WEBVTT - Season 6 Episode 8: The Rising 0:00:10.400 --> 0:00:14.200 In March nineteen sixty three, a group of children picked 0:00:14.200 --> 0:00:16.959 their way through the grounds of a ruined church on 0:00:17.040 --> 0:00:19.800 the outskirts of the village of Clophill in the south 0:00:19.840 --> 0:00:24.599 of England. The Old Saint Mary's was built around thirteen fifty, 0:00:24.920 --> 0:00:28.400 but was apparently abandoned in the nineteenth century after a 0:00:28.440 --> 0:00:31.840 more convenient location was found for a church a little 0:00:31.840 --> 0:00:35.800 closer to the village. Some say, however, that it whilst 0:00:35.840 --> 0:00:40.400 the parishioners themselves that requested the building be abandoned after 0:00:40.479 --> 0:00:46.880 growing uneasy about its unusual positioning. Traditionally, churches are built 0:00:47.080 --> 0:00:50.440 so that the congregation can face and pray to the east, 0:00:51.000 --> 0:00:55.080 toward the direction of the rising sun. This positioning is 0:00:55.120 --> 0:00:59.160 important since many consider this also to be the direction 0:00:59.240 --> 0:01:04.000 of Heaven and a symbol of the returning Messiah. For 0:01:04.040 --> 0:01:07.800 some reason, however, this church was built to face in 0:01:07.840 --> 0:01:11.920 the opposite direction, leading some to believe it was in 0:01:12.000 --> 0:01:17.440 fact a pat satan and a gateway to Hell. It 0:01:17.480 --> 0:01:20.160 isn't known if the children playing in the churchyard that 0:01:20.319 --> 0:01:24.039 day were aware of this small fact, or what indeed 0:01:24.040 --> 0:01:29.000 it might mean. When they came across the bones, clearly 0:01:29.080 --> 0:01:32.760 human and old, they were scattered over the grass in 0:01:32.840 --> 0:01:38.200 an odd, unnatural manner. A nearby gravestone and the large 0:01:38.400 --> 0:01:42.080 gaping hole in the earth next to it suggested they 0:01:42.120 --> 0:01:47.080 had once belonged to one Jenny Humberston. Looking around, however, 0:01:47.560 --> 0:01:51.120 the children soon found it wasn't only Humberston's grave that 0:01:51.240 --> 0:01:55.440 had been desecrated, as all about small mounds of black 0:01:55.480 --> 0:01:58.600 earth could be seen where other grave sites had been 0:01:58.640 --> 0:02:03.480 similarly disturbed. The police arrived an hour or so later, 0:02:04.000 --> 0:02:08.240 along with local vicar Reverend Leslie Barker, to inspect the 0:02:08.280 --> 0:02:12.840 grizzly scene. A crow perched on top of the ruins 0:02:13.040 --> 0:02:18.160 called vigorously as the officers stood about examining the yellowed remains, 0:02:18.200 --> 0:02:22.079 trying to make sense of it all. Perhaps some opportunist 0:02:22.160 --> 0:02:25.840 robber had been looking for buried Victorian jewelry, they thought, 0:02:26.760 --> 0:02:31.320 But Reverend Barker wasn't quite so sure, his mind rushing 0:02:31.360 --> 0:02:35.040 back to the two Celtic crosses he'd found recently inside 0:02:35.080 --> 0:02:39.239 the church. Both had been painted with a red substance 0:02:39.639 --> 0:02:43.880 which he was almost certain was blood. Then he gazed 0:02:44.000 --> 0:02:47.040 up at the ruins with a pained look in his eyes, 0:02:47.600 --> 0:02:50.440 feeling a sudden chill run down his back as he 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:56.640 clocked its westerly facing chancel. No, he said, pointing down 0:02:56.639 --> 0:03:00.760 to the bones, drawing the police's attention once more to 0:03:00.880 --> 0:03:06.760 their strange arrangement. There's no doubt about it. This is 0:03:06.800 --> 0:03:13.200 the work of Satanists. A few months later, further grave 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:17.160 desecrations were discovered in Lancashire, in the northwest of England, 0:03:17.600 --> 0:03:21.360 which according to some, also bore the hallmarks of a 0:03:21.400 --> 0:03:26.600 black magic ritual. Then in December, in Sussex on the 0:03:26.680 --> 0:03:30.600 south coast, a bell ringer in the village of Westam, 0:03:30.639 --> 0:03:34.280 after arriving for practice one