Is it true that the real Count Dracula is buried in Whitby Abbey in Yorkshire.?

Question

And is this the only interesting thing ever to happen in that county?

Answer 1

There's no real Count Dracula...Count Dracula is a fictional vampire that appears in Bram Stoker's Dracula.

Answer 2

I am currently reading the novel "Dracula" by Bram Stoker and Whitby is a place that is highlighted in the book. If this was the case there would still be a few vampires around there or buried there such as Lucy Westenra, another character in the book. It doesn't make sense for the real historical Dracula to have been buried in the UK since he was Romanian.

Answer 3

Actually, it is Count Duckula (not Dracula) who is buried in Whitby Abbey in a sealed lead coffin.

Sorry to be pedantic, but I live nearby and I did a third year project on the local history while I was at uni.

Answer 4

Try 'Howling Wolf' records. He wouldn't be put in consecrated ground, nor suffer to be there. Nearby Church sign, with red thermometer indicator of cash-for-new-roof fund said underneath: 'buy your own bloodsuckers' during the Goth week. Part of the Robin Hood (Green Man) story has him associating with Whitby. And a fourth interesting thing is plans for a hydraulic platform to provide a lift up the Abbey steps.

Answer 5

Whitby Abbey in Yorkshire, was one of the locations he used. Yet, after the popularity he gained through the success of all these movies after the publication of Bram Stoker’s novel he had to move away to avoid all the paparazzi and the vicious vampire hunters. Rumours want him to be hiding together with Osama Bin Laden somewhere in the Pakistani-Afghanistan border line.

Now about this county, I think that yes, this was the only interesting thing ever happened over there.

Answer 6

Interesting mythology in the United Kingdom? Are you kidding???? King Arthur? Robin Hood? Tony Blair? (Just kidding with that last one...!)
You're quite right to link Whitby with Dracula. Bram Stoker set part of his novel there- the heroine Mina Harker reads a letter from her husband Jonathan (sent from Dracula's castle in Romania/Transylvania? -I forget) while she is on holiday in Whitby. She reads it on a bench in the grounds of St Mary's church, on a bench overlooking the sea. St Mary's church is real- and is just next to the Abbey ruins. There are still benches there, overlooking the sea and the church is still in use.
Incidently, if you want places with interesting mythology attached- Robin Hood's Bay is just 10 mins down the road from Whitby.

Answer 7

Whitby is o lovely fishing port Captain Cook sailed
from Whitby and the Count resides in the grave yard
also nice beeches plus Jet,they make jewelry from it,found on beaches and cliffs in Whitby.Visited many times.

Answer 8

No, it's a work of fiction.

Bram Stoker, who wrote the story, came from Whitby. So when the boat arrived in England containing the Count's coffin, he used a port he knew well.

Yorkshire, like most English counties, is full of tradition, history, beautiful buildings. Lots of things happened in Yorkshire. Do interesting things happen in Wisconsin, or wherever you live?
Duh

Answer 9

Never heard of that! but referring to Dracula during the plaque people ate people i suppose this at the time summoned up all ideas of people feeding on others.

Answer 10

Count Dracula is a fictional invention. NO more than an invention, created by the Irish writer Bram Stoker. So, the answer to your question is, there never was a Count Dracula. So, he cannot be buried anywhere.