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Summary The students were about to take an exam when they found bats flying around the room.
There was no sign of Dracula, but students in Transylvania did get a visit from dozens of bats that flapped through their classroom.The students at Csiky Gergely high school in the western Romanian city of Arad were about to take an exam when they found bats flying around the room. Others appeared to be sleeping with their wings spread out on the floor.School official Mirela Aldescu said that the creatures had probably flown in overnight through open windows. She says that rather than disturb them they took the exam in another classroom.Transylvania was home to Vlad the Impaler, the 15th-century ruler who inspired Bram Stokers Dracula, which has spawned dozens of movies and superstition about garlic, holy water — and vampire bats.
