Dracula’s Castle of Bran; [Romania] Oldest Photographs, Knights + Saxons + Mircea, Vlad The 1st/3rd

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  • Опубликовано: 21 ноя 2024

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  • @spiritranger9202
    @spiritranger9202 Год назад +12

    My husband is Romanian and we toured there one visit. We were amazed how low the ceilings were. We are both 5' 9" and had to bend our heads multiple times walking through hallways. Also, interesting that Drac the impaler is a folk hero in Romania. He has sort of a robinhood persona. He was killing the rich landowners who were taking advantage of the peasants. He also drove out the ottomans. The history there is so amazing. We went to historia the farthest greek outpost. Lots of history there.

  • @jessewrites17792
    @jessewrites17792 Год назад +33

    I grew up in Purfleet on thames. 15 miles east of Central London on the old flood plains and chalk mines. BRAM STOKER WROTE DRACULA THERE.

    • @jademacleod9115
      @jademacleod9115 Год назад +6

      I live near Whitby where Dracula was also wrote as told in the Whitby Dracula museum x

  • @jacobhope6164
    @jacobhope6164 Год назад +26

    When I was there in 1992, after the fall of the Soviet Union, and the Persian Gulf War, the locals were referring to it as the summer castle of Vlad Tepes, or "Dracula's summer castle" if we preferred.
    On a related note, I moved in to a home 3 years ago, and my across the street neighbors are from a part of Transylvania I visited when they were 12 year olds, and still living there. We didn't meet back then, but it seems a bit incredible nonetheless.

  • @Crunchykyle
    @Crunchykyle Год назад +27

    Thank you for letting the photos speak for themselves. Just the right amount of talking! Good stuff my bro

  • @Free-Falling
    @Free-Falling Год назад +11

    Very intriguing 🤔 the architecture is curious as is the history. I would love to see more of the interior ❤thank you for putting the time and energy into finding so many photos and pictures and sharing ❤

  • @desertsunman5880
    @desertsunman5880 Год назад +16

    Thank you for bringing History back to life😉😎

  • @mdorn6592
    @mdorn6592 Год назад +23

    So exactly what workforce made their way daily to build this castle? And how did they get materials there? Absolutely baffling

    • @bigred7347
      @bigred7347 Год назад +1

      Slaves of the time....

    • @mdorn6592
      @mdorn6592 Год назад

      @@bigred7347 maybe...but you still have to feed the slaves and allow them a place to sleep before they keel over and die from hunger and exhaustion

    • @mdorn6592
      @mdorn6592 Год назад +1

      @@doublewhopper67 Up on a rocky cliff...years (not months)...all while village people (the labor force) are supposedly trying to feed their own families...yeah, baffling. Unless things of the time period were not what they told us they were.
      I studied architecture - building up on a rocky mountain with bad roads is challenging in today's time with todays technology

  • @Enigmatic..
    @Enigmatic.. Год назад +3

    I have been there back in 2008 or maybe 2010, it was one of the times i went to Romania. I also went down into a giant salt mine which was cool. That actually had people playing sports down there in the huge open cavern. It was so big that it had shops down there lol.

  • @brucecunningham1607
    @brucecunningham1607 Год назад

    Thanks Jarid, I'm really glad to have found your channel. I'm just starting watching these treasures you have put together for us.

  • @merlinoner
    @merlinoner Год назад +4

    Wow that princess really looked like a princess :)

  • @dlbristow
    @dlbristow Год назад +4

    Loved it Jared - when I heard of Romania, it reminded me of my 6th grade field trip to Maryhill Museum up on Washington side of Columbia River out in the eastern side of the Cascades making it dry and more a desert/treeless plateaus. The story has changed quite significantly from when I visited in late sixties. A Romanian Queen was built this 3 story + basement castle like building- apparently she had become “exiled” - some of her regal clothes and her throne were there. In the basement was a huge collection of the Native American artifacts (like Nez Pierce, Chinook Salmon fishing ones of the area etc)… Now rarely open seems to have the builder Sam Hill (ship captain) was a Quaker which I hadn’t heard of… very Very strange on the expansive amount of land has a STONEHENGE replica built as part of something they say was to do with World War 1 - really? It’s hush hushed because it makes no sense in the middle of nowhere! If you can use this info for your investigations - maybe you can make sense of it - thanks so much Jared!