evening at their local chapel, 0:03:34.840 --> 0:03:39.280 heard a strange, monotonous chant coming from somewhere within it. 0:03:40.240 --> 0:03:44.560 Stepping inside, they were surprised to find four men they'd 0:03:44.560 --> 0:03:49.160 never seen before, huddled in the dark, humming something soft 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:56.040 and ominous, together a circle of candles gently flickering around them. 0:03:56.240 --> 0:03:59.320 In the next few months, over two hundred acts of 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:03.760 vandalism perpetrated in English churchyards were thought to be linked 0:04:03.920 --> 0:04:07.640 to what appeared to be a resurgent interest in black magic. 0:04:08.720 --> 0:04:16.520 Something was evidently brewing. You're listening to unexplained and I'm 0:04:16.640 --> 0:04:28.080 Richard McClean smith. One evening in early nineteen sixty seven, 0:04:28.640 --> 0:04:31.719 roughly four years after the events at Saint Mary's Church, 0:04:32.520 --> 0:04:37.880 sixteen year olds Elizabeth Voidiwa and Barbara Moriarty found themselves 0:04:37.960 --> 0:04:42.159 walking down Swain's Lane in North London after visiting friends 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:47.440 in Highgate Village. The lane a steep and narrow pathway 0:04:47.600 --> 0:04:51.720 that runs south from Highgate before curving west towards Parliament 0:04:51.800 --> 0:04:55.760 Hill and Hampstead Heath's perhaps best known as the thoroughfare 0:04:56.080 --> 0:04:59.760 that divided the two sections of London sprawling Highgate s. 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:06.120 The cemetery, located in a secluded area of woodland high 0:05:06.200 --> 0:05:08.960 up on the hill to the northeast of Hampstead Heath, 0:05:09.720 --> 0:05:13.880 was built in two parts, with the first, the Western Cemetery, 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:19.280 established in eighteen thirty nine, centered around the two imposing 0:05:19.320 --> 0:05:23.520 structures of Egyptian Avenue and the Circle of Lebanon, home 0:05:23.600 --> 0:05:27.200 to thirty six vaults between them, the first being a 0:05:27.279 --> 0:05:31.240 grand walkway of stone, granite and marble, built in a 0:05:31.279 --> 0:05:34.800 classical style with a vast stone archway at its front, 0:05:35.040 --> 0:05:39.560 flanked by two huge Egyptian style obelisks, all framed by 0:05:39.640 --> 0:05:44.320 carefully manicured shrubs and narrow wooded pathways. It quickly became 0:05:44.360 --> 0:05:48.920 the most fashionable cemetery of the day. As such, by 0:05:48.960 --> 0:05:54.280 eighteen sixty, another nineteen acres of similarly picturesque woodland on 0:05:54.320 --> 0:05:57.880 the other side of Swain's Lane was quickly incorporated into 0:05:57.880 --> 0:06:03.800 the site, becoming home to Highgates Eastern Cemetery after welcoming 0:06:03.839 --> 0:06:08.120 its first resident, Elizabeth Jackson, who died aged thirty six 0:06:08.520 --> 0:06:13.039 in May eighteen thirty nine. Today, roughly one hundred and 0:06:13.080 --> 0:06:16.960 seventy thousand people have been buried in approximately fifty three 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:21.960 thousand graves in Highgate, with author Mary Anne Evans also 0:06:22.040 --> 0:06:26.960 known as George Eliot, philosopher Karl Marx, and scientist Michael 0:06:27.040 --> 0:06:31.960 Faraday being some of its most notable occupants. By the 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:36.800 early twentieth century, however, thanks to its popularity, the graveyard 0:06:36.960 --> 0:06:41.599 was completely filled up, with so few being buried there afterwards. 0:06:42.320 --> 0:06:45.520 By the nineteen sixties, as the names of most of 0:06:45.520 --> 0:06:51.279 its copious inhabitants slowly disappeared ever further into obscurity, the 0:06:51.360 --> 0:06:56.480 whole place had fallen into disrepair. The once carefully manicured 0:06:56.520 --> 0:07:01.960 space had become wildly overgrown and consumed by nature. The 0:07:02.040 --> 0:07:06.520 once spectacular tunes and ornate gravestones that had spoken so 0:07:06.640 --> 0:07:09.920 much of wealth and standing. Those that could still be 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:13.560 glimpsed through the endless thickets of Ivy and Bramble at least, 0:07:14.080 --> 0:07:19.000 had by then long faded and crumbled like relics of Ozymandius. 