyalty between him and
the Saxons and the Boyars. Eventually, Vlad just decided he
needed to get rid of everyone else. Vlad was known
for building these crazy castles and they were normally made
(07:03):
by slaves and he would force people to do it.
And interesting story, I saw this in a documentary I
watched on this. But they would like for building these
insane arches throughout the castle, and they would have so
many layers of bricks and they would use these like
wood stands, and they would build around, like build the brick.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Around the wood stand thing.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
And when they removed it, they would make the mason
who was the architect and built the arch it would
make him stand under it as they removed the supports
and if it, you know, came apart and fell on him,
it was his fault.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
So and he built this incredible fortress. It was like
multiple layers. They had like this insane watch tower.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
It was huge, and then they had these like crazy
looking barriers that people would have to get over, and
there was like three layers of it, so it was
very hard to get to him.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
And if anyone wanted.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
To come into his castle and try to murder him
or take him out of power, they'd have to go
through all these different layers.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
And the mo as well.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Not to mention, there's probably dudes shooting at you from
the towers above that were watched at all times. It
was three hundred square feet and he lived in the
top of it. He had this like incredible panoramic view
of the whole thing. Wyn Vlad finally decided to take
out the Boyars. He knew it was gonna be a
hard task these people everyone back then was brutal and
good at fighting, So what he did was surprise attack them.
(08:23):
He invited them all to dinner, and once they you know,
they all went through the barrier. So like, it's just
as hard to get out as it is to get it.
And he knew that the only way to remain in
power was to get rid of them, so he ordered
five hundred of them to be impaled.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
According to legend, anyway, he had them impaled five hundred off.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
The more and this is where Vlad gets his ladd
and Paler name.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Now, impaling is disgusting, Okay, if this stuff.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Makes you, I am with you. Torture for me is
really hard.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
I don't watch any scary movies like Saw or any
of that shit. Like even this kind of stuff scares me.
I really don't like torture or prolonged death that for
some reason bothers me. I can deal with death after
it's done, but it's just like the slow, torturous deaths
really get to me. And in paling, it's got to
be one of the worst things. Now, I'm not even
going to try to explain it. This woman I found
(09:15):
in this documentary explains it way better. So if you
want to listen, go ahead, I'm gonna play it now.
But if you get gross out by that stuff, you
might want to like skip forward, like twenty seconds. Now.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
The common way would be to put your enemy on
the end, the sharpened end of this steak, piss them
through the navel, through the heart, and hoist them up
and leave them to die relatively quick death. That was
from more fortunate because if you really wanted to make
an example of you, you'd take this rounded end and
he'd grease it, and then he'd pull your legs apart
(09:45):
and insert it into your rectum so through your bottom,
and gradually the steak would work its way through your body.
This might take a couple of days, okay, so you'd
be literally dying for hours.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
So graphic af right really really intense guy here, especially
the fact that he would slowly kill some of them.
I mean, that just really got to me. So he
killed almost all of them. He kept a few of
them to work on a special project. He wanted to
build a castle that was right on the border of
Wallachia and Transylvania so that he could get to the
Transylvanian sax Transylvanian Saxons were actually really wealthy. The city
(10:24):
was it was one of the most guarded kingdoms, well kept,
it would be extremely hard to get through.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
So how would work back then? Everyone you know, would
go about.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Their day during the day, and then at night there
was like a curfew and everyone comes in and close
the gates of the kingdom. So Vlad, being smart, figured
that they would be suspecting him at night. So what
he did was right before they were going to close
the gates, he brought in his troops and they killed
tons of people before they were able to get behind
the walls of the kingdom. But he went to the
city of Bersov, which is where the rich Saxons lived.
(10:55):
He killed as many people as he could, a ton
of them and impaled them, of course, and they were
left outside and paled with stakes in the ground.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Just tons of people, I mean.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Thousands, and there's a famous story of him. And this
is what really I think inspired the Dracula story is
since it took so long for people to die from impaling,
Vlad decided to pop a squat and have some dinner,
had a full meal while watching all of these people
slowly die.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
So once he had.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Conquered them, he now is the ruler of all of Wallachia,
but he still has to deal with the Ottoman Empire.