  • @jaamaan123
    @jaamaan123 Год назад +13

    Castle of Dracula later becomes a bloodbank :)

    • @caobita
      @caobita Год назад +2

      Ain't that hilarious? 😆

  • @michaellloyd8594
    @michaellloyd8594 Год назад +11

    Tunnels etc...Vampyres,...And then...a 'blood bank'...very interesting place indeed. I've heard that 'Dracula' was actually a good guy that defended Transylvania...and not a vampire. Great photos as always. Many thanks from Australia.

    • @bookofrevelation4924
      @bookofrevelation4924 Год назад +1

      Some say vampires are a demonization for certain reasons, and could be based on Egyptian goddess as feline daughter of sun god Ra with power of Plagues and healing sent to punish people.

    • @spiritranger9202
      @spiritranger9202 Год назад

      True. He was a folk here similar to robinhood. He drove out the ottomans. He was impaling the wealthy corrupt politicians and landowners who were taking advantage of the peasants supposedly.

  • @Sir-Cyr_Rill-Nil-Mill
    @Sir-Cyr_Rill-Nil-Mill Год назад +6

    _Romania also has "living stones" which grow & have growth rings_

  • @elgoog7830
    @elgoog7830 Год назад +7

    Imagine getting unrestricted access to roam around one of these massive castles...
    You said at one point, that around world war one, that the castle was in disrepair and partially buried and needed to be dug out.
    Why was it buried? Mud flood?

    • @tazika2988
      @tazika2988 Год назад

      @elgoog Come here, in poorer half of Europe, covered with (ruins of) castles, pick a castle and roam around and inside a castle for days if you wish, EXCEPT in private castles like Bran, repaired and used.
      What "Mud flood" can ruin building on a top of the hill?
      Think of some abandoned house you saw. Overgrown bushes and wild animals enter in no time. Hard rain finds its cracks, wood rot, stones fall. Heavy snow breaks roof.
      Castles need more maintenance then houses.

  • @Curtis1984
    @Curtis1984 Год назад +1

    I really enjoyed this presentation, it's well put together.

  • @christinavance3691
    @christinavance3691 Год назад +4

    So..Bran Castle,aka Dracula's Castle served as a blood bank?.. perfect 😂

  • @KimonSheri
    @KimonSheri Год назад +2

    As always. Thank you

  • @jasonkennedy1670
    @jasonkennedy1670 Год назад +4

    Teutonic Templars were the sworn enemy of Ghengis Khan & sons
    I'd speculate that the castle was built by the Golden hoard and its highly skilled construction contractors 🏰

  • @Scottish-tart
    @Scottish-tart Год назад +3

    Very interesting! Thank you.

  • @jeffwinkler1137
    @jeffwinkler1137 Год назад +8

    I cant imagine the history of such places. I live in western NC and 30 yrs ago a man in his 70s showed me places in the Appalachians that i would swear only a cpl dozen white men had seen since time of the Indians, and thats only 300 years... A place like this that has thousands of years is mind boggling.

    • @stankygeorge
      @stankygeorge Год назад +1

      So are the places in the Appalachians, American walls, castle, pyramids etc. never, ever get discussed. They simply do not fit the Official Narrative!

    • @DukeCannon
      @DukeCannon Год назад +1

      I would love to see a tourist video on that

    • @jeffwinkler1137
      @jeffwinkler1137 Год назад

      @@DukeCannon theres one spot thats an hour on dirt road, another 30 mins on goat path, another hour hike after that where you come upon a single slab of granite stuck in side of mountain that looks as large as damn Hoover Dam... One slab, its breathtaking. I havent been there in 33 years, before cell phones but wish i had pics. Maybe one day before im too old i can get bk in there.

