WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:07.719 You were in the place where mysteries and the missing meet. We're conspiracies lurk 2 00:00:07.879 --> 00:00:17.480 around every corner. Welcome to the deep dark Truth. Welcome back to the 3 00:00:17.519 --> 00:00:22.559 deep dark Truth. I'm Mikey, and I'm though so. A few of 4 00:00:22.559 --> 00:00:27.679 you may have listened to the Blood series back in October of last year, 5 00:00:27.719 --> 00:00:32.399 where we covered part one in part two on Elizabeth Bath three, the Hungarian 6 00:00:32.439 --> 00:00:37.359 Countess and the Vampire Rapist. So now we are on two. Part three, 7 00:00:37.359 --> 00:00:41.000 our third contender in the Blood series takes us back to the fourteen hundreds. 8 00:00:41.320 --> 00:00:45.640 Tales and published books would describe his cruel acts and become bestsellers in European 9 00:00:45.719 --> 00:00:50.679 territories where Germanic language was spoken. In Russian histories of his acts, punishments 10 00:00:50.719 --> 00:00:55.159 and cruel regime would be adopted and hold similar views by most Romanian historians. 11 00:00:55.320 --> 00:00:59.320 Bram Stoker would create a literary vampire named after him, which still to this 12 00:00:59.399 --> 00:01:02.719 day is a how whole name all over the globe, appears in kids TV 13 00:01:02.759 --> 00:01:04.719 shows and has a serial named after him. Today, we shall visit the 14 00:01:04.760 --> 00:01:10.000 life and story of Vladian Paler or vlad the Third. You know him, 15 00:01:10.280 --> 00:01:14.719 you love him? Do we love him? We clearly do. As we 16 00:01:14.879 --> 00:01:19.719 just demonstrated, we have cereal because of it. That did sounds a very 17 00:01:19.840 --> 00:01:23.680 fan girly, like, oh my god, So get this. Dracula is 18 00:01:23.760 --> 00:01:26.680 named after him, He has a cereal. It's a big fucking deal. 19 00:01:26.959 --> 00:01:32.519 Sesame Street. The count one bat, two bat, three bats an absolute 20 00:01:32.599 --> 00:01:36.599 legend. All right. So Vlad the third commonly known as Vladim Paler or 21 00:01:36.680 --> 00:01:41.000 Vlad Dracula to this day, he's still considered a national hero to Romania as 22 00:01:41.200 --> 00:01:46.040 hero. Yeah, yeah, we do love him. Yeah, it just 23 00:01:46.120 --> 00:01:49.480 depends on where you want to go with this. It's crazy. So he 24 00:01:49.560 --> 00:01:56.000 was a videoed of Wallashia three times between fourteen forty eight and fourteen seventy seven. 25 00:01:56.400 --> 00:02:01.040 Can you break down what that means? So Wallashia basically discussion like real 26 00:02:01.120 --> 00:02:06.560 quick, the Southern Carpathian Mountains and the Danube Rivers where we're talking about, 27 00:02:06.799 --> 00:02:14.680 which was Wallashia in thirteen thirty and Moldavia and then later Romania. So this 28 00:02:14.759 --> 00:02:19.919 is all you know present day Romania, but obviously much earlier before so long 29 00:02:20.000 --> 00:02:24.599 family lines of like Basarab dynasty and Draculesti, which I'm sure you could guess 30 00:02:24.800 --> 00:02:30.479 is his family bloodline. Only like seven to eight different family names appear over 31 00:02:30.520 --> 00:02:32.639 like five hundred years of ruling in this region. It's kind of crazy, 32 00:02:32.960 --> 00:02:37.879 like it's just handed down and handed down and handed down. So background. 33 00:02:38.000 --> 00:02:42.639 His father was named Vlad Drakul or Vlad the Second and was ruler of Wallashia 34 00:02:42.719 --> 00:02:46.520 in fourteen thirty six. Murcia was his eldest brother, who instantly enough, 35 00:02:46.639 --> 00:02:51.560 was not named Vlad the third. I found that bizarre, isn't it. 36 00:02:51.639 --> 00:02:58.800 Usually the oldest is named after and Radu was his youngest brother. The two 37 00:02:58.840 --> 00:03:04.960 youngest brothers were held hostage in the Ottoman Empire in fourteen forty two in order 38 00:03:05.000 --> 00:03:08.919 to secure their father's loyalty to the crown. Classic, yeah, classic in 39 00:03:08.960 --> 00:03:13.719 this time was not crazy, was not thought of harshly. They took care 40 00:03:13.759 --> 00:03:16.520 of the children, but they were still a hostage. A hungry governor would 41 00:03:16.520 --> 00:03:21.800 invade in fourteen forty seven, killing both Mercia and Vlad the Second. He 42 00:03:21.840 --> 00:03:27.120 would replace Vlad with his second cousin, Vladislav the Second. It's like I 43 00:03:27.280 --> 00:03:30.719 made