Whitby church tells visiting goths: "Dracula is fictional"

[Blackleaf]

Fangs for nothing! Tourist trade uproar as church where 'Dracula is buried' tells visiting goths: It's all fiction​

Count Dracula and his terrifying exploits have helped to sustain the economy of a seaside town for decades. So it did not go down well when the local church tried to give goths visiting Whitby the unvarnished truth about a cemetery where Dracula's grave is wrongly thought to lie. Goths are seen centre and left at the site (also inset), while Bram Stoker's 1897 horror novel is seen inset top. Those searching for the grave at the 12th-century St Mary's Church in the North Yorkshire town have been handed leaflets saying: 'Sorry it's not here… in fact it's not anywhere because Dracula is fiction.'

 

[Jinentonix]

Even if he was real at some point, why in the hell would any church bury Dracula in their cemetery in the first place?

 

[Blackleaf]

Even if he was real at some point, why in the hell would any church bury Dracula in their cemetery in the first place?

People think that Dracula died by having a stake driven through his heart, but he was actually killed by being beheaded with a Gurkha kukri knife and having his heart pierced with a Bowie knife.

 

[Jinentonix]

People think that Dracula died by having a stake driven through his heart, but he was actually killed by being beheaded with a Gurkha kukri knife and having his heart pierced with a Bowie knife.

That's a joke, right?

 

[Blackleaf]

That's a joke, right?

No, it's true. I've read the novel.

He was decapitated by Harker's kukri knife and pierced through the heart with Morris's Bowie knife.

 

[Jinentonix]

No, it's true. I've read the novel.

He was decapitated by Harker's kukri knife and pierced through the heart with Morris's Bowie knife.

Ah okay, the fictional Dracula. Got it.

 

[Blackleaf]

The first appearance of Dracula on film was in the 1921 Austria-Hungary movie "Drakula halála" ("Dracula's Death").

 

[Blackleaf]

Ah okay, the fictional Dracula. Got it.

There wasn't a real Dracula. He's a character created by British author Bram Stoker.

 

[Jinentonix]

There wasn't a real Dracula. He's a character created by British author Bram Stoker.

Yeah I know. But Vlad the Impaler often gets credit for being Dracula. That's why I was wondering if you were talking about the fictional Dracula or the real person often associated with Dracula.

 

[spaminator]

No, it's true. I've read the novel.

He was decapitated by Harker's kukri knife and pierced through the heart with Morris's Bowie knife.

they tricked him into eating garlic soup.

 

[Blackleaf]

Yeah I know. But Vlad the Impaler often gets credit for being Dracula. That's why I was wondering if you were talking about the fictional Dracula or the real person often associated with Dracula.

I think Bram Stoker based his character upon Vlad.

 

[taxslave]

Seems kind of odd for a bunch of sky pilot believers to say something else isn't real.

 

[TheShadow]

Tough call.

It's something the town prospers from but you really shouldn't expect the church to put up with damaging behaviors.

Perhaps a middle ground could be found that allows people to come for tourism but also gives some respect to the church grounds?

If anything, the church could use this in their favour somehow?

 

[Blackleaf]

Tough call.

It's something the town prospers from but you really shouldn't expect the church to put up with damaging behaviors.

Perhaps a middle ground could be found that allows people to come for tourism but also gives some respect to the church grounds?

If anything, the church could use this in their favour somehow?

They should open a Dracula-themed gift shop next to the church.