  • @WimsK45
    @WimsK45 Год назад +1

    Always a pleasure to watch you. Cheers from France

  • @iblendallday
    @iblendallday Год назад +3

    If I were you,I'd check out the Deva Fortress,there moor goddesses sculptures on its walls

  • @beckydorius251
    @beckydorius251 Год назад +2

    Thank you so much, this is really amazing! Much Love Jarid!

  • @maternaanna
    @maternaanna Год назад

    💗 thank you, love all your videos, I am glad they came to my attention, shall look for past ones and looking frw to a new one, gratitude

  • @angelawillott3699
    @angelawillott3699 Год назад +2

    Just amazing as always ....love your work 🌈

  • @steveski3199
    @steveski3199 Год назад +17

    So is the story of Vlad the Impaler true? The Story Goes if I remember correctly that's received his country from the invading Ottoman Empire, he was supposed to have impaled hundreds of people, creating a forest of dead impaled people. When the invading Muslim Turks saw the savagery of Vlad they turned around and went back home. As Vlad dipped his bread into the blood of those he had impaled. Another story he had invited villagers to a feast in a barn. Once they had arrived the doors were closed from the outside and he burned them alive. I guess these are just stories then. He is honored still today for saving the people from invading Turks.

    • @annagaldova2777
      @annagaldova2777 Год назад +1

      Interesting. My answer is always vanished immediatelly. Somebody doesn´t want the thruth here.

    • @Sunshine-lo6vd
      @Sunshine-lo6vd Год назад +6

      Yes that story is true. Go to Romania and ask the Romanian people. If the ottomans would have succeeded, then Romania would have been an Islamic country. And evidently it is not !

    • @spiritranger9202
      @spiritranger9202 Год назад +4

      He is a folk hero. He has a persona similar to robinhood there. As you noted, he drove out the ottomans. He also supposedly was impaling the rich and corrupt 🤷‍♀️. Also, wealthy land owners who were taking advantage of the peasants, so the peasants loved him.

    • @elgoog7830
      @elgoog7830 Год назад

      From what I heard, the people he he burned alive were the homeless. And yes, brought to a gathering like you stated.

    • @kpsting
      @kpsting Год назад +1

      Ottomans did succeed and vassalized the region centuries after Vlad. Even Bulgaria to the south, though now majority Christian, was completely under Ottoman rule until at least 17th century. History, where religion is involved is more complex than that. @@Sunshine-lo6vd

  • @skullasylum33
    @skullasylum33 Год назад +6

    howdy jarid 😃🤚
    great topic wonderful photo finds! i read recently there is mention of vampires in ancient jewish texts. cool timing thanks!

    • @ZooScott
      @ZooScott Год назад +1

      🆘 jeepster 💋: 🩸.

    • @rzella8022
      @rzella8022 Год назад +1

      Well, they write the history books, and if they were the rich land-owners killed then no wonder they hated him.

    • @skullasylum33
      @skullasylum33 Год назад +1

      @@ZooScott 😅 💯

  • @HearTruth
    @HearTruth Год назад +15

    King Charles shares his ancestry y Romanian ruler Vlad the Impaler Dracula. -- lead coffin unearthed from Notre Dame Cathedral during post-fire repair

    • @annagaldova2777
      @annagaldova2777 Год назад

      King Charles lies. Vlad´s House died out in 17th century.

  • @judioliver8082
    @judioliver8082 Год назад +2

    thank you, that was very interesting and yes, there's definitely a lot not being told about this site. Blood hospital ? Dracula ? I mean, it just makes us wonder what the real story is.

  • @dougrennpferd904
    @dougrennpferd904 Год назад

    " tragic and astoundingly brief " , I like that . Good one

  • @sheilacape4794
    @sheilacape4794 Год назад

    Thank you!!! Most informative!