up a name if I wanted a fake Romanian name at the time. 44 00:03:30.800 --> 00:03:37.199 Yeah, yeah, So his second cousin, Vladislav the second as the new 45 00:03:37.319 --> 00:03:40.919 videod. It's a lot, I know. So right off the bat father 46 00:03:42.000 --> 00:03:47.719 and older brother gets murdered. Classic this Hungarian governor Hunyadi would invade the Ottomans 47 00:03:47.759 --> 00:03:53.520 in fourteen forty eight with Vladislav by his side. Hungary and the Turks were 48 00:03:53.599 --> 00:03:59.039 obviously on different sides of things, and there was this Romanian aspect. There's 49 00:03:59.039 --> 00:04:02.080 just so much going on from all different angles. Game of Thrones, if 50 00:04:02.120 --> 00:04:06.680 you will. During this time, Gladwood disappear and is now confirmed by historians, 51 00:04:06.680 --> 00:04:12.120 but only recently, like twenty eighteen, did they confirm that he was 52 00:04:12.199 --> 00:04:16.399 imprisoned in Castle Corvin by Hunyatti. So he was in prison for quite a 53 00:04:16.439 --> 00:04:21.079 long time, and most didn't know that because it was new and they newly 54 00:04:21.120 --> 00:04:26.319 discover newly, like completely like stamped in stone where he was at, because 55 00:04:26.319 --> 00:04:30.480 it was kind of a mystery and debated what year did his rain start? 56 00:04:30.600 --> 00:04:33.319 Three different times he was. The answer is it's complicated, So it was 57 00:04:33.360 --> 00:04:39.079 from a time period of fourteen forty eight to fourteen seventy seven. I just 58 00:04:39.199 --> 00:04:44.800 really like to put things in conceptual time periods that people understand. The Renaissance 59 00:04:44.800 --> 00:04:48.600 erastart in fourteen fifty three. So this is the beginning of the Renaissance. 60 00:04:49.160 --> 00:04:53.639 This is a lot of bloodline, a lot of houses. This is game 61 00:04:53.680 --> 00:04:58.000 of thrones, basically in the center of the world where the most population was. 62 00:04:58.240 --> 00:05:02.000 It was reported that Relationshichange Ladislav, the new ruler, and Hunyatti, 63 00:05:02.279 --> 00:05:10.079 the Hungarian governor, deteriorated. Vlad obviously took opportunity of this. In fourteen 64 00:05:10.160 --> 00:05:13.279 fifty six he would be set free. So he was in jail for eight 65 00:05:13.360 --> 00:05:18.879 years and invade with the support of the Hungarian Hunyati. Glad is freed and 66 00:05:19.079 --> 00:05:25.920 Vlad invades with the help of the guy who freed him, his second cousin. 67 00:05:26.040 --> 00:05:30.480 Of course, they are to take back his rightful seat and Hungary helps 68 00:05:30.519 --> 00:05:35.600 them correct with the support of Hungary. Okay, in that battle, Vadislav 69 00:05:35.800 --> 00:05:41.439 was killed. Oh no, not Ladislav. He's my favorite character. That's 70 00:05:41.439 --> 00:05:46.360 far Remember what happened with Zadoc just was said once and never mentioned again, 71 00:05:46.639 --> 00:05:50.079 so don't so he's put back onto the seat of power. At this time 72 00:05:50.439 --> 00:05:56.519 there was Wallashian boyers is what they were called, and they held a lot 73 00:05:56.560 --> 00:06:00.959 of political power in the region. So they were basically a mix of Wallashian 74 00:06:01.079 --> 00:06:06.959 Anne Moldavian bloodlines, prominent blood lines that weren't on the throne but basically held 75 00:06:06.959 --> 00:06:12.720 a lot of political power and seat and riches, obviously an influence. This 76 00:06:12.800 --> 00:06:19.759 is where vlad Can shows his sneaky trickery side of things. As part of 77 00:06:19.800 --> 00:06:27.519 this revenge, he held an Easter party in Targo Vista in fourteen fifty seven, 78 00:06:27.519 --> 00:06:32.480 and that's basically like the capital fortress, stronghold of his empire per se, 79 00:06:32.879 --> 00:06:36.079 not very big, but still an empire. He would invite all the 80 00:06:36.160 --> 00:06:43.560 Wallashian boyers and citizens of Wallashia to this huge feast and dining for Easter. 