1 00:00:10,400 --> 00:00:14,200 Speaker 1: In March nineteen sixty three, a group of children picked 2 00:00:14,200 --> 00:00:16,959 Speaker 1: their way through the grounds of a ruined church on 3 00:00:17,040 --> 00:00:19,800 Speaker 1: the outskirts of the village of Clophill in the south 4 00:00:19,840 --> 00:00:24,599 Speaker 1: of England. The Old Saint Mary's was built around thirteen fifty, 5 00:00:24,920 --> 00:00:28,400 Speaker 1: but was apparently abandoned in the nineteenth century after a 6 00:00:28,440 --> 00:00:31,840 Speaker 1: more convenient location was found for a church a little 7 00:00:31,840 --> 00:00:35,800 Speaker 1: closer to the village. Some say, however, that it whilst 8 00:00:35,840 --> 00:00:40,400 Speaker 1: the parishioners themselves that requested the building be abandoned after 9 00:00:40,479 --> 00:00:46,880 Speaker 1: growing uneasy about its unusual positioning. Traditionally, churches are built 10 00:00:47,080 --> 00:00:50,440 Speaker 1: so that the congregation can face and pray to the east, 11 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:55,080 Speaker 1: toward the direction of the rising sun. This positioning is 12 00:00:55,120 --> 00:00:59,160 Speaker 1: important since many consider this also to be the direction 13 00:00:59,240 --> 00:01:04,000 Speaker 1: of Heaven and a symbol of the returning Messiah. For 14 00:01:04,040 --> 00:01:07,800 Speaker 1: some reason, however, this church was built to face in 15 00:01:07,840 --> 00:01:11,920 Speaker 1: the opposite direction, leading some to believe it was in 16 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:17,440 Speaker 1: fact a pat satan and a gateway to Hell. It 17 00:01:17,480 --> 00:01:20,160 Speaker 1: isn't known if the children playing in the churchyard that 18 00:01:20,319 --> 00:01:24,039 Speaker 1: day were aware of this small fact, or what indeed 19 00:01:24,040 --> 00:01:29,000 Speaker 1: it might mean. When they came across the bones, clearly 20 00:01:29,080 --> 00:01:32,760 Speaker 1: human and old, they were scattered over the grass in 21 00:01:32,840 --> 00:01:38,200 Speaker 1: an odd, unnatural manner. A nearby gravestone and the large 22 00:01:38,400 --> 00:01:42,080 Speaker 1: gaping hole in the earth next to it suggested they 23 00:01:42,120 --> 00:01:47,080 Speaker 1: had once belonged to one Jenny Humberston. Looking around, however, 24 00:01:47,560 --> 00:01:51,120 Speaker 1: the children soon found it wasn't only Humberston's grave that 25 00:01:51,240 --> 00:01:55,440 Speaker 1: had been desecrated, as all about small mounds of black 26 00:01:55,480 --> 00:01:58,600 Speaker 1: earth could be seen where other grave sites had been 27 00:01:58,640 --> 00:02:03,480 Speaker 1: similarly disturbed. The police arrived an hour or so later, 28 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:08,240 Speaker 1: along with local vicar Reverend Leslie Barker, to inspect the 29 00:02:08,280 --> 00:02:12,840 Speaker 1: grizzly scene. A crow perched on top of the ruins 30 00:02:13,040 --> 00:02:18,160 Speaker 1: called vigorously as the officers stood about examining the yellowed remains, 31 00:02:18,200 --> 00:02:22,079 Speaker 1: trying to make sense of it all. Perhaps some opportunist 32 00:02:22,160 --> 00:02:25,840 Speaker 1: robber had been looking for buried Victorian jewelry, they thought, 33 00:02:26,760 --> 00:02:31,320 Speaker 1: But Reverend Barker wasn't quite so sure, his mind rushing 34 00:02:31,360 --> 00:02:35,040 Speaker 1: back to the two Celtic crosses he'd found recently inside 35 00:02:35,080 --> 00:02:39,239 Speaker 1: the church. Both had been painted with a red substance 36 00:02:39,639 --> 00:02:43,880 Speaker 1: which he was almost certain was blood. Then he gazed 37 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:47,040 Speaker 1: up at the ruins with a pained look in his eyes, 38 00:02:47,600 --> 00:02:50,440 Speaker 1: feeling a sudden chill run down his back as he 39 00:02:50,520 --> 00:02:56,640 Speaker 1: clocked its westerly facing chancel. No, he said, pointing down 40 00:02:56,639 --> 00:03:00,760 Speaker 1: to the bones, drawing the police's attention once more to 41 00:03:00,880 --> 00:03:06,760 Speaker 1: their strange arrangement. There's no doubt about it. This is 42 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:13,200 Speaker 1: the work of Satanists. A few months later, further grave 43 00:03:13,280 --> 00:03:17,160 Speaker 1: desecrations were discovered in Lancashire, in the northwest of England, 44 00:03:17,600 --> 00:03:21,360 Speaker 1: which according to some, also bore the hallmarks of a 45 00:03:21,400 --> 00:03:26,600 Speaker 1: black magic ritual. Then in December, in Sussex on the 46 00:03:26,680 --> 00:03:30,600 Speaker 1: south coast, a bell ringer in the village of Westam, 47 00:03:30,639 --> 00:03:34,280 Speaker 1: after arriving for practice one evening at their local chapel, 48 00:03:34,840 --> 00:03:39,280 Speaker 1: heard a strange, monotonous chant coming from somewhere within it. 49 00:03:40,240 --> 00:03:44,560 Speaker 1: Stepping inside, they were surprised to find four men they'd 50 00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:49,160 Speaker 1: never seen before, huddled in the dark, humming something soft 51 00:03:49,200 --> 00:03:56,040 Speaker 1: and ominous, together a circle of candles gently flickering around them. 52 00:03:56,240 --> 00:03:59,320 Speaker 1: In the next few months, over two hundred acts of 53 00:03:59,440 --> 00:04:03,760 Speaker 1: vandalism perpetrated in English churchyards were thought to be linked 54 00:04:03,920 --> 00:04:07,640 Speaker 1: to what appeared to be a resurgent interest in black magic. 