  • @rdkuless
    @rdkuless Год назад +16

    Dracula never aged because he was an A D R E N A C H R O M E junkie... He terrified his victims before he drank their blood. That is what H R C and friends did.

    • @jimhurlbut3649
      @jimhurlbut3649 Год назад +5

      Most likely, imo. That's where a lot of the missing kids supposedly end up. They're terrified by whatever and then their blood is drained out and the adrenochrome extracted and sold to those that can afford it. The kids would be presumably kept alive for years. Pretty horrific shit.

    • @rdkuless
      @rdkuless Год назад +7

      @@jimhurlbut3649 Luke 10:18, Jesus said, "and i saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven". "and 1/3 of the angels fell with him".... these junkies are not human.. they are demons that have been around from the day they fell to earth.. They know their end is near as the end times are arriving. may God be with you and your family Jim..

    • @laurentivoli1183
      @laurentivoli1183 Год назад +6

      @@jimhurlbut3649 Monsters Inc

    • @PJB-To-be
      @PJB-To-be Год назад +5

      All this talk of blood! So God has told us from the beginning to keep clear of shedding, or eatting this. Genesis 9:4,6
      Leviticus 17:14 Here we read; "the life of flesh is it's blood, because the life is in it."
      SACRED, BELONGS TO GOD ALONE.
      Acts 15:29 Repeated to Christians also. Has humanity held to Jehovah's standard to treat blood as sacred?

    • @rdkuless
      @rdkuless Год назад +6

      @@PJB-To-be That is right.. "there is power in the blood"...

  • @juniorchavesopicassodeyahu988
    @juniorchavesopicassodeyahu988 Год назад +6

    I'm listening to Thriller by Michael Jackson on the radio, now. It's just about dark supernatural beings like vampires, werewolfs, etc.. well, I think vampires walked among us

    • @marilynnjacobsen1077
      @marilynnjacobsen1077 Год назад

      And still do? Are they still selling humans for this purpose. Is that why there are 85,000 immigrant children unaccounted for at our borders the administration cannot track where they went in modern times?

    • @Sunshine-lo6vd
      @Sunshine-lo6vd Год назад

      They still do

  • @jeffwinkler1137
    @jeffwinkler1137 Год назад +4

    So in WWII it became again a bloodbank?!

  • @OmkaraHellcore
    @OmkaraHellcore Год назад +12

    Vampirism might as well be a metaphor for adrenochrome consumption.

    • @caobita
      @caobita Год назад +5

      Absolutely possible

    • @steveski3199
      @steveski3199 Год назад

      Might be onto something might even go back to ancient Babylon sacrificing of babies to moloch probably after drinking their blood

    • @VenturaIT
      @VenturaIT Год назад +1

      Or the other way around...

    • @OmkaraHellcore
      @OmkaraHellcore Год назад +1

      @@VenturaIT Just drinking blood doesn't cut it and there would be much more conspiracies about victims with puncture marks. So, I'm going to go with "unlikely".

  • @craigzornadda1652
    @craigzornadda1652 Год назад

    Love your work buddy !

  • @jamesmiller4184
    @jamesmiller4184 Год назад

    I was not disappointed. 👍👍

  • @bluefaery1865
    @bluefaery1865 Год назад +2

    Thanks for the interesting history.
    Blood bank. LoL 🤔

  • @JamieCrain5349
    @JamieCrain5349 Год назад

    Great video!!😊

  • @erikacreech6338
    @erikacreech6338 Год назад +7

    Have you done Edinburgh Castle?

    • @DrCorvid
      @DrCorvid Год назад +3

      Yeah, the real King James' infant body was walled up in there and he was replaced but by whom?