81 00:06:43.959 --> 00:06:46.879 Oh, this feels like the Red Wedding. Already you kept saying game a 82 00:06:47.000 --> 00:06:51.519 throne, and now the red Wedding is just I can hear the reins of 83 00:06:51.600 --> 00:06:56.600 Castimir. They're playing in my head right now through this whole seat. I'm 84 00:06:56.600 --> 00:07:00.319 painting a word picture, all right. He would invite all the Wallashy emboyers 85 00:07:00.319 --> 00:07:05.000 and citizens, and so he would then he is quoted to speak of how 86 00:07:05.040 --> 00:07:11.360 many princes there has been in this empire, in this regime over the years, 87 00:07:11.839 --> 00:07:15.639 and would blame the boyers for their copious amounts of rulers that they've had, 88 00:07:16.160 --> 00:07:21.639 and then kind of nonchalantly like you know what I mean, like basically 89 00:07:21.680 --> 00:07:27.160 saying it, but not saying it the shade of the fourteen hundreds, they 90 00:07:27.199 --> 00:07:30.040 continue to then, you know, feast in the fine you know, if 91 00:07:30.079 --> 00:07:34.000 everyone's dressed to the nines, the biggest feast ever easter. He just became, 92 00:07:34.040 --> 00:07:38.920 you know whatever. And then yeah, as soon as they were done 93 00:07:38.920 --> 00:07:44.759 with their plates, oh dear, the Rains of Castomir is playing. All 94 00:07:44.839 --> 00:07:48.639 right. So soon as they're done eating their dinner and they're full, they're 95 00:07:48.839 --> 00:07:55.399 completely circled by all of lads of men. Why didn't he just poison them? 96 00:07:55.480 --> 00:07:58.800 They were all eating dinner together, he tells, that's not how he 97 00:07:58.839 --> 00:08:01.439 does it. Just wait, do you just wait? MESSI this is a 98 00:08:01.439 --> 00:08:05.279 messy bitch, and I can't respect it. It's not messy. He wanted 99 00:08:05.279 --> 00:08:11.959 them to be full and satisfied before he completely so they encircle them, but 100 00:08:11.079 --> 00:08:16.199 not just them, their wives and children as well. They were led outside 101 00:08:16.240 --> 00:08:22.279 the castle basically to a massive impaling, though women and the men were impaled 102 00:08:22.399 --> 00:08:26.160 before, like in front of their able bodied children, and then the children 103 00:08:26.160 --> 00:08:30.519 were manacled and marched northward, and it was if they were abled, because 104 00:08:30.519 --> 00:08:35.799 if they were not abled, they were impaled. So that's why the imagine 105 00:08:35.799 --> 00:08:39.960 this, he's doing this in front of the entire everyone, Well they're all 106 00:08:39.000 --> 00:08:41.600 dead now, he's not doing it in front of anyone. Now, well, 107 00:08:41.639 --> 00:08:45.639 if anyone wants to come for him and his new throne, they ain't 108 00:08:45.679 --> 00:08:50.679 doing it. Not with that display like that is the display of instilling fear. 109 00:08:50.919 --> 00:08:54.840 People are going to find out about it later. But the reason he 110 00:08:54.879 --> 00:08:58.799 doesn't poison the food, and my opinion is because the kids would have eaten 111 00:08:58.879 --> 00:09:03.759 them and he eating the food, and he obviously wants them for his armies. 112 00:09:03.000 --> 00:09:07.279 So we can't just poison everyone because that's not advantageous enough. He needs 113 00:09:07.320 --> 00:09:11.120 to get something else out of it too. Then that's what we're talking about 114 00:09:11.159 --> 00:09:16.440 here. Is this like a hundred or like five, because it's also just 115 00:09:16.600 --> 00:09:20.480 I want to eat the tasty food and not poison myself. From what I 116 00:09:20.559 --> 00:09:24.720 understand, there was quite a bit of Wallashia boyers. I mean it is 117 00:09:24.759 --> 00:09:31.120 two different genetic family bloodlines that have been in this region. Like it was 118 00:09:31.480 --> 00:09:37.399 not yeah, well well about children, like they were advils. So I 119 00:09:37.480 --> 00:09:41.320 just assumed that there'd be a fuck ton of kids. There is some background 120 00:09:41.399 --> 00:09:45.799 that most people don't know that kind of sheds it in a different light. 121 00:09:46.399 --> 00:09:50.559 Not saying it's justified in any way, shape or form or he was just 122 00:09:50.320 --> 00:09:58.320 but the Boyers were directly to blame for the invasion, and the direct be 123 00:09:58.600 --> 00:10:03.360 like dethroning and beheading of his father and brother just because we started ship. 124 00:10:03.799 --> 00:10:09.480 So it was it was it was revenge, Yeah, revenge, So that 125 00:10:09.559 --> 00:10:11.639 was part of it. And also I guess he's like, I'll get it. 126 00:10:11.679 --> 00:10:13.600 I'll impale them and get a cool nicked name out of it and no 127 00:10:13.639 --> 00:10:18.279 one will fuck with me ever again, because nobody's gonna fuck with some dude 128 00:10:18.320 --> 00:10:22.200 named the Impaler. And the weird thing is that drack cool is you know 129 00:10:22.279 --> 00:10:28.000 it means dragon