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Sure, sure, impaling hogs all the press. Țepeș also had literal human-chessboard. He also impaled Mehmed II's envoy with their turbans nailed to their heads, because they refused to remove their head covering in his presence.
Those specific stories are very unlikely to be true. Those come from Antonia Bonfini, who was trying to justify Mattius Corvinus conquering those lands. Those tales were later picked up and spread further by the Saxons as shocking novels to sell books using the first movable type printing presses.
He was likely a relatively cruel man, he definitely impaled many ottomans, but not ridiculously outside the norm for monarchs of the time.