A sign has been put up outside a church in North Yorkshire to stop tourists asking staff members about the whereabouts of Dracula’s grave.
The fictional character who was part of the famous Bram Stoker novel, which was published in 1897, has inspired many tourists to visit Whitby and the Church of St Mary the Virgin.
Stoker was inspired to write the novel after visiting the town himself in 1890 and was taken by the windswept headland and the dramatic abbey ruins, reports the ExaminerLive.
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The poster reads: "Please do not ask staff where Dracula's grave is as there isn't one. Thank you."
The reason many tourists visit the church could be that the cemetery on the grounds of the church was mentioned in the Gothic novel, however, there is no grave.
It is thought Stoker came across the name "Dracula" in Whitby's public library and picked it because he thought it meant "devil" in Romanian.
