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New Yorker Takes Back Dracula's Castle

Over 60 years ago the Dracula Castle was seized by communists, and yesterday, the Romanian government announced they would hand it over to its former owner, a New Yorker.

Dominic van Hapsburg, (yeah, those Hapsburgs) a New York architect who inherited the pop tourist attraction way back when, will resume ownership and will not be allowed to make any changes to the castle for the next three years.

So for the time being, peasants can keep selling Dracula sweaters, hand-knitted from the thick wool of local sheep, and Vampire wine at the gates of Bran Castle.

First Rocky beats Drago, then the Berlin Wall comes down, now a New Yorker owns the Dracula Castle--ttthhheeee Yankees win.

[image via mgleaves/Flickr]

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