0:07:20.080 --> 0:07:22.880 And it was in just such a state when those 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:28.040 two young girls, Elizabeth Voidiwa and Barbara Moriarty, passed by 0:07:28.040 --> 0:07:33.880 the cemetery that evening in nineteen sixty seven. Being pupils 0:07:33.920 --> 0:07:37.200 from a nearby school, the pair had walked through Swain's 0:07:37.240 --> 0:07:41.080 Lane on many occasions before, having never thought twice about 0:07:41.080 --> 0:07:45.920 their surroundings. That night, however, as the girls walked past 0:07:46.000 --> 0:07:48.520 the Cemetery's north gate at the top of the lane, 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:52.480 it has claimed that both saw something that shocked them 0:07:52.520 --> 0:07:57.040 to the cores. After glimpsing a movement through the railings 0:07:57.040 --> 0:08:00.000 of the gate, the pair was certain that for a moment, 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:03.280 what they had in fact seen was a number of 0:08:03.360 --> 0:08:08.480 graves opening up, followed by numerous arms and legs reaching 0:08:08.560 --> 0:08:17.360 up from out of the earth within them. Is there 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:20.680 something interfering with your happiness or preventing you from achieving 0:08:20.720 --> 0:08:23.800 your goals? Better? Help will assess your needs and match 0:08:23.840 --> 0:08:27.160 you with your own licensed professional therapist. Sign up today 0:08:27.160 --> 0:08:30.480 and start communicating in less than forty eight hours. You'll 0:08:30.480 --> 0:08:33.600 get timely and thoughtful responses. Plus, you can schedule weekly 0:08:33.720 --> 0:08:36.080 video or phone sessions so you won't ever have to 0:08:36.080 --> 0:08:38.960 sit in an uncomfortable waiting room. 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Forward slash Unexplained joined the over one million 0:09:15.640 --> 0:09:18.360 people taking charge of their mental health with the help 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:22.160 of an experienced professional. Better Help wants you to start 0:09:22.200 --> 0:09:30.520 living a happier life today. A few weeks later, a 0:09:30.640 --> 0:09:34.360 young woman and man were walking down Swain's Lane after 0:09:34.400 --> 0:09:37.880 a night out in Highgate when the woman screamed, suddenly 0:09:38.240 --> 0:09:41.400 claiming to have seen a figure standing behind the locked 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:45.000 gate of the Western Cemetery. Though she'd only glimpsed it 0:09:45.080 --> 0:09:47.560 for a moment, it was long enough to see the 0:09:47.600 --> 0:09:51.440 horrifying twisted expression on its face that seemed to bore 0:09:51.600 --> 0:09:55.240 right into her, before the figure vanished into thin air. 0:09:56.800 --> 0:09:59.839 Having heard the many local rumors of ghosts said to 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:03.160 haunt the cemetery, the man returned a few weeks later 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:06.000 with another friend to see if they could spot the 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:10.720 apparent entity. The men clambered over the locked gate and 0:10:10.880 --> 0:10:14.160 jumped down with a crunch, onto the gravel path, then 0:10:14.240 --> 0:10:17.800 switched on their torches and headed on into the thicket 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:23.880 of undergrowth and crumbling gravestones beyond. Before long, as they 0:10:23.880 --> 0:10:28.400 stepped past one tomb after another, their inscriptions long since 0:10:28.440 --> 0:10:32.640 faded away, a great sense of melancholy overcame the pair, 0:10:33.880 --> 0:10:38.120 when suddenly they became aware of a low, vibrating hum 0:10:38.160 --> 0:10:42.240 that came and went with increasing regularity from somewhere up 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:46.760 ahead in the darkness. As the noise intensified, the men 0:10:46.960 --> 0:10:49.920 found that they could no longer move their limbs, as 0:10:49.960 --> 0:10:54.360 though the sound had cast a spell on them. Just then, 0:10:54.840 --> 0:10:58.440 a large shadow flitted across the path, like that of 0:10:58.480 --> 0:11:03.040 a human, but strange elongated. Then the pair began to 0:11:03.080 --> 0:11:08.200 feel nauseous and their breathing became labored. Barely able to think, 0:11:08.600 --> 0:11:11.720 one of the men instinctively blurted out the Lord's prayer, 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:17.920 and within moments they were released from their fantastical quagmire. Turning, 0:11:18.120 --> 0:11:23.360 they sprinted for the exit and never looked back. This story, 0:11:23.880 --> 0:11:27.640 along with that of Elizabeth and Barbara's, was apparently told 0:11:27.679 --> 0:11:30.720 to Shawn Manchester, who was a twenty five year old 0:11:30.720 --> 0:11:35.760 photographer at the time. In June nineteen sixty seven, Manchester 0:11:35.880 --> 0:11:39.079 had also become the president of the British Occult Society, 0:11:39.720 --> 0:11:43.280 a small organization of like minded people who were keen 0:11:43.360 --> 0:11:46.320 to learn more about what they perceived to be a 0:11:46.440 --> 0:11:50.640 sudden blossoming of occult related events in the United Kingdom. 0:11:51.520 --> 0:11:54.280 With little more to go on, Sean claimed to have 0:11:54.320 --> 0:11:58.880 forgotten about the incidents until the summer of nineteen sixty nine, when, 0:11:59.320 --> 0:12:02.640 while out walking through Highgate one day, he was approached 0:12:02.640 --> 0:12:05.959 in the street by an anxious and tired looking Elizabeth, 0:12:06.520 --> 0:12:10.480 who was clearly desperate for his help. Seeing the woman 0:12:10.800 --> 0:12:13.760 and how deathly pale she looked, as he would later 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:17.360 describe it. He immediately suggested they go to a nearby 0:12:17.440 --> 0:12:21.040 cafe where he could get her something to eat. Later 0:12:21.160 --> 0:12:32.520 that afternoon, she told him her shocking story. It began 0:12:32.800 --> 0:12:36.360 soon after she and Barbara had experienced their strange vision 0:12:36.480 --> 0:12:40.320 on Swain's Lane, with a series of terrifying nightmares in 0:12:40.360 --> 0:12:43.320 which Elizabeth would wake up in a state of panic, 0:12:43.640 --> 0:12:47.760 dripping with sweat, convinced that something was trying to get 0:12:47.800 --> 0:12:52.360 in at her bedroom window. Then one night, she sensed 0:12:52.360 --> 0:12:54.880 a presence at the end of her bed and looked 0:12:54.960 --> 0:12:58.080 up to see the figure of something not quite a 0:12:58.160 --> 0:13:02.200 man standing there with the wild, snarling look on its face. 0:13:03.160 --> 0:13:06.360 The next she remembered was something touching her and an 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:11.960 icy cold sensation intrigued by her tail. Sean then claimed 0:13:12.000 --> 0:13:15.080 to have been taken back to Elizabeth's apartment, where he 0:13:15.120 --> 0:13:18.960 was introduced to her partner, Keith, who apparently verified the 0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:24.400 story as Elizabeth was said to have explained further, despite 0:13:24.440 --> 0:13:27.920 being diagnosed with a simple case of anemia by her doctor, 0:13:28.480 --> 0:13:31.960 none of the vitamin's and iron supplements she'd been prescribed 0:13:32.280 --> 0:13:37.360 appeared to be making any difference. After a pleasant but 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:41.920 tense evening, hearing more about Elizabeth's growing urge to leave 0:13:41.920 --> 0:13:44.920 her bed at night and wander out into the dark, 0:13:45.160 --> 0:13:48.920 with no sense or