in the language in this time that you know that it was. 130 00:10:28.519 --> 00:10:33.440 So it was basically if anyone, if anyone messes with us dragons, 131 00:10:33.519 --> 00:10:39.240 they're going to regret it. His father was part of some dragon clan house 132 00:10:39.360 --> 00:10:43.799 clan that he got into. You have to get into some way, though 133 00:10:45.080 --> 00:10:48.039 I don't know. It was all of the UK, everyone over there, 134 00:10:48.120 --> 00:10:52.960 and yet no one had dragons. So not only did it, you know 135 00:10:52.120 --> 00:10:56.799 there was revenge to it, but it was also military genius at the time, 136 00:10:58.000 --> 00:11:03.440 because this would strengthen his position, his political power, his influence in 137 00:11:03.600 --> 00:11:09.080 the entire region, and also gain access to Pinari Castle, which would later 138 00:11:09.120 --> 00:11:15.600 become what is known as Dracula's Castle in real life. Look, let's streamline 139 00:11:15.639 --> 00:11:20.840 this a hierarchy of power. He basically took all of their fortresses, their 140 00:11:20.840 --> 00:11:24.360 house, their money, they're everything. It raced them completely and took all 141 00:11:24.360 --> 00:11:30.480 their wealth and all their fortresses and all their castles. It was very efficient. 142 00:11:31.039 --> 00:11:33.679 I support the efficiency. Yeah, but it's it's Game of Thrones. 143 00:11:33.759 --> 00:11:37.399 You weren't kidding, Yeah, it's Game of Thrones. It's either because this 144 00:11:37.480 --> 00:11:41.879 is so far removed in the past, we are treating this as if it 145 00:11:41.960 --> 00:11:45.320 was a Game of Thrones episode. I don't think that we necessarily should be. 146 00:11:45.840 --> 00:11:50.399 But if if somebody did that and Game of Thrones, you would be 147 00:11:50.440 --> 00:11:52.720 like, yeah, that was pretty badass, Like that was that was good. 148 00:11:52.759 --> 00:11:56.519 He took all their shit. And this is like, in this particular 149 00:11:56.519 --> 00:12:01.720 instance, the royal pupil killing the semi royal people you know, who have 150 00:12:01.759 --> 00:12:05.039 all gotten many A peasant killed the thousands of thousands of peasants stand for these 151 00:12:05.039 --> 00:12:09.080 guys, so I'm fine with these specific people, you know. Around this 152 00:12:09.120 --> 00:12:13.399 time period and shortly after during he would also come into conflict with the Transylvanian 153 00:12:13.480 --> 00:12:18.559 Saxons at the time, who were supporting Dan and basarab Layota, which were 154 00:12:18.919 --> 00:12:24.039 Vladislav's brothers. So is his other cousins. His other cousin, doctor Franknfurter, 155 00:12:24.600 --> 00:12:31.279 the sweet transat run Transylvania. They were gaining support from the Transylvanian Saxons 156 00:12:31.320 --> 00:12:35.759 to maybe take back their seed and avenge their brother, their brother, you 157 00:12:35.799 --> 00:12:39.000 know, and whatever. So as you do, he would invade them, 158 00:12:39.120 --> 00:12:43.799 loot and plunder the Saxon villages, capturing the people and marching them to Wallashia. 159 00:12:43.960 --> 00:12:48.519 See see now we're on the villagers and the generic people. This is 160 00:12:48.559 --> 00:12:52.720 where they're not. It's not a school. So they marched them all the 161 00:12:52.759 --> 00:12:56.399 way back to Wallashia and then I don't know if you guessed it, massive 162 00:12:56.440 --> 00:13:01.480 and paling classic flat back on his ship. Get the girl a prize like 163 00:13:01.639 --> 00:13:07.960 the way that you if you could have all just seen Mikey and this weird 164 00:13:07.000 --> 00:13:11.559 finger gun thing he did, I know, but I could see it in 165 00:13:11.639 --> 00:13:18.600 your face. Don't appropriate my finger guns. Later in this area around fourteen 166 00:13:18.720 --> 00:13:24.639 sixty, like piece between the Wallasheets and the Saxons obviously achieved. There's still 167 00:13:24.120 --> 00:13:28.240 I wouldn't call the word piece, but okay, a tentative cold war between 168 00:13:28.320 --> 00:13:33.080 them. Yeah. I think he was just trying to get the supporters out 169 00:13:33.440 --> 00:13:35.799 and I didn't want to like completely slaughter them. But I don't know who 170 00:13:35.840 --> 00:13:41.440 knows what he was thinking. The Ottoman Sultan, Mahmed the Second, which 171 00:13:41.519 --> 00:13:46.440 is kind of where his notoriety comes from and all this, he would order 172 00:13:48.200 --> 