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Sunday, 17 March 2013

The Last Mass Vampire Hunt in England

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The night of Friday 13 March 1970 witnessed in England the largest vampire hunt of the twentieth century by members of the public. It bo...

Does a Wampyr Still Walk in Highgate?

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The demonic presence in corporeal form (at first known locally and eventually worldwide as the Highgate Vampire) was successfully exorc...

Does a Wampyr Walk in Highgate?

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"On Friday, 27 February 1970, the front page headline of the Hampstead and Highgate Express asked does a vampire walk in Highgate? The...

Metamorphosis

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Metamorphosis by Seán Manchester   It is not correct, in my experience, to understand that the corporeal form "never leaves...

Identifying the Highgate Vampire

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The identity of the Highgate Vampire is dealt with on pages 50-51 of the Gothic Press edition of The Highgate Vampire book. The tex...

Encountering the Highgate Vampire

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In his book The Highgate Vampire , Seán Manchester states that the vampiric source of the Highgate infestation first showed up shortly ...

Dennis Wheatley

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Dennis Wheatley Dennis Yates Wheatley (8 January 1897 – 10 November 1977) was an English author, born in the year of Dracula 's ...
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The mass vampire hunt at Highgate Cemetery on 13 March 1970, following reports in local and national newspapers, plus a television interview with various witnesses earlier that evening on British television, led to a spate of amateur vampire hunters inflicting themselves on Highgate Cemetery with home-made stakes, crosses, garlic, holy water, but very little knowledge about how to deal with the suspected undead if they encountered it. The president of the British Occult Society had made an appeal on the Today programme at 6.00pm to request the public not to get involved, nor put into jeopardy the investigation already in progress. Not everyone heeded his words.
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