idea where she might go. Sean 0:13:49.120 --> 0:13:52.520 was just about to leave when Keith apparently told him 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:58.040 about the peculiar mark that had recently appeared on Elizabeth's neck. Then, 0:13:58.600 --> 0:14:03.280 much to Sean's astonish, Elizabeth flicked back her hair to 0:14:03.360 --> 0:14:10.040 reveal two small, dark purple contusions. A few days later, 0:14:10.600 --> 0:14:15.280 Sean received a letter from Keith. After he and Elizabeth 0:14:15.320 --> 0:14:18.240 had got into a fight one evening, he'd followed her 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:21.520 out of the flat, watching from afar as she made 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:26.800 her way directly to Highgate Cemetery. Once there, Keith had 0:14:26.880 --> 0:14:30.280 looked on with confusion as she tiptoed over to the 0:14:30.360 --> 0:14:35.240 cemetery gates, then just stood there, staring forlornly into the 0:14:35.360 --> 0:14:40.040 darkness beyond the railings. Having eventually snapped out of it, 0:14:40.480 --> 0:14:44.240 the pair returned to their flat, where Elizabeth retired to 0:14:44.280 --> 0:14:50.000 bed alone. Later, after hearing a terrible scream, Keith ran 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:53.680 into the bedroom to find Elizabeth sitting up in bed, 0:14:54.080 --> 0:14:59.280 gasping for breath, with, according to Manchester, two specks of 0:14:59.280 --> 0:15:10.320 blood on her pillow. Believing that Elizabeth was the victim 0:15:10.360 --> 0:15:14.520 of some kind of vampiric attack. Manchester claimed to have 0:15:14.600 --> 0:15:18.680 returned to her and Keith's flat immediately after receiving the letter. 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:24.800 On arrival, he thrust a manuscript into Keith's hand. Keith 0:15:24.880 --> 0:15:28.120 stared down at the title of the paper with confusion, 0:15:29.400 --> 0:15:33.960 The Travels of Three Gentlemen from Venice to Hamburg being 0:15:34.000 --> 0:15:38.040 the Grand Tour of Germany in the year seventeen thirty four, 0:15:38.400 --> 0:15:43.200 it read. The text was anonymous, but described a journey 0:15:43.320 --> 0:15:47.200 made by three acquaintances around Europe in the year seventeen 0:15:47.280 --> 0:15:52.000 thirty four. In it, the author described a conversation with 0:15:52.120 --> 0:15:55.680 the landlord of an inn in Leubjana, Slovenia, in which 0:15:55.720 --> 0:15:59.240 they stayed. The man, who they took to be a 0:15:59.320 --> 0:16:03.720 fine and upstanding citizen, took great pains to warn them 0:16:03.760 --> 0:16:07.000 about a plague of vampirism that appeared to have broken 0:16:07.000 --> 0:16:11.160 out in some rural areas of the country. Then Sean 0:16:11.680 --> 0:16:15.520 directed Keith to a passage quoted from a different text 0:16:16.200 --> 0:16:23.720 entitled Dissertatio de vampires serviensibus, written by a professor Johann 0:16:23.800 --> 0:16:30.400 Heinrich Zop in seventeen thirty three. Zop as Manchester explained, 0:16:31.080 --> 0:16:33.760 was the director of one of the leading high schools 0:16:33.760 --> 0:16:37.600 in Germany at the time and an authority on vampires 0:16:37.800 --> 0:16:42.640 in the eighteenth century. It read they come out of 0:16:42.720 --> 0:16:47.280 graves in the nighttime, rush upon people sleeping in their beds, 0:16:47.880 --> 0:16:52.560 suck out all their blood and destroy them. They attack men, 0:16:52.960 --> 0:16:57.680 women and children, sparing neither age nor sex. The people 0:16:57.720 --> 0:17:01.440 attacked by them complain of suffer vacation and a great 0:17:01.520 --> 0:17:07.639 interception of spirit, after which they soon expire. Those who 0:17:07.680 --> 0:17:11.840 were destroyed by them, after their death become vampires too. 0:17:13.119 --> 0:17:16.720 To prevent so spreading an evil, it has found requisite 0:17:16.880 --> 0:17:20.200 to drive a stake through the dead body, from whence 0:17:20.240 --> 0:17:23.399 on this occasion the blood flows as if the person 0:17:23.560 --> 0:17:27.520 were alive. Sometimes the body is dug out at the 0:17:27.560 --> 0:17:32.280 grave and burnt to ashes, upon which all disturbances cease. 