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Medieval Madness

An armored knight on a lumbering steed, toiling serfs, tied to the lands of their lord, cloistered monks and nuns, lost in prayer, and don’t forget the scenery: high-walled castles, great gothic churches, farms, farms, and more farms. We all know the kind of things we’d find during the Medieval Age. But what actually was the Medieval Age? Join us here at MedievalMadness to find out...

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Medieval Madness

The Most Sadistic & Bloodthirsty Man of The Middle Ages…

March 24, 2026 • Hit The Lights

0:00 | 11:25

When most people think about Transylvania it conjures the image of Dracula and the world dreamed up in Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel - a world of gothic castles, shapeshifting bats, and vampires. Some people even think of Transylvania as a mythical place like that of Middle-Earth or Narnia, only much creepier. But Transylvania is a real place in what is now modern Romania, in Western Europe, and Dracula was a real person known to the world as Vlad III or Vlad Tepes, meaning the Impaler. Welcome to Medieval Madness.

0:00 Introduction
0:45 A Traumatic Childhood
3:12 A Show of Power
5:22 The Art of Impalement
7:13 The Blood Thirsty Tyrant
8:17 Hero and Villain

Narrated by James Wade
Written by Lisa E Rawcliffe
Edited by Jamit Productions