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Speaker 1: Welcome to Unexplained Extra with me Richard McClane Smith, where

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Speaker 1: for the weeks in between episodes, we look at stories

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Speaker 1: and ideas that, for one reason or other, didn't make

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Speaker 1: it into the previous show. In last week's episode, The Rising,

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Speaker 1: we heard the beguiling tale of the supposed Highgate vampire

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Speaker 1: that is said to have stalked London's most famous cemetery

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Speaker 1: in the late nineteen sixties and early seventies. As some

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Speaker 1: listeners have been at pains to point out, the story

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Speaker 1: has grown somewhat overblown in the years since, but perhaps

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Speaker 1: most interesting is the animosity that developed out of it

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Speaker 1: between David Farrant and Seawan Manchester, the two figures most

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Speaker 1: often associated with the events. When the story was first

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Speaker 1: reported in The Hampstead and Highgate Express in nineteen seventy,

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Speaker 1: the pair appeared to be very much in audence about

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Speaker 1: the possible nature of the unusual goings on. Before long, however,

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Speaker 1: each became intent on establishing their own version of the story.

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Speaker 1: Though Sean Manchester maintained throughout that it was a vampire

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Speaker 1: stalking the cemetery, Farrant preferred instead to think of it

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Speaker 1: more as a dark, ghostly entity that had become empowered

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Speaker 1: by black magic. Before long, Manchester accused Farrant of meddling

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Speaker 1: being a black magic practitioner himself, who had helped to

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Speaker 1: much that in nineteen seventy three, Manchester challenged Farrant to

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Speaker 1: a fight between his white force of good and Farrant's

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Speaker 1: black magic forces of evil. Sadly, in the end, the

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Speaker 1: battle never took place. Many have also questioned Manchester's account

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Speaker 1: of Elizabeth Voidiwa and Barbara Moriarty's apparent experiences, neither of

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Speaker 1: if indeed they existed at all. The similarity between elements

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Speaker 1: of Manchester's stories and Bram Stoker's own Dracula has also

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Speaker 1: not gone unnoticed, certainly his belief that a king vampire

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Speaker 1: once lived at Ashurst House, close to the Cemetery, having

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Speaker 1: where he also claimed a vampire plague had once Raged

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Speaker 1: bears much of the hallmarks of bram Stoker's masterpiece. So

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Speaker 1: what then, of the stories that inspired bram Stoker. It

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Speaker 1: may seem far fetched to claim a vampire had been

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Speaker 1: but did you know the so called vampire plague was,

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Speaker 1: in one way or another, entirely real. The year was

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Speaker 1: seventeen thirty one, and the place the village of Meadvija,

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Speaker 1: It was there that a doctor Glaser, an expert on

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Speaker 1: commander in charge of the local region received word of

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Speaker 1: On arrival at the village, the urbane Glasser was met

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Speaker 1: provide a little background on the case. It had all started,

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Speaker 1: he believed four years ago, when one Arnold Parvol returned

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Speaker 1: home to Meadviger after a number of years serving in

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Speaker 1: So naturally, when Parvell returned home during a period of

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Speaker 1: with that strange look in his eye, just a grim

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Speaker 1: Things started happily enough when Parvel mere and fell in

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Speaker 1: Pavel's secret past eventually caught up with him, having grown

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Speaker 1: Not long after telling this story to his shocked wife,

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Speaker 1: as dusk was descending, that a villager out working in

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Speaker 1: it was clear to all what had happened. The man

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Speaker 1: had been tormented by a vampire, and now he was

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Speaker 1: sent to Parvel's grave, whereby his coffin was promptly dug

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Speaker 1: they found Parvell's body virtually unblemished by decomposition, despite having

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Speaker 1: even more disturbing were the rivulets of seemingly fresh blood

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Speaker 1: Then one of the men present pointed with horror to

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Speaker 1: more than ever that they were in the midst of

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Speaker 1: a vampire plague, the task Force then ordered the immediate

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Speaker 1: to Flukinger, have been perfectly healthy. A month before, the

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Speaker 1: who died nine weeks before. Over the next few days,

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Speaker 1: when she died. As Flukinger wrote in his own report

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Speaker 1: she had been throttled at midnight by Milo, the son

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Speaker 1: seen on the right side under the ear a bloodshot

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Speaker 1: as mentioned often already a regular, fragrant fresh bleeding, not

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Speaker 1: The hypodermis of the entire body, along with the fresh

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Speaker 1: nails of hands and feet, was as though completely fresh.

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Speaker 1: His report ended with the following declaration. After the examination

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Speaker 1: had taken place, the heads of the vampires were cut

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Speaker 1: the matter of vampires is in every way truthful, and

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Speaker 1: has been undertaken, observed, and examined in our own presence.

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