Ham & High

What is it about vampires that makes people a little nuts? December 24th, 1969, a man named David Ferrant is walking past the gates of Highgate Cemetery in North London, and he says he sees a gray figure standing inside looking back at him.

February 6th, 1970, the Hampstead and Highgate Express runs a letter David submitted with his encounter story.

Within a week, a flood of other people write in with all of their weird experiences.

A tall man in a hat.

Yes, because in 1970 or 1971, actually, no, it started in 69.

A local man named David Ferrett wrote in the Hampstead and Highgate Express that there were some people in the Highgate area of the Highgate Cemetery in London who said that they were terrorized and stalked by a tall, spectral figure who would hover above the ground like a foot with red eyes, and it would basically suck light.

Lamps around it would dim.

The light around it would grow dark.

And they would also find animals... mysteriously drained of blood in the cemetery area.

And these accounts kept piling up in the local paper, the Hampstead and Highgate Express, to the point where people started calling paranormal investigators.

There was one guy named Sean Manchester, claimed that he discovered who the entity was.

He said it was a medieval Romanian nobleman who practiced black magic, that his coffin was brought to England in the 18th century, and it was in Highgate Cemetery.