"Yes," said Walkham, the sculptor, "it's a most curious thing."

"What is?" asked Ernest, who had been dreaming over the Sphinx that was looking at him from its corner with the sarcastic smile of five thousand years.

"How our dreams of yesterday stare at us like strangers to-day."

April 4, 1995 (The Fortean Times) - A man of 75, walking Jockel, his Dachshund, in Berlin on 4 April 1995, was attacked by a 43-year-old man who bit him on the neck, shouting "I am Dracula!" Passersby overpowered the attacker and handed him over to police. He said he had been drinking.

The victim went home and died an hour later from a heart attack.

Let's begin with the True Classic of VAMPYRES, the famous Viking Margarita, brought to you by the legandary Countess E. Bathory (and a cast of thousands).

May 24, 2007 (Stars and Stripes / Kevin Dougherty) -- Count "Dracula" as being among the best monikers ever bestowed on a military base in a war zone. But then what would you expect from a bat-talion from Transylvania?