00:13:52.279 Glad to pay him homage to him personally and to the empire, ordered and 173 00:13:52.399 --> 00:13:56.759 decreed it that he needed to pay homage to him. I don't know what 174 00:13:56.840 --> 00:14:00.720 happens, but I'm guessing it's not going to go well for that guy just 175 00:14:00.720 --> 00:14:03.399 shot in the dark. Yeah. At this time, the Ottoman Empire was 176 00:14:03.559 --> 00:14:07.679 the largest empire on the planet. It was huge, and they will continue 177 00:14:07.679 --> 00:14:11.600 to be a powerhouse. Don't count out the Ottoman Empire to World War One. 178 00:14:11.799 --> 00:14:16.159 Don't count Lad out just yet. So the Sultan would send two envoys 179 00:14:16.240 --> 00:14:22.120 as a bait, basically to ambush, and Vlad got winto this and instead 180 00:14:22.200 --> 00:14:30.879 ambush the envoys and one of the first historic use of handguns. What wait 181 00:14:30.919 --> 00:14:37.399 a second, when we're guns invented? So was it like I'm guessing it 182 00:14:37.440 --> 00:14:41.320 was like a tiny, muskety type of situation. I don't know what type 183 00:14:41.360 --> 00:14:46.440 of capacity a handgun is described as or what, but that's what I have 184 00:14:46.519 --> 00:14:52.320 found. He impaled them and then disguised himself and his men in the Turkish 185 00:14:52.399 --> 00:14:58.840 uniforms hand cannon, the special weapon of Ladian Paler. The hand cannon is 186 00:15:00.159 --> 00:15:05.559 is pretty large. It looks like it's like three and a half feet perhaps, 187 00:15:05.919 --> 00:15:11.279 Oh it's huge. Yeah, she's big. So they ambushed the envoy 188 00:15:11.320 --> 00:15:18.799 with that pale They're very tiny bulletin pale. Oh Like when I say in 189 00:15:18.879 --> 00:15:24.120 pale, I mean he killed them. He always impales them on pikes leaves 190 00:15:24.159 --> 00:15:28.360 them there. Oh glad laugh track. He then moved to the nearest fortress 191 00:15:28.519 --> 00:15:33.159 under the Ottoman Empire and ordered the gates to be open because he's they're all 192 00:15:33.200 --> 00:15:37.399 in Turkish uniforms, so they ordered the gates to be opened by the men, 193 00:15:37.440 --> 00:15:39.600 and they thought they were so they opened the gates. He would slaughter 194 00:15:39.679 --> 00:15:45.279 the defense and pale more people and destroy the fortress completely. Crazy, crazier, 195 00:15:45.399 --> 00:15:48.960 So okay, in fourteen sixty two, he would go on to split 196 00:15:48.000 --> 00:15:54.720 his troops Glad the Impaler and invade neighboring Bulgaria. Is if he didn't have 197 00:15:54.879 --> 00:15:58.879 enough going on with the Transylvanian Saxons and within his own empire and now the 198 00:16:00.039 --> 00:16:06.039 Ottoman Empire, he is gonna go invade Bulgaria. Oh, just take a 199 00:16:06.159 --> 00:16:10.879 nap. He rounds up Turks, he rounds up Turkish supporters, he captures 200 00:16:10.879 --> 00:16:14.480 them, and he impales them. Okay, so what are his motives at 201 00:16:14.480 --> 00:16:21.159 this point? I understood the motives with his like his dad and his brother. 202 00:16:22.039 --> 00:16:26.600 Do you know what royalty is? But it doesn't seem like he's doing 203 00:16:26.639 --> 00:16:29.639 anything fun, you know what I mean? Like it seems like you would 204 00:16:29.639 --> 00:16:33.240 conquer things to have fun and like hold chord and have fancy parties. I 205 00:16:33.279 --> 00:16:38.759 think it was the point of which he achieves something and got his revenge and 206 00:16:38.799 --> 00:16:42.720 got the seat of power, and then here comes the largest empire in the 207 00:16:42.720 --> 00:16:47.919 world to be like, to send you an order to basically bow to me, 208 00:16:48.799 --> 00:16:51.320 that's your chance to be like, Oh well, if he's ordering me 209 00:16:51.399 --> 00:16:53.639 to bow to him, he's scared of me. Yeah, this is the 210 00:16:53.720 --> 00:16:57.360 one opportunity that we can take out a giant empire. Point was, I 211 00:16:57.399 --> 00:17:02.200 don't think he succeeds on that front. And I'm guessing he's like eating well 212 00:17:02.200 --> 00:17:03.880 and having a lot of sex in between all the staff. Yeah, but 213 00:17:04.000 --> 00:17:07.480 like, why are we never talking about that stuff because a lot of that 214 00:17:07.640 --> 00:17:11.359 is the rape too. Why do you got to bring me down? Chip? 215 00:17:11.680 --> 00:17:14.559 God? This game at their owns. It's not a cheerful game. 216 00:17:15.079 --> 00:17:18.240 Win or you die. Yeah, this is basically like fourteen hundred war, 217 00:17:18.480 --> 00:17:22.119 but with a lot of impaling. He would say that he killed over twenty 218 00:17:22.200 --> 00:17:27.200 three thousand his dudes killed. I don't think he did all that impaling. 