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Archaeologist believes he's found 'Dracula's dungeon'
Fox News ^ | 09.30.2014 | Kate Seamons

Posted on 09/30/2014 12:34:23 PM PDT by dware

An archaeologist who has been part of the restoration and excavation effort at Turkey's Tokat Castle believes he has uncovered the dungeons where Vlad the Impaler was once held.

Ibrahim Cetin tells the Hurriyet Daily News that the two dungeons that were found were "built like a prison." And while he deems it "hard to estimate" which room the man who served as Dracula's inspiration was held in, "he was around here," he says.

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TOPICS: Books/Literature; Chit/Chat; History; Science
KEYWORDS: brancastle; dracula; draculascastle; godsgravesglyphs; romania; tokatcastle; transylvania; turkey; vlad; vladtheimpaler
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1 posted on 09/30/2014 12:34:23 PM PDT by dware
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To: SunkenCiv

FYI!


2 posted on 09/30/2014 12:35:05 PM PDT by dware (3 prohibited topics in mixed company: politics, religion and operating systems...)
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To: dware

Just in time for Oct 31!


3 posted on 09/30/2014 12:39:55 PM PDT by SMARTY ("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
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4 posted on 09/30/2014 12:40:00 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Lol. Nice! Where is gerrie these days?


5 posted on 09/30/2014 12:41:43 PM PDT by dware (3 prohibited topics in mixed company: politics, religion and operating systems...)
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To: dware
two dungeons that were found were "built like a prison."

Is that different than a prison "built like a dungeon"?
6 posted on 09/30/2014 12:44:39 PM PDT by chrisser (When do we get to tell the Middle East to stop clinging to their guns and religion?)
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To: dware

Vlad used to impale mice for sport while held in that prison.


7 posted on 09/30/2014 12:45:49 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: dware

I recommend they do the research in strong sunlight, to be safe.

There might even be some Transylvanian workplace safety standards on this matter.


8 posted on 09/30/2014 12:49:38 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: dware
Ol' Val was one nasty diabolical character who killed people, stuck a pole up through their body, drained the blood then he's drink it......although Muslim countries also do this I don't recall they drink their blood...but some chew on their hearts, such as was shown and reported in the news.


9 posted on 09/30/2014 12:56:05 PM PDT by caww
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I guess they wanted to differentiate between dungeons built like tropical grass huts.


10 posted on 09/30/2014 12:57:23 PM PDT by TigersEye (ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
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To: dware

Hurray put a stake through hitlary’s heart!


11 posted on 09/30/2014 1:08:08 PM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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although Muslim countries also do this I don't recall they drink their blood.

It was said that Jomo Kenyatta's men drank menstrual blood before engaging in their killing frenzies against white settlers in the 1960s. Obama's father was a Kenyan Muslim, so perhaps it is a tradition.

12 posted on 09/30/2014 1:33:56 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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Could be...either or... there are some real sicko’s out there in the name of religion...and not.

Hindu's place some sort of substance on the frontal parts of their idols, representing it's menstrual cycle, that people put their fingers in and swipe some of it to put on their foreheads....that's the ‘red’ dot thing we see so often in the middle of their forehead.

13 posted on 09/30/2014 1:57:01 PM PDT by caww
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To: dware

BOOKMARK


14 posted on 09/30/2014 4:35:53 PM PDT by AirForce-TechSgt ("The American Indians found out what happens when you don't control immigration.")
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To: dware
he has uncovered the dungeons where Vlad the Impaler was once held.

Oh great, next he's going to open the coffin.......where have I seen that before?

My only advice is, don't let your female assistant wear high heels in case she has to run away..........and make sure your flashlight has fresh batteries.

15 posted on 09/30/2014 4:43:16 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Don't harsh my buzz homie......)
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And f’Petessake, if you hear the background music get really creepy DON’T GO DOWN THE BASEMENT STAIRS!!! You’d think these guys had never watched a horror movie before.


16 posted on 09/30/2014 4:45:15 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Yes. Its called VOSHA: Vampires Occupational Safety and Health Administration.


17 posted on 09/30/2014 5:43:14 PM PDT by JewishRighter
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To: dware; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; ...
Thanks dware. Vlad the Impaler's last words were, "that bites".


18 posted on 10/13/2014 6:28:52 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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"Thanks dware. Vlad the Impaler's last words were, "that bites"."

And here I thought he said: "Now that's something I can really sink my teeth into."

19 posted on 10/13/2014 6:34:48 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: caww

He was taken and imprisoned by the Turks at the age of 11...If you consider the Muslim attitude towards young teenage boys, it’s not hard to extrapolate what horrific treatment most likely befell him, which could certainly inspire that particular form of vengeance. Vlad’s impalings weren’t merely a pole “up through the body,” it was a long, pointed pike inserted into a particular orifice, after which it was hoisted upright allowing gravity to work the pike in, slowly...


20 posted on 10/13/2014 9:10:28 PM PDT by To Hell With Poverty (Ephesians 6:12 becomes more real to me with each news cycle.)
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