So people came from the Ottoman Empire and they had
this major altercation with him because they were wearing turbans.
They were Muslim, and he wanted them to remove their
turbans as a sign of respect to him. And when
they want to do it, because it just wasn't part
(11:45):
of their custom. It wasn't what they do. That's not
like a thing they do, remove their turbans out of respect.
He didn't understand that, and he was so angry about
it that he famously nailed their turbans to their heads,
like literally with a sledgehammer, nailed their turbans into their heads, and.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Clearly they died from that. He was invaded.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
He narrowly escaped and he and some of his people
went back to Trigga Vista, which is kind of where
he started from.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Right after his father was assassinated. He knew he was
kind of screwed.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
The Automan Empire was after him and they're a lot
more powerful.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
So he started contacting.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Other Christian kingdoms and telling them that he needed help,
writing to them, and to one of them, he sent
a package of oh man, and this is crazy, twenty
three thousand, eight hundred and eighty seven human noses that
he had cut off of his enemies over the years
in a bag.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Just sent it off, you know, Amazon Prime, that shit.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
And one of the sultans was sent to deal with
Vladnian Paler's name is Mahamed, and he even came up
upon the scene of all these people outside dead and
paled because he would just leave them there. And he
was so scared he went back and left his soldiers
to fight. There was literally about twenty thousand corpses on
sticks in front of this guy's place. Dracula knew that
(13:06):
they were closing in on him, and he was very
concerned about it. His wife actually committed suicide because she
knew if they were captured, they would all be tortured
to death, and she was so sure that that was
going to happen that she ended up jumping out.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Of the castle into the river. But he would not
give up.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
This man was really an evil genius and a lot
of people really like have respect for him looking back,
And even though it sounds insane, how can you respect
this guy that killed so many people, But this was
his time. It really was kill or be killed. If
he didn't kill them, they were going to kill him.
And maybe he did it way brutally. And I'm not
saying this guy was a homie or anything, but it's
like such a different time it's hard to even understand.
(13:43):
It was just such a savage generation. He did not
want to surrender. He said he would always fight to
regain power for his father. So when he and his
men left, when he and his men escaped the castle
that they were in, because they.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Knew that's where they were going to come. The Ottoman
Empire was going to come there. It was so smart.
He turned the.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Horse shoes on his horse backwards so it would look
like he was walking towards whatever he was actually walking
away from. So he was able to retreat back into Transylvania. Surprisingly,
he lived another ten years, and it's really foggy what
he did in that ten years. That ten years later
he came back and tried to fight for his land
(14:21):
back once again. No one knows how Vladmim Paler died.
They think he probably died in battle. But as much
as you know, things were just this way back then
and these were darker times.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Vlad really was evil. I think he had.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Really had the devil in him, you know. He he's
kind of like an ancient serial killer because he thrived
off of torture. He had the need to destroy, to kill,
to torture people.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
And the scariest part about it is that it's real.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Like I said, you know, it's amazing too because I
often think I'm a big beliemer in past live so
I always wonder, like wonder if I ever went through
like a terrible death like that, like way back then.
Interesting story. I want to know what you guys think
about Vladi and Paler? Did you know about him?
Speaker 2 (15:04):
But that's it for me.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Today, guys, that's a last day of Freak Week. I
want to know what did you guys think.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Of the week?
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Again, if you like this week, and you want to
see it come back next year, be sure to give
this video a thumbs up.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
For me, it was super fun. I've never done a
week straight at videos. It was a lot of.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Work, but I had a really fun time doing it,
and I hope you guys had fun learning about some
of these creepy talk If you still want to pick
up a Freak Week shirt, they are still available until Halloween.
I think I'm actually going to extend it a couple
of days, but they soon will be gone as they
are limited editions, so definitely pick one up if you
want to and you enjoyed this series.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
But that's it for me.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
I hope you guys enjoyed it, and I will talk
to you next time. By
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