5 of the best day trips in Yorkshire
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Lovely little seaside town : The reason why Whitby has been trending on Twitter
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Count Dracula and his terrifying exploits have helped to sustain the economy of a seaside town for decades.
So it did not go down well when the local church tried to give goths visiting Whitby the unvarnished truth about a cemetery where Dracula s grave is wrongly thought to lie.
Those searching for the grave at the 12th-century St Mary s Church in the North Yorkshire town have been handed leaflets saying: Sorry it s not here… in fact it s not anywhere because Dracula is fiction.
The goths, who arrive in force twice a year for a festival to celebrate the culture surrounding Bram Stoker s 1897 horror novel, are also bluntly told they are standing on hallowed ground at a place of worship. A goth is pictured above at the grounds in July last year