55 00:04:08,720 --> 00:04:16,520 Speaker 1: Something was evidently brewing. You're listening to unexplained and I'm 56 00:04:16,640 --> 00:04:28,080 Speaker 1: Richard McClean smith. One evening in early nineteen sixty seven, 57 00:04:28,640 --> 00:04:31,719 Speaker 1: roughly four years after the events at Saint Mary's Church, 58 00:04:32,520 --> 00:04:37,880 Speaker 1: sixteen year olds Elizabeth Voidiwa and Barbara Moriarty found themselves 59 00:04:37,960 --> 00:04:42,159 Speaker 1: walking down Swain's Lane in North London after visiting friends 60 00:04:42,240 --> 00:04:47,440 Speaker 1: in Highgate Village. The lane a steep and narrow pathway 61 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:51,720 Speaker 1: that runs south from Highgate before curving west towards Parliament 62 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:55,760 Speaker 1: Hill and Hampstead Heath's perhaps best known as the thoroughfare 63 00:04:56,080 --> 00:04:59,760 Speaker 1: that divided the two sections of London sprawling Highgate s. 64 00:05:01,760 --> 00:05:06,120 Speaker 1: The cemetery, located in a secluded area of woodland high 65 00:05:06,200 --> 00:05:08,960 Speaker 1: up on the hill to the northeast of Hampstead Heath, 66 00:05:09,720 --> 00:05:13,880 Speaker 1: was built in two parts, with the first, the Western Cemetery, 67 00:05:14,279 --> 00:05:19,280 Speaker 1: established in eighteen thirty nine, centered around the two imposing 68 00:05:19,320 --> 00:05:23,520 Speaker 1: structures of Egyptian Avenue and the Circle of Lebanon, home 69 00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:27,200 Speaker 1: to thirty six vaults between them, the first being a 70 00:05:27,279 --> 00:05:31,240 Speaker 1: grand walkway of stone, granite and marble, built in a 71 00:05:31,279 --> 00:05:34,800 Speaker 1: classical style with a vast stone archway at its front, 72 00:05:35,040 --> 00:05:39,560 Speaker 1: flanked by two huge Egyptian style obelisks, all framed by 73 00:05:39,640 --> 00:05:44,320 Speaker 1: carefully manicured shrubs and narrow wooded pathways. It quickly became 74 00:05:44,360 --> 00:05:48,920 Speaker 1: the most fashionable cemetery of the day. As such, by 75 00:05:48,960 --> 00:05:54,280 Speaker 1: eighteen sixty, another nineteen acres of similarly picturesque woodland on 76 00:05:54,320 --> 00:05:57,880 Speaker 1: the other side of Swain's Lane was quickly incorporated into 77 00:05:57,880 --> 00:06:03,800 Speaker 1: the site, becoming home to Highgates Eastern Cemetery after welcoming 78 00:06:03,839 --> 00:06:08,120 Speaker 1: its first resident, Elizabeth Jackson, who died aged thirty six 79 00:06:08,520 --> 00:06:13,039 Speaker 1: in May eighteen thirty nine. Today, roughly one hundred and 80 00:06:13,080 --> 00:06:16,960 Speaker 1: seventy thousand people have been buried in approximately fifty three 81 00:06:17,040 --> 00:06:21,960 Speaker 1: thousand graves in Highgate, with author Mary Anne Evans also 82 00:06:22,040 --> 00:06:26,960 Speaker 1: known as George Eliot, philosopher Karl Marx, and scientist Michael 83 00:06:27,040 --> 00:06:31,960 Speaker 1: Faraday being some of its most notable occupants. By the 84 00:06:32,040 --> 00:06:36,800 Speaker 1: early twentieth century, however, thanks to its popularity, the graveyard 85 00:06:36,960 --> 00:06:41,599 Speaker 1: was completely filled up, with so few being buried there afterwards. 86 00:06:42,320 --> 00:06:45,520 Speaker 1: By the nineteen sixties, as the names of most of 87 00:06:45,520 --> 00:06:51,279 Speaker 1: its copious inhabitants slowly disappeared ever further into obscurity, the 88 00:06:51,360 --> 00:06:56,480 Speaker 1: whole place had fallen into disrepair. The once carefully manicured 89 00:06:56,520 --> 00:07:01,960 Speaker 1: space had become wildly overgrown and consumed by nature. The 90 00:07:02,040 --> 00:07:06,520 Speaker 1: once spectacular tunes and ornate gravestones that had spoken so 91 00:07:06,640 --> 00:07:09,920 Speaker 1: much of wealth and standing. Those that could still be 92 00:07:09,960 --> 00:07:13,560 Speaker 1: glimpsed through the endless thickets of Ivy and Bramble at least, 93 00:07:14,080 --> 00:07:19,000 Speaker 1: had by then long faded and crumbled like relics of Ozymandius. 94 00:07:20,080 --> 00:07:22,880 Speaker 1: And it was in just such a state when those 95 00:07:22,920 --> 00:07:28,040 Speaker 1: two young girls, Elizabeth Voidiwa and Barbara Moriarty, passed by 96 00:07:28,040 --> 00:07:33,880 Speaker 1: the cemetery that evening in nineteen sixty seven. Being pupils 97 00:07:33,920 --> 00:07:37,200 Speaker 1: from a nearby school, the pair had walked through Swain's 98 00:07:37,240 --> 00:07:41,080 Speaker 1: Lane on many occasions before, having never thought twice about 99 00:07:41,080 --> 00:07:45,920 Speaker 1: their surroundings. That night, however, as the girls walked past 100 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:48,520 Speaker 1: the Cemetery's north gate at the top of the lane, 101 00:07:49,160 --> 00:07:52,480 Speaker 1: it has claimed that both saw something that shocked them 102 00:07:52,520 --> 00:07:57,040 Speaker 1: to the cores. 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A few weeks later, a 127 00:09:30,640 --> 00:09:34,360 Speaker 1: young woman and man were walking down Swain's Lane after 128 00:09:34,400 --> 00:09:37,880 Speaker 1: a night out in Highgate when the woman screamed, suddenly 129 00:09:38,240 --> 00:09:41,400 Speaker 1: claiming to have seen a figure standing behind the locked 130 00:09:41,400 --> 00:09:45,000 Speaker 1: gate of the Western Cemetery. Though she'd only glimpsed it 131 00:09:45,080 --> 00:09:47,560 Speaker 1: for a moment, it was long enough to see the 132 00:09:47,600 --> 00:09:51,440 Speaker 1: horrifying twisted expression on its face that seemed to bore 133 00:09:51,600 --> 00:09:55,240 Speaker 1: right into her, before the figure vanished into thin air. 134 00:09:56,800 --> 00:09:59,839 Speaker 1: Having heard the many local rumors of ghosts said to 135 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:03,160 Speaker 1: haunt the cemetery, the man returned a few weeks later 136 00:10:03,280 --> 00:10:06,000 Speaker 1: with another friend to see if they could spot the 137 00:10:06,040 --> 00:10:10,720 Speaker 1: apparent entity. The men clambered over the locked gate and 138 00:10:10,880 --> 00:10:14,160 Speaker 1: jumped down with a crunch, onto the gravel path, then 139 00:10:14,240 --> 00:10:17,800 Speaker 1: switched on their torches and headed on into the thicket 140 00:10:17,840 --> 00:10:23,880 Speaker 1: of undergrowth and crumbling gravestones beyond. Before long, as they 141 00:10:23,880 --> 00:10:28,400 Speaker 1: stepped past one tomb after another, their inscriptions long since 142 00:10:28,440 --> 00:10:32,640 Speaker 1: faded away, a great sense of melancholy overcame the pair, 143 00:10:33,880 --> 00:10:38,120 Speaker 1: when suddenly they became aware of a low, vibrating hum 144 00:10:38,160 --> 00:10:42,240 Speaker 1: that came and went with increasing regularity from somewhere up 145 00:10:42,240 --> 00:10:46,760 Speaker 1: ahead in the darkness. As the noise intensified, the men 146 00:10:46,960 --> 00:10:49,920 Speaker 1: found that they could no longer move their limbs, as 147 00:10:49,960 --> 00:10:54,360 Speaker 1: though the sound had cast a spell on them. Just then, 148 00:10:54,840 --> 00:10:58,440 Speaker 1: a large shadow flitted across the path, like that of 149 00:10:58,480 --> 00:11:03,040 Speaker 1: a human, but strange elongated. Then the pair began to 150 00:11:03,080 --> 00:11:08,200 Speaker 1: feel nauseous and their breathing became labored. Barely able to think, 151 00:11:08,600 --> 00:11:11,720 Speaker 1: one of the men instinctively blurted out the Lord's prayer, 152 00:11:12,200 --> 00:11:17,920 Speaker 1: and within moments they were released from their fantastical quagmire. Turning, 153 00:11:18,120 --> 00:11:23,360 Speaker 1: they sprinted for the exit and never looked back. This story, 154 00:11:23,880 --> 00:11:27,640 Speaker 1: along with that of Elizabeth and Barbara's, was apparently told 155 00:11:27,679 --> 00:11:30,720 Speaker 1: to Shawn Manchester, who was a twenty five year old 156 00:11:30,720 --> 00:11:35,760 Speaker 1: photographer at the time. In June nineteen sixty seven, Manchester 157 00:11:35,880 --> 00:11:39,079 Speaker 1: had also become the president of the British Occult Society, 158 00:11:39,720 --> 00:11:43,280 Speaker 1: a small organization of like minded people who were keen 159 00:11:43,360 --> 00:11:46,320 Speaker 1: to learn more about what they perceived to be a 160 00:11:46,440 --> 00:11:50,640 Speaker 1: sudden blossoming of occult related events in the United Kingdom. 161 00:11:51,520 --> 00:11:54,280 Speaker 1: With little more to go on, Sean claimed to have 162 00:11:54,320 --> 00:11:58,880 Speaker 1: forgotten about the incidents until the summer of nineteen sixty nine, when, 163 00:11:59,320 --> 00:12:02,640 Speaker 1: while out walking through Highgate one day, he was approached 164 00:12:02,640 --> 00:12:05,959 Speaker 1: in the street by an anxious and tired looking Elizabeth, 165 00:12:06,520 --> 00:12:10,480 Speaker 1: who was clearly desperate for his help. Seeing the woman 166 00:12:10,800 --> 00:12:13,760 Speaker 1: and how deathly pale she looked, as he would later 167 00:12:13,800 --> 00:12:17,360 Speaker 1: describe it. He immediately suggested they go to a nearby 168 00:12:17,440 --> 00:12:21,040 Speaker 1: cafe where he could get her something to eat. Later 169 00:12:21,160 --> 00:12:32,520 Speaker 1: that afternoon, she told him her shocking story. It began 170 00:12:32,800 --> 00:12:36,360 Speaker 1: soon after she and Barbara had experienced their strange vision 171 00:12:36,480 --> 00:12:40,320 Speaker 1: on Swain's Lane, with a series of terrifying nightmares in 172 00:12:40,360 --> 00:12:43,320 Speaker 1: which Elizabeth would wake up in a state of panic, 173 00:12:43,640 --> 00:12:47,760 Speaker 1: dripping with sweat, convinced that something was trying to get 174 00:12:47,800 --> 00:12:52,360 Speaker 1: in at her bedroom window. Then one night, she sensed 175 00:12:52,360 --> 00:12:54,880 Speaker 1: a presence at the end of her bed and looked 176 00:12:54,960 --> 00:12:58,080 Speaker 1: up to see the figure of something not quite a 177 00:12:58,160 --> 00:13:02,200 Speaker 1: man standing there with the wild, snarling look on its face. 178 00:13:03,160 --> 00:13:06,360 Speaker 1: The next she remembered was something touching her and an 179 00:13:06,520 --> 00:13:11,960 Speaker 1: icy cold sensation intrigued by her tail. Sean then claimed 180 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:15,080 Speaker 1: to have been taken back to Elizabeth's apartment, where he 181 00:13:15,120 --> 00:13:18,960 Speaker 1: was introduced to her partner, Keith, who apparently verified the 182 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:24,400 Speaker 1: story as Elizabeth was said to have explained further, despite 183 00:13:24,440 --> 00:13:27,920 Speaker 1: being diagnosed with a simple case of anemia by her doctor, 184 00:13:28,480 --> 00:13:31,960 Speaker 1: none of the vitamin's and iron supplements she'd been prescribed 185 00:13:32,280 --> 00:13:37,360 Speaker 1: appeared to be making any difference. After a pleasant but 186 00:13:37,520 --> 00:13:41,920 Speaker 1: tense evening, hearing more about Elizabeth's growing urge to leave 187 00:13:41,920 --> 00:13:44,920 Speaker 1: her bed at night and wander out into the dark, 188 00:13:45,160 --> 00:13:48,920 Speaker 1: with no sense or idea where she might go. Sean 189 00:13:49,120 --> 00:13:52,520 Speaker 1: was just about to leave when Keith apparently told him 190 00:13:52,559 --> 00:13:58,040 Speaker 1: about the peculiar mark that had recently appeared on Elizabeth's neck. Then, 191 00:13:58,600 --> 00:14:03,280 Speaker 1: much to Sean's astonish, Elizabeth flicked back her hair to 192 00:14:03,360 --> 00:14:10,040 Speaker 1: reveal two small, dark purple contusions. A few days later, 193 00:14:10,600 --> 00:14:15,280 Speaker 1: Sean received a letter from Keith. After he and Elizabeth 194 00:14:15,320 --> 00:14:18,240 Speaker 1: had got into a fight one evening, he'd followed her 195 00:14:18,320 --> 00:14:21,520 Speaker 1: out of the flat, watching from afar as she made 196 00:14:21,520 --> 00:14:26,800 Speaker 1: her way directly to Highgate Cemetery. Once there, Keith had 197 00:14:26,880 --> 00:14:30,280 Speaker 1: looked on with confusion as she tiptoed over to the 198 00:14:30,360 --> 00:14:35,240 Speaker 1: cemetery gates, then just stood there, staring forlornly into the 199 00:14:35,360 --> 00:14:40,040 Speaker 1: darkness beyond the railings. Having eventually snapped out of it, 200 00:14:40,480 --> 00:14:44,240 Speaker 1: the pair returned to their flat, where Elizabeth retired to 201 00:14:44,280 --> 00:14:50,000 Speaker 1: bed alone. Later, after hearing a terrible scream, Keith ran 202 00:14:50,080 --> 00:14:53,680 Speaker 1: into the bedroom to find Elizabeth sitting up in bed, 203 00:14:54,080 --> 00:14:59,280 Speaker 1: gasping for breath, with, according to Manchester, two specks of 204 00:14:59,280 --> 00:15:10,320 Speaker 1: blood on her pillow. Believing that Elizabeth was the victim 205 00:15:10,360 --> 00:15:14,520 Speaker 1: of some kind of vampiric attack. Manchester claimed to have 206 00:15:14,600 --> 00:15:18,680 Speaker 1: returned to her and Keith's flat immediately after receiving the letter. 