  • @drew-shourd
    @drew-shourd Год назад

    I once saw a very cool video about a house Prince bought, renovated with gold fixtures and lived and died in, very interesting. Well, it wasn't actually Prince's, it was his brothers, but stories have it that Prince did stay there once, while traveling through.....wtheck??!!...hehehehehehe

  • @jimhurlbut3649
    @jimhurlbut3649 Год назад +1

    "Mongolian kerfuffle"--nice. Are those lower entrances covered up now then do you know?

  • @sungazer65
    @sungazer65 Год назад

    So interesting 😮❤

  • @jamesmiller4184
    @jamesmiller4184 Год назад

    Howdy Jarid!
    Hmm . . . . .
    Having only just recently descended from "The First Dirigible" high, right on the heels of that comes then a real hit! Whatever might have inspired you to it?
    (And this even before I've viewed it! Well, you inspire deserved faith and trust.)

  • @MatthewM575
    @MatthewM575 Год назад

    Fun Fact..... The BBC did an interview with Prince Charles (now King) discussing his bloodline and link to Vlad the Impaler. When Prince Charles was crowned King the following month he visited this Castle. His first out of England trip, as King, was to this Castle. Why??🤔

  • @SharonRucker-m8l
    @SharonRucker-m8l Год назад +1

    I enjoyed. This very much🎉

  • @Th1nk1n6
    @Th1nk1n6 Год назад +3

    You display an image of Tsar Nicholas, his wife the Tsarina, and the Russian Royal Familiy (@8:33), and I'm curious why this image is included here.
    Is something else going on that relates to Dracula's Castle?

  • @iblendallday
    @iblendallday Год назад +1

    0:34 that's the Corvin Castle in Hunedoara

  • @gregoryagogo
    @gregoryagogo Год назад

    7:02 whole lower part seems "melted"

  • @joesmith1410
    @joesmith1410 Год назад +1

    Melted

  • @scootchyresearch
    @scootchyresearch Год назад

    I could suggest another Royal family who's characters would benefit from some time away from the family estates

  • @evelynkorjack2126
    @evelynkorjack2126 Год назад +1

    i wonder if these castles on rocks were raised up, or just stayed in place when everything else around them sunk?

  • @nobleharvey9935
    @nobleharvey9935 Год назад

    I love Hungarian food, but I too, digress,. Love your videos! I'm just hungry I guess. 😆 🤣

  • @irinavamolina8489
    @irinavamolina8489 Год назад +2

    Я увидела на общей фотографии последнего русского царя, королеву Викторию. Все они из одной группы.
    Если не ошибаюсь, то и Джордж Буш тоже родственник, вернее потомок графа Дракулы.

    • @Sunshine-lo6vd
      @Sunshine-lo6vd Год назад +3

      Not George Bush. It’s King Charles of England. So he says anyway. 🥴

  • @babatrlalan
    @babatrlalan Год назад +3

    "Bran" in Slavic languages means "Defend", "Dam", "Blockade", "Gate"...

  • @afti03
    @afti03 Год назад

    i've been there twice, nothing fancy

  • @WestQuinte
    @WestQuinte Год назад +1

    Kerfuffle? Are you Canadian?

  • @marilynnjacobsen1077
    @marilynnjacobsen1077 Год назад +1

    Are the vampires all related and are called blue bloods?

  • @dtales77
    @dtales77 Год назад +2

    Blood bank in the dracula castle 😂

  • @jordanfalkowski6924
    @jordanfalkowski6924 Год назад

    Once when i was probly about 15 or 16 my pal had got this van. Long story short i found a bottle medication pills. I dont even think they was like narctc. I looked in one of those books and it said for seizures or somethin. So being curious 2 of those had me eating dang cigarettes. I think the humidity was high that night

  • @iblendallday
    @iblendallday Год назад

    He only stayed 4 hours in that castle as a captive

  • @iblendallday
    @iblendallday Год назад +1

    Mircea the First was Draculas uncle,you confused him for his father

  • @30secondgolflessons
    @30secondgolflessons Год назад

    Nothing inside?

