It has, as it were, other fish to fry. In Dracula, Stoker has Mina Murray â whose experiences form the thread of the novel â record in her diary: Right over the town is the ruin of Whitby Abbey, which was sacked by the Danes ⦠It is a most noble ruin, of immense size, and full of beautiful and romantic bits; there is a legend that a white lady is seen in one of the windows. Whitby does not greatly play up its role in the Dracula legend. You cannot come to whitby without knowing the legend behind bram stoker's Dracula and the historic significance it bears upon whitby , great fun and knowledge can be had through the Dracula trail and whitby twice a year ,has the legendary Goth festival ,in mar/apr---oct/nov depending on the year ,it's a great festival very colourful and lots of costumes and ⦠Who was Dracula? Dracula in Whitby; 9 Reasons Why Goths Love Whitby The Legend Of Dracula. Mina mentions Lucy's robust health and her happy spirits since coming to Whitby. Cutting from "The Dailygraph," August 8. There are the impressive 13th-century ruins of the Abbey, founded in 657 by Hilda, who convened the Synod of Whitby in 664 at which the method for dating Easter was agreed on. The legend says that the lady was bricked up alive in one of the walls and that she was frequently seen in one of the crumbled ⦠It is a most noble ruin, of immense size, and full of beautiful and romantic bits; there is a legend that a white lady is seen in one of the windows. Lucy playfully refers to him as the "Sir Oracle" of the area. A week later, Mina and Lucy are on the hillside above Whitby talking to old Mr. Swales. In the novel the Russian Schooner âThe Demeterâ runs aground on Tate Hill Sands on Whitbyâs East Side. Dracula and Whitby are forever connected, thanks to Bram Stokerâs 1897 novel. Mina includes this article from the Whitby newspaper, describing the strange storm of August 8, and the beavhior of a ship entering the Whitby harborâthe same ship seen by Mina and the coast-guardsman earlier that day. The legend goes that Count Dracula fled Whitby by ascending the 199 stairs to the churchyard and the Abbey on the East cliff and hid in a suicide victimâs grave after drinking the blood of a young girl. He is a skeptical person and scoffs at the legend of the "white lady" of Whitby Abbey. Between it and the town there is another church, the parish one, round which is a big graveyard, all full of tombstones. The story is well known worldwide and brought the idea of an undead, blood-thirsty creature into popular culture. Itâs very hard not to be cliched and stereotypical when it comes to the Goths love of Whitby and all things Dracula.It is, however, a common truth, that they love this story and spend time during the Whitby Goth Weekend celebrating it, tracing its steps, and taking fabulous ⦠Here, weâre going to give you a little more insight about the connections between Dracula and Whitby. The tale of Count Dracula was inspired by Whitby and was written by Irish writer, Bram Stoker, in 1897. Join Dr Crank to find out more about Whitby & the legend of Count Dracula. How Bram Stokerâs visit to the harbour town of Whitby on the Yorkshire coast in 1890 provided him with atmospheric locations for a Gothic novel â and a name for his famous vampire. The day was, at first, gray and silent, then a tempest ripped over the harbor, then a mist ⦠The famous author Bram Stoker got the inspiration for his epic novel Dracula from the colossal remains of Whitby Abbey and the legend about the pale ghost of a lady who wanders in the shadowy ruins of the former Gothic monastery. (Pasted in Mina's Journal).