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The long shadow of Dracula

Posted on Monday, 7 February, 2005 | 15 comments

Last week, six men were jailed for ripping out the heart of a corpse they believed was 'undead'. As Monica Petrescu in Bucharest writes, to many Romanians, vampires are not legend but terrifying realityIt was just before midnight as Gheorghe Marinescu and five of his relatives crept into the graveyard in the small Romanian village of Marotinul de Sus.

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#11 Posted by __Kratos__ on 30 July, 2005, 3:02
QUOTE(DownTheDrain @ Apr 18 2005, 09:54 AM)Yeah... and when I think that this whole Dracula thing started from such a simple thing! Have you ever heard of Vlad Tepes (Vlad the Impaler)? Well..he's supposed to be DRACULA... He lived in the 15th century and after his father(Vlad Dr...

#12 Posted by NJC on 30 July, 2005, 14:58
i have a great idea people who think vampires are real should always bring a mirrow to test their replection if they don't have a replection its a vampire

#13 Posted by MrVelvet on 23 January, 2006, 13:44
Sounds like a standard date with a Jersey girl...

#14 Posted by Yelekiah on 23 January, 2006, 16:17
Unless he's referring to the year.Possible typo.

#15 Posted by Purplos on 23 January, 2006, 17:14
Hey!!!! Back on topic -- you'd think these people would come up with some different family traditions. I wonder how they decide who is the next vampire they must extinguish.

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