  • @ZooScott
    @ZooScott Год назад +1

    a pinnacle off ? airs : 🌊 ⚖️ 🏴‍☠️’s..! nICE 🆘 💥 👀 …….

  • @stankygeorge
    @stankygeorge Год назад +1

    I have always wondered about these old castles, who built them and what was their purpose. You find there worldwide and in the most isolated locations, why...me thinks, air travel was involved and they were way stations or hotels along the flight route.

  • @Ken-gc5us
    @Ken-gc5us Год назад +2

    It is the castle of Vlad...not Dracula. Vlas is loved and respected in Romania.

    • @Ken-gc5us
      @Ken-gc5us Год назад

      @Absu-l.Ti-mati--SIN-gu I meant Vlad not Vlas...but Serbs and Romanians are related...they have the same origin...they have Anunnaki blood flowing through their veins...true Serbs are Vlas...but they can be Vlahi too...I think it's pretty much the same thing

  • @rage7661
    @rage7661 Год назад +3

    On top of all that joke of a well narrated foundational history you just have to swallow that: Bran`s Castle Is somehow related to Bram Stoker`s horror tale but (of course) Bran and Bram are just similiar names, and the names are not related whatsoever to each other...
    It`s just a coinquidink 😈

  • @knightforlorn6731
    @knightforlorn6731 Год назад +1

    the more I hear about Vlad and his war on the ottoman the more I realize he was not the villain, but the ottomans were. Janissary alone should be reason enough to put my enemy up on the spit and thats just what he did. But thats not the half of what the muslims did. So I raise my bloody cup to you Vlad, may others learn the truth and turn the slander back onto the ottoman and any who follow their insanity.

  • @peanut422hb
    @peanut422hb Год назад +2

    Re bran ded. Repurpose into a blood bank😂

  • @lyndonowen8525
    @lyndonowen8525 Год назад

    Blood bank

  • @theoryofpersonality1420
    @theoryofpersonality1420 Год назад +1

    Bram not bran.

  • @VenturaIT
    @VenturaIT Год назад

    a hospital with a bloodbank? haha fitting

  • @pauljohnstone8989
    @pauljohnstone8989 Год назад

    Are yu saying Prince Philip was good ?

  • @galacticfederationhealers
    @galacticfederationhealers Год назад

    The Saxons didn't build this. It's old world megalith almost much much older

  • @MrBTBusch
    @MrBTBusch Год назад

    Dracila's castle & 666 likes, so I didn't like even tho I wanted to. So there ya go.

  • @stefanichim9342
    @stefanichim9342 Год назад

    Been there several times. Believe me, this building has nothing to do with old world buildings. It's total redneck force without any architect ever involved! It looks steep in the photos but on the other side there is road. Vlad and Mircea have never stepped in there, that is all marketing BS invented by the team of the inherit members. Search for some pictures of interior, it's really laughable of how redneck style it looks.

  • @elegantutility368
    @elegantutility368 Год назад

    How can we be sure that we have been fed grand fairly tails- they were able to build mind blowing structures but were not able to draw a decent picture of a man! 😂 no one can draw anything better then 5 year olds

  • @jameshatton4211
    @jameshatton4211 Год назад +1

    Jarid, you need to do an episode on the marble sculpture 'release from deception' made in the 15th century
    static.demilked.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/5c63d2ce78d96-marble-sculpture-net-francesco-queirolo-release-from-deception-1-5c6285a59fefd__700.jpg

    • @Nordic_Mechanic
      @Nordic_Mechanic Год назад

      yeah thats baffling. I`d put a million dollar price to anyone would could recreate this the way they said it was done

  • @lallyoisin
    @lallyoisin Год назад +5

    Bram Stoker means broom stick 🧹 🦹
    What are the chances

    • @VenturaIT
      @VenturaIT Год назад +3

      Countess Elizabeth Báthory de Ecsed and she is accused of BATHING in blood...