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Guide to the Unknown

165: Count Dracula

Guide to the Unknown

Kristen Anderson and William Rogers

Arts, Comedy, Tv & Film

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2021

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

He's one of the oldest monsters known to man. And now...his devilish eyes are fixed on US! But who IS Dracula? Where did he come from? Is he really based on Vlad the Impaler? And how many weird-ass versions of his story have been told? Make sure you listen to the promo at the end of the show and check out one of our favorite podcasts, Bigfoot Collectors Club! Get access to monthly bonus podcasts and tons of other content by supporting us through http://www.patreon.com/gttupod! Thank you so much! Get the Blair Witch game at huntakiller.com/blairwitch Read Kristen's writing at huntakiller.com/blog For full sources and links, visit http://www.gttupod.com/home/gttu165 Visit our website for all things Guide to the Unknown at gttupod.com! Watch the video of our conversation at http://www.youtube.com/talkbomb  Follow us online: http://www.instagram.com/gttupod http://www.facebook.com/gttupod http://www.twitter.com/gttupod And join our private Facebook group at http://www.facebook.com/groups/gttupod

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0:00.0

Dracula is Judas.

0:03.0

Oh, wow. That's in Dracula 2000?

0:06.0

In Dracula 2000.

0:07.0

Who betrayed Jesus?

0:08.0

I feel like this is heady stuff for a movie starring Vitamin C. Hello, welcome to guides the unknown.

0:18.0

I'm Kristen.

0:19.0

And I'm her little brother, William.

0:21.0

And this week we're going to be talking about

0:23.0

Dracula, famous Vampir. You said that's with the why the way that you've said it.

0:29.5

V-a-m-P-Y-R.

0:33.0

Very cool, very classy.

0:35.0

Thank you very much.

0:37.0

One of the original Universal Monsters.

0:40.0

Yeah, that's true.

0:41.0

One of the, I think I think just original icons of horror. Yes. Of the entire game. Yes.

0:47.6

William, what do you think you know about Dracula? You know, it's an interesting question. I think what my knowledge has amounts to almost exactly what

0:59.2

Dracula is. I don't know that I could have told you some of the nitty gritty things that I have learned in my research for this week, but what I know is he's a vampire.

1:08.0

And this week we're not going to be talking about vampires overall. We're talking specifically about the character of Dracula. But so he drinks

1:16.3

blood to survive. He has the ability to transform into different animals, the most famously

1:21.9

known of which is a bat.

1:23.3

However, in the original Dracula stories, he's also able to turn into a wolf or turn

1:29.8

into a cloud of vapor, which I think those are lesser known things that he's able to do.

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