0:17:34.280 --> 0:17:38.280 All was not lost, however, according to Manchester, who claimed 0:17:38.320 --> 0:17:41.399 to have given Keith the strict set of instructions to 0:17:41.480 --> 0:17:45.080 ward off the apparent malignants that had so invaded his 0:17:45.240 --> 0:17:49.439 and Catherine's home, garlic was to be wiped around the 0:17:49.480 --> 0:17:52.840 front door and window frames of their bedroom, and a 0:17:52.920 --> 0:17:57.720 crucifix nailed there immediately. Then, who was to place a 0:17:57.800 --> 0:18:00.639 handful of salt in a piece of linen, which was 0:18:00.680 --> 0:18:03.639 then to be thread through a silver cross and tied 0:18:03.680 --> 0:18:08.600 around Elizabeth's neck. 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Born in the mid nineteen forties, David 0:20:38.560 --> 0:20:42.439 Farrant grew up in Highgates, Shepherd Hill, where as a 0:20:42.520 --> 0:20:46.200 child he claimed to have seen a peculiar entity moving 0:20:46.240 --> 0:20:50.920 about his family home. Having been introduced to the culture 0:20:50.960 --> 0:20:53.960 of witchcraft by his mother, who died when he was 0:20:54.000 --> 0:20:58.440 only thirteen, David spent most of his teenage years delving 0:20:58.440 --> 0:21:04.080 ever further into the straight and unexplained. By nineteen sixty seven, 0:21:04.600 --> 0:21:08.600 then in his early twenties, Farrant, with his long tussled 0:21:08.640 --> 0:21:13.119 hair and brooding looks, was a familiar figure around Highgate Village, 0:21:13.680 --> 0:21:17.600 rarely seen out without his loyal McCaw parrot perched on 0:21:17.640 --> 0:21:22.640 his shoulder. Like Manchester, Farrant was part of a group 0:21:22.720 --> 0:21:26.879 two his being called the British Psychic and Occult Society, 0:21:27.359 --> 0:21:32.440 which was dedicated to discussing and where possible, investigating supposed 0:21:32.560 --> 0:21:36.080 paranormal or occult phenomena that happened to crop up in 0:21:36.119 --> 0:21:39.480 the area, which is why he found himself at the 0:21:39.520 --> 0:21:42.960 Red Lion and Sun Pub in Highgate one afternoon in 0:21:43.040 --> 0:21:47.280 nineteen sixty nine. The man he'd come to meet, was 0:21:47.359 --> 0:21:50.439 well dressed in a tailored suit and looked to be 0:21:50.520 --> 0:21:54.800 in his late thirties. He introduced himself, but asked to 0:21:54.800 --> 0:21:58.760 be known only as Thornton for fear of ridicule, since 0:21:58.760 --> 0:22:01.720 he was a well respected accountant known to many in 0:22:01.760 --> 0:22:05.960 the local area as the so called Thornton went on 0:22:06.040 --> 0:22:10.040 to explain he was a keen amateur photographer and had 0:22:10.080 --> 0:22:14.960 recently visited Highgate Cemetery to take some pictures that warm 0:22:15.000 --> 0:22:18.560 summer's afternoon. The place was deserted as he made his 0:22:18.640 --> 0:22:22.959 way through the crumbling, moss covered tombstones, while dust marts 0:22:23.119 --> 0:22:27.280 danced in hazy rays of sunlight that broke intermittently through 0:22:27.320 --> 0:22:32.040 the tangle of leaves above. He'd barely noticed the time 0:22:32.080 --> 0:22:35.560 passing when a few hours later, as he approached the 0:22:35.600 --> 0:22:39.320 Grand Circle of Lebanon, he heard the distant sound of 0:22:39.440 --> 0:22:43.920 church bells. Realizing the cemetery would soon be locking up, 0:22:44.560 --> 0:22:47.640 Thornton was just about to leave when he was gripped 0:22:47.720 --> 0:22:53.440 by the absolute conviction that he was being watched. Spinning round, suddenly, 0:22:53.920 --> 0:22:57.160 he found himself face to face with a tall, dark, 0:22:57.440 --> 0:23:01.479 amorphous figure that he quickly realized, much to his horror 0:23:02.080 --> 0:23:06.560 was hovering just above the ground. Though he wanted nothing 0:23:06.600 --> 0:23:10.879 more than to run away, Thornton felt suddenly drained of energy, 0:23:11.320 --> 0:23:14.600 as if the spectral figure was somehow sucking it out 0:23:14.600 --> 0:23:18.720 of him. Then, after what seemed like a good few minutes, 0:23:19.080 --> 0:23:24.000 the figure simply vanished, and Thornton was finally able to escape. 