How a Yorkshire Town Created Dracula

In the summer of 1890, a theatre manager named Bram Stoker took a holiday in the Yorkshire fishing town of Whitby. He arrived with a vampire called Count Wampyr. He left with Count Dracula.This is the true story of how Whitby gave the world its most famous vampire: the library book where Stoker found the name, the real Russian shipwreck that became the ghost ship Demeter, and the clifftop churchyard where Dracula first claimed his victim.Have you climbed the 199 steps? Tell us in the comments.Chapters0:00 The ghost ship0:35 Whitby1:00 Bram Stoker arrives1:24 Count Wampyr2:02 The library book2:17 Vlad the Impaler2:47 The real shipwreck3:22 The Demeter's log3:41 The dog on the 199 steps4:02 Lucy and Mina4:37 The Undead4:55 Dracula is published5:10 Whitby today5:46 If you visit this HalloweenSourcesEnglish Heritage: Whitby Abbey and DraculaYorkshire After Dark explores the dark history, strange places and true stories hidden across Yorkshire.Dark history. Strange places. True stories.Subscribe and join us after dark.#Dracula #Whitby #Halloween