"Is it Real? Vampires"

Monday, October 23 at 8 p.m. ET/PT (World Premiere) on NGC

Everyone knows the legend of Dracula, but how much of this enduring pop-culture icon is based in reality? Just in time for Halloween, National Geographic Channel travels to the Transylvania region of Romania to look for answers. Historians, folklorists, forensic science and modern medicine add insight to the enduring vampire myths, separating fact from fiction. Viewers will meet a real-life, self-professed blood-drinking vampire! And he doesn't live across the Atlantic, he lives in a city notorious for living after dark, Las Vegas. Dare to feel the chills down your back!