The vampire of Highgate 1967-1983

The vampire of Highgate 1967-1983

One of the interludes in the history of the vampire concerns events that took place in a cemetery in the area of Highgate in London in the years from 1967 to 1983.

This cemetery is officially called the cemetery of St. James. It was consecrated Bishop of London in 1839, for 4 days before the celebration of the 20 th birthday of Queen Victoria. In his novel, Bram Stoker, to alter, described it as the burial place of Lucy Westenra (he died in attacks by Dracula).
Modern history began with the Highgate vampire reports of a ghost had been seen at the cemetery at night. While the rumored ghost, occultist - a researcher at the Research Society''vampire''Sin Manchester, received a message on the Sign schoolgirl Elizabeth and her friend, who claimed that they had seen some of the graves were opened, and from there raise the dead. Sign also reported that her nightmares, where something evil is trying to get into her bedroom. A few years later Manchester gathered together a band of similar reports of unusual spectacles associated with this cemetery. In 1969, the nightmares have returned to Voydile, only this time an evil figure actually came into her room. She developed symptoms of pernicious anemia, and the neck revealed two lesions, so reminiscent of the classic vampire bite. Manchester and a friend of Elizabeth treated her as a victim of vampirism, and filled her room with garlic, crosses and holy water. She soon recovered.
Since they all were quite common, perhaps, no one would never have heard of the''message''Highgate, if it were not signs that the cemetery and the nearby park at one time used for rituals, which included the killing of animals. Some dead animals completely lacking the blood, and local newspapers in their headlines asked:''Does walking on the Highgate Vampire?''A little later, Manchester said that talking to another woman who had the same symptoms as a Voydily . A young woman, following a lunatic dream Monchestera led to a group of burial vaults in the cemetery. Manchester told the press that he believes that there is a real Highgate vampire and that it must do, respectively. The newspaper story and subsequent transfer to the independent television channels''Thames''led to the cemetery many curious onlookers. With film fans used it as a movie set for the movie''Vampires in the night.'' On Friday, March 13, 1970 Manchester, and two of his assistants went into the vault, where it was found three empty coffins. They raschertili on the coffin and garlic into each laid a cross. Crypts were sprinkled with salt (used for exorcism) and holy water.
Events have evolved dramatically: in August at the cemetery's body was found a young woman. It turned out that this woman was employed ritual of dealing with a vampire - someone beheaded her and tried to burn. Public outcry demanded that the authorities protect the body close to them from attacks. No sooner had expired a month, as police detained two men who claimed to be the hunters vampires. But while the police were brought in confusion these hunter-amateur vampires, Manchester and entered into another vault and discovered that he considered a real vampire. Not rejecting the body (which is a crime in Britain), he made over him the ritual expulsion and sealed the tomb with cement, mixed up with pieces of garlic.
In the summer of 1970 David Farrant, another hunter-fan vampires, began its activities. He claimed to have seen a vampire, when hunted him with a stake and crucifixion, but was arrested. He became a convert one of the sects of Satanism. It was later convicted on two charges for the destruction of graves in Highgate. In 1978, he acknowledged that the vampire was his own invention. Manchester quickly responded, arguing that the communications took place before and that he was not only privy to the events that have made such a famous Highgate Vampire.
Meanwhile, in 1973, Manchester has launched an investigation regarding a house located near Highgate Cemetery, which had a reputation as a persecuted ghosts. Several times Manchester and his aides went into the house. In the basement they found a coffin, which pulled the back yard. When you open the lid, Manchester saw that same vampire, whom he was four years earlier at Highgate Cemetery. This time he made the expulsion by the body piercing spike, after which it disintegrated in the muddy, smelly stuff, and then burned the coffin. He destroyed the Highgate Vampire. Shortly after that incident, the mansion was demolished and in its place built a residential apartment building.
Consequences of the case''Highgate Vampire''has not ended with his death. In 1980, Finch was reported animals that have been siphoned off all the blood. Manchester believed that the cause was a vampire created by the bite of Highgate Vampire. He met with many people, which met in 1970 and eventually figured culprit - a woman named Louise. He discovered that Louise had died and was buried in the Great Northern London Cemetery. In dreams, Louise came to see him. One autumn evening in 1982 Manchester went to the cemetery. Here he discovered a huge, spider-creature, the size of a cat. He stuck his stake. Drew near dawn, and it turned into Louise, only now she was truly dead. He returned her remains to the grave, and thus put an end to''Highgate Vampire.''
His investigation into Manchester described in the book''Highgate Vampire''and''''Vampire Research Society is circulating a cassette with the evidence about this case.