Monster Trivia & Folklore

• Signs of a werewolf are a unibrow, hairy palms, tattoos, and a long middle finger
• Vampires are mythical beings (in-spite of what Twilight fans may tell you) who defy death by sucking the blood of humans.
• To this day, there are vampire clubs and societies with people claiming to be real vampires.
• In 1962 the Count Dracula Society was founded.
• There really are so-called vampire bats, but they’re not from Transylvania. They live in Central and South America and feed on the blood of cattle, horses and birds.
• Many people still believe that gargoyles were created by medieval architects and stone carvers to ward off evil spirits.
• The real life Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia was also known as Dracula and Vlad the Impaler may be the model for the fictional Dracula.
• Victor Frankenstein was based on a real person: Johann Konrad Dippel, a physician and mad scientist obsessed with creating life through scientific means. His birthplace? Castle Frankenstein, near Darmstadt, Germany