207 00:15:19,840 --> 00:15:24,800 Speaker 1: On arrival, he thrust a manuscript into Keith's hand. Keith 208 00:15:24,880 --> 00:15:28,120 Speaker 1: stared down at the title of the paper with confusion, 209 00:15:29,400 --> 00:15:33,960 Speaker 1: The Travels of Three Gentlemen from Venice to Hamburg being 210 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:38,040 Speaker 1: the Grand Tour of Germany in the year seventeen thirty four, 211 00:15:38,400 --> 00:15:43,200 Speaker 1: it read. The text was anonymous, but described a journey 212 00:15:43,320 --> 00:15:47,200 Speaker 1: made by three acquaintances around Europe in the year seventeen 213 00:15:47,280 --> 00:15:52,000 Speaker 1: thirty four. In it, the author described a conversation with 214 00:15:52,120 --> 00:15:55,680 Speaker 1: the landlord of an inn in Leubjana, Slovenia, in which 215 00:15:55,720 --> 00:15:59,240 Speaker 1: they stayed. The man, who they took to be a 216 00:15:59,320 --> 00:16:03,720 Speaker 1: fine and upstanding citizen, took great pains to warn them 217 00:16:03,760 --> 00:16:07,000 Speaker 1: about a plague of vampirism that appeared to have broken 218 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:11,160 Speaker 1: out in some rural areas of the country. Then Sean 219 00:16:11,680 --> 00:16:15,520 Speaker 1: directed Keith to a passage quoted from a different text 220 00:16:16,200 --> 00:16:23,720 Speaker 1: entitled Dissertatio de vampires serviensibus, written by a professor Johann 221 00:16:23,800 --> 00:16:30,400 Speaker 1: Heinrich Zop in seventeen thirty three. Zop as Manchester explained, 222 00:16:31,080 --> 00:16:33,760 Speaker 1: was the director of one of the leading high schools 223 00:16:33,760 --> 00:16:37,600 Speaker 1: in Germany at the time and an authority on vampires 224 00:16:37,800 --> 00:16:42,640 Speaker 1: in the eighteenth century. It read they come out of 225 00:16:42,720 --> 00:16:47,280 Speaker 1: graves in the nighttime, rush upon people sleeping in their beds, 226 00:16:47,880 --> 00:16:52,560 Speaker 1: suck out all their blood and destroy them. They attack men, 227 00:16:52,960 --> 00:16:57,680 Speaker 1: women and children, sparing neither age nor sex. The people 228 00:16:57,720 --> 00:17:01,440 Speaker 1: attacked by them complain of suffer vacation and a great 229 00:17:01,520 --> 00:17:07,639 Speaker 1: interception of spirit, after which they soon expire. Those who 230 00:17:07,680 --> 00:17:11,840 Speaker 1: were destroyed by them, after their death become vampires too. 231 00:17:13,119 --> 00:17:16,720 Speaker 1: To prevent so spreading an evil, it has found requisite 232 00:17:16,880 --> 00:17:20,200 Speaker 1: to drive a stake through the dead body, from whence 233 00:17:20,240 --> 00:17:23,399 Speaker 1: on this occasion the blood flows as if the person 234 00:17:23,560 --> 00:17:27,520 Speaker 1: were alive. Sometimes the body is dug out at the 235 00:17:27,560 --> 00:17:32,280 Speaker 1: grave and burnt to ashes, upon which all disturbances cease. 236 00:17:34,280 --> 00:17:38,280 Speaker 1: All was not lost, however, according to Manchester, who claimed 237 00:17:38,320 --> 00:17:41,399 Speaker 1: to have given Keith the strict set of instructions to 238 00:17:41,480 --> 00:17:45,080 Speaker 1: ward off the apparent malignants that had so invaded his 239 00:17:45,240 --> 00:17:49,439 Speaker 1: and Catherine's home, garlic was to be wiped around the 240 00:17:49,480 --> 00:17:52,840 Speaker 1: front door and window frames of their bedroom, and a 241 00:17:52,920 --> 00:17:57,720 Speaker 1: crucifix nailed there immediately. Then, who was to place a 242 00:17:57,800 --> 00:18:00,639 Speaker 1: handful of salt in a piece of linen, which was 243 00:18:00,680 --> 00:18:03,639 Speaker 1: then to be thread through a silver cross and tied 244 00:18:03,680 --> 00:18:08,600 Speaker 1: around Elizabeth's neck. Then, finally, Keith was instructed to write 245 00:18:08,600 --> 00:18:11,959 Speaker 1: the first fourteen verses of the Gospel and place it 246 00:18:12,080 --> 00:18:15,919 Speaker 1: under Elizabeth's pillow at night, then sprinkled the room with 247 00:18:16,080 --> 00:18:21,520 Speaker 1: holy water. Manchester alleges that Keith took his advice and 248 00:18:21,640 --> 00:18:25,800 Speaker 1: spent the next evening watching with horror as Elizabeth writhed 249 00:18:25,800 --> 00:18:30,680 Speaker 1: about in distress, suffering hellish fever dreams all night while 250 00:18:30,800 --> 00:18:35,639 Speaker 1: something rattled incessantly at the window. 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Having been introduced to the culture 285 00:20:50,960 --> 00:20:53,960 Speaker 1: of witchcraft by his mother, who died when he was 286 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:58,440 Speaker 1: only thirteen, David spent most of his teenage years delving 287 00:20:58,440 --> 00:21:04,080 Speaker 1: ever further into the straight and unexplained. By nineteen sixty seven, 288 00:21:04,600 --> 00:21:08,600 Speaker 1: then in his early twenties, Farrant, with his long tussled 289 00:21:08,640 --> 00:21:13,119 Speaker 1: hair and brooding looks, was a familiar figure around Highgate Village, 290 00:21:13,680 --> 00:21:17,600 Speaker 1: rarely seen out without his loyal McCaw parrot perched on 291 00:21:17,640 --> 00:21:22,640 Speaker 1: his shoulder. Like Manchester, Farrant was part of a group 292 00:21:22,720 --> 00:21:26,879 Speaker 1: two his being called the British Psychic and Occult Society, 293 00:21:27,359 --> 00:21:32,440 Speaker 1: which was dedicated to discussing and where possible, investigating supposed 294 00:21:32,560 --> 00:21:36,080 Speaker 1: paranormal or occult phenomena that happened to crop up in 295 00:21:36,119 --> 00:21:39,480 Speaker 1: the area, which is why he found himself at the 296 00:21:39,520 --> 00:21:42,960 Speaker 1: Red Lion and Sun Pub in Highgate one afternoon in 297 00:21:43,040 --> 00:21:47,280 Speaker 1: nineteen sixty nine. The man he'd come to meet, was 298 00:21:47,359 --> 00:21:50,439 Speaker 1: well dressed in a tailored suit and looked to be 299 00:21:50,520 --> 00:21:54,800 Speaker 1: