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Nicholas Cage

Nicholas Cage spent the night in Dracula's castle.

According to the 50-year-old actor's Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance co-star, Idris Elba, Nicholas opted to stay in the fictional vampire's home to "channel his energy" while the pair filmed the movie in Romania, Transylvania.

During his recent 'Ask Me Anything' Q&A on Reddit, he said: "Nic Cage came back one day on set and he looked a little bit tired, a little bit kind of like he'd been up all night. So I was like, 'Hey Nic, man, how you doing, man?', and he said 'I'm alright,' and I said, 'You seem a little spooked out,' and he said, 'Yeah, man, I went up to Dracula's castle ... the ruins up in the mountains, and I stayed the night.' I said 'What?! Why?' and he said, 'I just had to channel the energy, and it was pretty spooky up there.'

"We were shooting in Romania, Transylvania, and he just went up there to spend the night, as you do. And then he walked away. True story."

Nicholas recently confessed he tried to follow in the footsteps of Dracula's creator Bram Stoker by purchasing the most haunted house in America to inspire him to write a chilling novel.

The Gone in Sixty Seconds star snapped up a mansion in New Orleans previously owned by Madame LaLaurie, who's known for the torture and murder of slaves, in the hope of gaining inspiration to pen the book.

Speaking in the Daily Mail newspaper's Event magazine, he said: "I once lived in the most haunted house in America. The LaLaurie Mansion in New Orleans used to belong to Madame LaLaurie, a well-known 19th century socialite and serial killer.I bought it in 2007, figuring it would be a good place in which to write the great American horror novel. I didn't get too far with the novel."