219 00:17:27.759 --> 00:17:33.480 That was his guards. That was just what he brought back to Wallashia and 220 00:17:33.880 --> 00:17:37.880 impaled. That's not counting those that were burned in their own homes. A 221 00:17:37.960 --> 00:17:44.759 force of eighteen thousand, led by the Sultan's Grand Vizier would be routed and 222 00:17:44.960 --> 00:17:48.920 leaving only eight thousand to escape the battle. Well. Of course, this 223 00:17:49.039 --> 00:17:56.359 outraged Mahmed and at this point Lad's luck is running out. There are many 224 00:17:56.359 --> 00:17:59.880 different accounts by many different historians in which the size of the army that may 225 00:18:00.000 --> 00:18:04.440 Amed personally led to Wallashia. But Maymed requested about one hundred and fifty thousand 226 00:18:04.440 --> 00:18:10.119 men from all over the empire just as front these people. What he received 227 00:18:10.400 --> 00:18:15.839 was around three hundred to four hundred thousand men. Fuck. This is not 228 00:18:15.960 --> 00:18:22.960 counting the naval force that would go with them. Naturally, Vlad would begin 229 00:18:22.000 --> 00:18:26.680 to worry at this time, I could only appeal so much. Maybe was 230 00:18:26.720 --> 00:18:30.519 getting a little scared and frightened. He would seek out the King of Hungary 231 00:18:30.680 --> 00:18:36.960 for aid. Oh, who was a scared little bit? Now when none 232 00:18:37.039 --> 00:18:40.599 came, Bro, you have a bad habit of impaling. I don't really 233 00:18:40.599 --> 00:18:45.039 want to get involved. Vlad conscripted women, enabled children to fight for him. 234 00:18:45.359 --> 00:18:48.640 Oh, here we go again. Good for him for seeing the women 235 00:18:48.680 --> 00:18:52.480 could fight. Here we go, equal opportunity. Murderer in total, historians 236 00:18:52.480 --> 00:18:57.960 and you have found that he amassed an army about the tenth of the size 237 00:18:59.200 --> 00:19:03.960 of the Ottoman impressive at the time, very impressive, but I mean how 238 00:19:03.960 --> 00:19:10.400 many were children. So upon the day that the empire would strike um, 239 00:19:11.079 --> 00:19:15.680 he would think of a crafty way to scare the Sultan back to his empire. 240 00:19:17.119 --> 00:19:22.759 He began by poisoning wells and destroying anything of use and even sent infected 241 00:19:22.759 --> 00:19:26.319 men with the plague into their troops to spread the highly infectious disease at the 242 00:19:26.359 --> 00:19:34.920 time, so like this little by little in his region before you know, 243 00:19:34.960 --> 00:19:40.519 they were coming to his fortress in castle, he would do everything he could 244 00:19:40.559 --> 00:19:45.640 to sabotage them and poison them and infect them. It's actually wild how far 245 00:19:45.759 --> 00:19:52.400 back in history biological warfare goes, like weaponizing smallpox and the plague and shit, 246 00:19:52.519 --> 00:19:56.680 it's actually nutty, especially when you think about the fact that they didn't 247 00:19:56.720 --> 00:20:03.720 have a way to not catch these community couple diseases. They're right, yeah, 248 00:20:03.759 --> 00:20:08.680 bringing smallpox blankets or whatever, but their soldiers are the ones handling whatever 249 00:20:08.799 --> 00:20:14.400 material in the way that they're weaponizing it totally. Obviously, the still the 250 00:20:14.440 --> 00:20:18.000 empire still, you know, trudged on and went on. The first night 251 00:20:18.200 --> 00:20:21.839 that they camped outside, though, would turn the tides against this massive army. 252 00:20:22.759 --> 00:20:26.279 Vlad and his men would sneak in on the mid troops in the middle 253 00:20:26.319 --> 00:20:30.559 of the night, slaughtering all that they could. Vlad even tried to assassinate 254 00:20:30.599 --> 00:20:36.799 the Sultan personally, but missed and hit the Grand Vizier's tent dangerous career Grand 255 00:20:36.839 --> 00:20:41.000 viziering it's a three and a half hand cannon in the middle of the fucking 256 00:20:41.119 --> 00:20:45.000 night. Of course you're hitting the tent nights to it. It's a little 257 00:20:45.039 --> 00:20:48.519 cloudy, but pretty much think that the Empire fought back or woke up to 258 00:20:48.559 --> 00:20:53.359 seven degree, or they retreated in some ways they strike, they did fashion. 