BOO!

If you're wondering what in Sam Hill is going on in America (and who isn't nowadays), there's a Sam Hill Society in Arkansas devoted to charity work. If you're wondering what in hell is going on in Romania (and who isn't nowadays), there's a Society of Dracula building a Dracula theme park.

Romania's Prime Minister is backing the project and talking about a Gothic castle, hotel, golf course, a lot of scary dark rides, and 3000 new jobs.

But not everyone is happy.  UNESCO Secretary-General Koichiro Matsura is afraid the $30-million park will attract weirdos.

Crypt kickers, maybe, but not weirdos.

Weirdos, according to ancient superstition, were malignant ghosts who often took the form of a wolf.  Two books on the subject were written by Montague Summers, a Catholic priest in England.  He called his two books "factual accounts of the undead."  Abraham "Bram" Stoker, who wrote "Dracula," penned short stories about the undead for children.

Nice guy.

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