Mysterious vampire in Highgate cemetery

Highgate Cemetery is located atop a hill that is modest in London's Islington area. This is the final resting place of writer Douglas Adams, physicist Michael Faraday, politician and philosopher Karl Marx, and many other British military artists, architects and heroes. Highgate Cemetery is also famous for its vampire story.

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The obsession with Highgate Cemetery began in 1970 when David Farrant's letter was sent to 'The Hampstead and Highgate Express' published on February 6, 1970. "I have seen ghosts three times inside the gate of the Swains alley. For the first time on Christmas Eve, I watched a gray shadow appear in a few seconds and then disappeared into the darkness. The second time I saw it was very short, and last week, this shadow appeared again and only a few meters from the gate, this time I had enough time to see it more clearly, and now I can only explain it as a supernatural thing. I have never had such an experience and I would love if any other readers have seen anything related that can be shared, " David Farrant wrote.

Highgate Cemetery is famous for its vampire stories

After David Farrant's article, the letters began to arrive at the newsroom. Like the letter published in the newspaper, many local people said they also saw the same ghost in Highgate Cemetery."Ghosts will sometimes appear every night for about a week and then disappear for about a month. As far as I know, this ghost always appears as a pale shadow and has appeared many times in many times. last year " , K. Frewin said in the North.

Many people often tell the story of a tall man wearing a hat walking through the lane of Swain and only disappearing at the cemetery wall."No doubt. That is truly a ghost." "Local superstitious stories also say that the bell of an abandoned old church in the cemetery often echoes whenever this person comes , " said R. Docherty, in the West.

The face stared at every corner of Highgate Cemetery

"I also had a terrifying experience here. When I was walking near a nearby lake, suddenly there was a person standing far away signaling to me, when I approached, this person started to wade into the water, staring at me with horribly scary eyes, then he continued to wade into the lake and motioned for me to follow in. At that moment I knew that what I was looking at was not human, because there was no ripple After a horrible scream, that thing sank deep into the pond, leaving me shivering on the shore, " recalls J. McKennar from Muswell Hill Road.

Although some of the letters were discovered to be fake, however, the story revived when a local man named Seán Manchester told The Hampsted and Highgate Express in February 1970, that the character was dark. It is implied that a medieval Romanian nobleman was buried secretly in Highgate cemetery in the 1800s, awakened and revived by satan devotees, escaping the tomb in the form of a vampire .

Many graves opened the lid, like something that crawled out from the grave

Highgate experienced many ups and downs. The new tombstones intermingled with the old tombs lying next to the dirty stone paved streets between the cemetery. Thick vines obscure the ancient stones deep in the hollows of the trees. Many mausoleums have twisted roots to spoil or burst the whole cover, giving the feeling that something really escaped the grave. However, there is no evidence of a Romanian aristocrat like Manchester said, and the vampire hunt held on March 13, 1970 proved it. Crowds armed with garlic, holy, holy water, despite the deterrence of the police involved and the hunt that day. However, nothing mysterious is found.

In the book "Vampires at Highgate" , Manchester - who claimed to be a bishop of the old Catholic Church, said he followed this vampire years later and killed it.

The cemetery's volunteer guide recounted vampire legends at Highgate and said it was an interesting story.