why people out side of europa think that Romania, Transylvania is a haunted land?

Question

Why do people think that Romania, Transylvania is full whit haunted castles, cemetarys whit zombies etc? is it just because of Braham Strokers book or is it something else too?

Answer 1

because they are idiots there is no such thing as dracula anyway actually he was a great leader his name was VLAD TEPES he got his name and the legend because he used to kill all thiefes and traidors and put their heds on spiks around the castle for all the other idiots to know what will happen to them if they skrew up he ment a great thing for the people of transilvania for as long as he lived and the legend well rich people cut of his hed but they still believed he lived because they were traidors and they were affraid

Answer 2

Well, you are right in your assertion – but like you asked, it is something else too and not just books. It is the worldwide ignorance in general. People have always seen movies (like most recently Van Helsing), books, (by authors like Stroker), and every other aspect of human information – including stories, (ghost, Frankenstein, and otherwise) that all tell of how Romania, and Transylvania are home to vampires, ghouls, monsters, and every other figment of the imagination. So *most* take it as mere fact now.

Remember, ignorance is contagious – but knowledge is limited.

Answer 3

The Transylvania Colony replace right into a short-lived, extra-criminal colony based for the time of 1775 by making use of land speculator Richard Henderson, who controlled the North Carolina based Transylvania company. Henderson and his investors had reached an settlement to purchase an limitless tract of Cherokee lands west of the southern and first Appalachian Mountains in the process the popularity of Treaty of Sycamore Shoals with maximum optimum Cherokee chieftains then controlling those green mountain boys . To extra complicate concerns, this early American frontier land replace into additionally claimed on the comparable time by making use of the two the Province of Virginia (rather following Lord Dunmore s conflict) and the North Carolina colony. The Transylvania Colony replace into commonly placed in what's now the first and eastern areas of Kentucky. the yank pioneer and frontier explorer Daniel Boone replace into employed by making use of Henderson to establish the desolate tract street entering into the process the Cumberland hollow and into southeastern Kentucky. Transylvania formally ceased to exist as a central authority entity in 1776 while the Virginia primary assembly invalidated the Transylvania purchase. desire i ought to attach a map I even have :)

Answer 4

You can place a lot of the blame on Bram Stoker. It is also the stories of Vlad the Impaler and his comparisons to Stoker's Dracula that make people believe this.

Answer 5

Nope, you're correct. It's because that's where Dracula comes from. Everyone knows that.... and some ignorant ones think that Dracula comes from Pensylvania, United States, but that's a different story.

Answer 6

Because America has been associting Transylvania with Dracula movies.Like the movie in which i guy chases draculas ,stuff like that.

Answer 7

Ya...its percieved to be the land of vampires and other bloodsucking creatures....haha.
But most ppl do kno..its just fiction...
I have never been to Romania...but from what i have seen on tv...its seems like a beautiful place...
The vampire stories just make it more interesting!! :-)

Answer 8

Our literature, movies etc., attribute all manner of starnge happenings to that part of the world. Dracula and werewolf legends seem to be the main culprits.

Answer 9

I think it's in part that book, but also because of Vlad the Impailer, considered to be the true vampire..he was real and from that area.

Answer 10

What, i dont, hardly anyone i know thinks that Romania is haunted!