in his late thirties. He introduced himself, but asked to 300 00:21:54,800 --> 00:21:58,760 Speaker 1: be known only as Thornton for fear of ridicule, since 301 00:21:58,760 --> 00:22:01,720 Speaker 1: he was a well respected accountant known to many in 302 00:22:01,760 --> 00:22:05,960 Speaker 1: the local area as the so called Thornton went on 303 00:22:06,040 --> 00:22:10,040 Speaker 1: to explain he was a keen amateur photographer and had 304 00:22:10,080 --> 00:22:14,960 Speaker 1: recently visited Highgate Cemetery to take some pictures that warm 305 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:18,560 Speaker 1: summer's afternoon. The place was deserted as he made his 306 00:22:18,640 --> 00:22:22,959 Speaker 1: way through the crumbling, moss covered tombstones, while dust marts 307 00:22:23,119 --> 00:22:27,280 Speaker 1: danced in hazy rays of sunlight that broke intermittently through 308 00:22:27,320 --> 00:22:32,040 Speaker 1: the tangle of leaves above. He'd barely noticed the time 309 00:22:32,080 --> 00:22:35,560 Speaker 1: passing when a few hours later, as he approached the 310 00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:39,320 Speaker 1: Grand Circle of Lebanon, he heard the distant sound of 311 00:22:39,440 --> 00:22:43,920 Speaker 1: church bells. Realizing the cemetery would soon be locking up, 312 00:22:44,560 --> 00:22:47,640 Speaker 1: Thornton was just about to leave when he was gripped 313 00:22:47,720 --> 00:22:53,440 Speaker 1: by the absolute conviction that he was being watched. Spinning round, suddenly, 314 00:22:53,920 --> 00:22:57,160 Speaker 1: he found himself face to face with a tall, dark, 315 00:22:57,440 --> 00:23:01,479 Speaker 1: amorphous figure that he quickly realized, much to his horror 316 00:23:02,080 --> 00:23:06,560 Speaker 1: was hovering just above the ground. Though he wanted nothing 317 00:23:06,600 --> 00:23:10,879 Speaker 1: more than to run away, Thornton felt suddenly drained of energy, 318 00:23:11,320 --> 00:23:14,600 Speaker 1: as if the spectral figure was somehow sucking it out 319 00:23:14,600 --> 00:23:18,720 Speaker 1: of him. Then, after what seemed like a good few minutes, 320 00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:24,000 Speaker 1: the figure simply vanished, and Thornton was finally able to escape. 321 00:23:31,359 --> 00:23:34,760 Speaker 1: After hearing a number of other stories just like Thornton's 322 00:23:34,760 --> 00:23:38,800 Speaker 1: in the following months, David Farrant decided to investigate the 323 00:23:38,880 --> 00:23:43,880 Speaker 1: cemetery for himself, and so on December twenty first, nineteen 324 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:49,639 Speaker 1: sixty nine, the winter solstice, shortly before midnight, Farrant made 325 00:23:49,640 --> 00:23:52,680 Speaker 1: his way to the western Cemetery entrance at the top 326 00:23:52,720 --> 00:23:57,199 Speaker 1: of Swain's Lane. No sooner had he arrived than he 327 00:23:57,320 --> 00:24:02,160 Speaker 1: too was apparently gripped by the unshakeable sensation that someone 328 00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:06,960 Speaker 1: was watching him. Stepping up to the wrought iron gates, 329 00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:10,880 Speaker 1: his boots echoing down the deserted road, he peered through 330 00:24:11,119 --> 00:24:15,440 Speaker 1: into the darkness beyond. As his eyes began to adjust 331 00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:19,760 Speaker 1: to the tangled mass of tombstones and greenery, gently lit 332 00:24:19,840 --> 00:24:23,400 Speaker 1: by the silvery light of the moon, he staggered back 333 00:24:23,440 --> 00:24:27,040 Speaker 1: suddenly at the sight of something standing in the middle 334 00:24:27,080 --> 00:24:30,480 Speaker 1: of one of the paths, about twenty feet away. Inside, 335 00:24:32,240 --> 00:24:35,720 Speaker 1: with a rush of adrenaline, David approached the gate once 336 00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:40,199 Speaker 1: more as a humanoid figure at least seven foot in 337 00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:44,520 Speaker 1: height began to take shape within the shadows, and only 338 00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:48,760 Speaker 1: then did he notice the two fiery red eyes staring 339 00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:52,879 Speaker 1: out of its head. As David would later tell it, 340 00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:56,600 Speaker 1: as the air seemed to grow even more cold around him. 341 00:24:57,240 --> 00:25:00,720 Speaker 1: The figure then stepped forward toward him, and though he 342 00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:04,600 Speaker 1: too wanted to run, he was completely glued to the spot. 343 00:25:06,040 --> 00:25:11,080 Speaker 1: Closing his eyes, David quickly recited a carbalistic prayer under 344 00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:15,000 Speaker 1: his breath, and when he looked up, the specter was gone. 345 00:25:17,119 --> 00:25:21,000 Speaker 1: When Farrant returned soon after to inspect the cemetery, this 346 00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:24,879 Speaker 1: time in the daylight hours, he became fixated on the 347 00:25:24,920 --> 00:25:28,560 Speaker 1: decayed state of it all. Much of it, of course, 348 00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:32,159 Speaker 1: was simply the result of neglect and the ravages of time, 349 00:25:33,040 --> 00:25:37,719 Speaker 1: but other things seemed just plain out of place. For one, 350 00:25:38,040 --> 00:25:42,000 Speaker 1: there seemed to be an inordinate amount of vandalism, entire 351 00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:46,480 Speaker 1: vaults that appeared deliberately broken into, and the coffins inside 352 00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:51,040 Speaker 1: smashed apart. One time, he even glimpsed the head and 353 00:25:51,119 --> 00:25:54,480 Speaker 1: torso of a skeleton that had quite clearly been ripped 354 00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:59,119 Speaker 1: out of a coffin. Then he noticed something lump and 355 00:25:59,200 --> 00:26:02,400 Speaker 1: and furry