Highgate Vampire-Fact or Fiction
Thirty years later, David Farrant is a leading expert on the Highgate Vampire, and tends to discount the vampire label as an unfortunate consequence of the popularity of hammer horror amongst the public at that time. He maintains with absolute certainty that the Highgate Vampire was neither a hoax nor a vampire, but nevertheless it was something very real.
In David Farrant best selling book on the subject, Beyond the Highgate Vampire, David claims that ley lines, may be an important factor that has been left completely out of the Highgate equation. These lines, he says, can actually transmit psychic energy along their course and enable the vampire to materialise when the right conditions prevail. One such ley line, he points out, apparently begins in the middle of Highgate Cemetery at a large circle of tombs called the Circle of Lebanon, crosses through the Flask and Ye Olds Gatehouse pubs (both ancient pubs only yards from Highgate Cemetery); traverses a large block of council flats known as Hillcrest (themselves built upon the site of an ancient nunnery) and passes through an old Roman Settlement a quarter of a mile or so away in Highgate Woods which is marked by an old beech tree.
For without exception, all the locations on the Highgate ley line, were reportedly haunted by a 'tall black figure' which, even when it was not actually seen, it caused dramatic drops in temperature, clocks to simultaneously stop, objects to fly from shelves or mysteriously shatter, and which also had a dramatic effect upon animals in it's immediate vicinity.
Today, all of these locations are still affected by continuing spates of psychic activity; the latest having seemingly come to life again in the Flask public house, while a black-clad figure is again being reported at Highgate Cemetery. There have again been recent reports of a 'tall black figure' seen in Swain's Lane outside the cemetery, and only this February a lady driving her car up the Lane one night saw a tall dark figure about 7 feet tall with luminous eyes that suddenly disappeared through the cemetery wall.
A man out walking his dog had also seen the vampire near the old Roman Settlement in Highgate Woods the same month, which abruptly disappeared without trace.
Swain's Lane outside the cemetery also has its own weird happenings. Some time in 1974 a dog walker on returning to his car in Swains lane, found there was a freshly dug up corpse in his car. Bizarrely, the doors were still locked. At the time there were all sorts of strange rituals being carried out in the cemetery late at night.
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