259 00:20:55.480 --> 00:21:00.519 I think after he missed, he probably retreated back. The Empire continue 260 00:21:00.559 --> 00:21:03.359 to march on, obviously to the fortified citadel. At this point, they're 261 00:21:03.359 --> 00:21:08.160 just camped outside. What they would be shocked to fine though, is that 262 00:21:08.200 --> 00:21:14.079 the gates were wide open. What they would stumble upon would be called as 263 00:21:14.119 --> 00:21:19.559 the Forest of the Impaled. Basically, he had strung up around twenty thousand 264 00:21:19.640 --> 00:21:26.559 or more enemy soldiers of the Sultan's impaled and put on decoration. Just a 265 00:21:26.559 --> 00:21:32.839 graveyard, not the electric forest. Not good, not electric. This guy 266 00:21:32.960 --> 00:21:36.200 was smart and fucking crafty. I mean, I'm just have to give it 267 00:21:36.240 --> 00:21:38.599 to him. I mean, no accounts have been documented to out like how 268 00:21:38.759 --> 00:21:44.799 the Sultan reacted or what became of it, but he definitely left Wallashia the 269 00:21:44.839 --> 00:21:49.359 next day at sunrise. He's like, this is not worth the effort. 270 00:21:49.599 --> 00:21:55.319 I'm going to go back to being the biggest Empire on Earth. So Stephen 271 00:21:55.359 --> 00:21:57.200 the third of Old Davy at this time would flee to Chilla, and so 272 00:21:57.400 --> 00:22:03.160 would Vlad, and and he would leave about six thousand of his troops to 273 00:22:03.160 --> 00:22:07.480 try to hinder the march of the Saltan's army, but the Ottomans ended up 274 00:22:07.960 --> 00:22:12.880 defeating the Wallashians. So when the main Ottoman army left Wallashia, Vlad's brother 275 00:22:14.079 --> 00:22:21.039 Radu was with him and on the side No, his youngest brother, Radu 276 00:22:21.359 --> 00:22:26.200 was basically in with the Ottomans. So at this point it had been I'm 277 00:22:26.240 --> 00:22:29.640 sure been a deal of like, as soon as we overthrow, you can 278 00:22:29.680 --> 00:22:34.480 have the seat. So Radu sent messages to the Wallashians reminding that the Saltan 279 00:22:34.519 --> 00:22:41.079 could again invade their country that they need he needed to give up his seat. 280 00:22:41.079 --> 00:22:47.200 Basically, Vlad defeated Radu and his Ottoman allies in two battles during the 281 00:22:47.240 --> 00:22:52.279 following months, but more and more Wallashians would desert and go to Radu basically 282 00:22:52.319 --> 00:23:00.319 at this time, and he would withdraw into the Carpathian Mountains and hope that 283 00:23:02.160 --> 00:23:06.559 Matthias Corvinus, the King of Hungary, would help him get his throne back. 284 00:23:06.680 --> 00:23:08.319 Basically, he was wrong. He did not want to rage war with 285 00:23:08.359 --> 00:23:12.519 the Ottoman Empire. He wanted to keep the peace, and captured Lad and 286 00:23:12.559 --> 00:23:17.640 threw him in prison. Lad would settle in a house and pass after being 287 00:23:17.720 --> 00:23:22.119 released. So basically he would go into prison for fourteen years, starting in 288 00:23:22.160 --> 00:23:26.680 the city of Belgrade, but then was transferred to Visigrad. And then in 289 00:23:26.880 --> 00:23:32.240 fourteen seventy five, Stephen the third of Moldavia would go and send envoys to 290 00:23:32.880 --> 00:23:37.759 the King asking him to send Lad Wallashia against Bassara Blayota. They must have 291 00:23:37.759 --> 00:23:42.279 been really worried about him being a martyr, because I just can't see any 292 00:23:42.279 --> 00:23:49.480 other reason that would be politically advantageous for them to keep him alive. It's 293 00:23:49.519 --> 00:23:55.799 about throw in seat because his brother didn't take the throne one of the brothers 294 00:23:55.799 --> 00:24:00.839 of Vladislav though, Okay, so a lot goes on, and basically he 295 00:24:00.920 --> 00:24:06.880 gets back onto the throne through Hungarian support, through Moldavian support, through Wallashian 296 00:24:07.000 --> 00:24:11.240 support, little by little, naturally, like it is so bizarre, and 297 00:24:11.319 --> 00:24:15.880 a lot going on back on that iron throne. And then that's when Basarabiliotta 298 00:24:17.200 --> 00:24:22.319 returns to Wallashi with Ottoman support and vlad is killed in battle. What's the 299 00:24:22.359 --> 00:24:26.440 lifespan of a soldier at that time that he's actively fighting like this, he 300 00:24:26.519 --> 00:24:30.319 would