lying at the edge of the path, a 356 00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:06,720 Speaker 1: fox not long dead, the third he'd seen in as 357 00:26:06,760 --> 00:26:18,119 Speaker 1: many weeks, with no obvious cause of death. Early in 358 00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:21,800 Speaker 1: the new year of nineteen seventy, David Varrant wrote a 359 00:26:21,880 --> 00:26:25,960 Speaker 1: letter to the local paper, the Hampstead and Highgate Express, 360 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:30,000 Speaker 1: inviting readers to write in with any unusual experiences they 361 00:26:30,080 --> 00:26:33,840 Speaker 1: might have had at the cemetery. Over the next few weeks, 362 00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:38,720 Speaker 1: the paper was inundated with responses. Some spoke of a 363 00:26:38,720 --> 00:26:41,679 Speaker 1: man in a hat known for years to walk across 364 00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:45,640 Speaker 1: Swain's Lane at night and disappear through the cemetery walls 365 00:26:45,920 --> 00:26:48,960 Speaker 1: as a ghostly bell could be heard tolling in the distance, 366 00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:55,120 Speaker 1: similar to the so called Thornton's apparent sighting. Other readers 367 00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:58,680 Speaker 1: spoke of the well known ghostly cyclist said to chase 368 00:26:58,760 --> 00:27:04,480 Speaker 1: women down Swain's, while one detailed a particularly terrifying encounter 369 00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:08,760 Speaker 1: at nearby viaduct pond on Hampstead Heath, in which a 370 00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:12,280 Speaker 1: ghostly figure was apparently seen to walk solemnly into the 371 00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:16,360 Speaker 1: water before turning back to wave at the viewer as 372 00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:20,160 Speaker 1: if beckoning them to join them. The figure then vanished 373 00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:25,159 Speaker 1: with a horrific and nauseating cry. Over the next six weeks, 374 00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:29,840 Speaker 1: eighteen accounts of apparent sightings were published, with many more 375 00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:34,000 Speaker 1: put forward. Though Farrant was determined to keep an open 376 00:27:34,119 --> 00:27:38,720 Speaker 1: mind about what exactly was taking place, Sean Manchester had 377 00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:43,480 Speaker 1: already drawn his conclusion. He too had continued his own 378 00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:47,960 Speaker 1: investigations at Highgate Cemetery and had also noted the unusual 379 00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:52,720 Speaker 1: amount of fox carcasses, Only he hadn't found them seemingly 380 00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:58,240 Speaker 1: untouched like Farrant, but with as he later said, lacerations 381 00:27:58,280 --> 00:28:03,399 Speaker 1: around a throat and completely drained of blood. Given all 382 00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:08,040 Speaker 1: the evidence from the apparent experience of Elizabeth voidiwa the 383 00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:12,199 Speaker 1: numerous sightings of a tall, spectral figure haunting the graveyard 384 00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:16,639 Speaker 1: and draining the energy of anyone unfortunate enough to cross 385 00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:21,480 Speaker 1: its path to the mutilated foxes, there was only one answer. 386 00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:32,399 Speaker 1: A vampire was stalking Highgate Cemetery. 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Also, like Farrent, 409 00:29:53,360 --> 00:29:57,240 Speaker 1: Sean Manchester had too noticed the growing number of apparent 410 00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:01,400 Speaker 1: grave desecrations taking place in the semin Tree, which only 411 00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:05,120 Speaker 1: served to strengthen his vampire theory since he believed the 412 00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:10,200 Speaker 1: two to be inextricably linked. As news of the vampire 413 00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:15,040 Speaker 1: rumors and Manchester's interest in the case spread, the Hampstead 414 00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:18,160 Speaker 1: and Highgate Express invited him to give his opinion on 415 00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:23,160 Speaker 1: the matter. The subsequent article was published on February twenty seventh, 416 00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:29,040 Speaker 1: titled does a Vampire Walk in Highgate? According to Manchester, 417 00:30:29,640 --> 00:30:33,080 Speaker 1: the property of Ashurst House, on the grounds of which 418 00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:37,280 Speaker 1: the cemetery was originally built, was at one time least 419 00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:41,280 Speaker 1: to an enigmatic gentleman from Eastern Europe who arrived in 420 00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:45,160 Speaker 1: the country around the time of an apparent vampire epidemic 421 00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:50,280 Speaker 1: that was occurring in Southeast Europe. Manchester had good reason 422 00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:53,160 Speaker 1: to think that this man, who he believed to be 423 00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:57,240 Speaker 1: some form of king vampire, had resided at this location 424 00:30:57,600 --> 00:31:01,120 Speaker 1: in one form or another ever since, and that black 425 00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:06,560 Speaker 1: magic practitioners were trying to resurrect him. For sean there 426 00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:10,480 Speaker 1: was only one solution to the problem. That this vampire, 427 00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:15,800 Speaker 1: in his opinion, a literal manifestation of physical evil, should 428 00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:19,600 Speaker 1: be found and terminated by driving a stake through its heart, 429 00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:24,040 Speaker 1: then decapitating it with a grave digger's shovel and burning 430 00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:29,120 Speaker 1: the remains to ash. With their mutual interests, it was 431 00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:32,520 Speaker 1: only a matter of time before Farran and Manchester crossed 432 00:31:32,560 --> 00:31:37,040 Speaker 1: paths after appearing in an article together on March sixth. 