Highgate Vampire.

Highgate Vampire.

One of the interludes in the history of the vampire for the events that took place in the cemetery near Highgate in London in the years from 1967 to 1983. This cemetery is officially called the Church of Saint James. It was consecrated by the Bishop of London in 1839, 4 days before the celebration of the 20th birthday of Queen Victoria. In his novel, Bram Stoker, somewhat modified, described it as the burial place of Lucy Westenra (the death was a result of the attacks of Dracula).
The modern history of Highgate Vampire began with reports of a ghost who was seen in the cemetery at night. While rumors circulated ghost, occultist - a researcher at the "Vampire Research Society," Sin Manchester, received a message Sign schoolgirl Elizabeth and her friend, who claimed to have seen some of the open grave, and from there to raise the dead. Sign also said that she was having nightmares that something evil is trying to get into her bedroom. A few years later Manchester gathered together a band of similar reports of unusual spectacle associated with this cemetery. In 1969, the nightmares returned to Voydile, only this time the evil figure actually came into her room. She developed symptoms of pernicious anemia, and the neck were found two wounds, so reminiscent of the classic vampire bite. Manchester and friend Elizabeth treated her as a victim of vampirism, and filled her room with garlic, crosses and holy water. She soon recovered.
Since all of them were quite common, it is possible that no one would never have heard of the "Highgate messages" if not for signs that the cemetery and the nearby park at one time have been used for rituals, which included the killing of animals. Some dead animals completely lacked the blood and local newspapers in their titles were asked, 'Do roam on Highgate Vampire?'
A little later, Manchester said that talking to another woman, who had the same symptoms as that of Voydily. A young woman, following lunatic dream Monchestera led a group of burial vaults in the cemetery. Manchester told the press that he believes in Highgate there a real vampire and that it should do, respectively. Newspaper story and subsequent transfer of the independent television channel 'Thames' led to the cemetery many curious. Group of film enthusiasts used it as a movie set for the film 'Vampires for the night. " On Friday, March 13, 1970 Manchester, and two of his assistants went to the crypt, where it was found three empty tomb. They raschertili the coffin garlic and put in a cross. Crypts were sprinkled with salt (used for exorcism) and holy water.
The events unfolded dramatically in August at the cemetery's body was found the young woman. It turned out that this woman was used ritual punishment of the vampire - someone decapitated her and tried to burn. Outrageously, the public demanded that the authorities protect their loved ones body from attack. Do not have time to expire last month, police arrested two men who claimed to be a vampire hunters. But at the time, the police were the dismay of these hunter-vampire lovers, Manchester quietly entered into another tomb and found that he considered a real vampire. Without breaking the body (which is a crime in England), he committed ritual expulsion of him and sealed vault cement mixed up with bits of garlic. In the summer of 1970, David Farrant, another hunter-vampire lover, began operations. He claimed to have seen a vampire when he was hunting with a stake and a crucifix, but was arrested. He became a convert to one of the sects of Satanism. He was later convicted of two charges for the destruction of graves in Highgate. In 1978, he acknowledged that the vampire was his own invention. Manchester responded quickly, arguing that the messages have been previously and that he was not the only one privy to the events that have made so famous Highgate Vampire. Meanwhile, in 1973, Manchester has launched an investigation on the same house, which is close to Highgate Cemetery, which had a reputation chased ghosts. Manchester a few times and his aides went to the house. In the basement they found a coffin, and dragged to the backyard. Open lid, Manchester saw the very vampire who had seen four years earlier in Highgate Cemetery. This time he made the expulsion by piercing the body with a stake, and then it fell apart in the muddy, smelly substance, and then burned a coffin. He destroyed the Highgate Vampire. Shortly after the incident, the mansion was demolished and in its place built a residential apartment building.
The consequences of the case 'Highgate Vampire' does not end with his death. In 1980, Finch was reported that animals in which the blood was pumped. Manchester believed that the cause was a vampire created by the bite of Highgate Vampire. He met many people with whom he met in 1970, and eventually figured out the culprit - a woman named Louise. He discovered that Louise had died and was buried in the Great North London cemetery. In dreams, Louise came to him. Autumn evening in 1982 went to Manchester Cemetery. Here he found a huge, arachnid creature the size of a cat. He poked his stake. Approaching 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 the cause of 'Highgate Vampire'.
Its investigation Manchester described in the book "Highgate Vampire" and "The Vampire Research Society" sales tape with evidence about the case.