think that he would die young as fuck, and it'd be like, 301 00:24:30.400 --> 00:24:33.880 yeah, he did all these things, he conquered all these things, but 302 00:24:33.000 --> 00:24:36.960 yeah, he did that over the course of a few years. But then 303 00:24:37.000 --> 00:24:40.880 he ends up locked up and he comes out and is like, I'm still 304 00:24:40.960 --> 00:24:45.279 young and spry and can just do war. Fourteen thirty one, so he 305 00:24:45.480 --> 00:24:51.079 was forty six, Still forty six to be fighting battles at forty six, 306 00:24:52.079 --> 00:24:56.359 the lifespan of kings was probably decent. The lifespan of a soldier because he 307 00:24:56.519 --> 00:25:03.640 was actively fighting has to be negligible. I doubt he was actively fighting in 308 00:25:03.759 --> 00:25:07.480 all these battles. I'm thinking, you know, certainly when there's assaulted you 309 00:25:07.559 --> 00:25:11.200 kind of sounds like he really liked and paling people though, so I feel 310 00:25:11.200 --> 00:25:15.519 like he had to be at a lot of them. But again, I 311 00:25:15.599 --> 00:25:19.799 want to know how many he personally impaled versus ordered and paled like. I 312 00:25:19.799 --> 00:25:22.680 don't think he lined them all up. At that first royal, the Red 313 00:25:22.680 --> 00:25:26.240 Wedding, it was like and I stap you, and I stap you, 314 00:25:26.599 --> 00:25:32.079 and I stap you. Okay, whence the vampireism start? So he died 315 00:25:32.160 --> 00:25:36.799 finally he's a vampire. Now, it's not really, it's that it's the 316 00:25:36.880 --> 00:25:44.000 last name that is tied to what bram Stoker creates. He just takes the 317 00:25:44.079 --> 00:25:48.519 name because it's cool. Fair enough, he was called vlad Drakhool, you 318 00:25:48.559 --> 00:25:52.319 know what I mean. He wasn't even called Dracula. It's just over time 319 00:25:52.440 --> 00:25:57.039 because of the amount of bloodshab and the exaggerations and everything else that have going 320 00:25:57.119 --> 00:26:00.720 over time, is that he was just obsessed with blood and death, and 321 00:26:00.880 --> 00:26:07.039 obviously fighting and killing and blood and death. And I paling people having written 322 00:26:07.039 --> 00:26:11.720 a nano or two, I too have corrupted a name just because it sounded 323 00:26:11.759 --> 00:26:17.119 cool. So do we hate Vladim Paler or do we like it Vladim Paler? 324 00:26:17.880 --> 00:26:22.160 Or do we respect Vladidan Paler? Burn in hell? But he's the 325 00:26:22.240 --> 00:26:29.519 worst, right, But he's clever, and I do respect the cleverness and 326 00:26:30.039 --> 00:26:32.640 how smart he was. But I think we can say that about a lot 327 00:26:32.680 --> 00:26:37.359 of different intelligence is in a sign of goodness. And the tie really to 328 00:26:37.480 --> 00:26:41.839 this to him to Dracula, as him being immortal and dodging death. He 329 00:26:41.960 --> 00:26:48.240 should have been murdered when he was a child. He was imprisoned three or 330 00:26:48.279 --> 00:26:52.000 four times, he sat on a throne three or four times. He's been 331 00:26:52.039 --> 00:26:59.240 in battle thousands of times. He's ran away like he's traveled through mountains to 332 00:26:59.359 --> 00:27:04.160 get to a different city and king, and I mean he definitely escaped death. 333 00:27:04.359 --> 00:27:07.640 What I thought you were going to say, like what I thought this 334 00:27:07.680 --> 00:27:14.359 would be the evolution of a Dracula would be he dodged death so many times 335 00:27:14.359 --> 00:27:19.079 that people couldn't believe that he was actually dead because he had survived these ridiculous 336 00:27:19.079 --> 00:27:23.319 odds. Oh my god, have you heard about that? He's on a 337 00:27:23.400 --> 00:27:32.440 cereal. That's a little bit, a little that's all right. So that 338 00:27:32.599 --> 00:27:34.519 is part three of our blood series. Let me know if I miss something 339 00:27:34.599 --> 00:27:40.680 interesting or I misspoke on something, as we do here at the Deep Doctor 340 00:27:41.920 --> 00:27:47.759 ever to Google translates say a word a million times and then it's still just 341 00:27:48.920 --> 00:27:52.359 doesn't sound right, just falls into what it is until next time. I'm 342 00:27:52.440 --> 00:28:02.200 MO and I'm Mikey. Don't impale people. You just listen to the Deep 343 00:28:02.359 --> 00:28:08.119 Dark Truth podcast. See you next time, and remember your local cryptids want 344 00:28:08.160 --> 00:28:10.160 to meet you.