433 00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:41,360 Speaker 1: The pair then took part in a live v broadcast 434 00:31:41,560 --> 00:31:45,960 Speaker 1: from Highgate Cemetery on Friday thirteenth of March to voice 435 00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:51,040 Speaker 1: their concerns. In the interview, Farrant claimed that since news 436 00:31:51,040 --> 00:31:54,040 Speaker 1: of his interest in the Apparent Vampire had gone public, 437 00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:59,000 Speaker 1: he'd received a series of sinister letters covered in strange symbols, 438 00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:02,880 Speaker 1: warning him him in no uncertain terms to stop meddling 439 00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:08,080 Speaker 1: in things he didn't understand. However, he remained steadfastly committed 440 00:32:08,280 --> 00:32:12,920 Speaker 1: to banishing the malignant menace. Within hours of the broadcast, 441 00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:17,000 Speaker 1: hundreds of members of the public, some out of excited 442 00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:22,800 Speaker 1: curiosity others out of genuine concern, converged on the cemetery gates, 443 00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:26,920 Speaker 1: brandishing weapons and demanding to be let into the graveyard. 444 00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:32,120 Speaker 1: Before long, the steadily increasing crowd had jumped the gates 445 00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:36,520 Speaker 1: and began flowing into the cemetery, gripped by an electric 446 00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:40,440 Speaker 1: further as they hunted desperately for any sign of the vampire. 447 00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:44,719 Speaker 1: By the time the sun had risen the following morning, 448 00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:56,520 Speaker 1: nothing had been found. Things had died down somewhat when 449 00:32:56,560 --> 00:33:00,960 Speaker 1: on Friday August first, three teenagers on their own vampire 450 00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:05,960 Speaker 1: hunt discovered a charred, headless corpse lying beside the broken 451 00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:11,440 Speaker 1: remnants of a vault close to the cemetery's columbarium. According 452 00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:14,920 Speaker 1: to Manchester, the corpse had likely been used as part 453 00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:19,719 Speaker 1: of a ritual to bring the King vampire back to life. Then, 454 00:33:20,080 --> 00:33:24,040 Speaker 1: on the night of August seventeenth, two police officers on 455 00:33:24,080 --> 00:33:27,520 Speaker 1: the lookout for vandals were making a routine patrol of 456 00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:31,280 Speaker 1: the cemetery when they spotted a group of people behaving 457 00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:36,160 Speaker 1: strangely inside one of the vaults, stepping closer. With the 458 00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:39,640 Speaker 1: smell of herbs and incense in the air. They saw 459 00:33:39,720 --> 00:33:43,320 Speaker 1: candles burning, as well as a series of strange markings 460 00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:46,400 Speaker 1: drawn in chalk on the floor, while one of the 461 00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:51,400 Speaker 1: group held a stake in their hands. It was David Farrant. 462 00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:57,240 Speaker 1: The group were duly arrested for trespassing. However, the case 463 00:33:57,360 --> 00:34:02,040 Speaker 1: was eventually dismissed after Farren's solicit Ceter successfully argued that 464 00:34:02,200 --> 00:34:06,720 Speaker 1: vampire hunting was not against the law. Within a week 465 00:34:06,760 --> 00:34:11,000 Speaker 1: of Farrent's arrest, Sewn Manchester, who was equally keen to 466 00:34:11,040 --> 00:34:15,360 Speaker 1: expel the apparent vampire, was at the columbarium next to 467 00:34:15,360 --> 00:34:19,360 Speaker 1: where the headless corpse had been found, burning incense and 468 00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:23,640 Speaker 1: sprinkling cups of holy water while reading various rites of 469 00:34:23,680 --> 00:34:30,239 Speaker 1: exorcism in Greek, Latin, Hebrew and English. Sometime later, Manchester 470 00:34:30,360 --> 00:34:33,399 Speaker 1: claimed to have followed a woman into the cemetery who 471 00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:37,080 Speaker 1: he believed was possessed by demonic spirits, all the way 472 00:34:37,160 --> 00:34:41,040 Speaker 1: to a fairly nondescript vault hidden away amongst the leaves. 473 00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:45,960 Speaker 1: Returning later that afternoon with a small group of fellow 474 00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:50,759 Speaker 1: members of the British Occult Society, Manchester reportedly entered the 475 00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:54,480 Speaker 1: vault stake in hand, where he found a coffin with 476 00:34:54,600 --> 00:34:58,759 Speaker 1: no nameplate, inside which was a body that appeared to 477 00:34:58,800 --> 00:35:03,440 Speaker 1: be neither dead alive. Manchester is said to have raised 478 00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:06,560 Speaker 1: the stake and was just about to plunge it somewhere 479 00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:10,160 Speaker 1: between the body's seventh and eighth rib when a colleague 480 00:35:10,239 --> 00:35:13,520 Speaker 1: grabbed his arm, imploring him not to do it for 481 00:35:13,560 --> 00:35:17,319 Speaker 1: fear it could be sacrilege. After all, there was no 482 00:35:17,520 --> 00:35:22,360 Speaker 1: guarantee that the body was that of a vampire. In 483 00:35:22,480 --> 00:35:26,920 Speaker 1: the end, Manchester was forced to concede the point, stating 484 00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:30,480 Speaker 1: later that he agreed to seek permission from the correct 485 00:35:30,560 --> 00:35:36,680 Speaker 1: quarter before carrying out any executions. As the sun went down, 486 00:35:37,239 --> 00:35:42,360 Speaker 1: Manchester instead sprinkled salt, holy water, and garlic around the 487 00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:46,000 Speaker 1: vault and read the rights of exorcism just in case, 488 00:35:47,080 --> 00:35:52,160 Speaker 1: claiming later that as he did, deep voluminous booming sounds 489 00:35:52,200 --> 00:36:03,080 Speaker 1: had rung out, vibrating throughout the tomb. Over the next 490 00:36:03,120 --> 00:36:06,840 Speaker 1: few months, those sightings of the apparent vampire had become 491 00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:11,759 Speaker 1: few and far between. Shawn Manchester and David Farrant continued 492 00:36:11,800 --> 00:36:16,239 Speaker 1: their respective monitoring of the cemetery. One full moon in 493 00:36:16,280 --> 00:36:20,520 Speaker 1: October nineteen seventy, Farrant took a reporter on a tour 494 00:36:20,560 --> 00:36:24,400 Speaker 1: of the cemetery, during which they found numerous open graves 495 00:36:24,520 --> 00:36:28,080 Speaker 1: with a number of exposed skeletons, all missing their skulls, 496 00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:32,160 Speaker 1: as well as a number of vaults and tombs defaced 497 00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:38,440 Speaker 1: with strange magical scrawls. Then, one night, Farrant claimed to 498 00:36:38,480 --> 00:36:43,239 Speaker 1: have come across a particularly disturbing scene. It was laid 499 00:36:43,239 --> 00:36:47,319 Speaker 1: out in a grand mosaic floored vault belonging to the 500 00:36:47,440 --> 00:36:52,840 Speaker 1: cory Wright family. On the floor, drawn in vibrant white chalk, 501 00:36:53,320 --> 00:36:56,800 Speaker 1: was a pentagram encased in a circle with a large 502 00:36:56,880 --> 00:37:01,480 Speaker 1: triangle drawn around it, with one magical word scrawled on 503 00:37:01,520 --> 00:37:06,840 Speaker 1: each side of it, and on the inside symbols the Jupiter, Mars, 504 00:37:06,880 --> 00:37:11,080 Speaker 1: and the Moon had been drawn. A bust of one 505 00:37:11,080 --> 00:37:13,880 Speaker 1: of the deceased in the vault had been placed at 506 00:37:13,920 --> 00:37:17,040 Speaker 1: the head of the pentagram, and all of it surrounded 507 00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:21,560 Speaker 1: by long burned out candles. It was clear to Farrant 508 00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:24,960 Speaker 1: that a group of black witches had evidently broken into 509 00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:28,720 Speaker 1: the vault and attempted to resurrect the dead man, depict 510 00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:33,880 Speaker 1: it by the bust in retaliation. Late one night on 511 00:37:33,960 --> 00:37:38,600 Speaker 1: the summer solstice of nineteen seventy one, Farrant, along with 512 00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:42,640 Speaker 1: nine other members of his British Psychic and Occult Society, 513 00:37:43,040 --> 00:37:46,760 Speaker 1: are said to have gathered inside the cory Wright family vault, 514 00:37:47,360 --> 00:37:52,920 Speaker 1: equipped with bibles, holy water, and magical herbs, amongst other implements. 515 00:37:54,280 --> 00:37:58,360 Speaker 1: On the ground, a triangle was drawn in chalk, this 516 00:37:58,560 --> 00:38:03,560 Speaker 1: time with the protective circle drawn around it. Then, after 517 00:38:03,640 --> 00:38:08,120 Speaker 1: some of the women disrobed as an apparent symbol of purity. 518 00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:11,720 Speaker 1: The group lit candles, then came together in a circle 519 00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:17,320 Speaker 1: around the markings. Together they chanted a series of readings 520 00:38:17,360 --> 00:38:22,040 Speaker 1: from the Bible, as well as some ancient spells. Before long, 521 00:38:22,560 --> 00:38:26,120 Speaker 1: the icy air of the vault seemed to warm up considerably, 522 00:38:26,640 --> 00:38:30,719 Speaker 1: but little more was felt until shortly after midnight, when 523 00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:34,640 Speaker 1: one of the group, a self described medium, took charge 524 00:38:34,680 --> 00:38:39,680 Speaker 1: of proceedings. As some described it later, not long after 525 00:38:39,719 --> 00:38:43,840 Speaker 1: she began to speak, the candles flickered and a mist 526 00:38:44,239 --> 00:38:47,279 Speaker 1: was seen to descend within the circle, from out of 527 00:38:47,360 --> 00:38:52,520 Speaker 1: which a writhing, black, shadowy figure began to form, growing 528 00:38:52,600 --> 00:38:56,920 Speaker 1: ever bigger, until two points of light became visible in 529 00:38:57,080 --> 00:39:01,800 Speaker 1: what appeared to be its face. Just then, a scream 530 00:39:01,960 --> 00:39:05,000 Speaker 1: was heard as one of the group fainted to the ground, 531 00:39:05,680 --> 00:39:09,680 Speaker 1: followed moments later by the startled cry of the medium 532 00:39:09,719 --> 00:39:14,200 Speaker 1: as she too broke away, collapsing to the ground, and 533 00:39:14,360 --> 00:39:22,719 Speaker 1: with that the entity disappeared. 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