0:23:31.359 --> 0:23:34.760 After hearing a number of other stories just like Thornton's 0:23:34.760 --> 0:23:38.800 in the following months, David Farrant decided to investigate the 0:23:38.880 --> 0:23:43.880 cemetery for himself, and so on December twenty first, nineteen 0:23:44.000 --> 0:23:49.639 sixty nine, the winter solstice, shortly before midnight, Farrant made 0:23:49.640 --> 0:23:52.680 his way to the western Cemetery entrance at the top 0:23:52.720 --> 0:23:57.199 of Swain's Lane. No sooner had he arrived than he 0:23:57.320 --> 0:24:02.160 too was apparently gripped by the unshakeable sensation that someone 0:24:02.320 --> 0:24:06.960 was watching him. Stepping up to the wrought iron gates, 0:24:06.960 --> 0:24:10.880 his boots echoing down the deserted road, he peered through 0:24:11.119 --> 0:24:15.440 into the darkness beyond. As his eyes began to adjust 0:24:15.720 --> 0:24:19.760 to the tangled mass of tombstones and greenery, gently lit 0:24:19.840 --> 0:24:23.400 by the silvery light of the moon, he staggered back 0:24:23.440 --> 0:24:27.040 suddenly at the sight of something standing in the middle 0:24:27.080 --> 0:24:30.480 of one of the paths, about twenty feet away. Inside, 0:24:32.240 --> 0:24:35.720 with a rush of adrenaline, David approached the gate once 0:24:35.800 --> 0:24:40.199 more as a humanoid figure at least seven foot in 0:24:40.280 --> 0:24:44.520 height began to take shape within the shadows, and only 0:24:44.560 --> 0:24:48.760 then did he notice the two fiery red eyes staring 0:24:48.800 --> 0:24:52.879 out of its head. As David would later tell it, 0:24:53.200 --> 0:24:56.600 as the air seemed to grow even more cold around him. 0:24:57.240 --> 0:25:00.720 The figure then stepped forward toward him, and though he 0:25:00.800 --> 0:25:04.600 too wanted to run, he was completely glued to the spot. 0:25:06.040 --> 0:25:11.080 Closing his eyes, David quickly recited a carbalistic prayer under 0:25:11.080 --> 0:25:15.000 his breath, and when he looked up, the specter was gone. 0:25:17.119 --> 0:25:21.000 When Farrant returned soon after to inspect the cemetery, this 0:25:21.200 --> 0:25:24.879 time in the daylight hours, he became fixated on the 0:25:24.920 --> 0:25:28.560 decayed state of it all. Much of it, of course, 0:25:28.840 --> 0:25:32.159 was simply the result of neglect and the ravages of time, 0:25:33.040 --> 0:25:37.719 but other things seemed just plain out of place. For one, 0:25:38.040 --> 0:25:42.000 there seemed to be an inordinate amount of vandalism, entire 0:25:42.080 --> 0:25:46.480 vaults that appeared deliberately broken into, and the coffins inside 0:25:46.600 --> 0:25:51.040 smashed apart. One time, he even glimpsed the head and 0:25:51.119 --> 0:25:54.480 torso of a skeleton that had quite clearly been ripped 0:25:54.480 --> 0:25:59.119 out of a coffin. Then he noticed something lump and 0:25:59.200 --> 0:26:02.400 and furry lying at the edge of the path, a 0:26:02.440 --> 0:26:06.720 fox not long dead, the third he'd seen in as 0:26:06.760 --> 0:26:18.119 many weeks, with no obvious cause of death. Early in 0:26:18.160 --> 0:26:21.800 the new year of nineteen seventy, David Varrant wrote a 0:26:21.880 --> 0:26:25.960 letter to the local paper, the Hampstead and Highgate Express, 0:26:26.000 --> 0:26:30.000 inviting readers to write in with any unusual experiences they 0:26:30.080 --> 0:26:33.840 might have had at the cemetery. Over the next few weeks, 0:26:34.240 --> 0:26:38.720 the paper was inundated with responses. Some spoke of a 0:26:38.720 --> 0:26:41.679 man in a hat known for years to walk across 0:26:41.720 --> 0:26:45.640 Swain's Lane at night and disappear through the cemetery walls 0:26:45.920 --> 0:26:48.960 as a ghostly bell could be heard tolling in the distance, 0:26:49.920 --> 0:26:55.120 similar to the so called Thornton's apparent sighting. Other readers 0:26:55.160 --> 0:26:58.680 spoke of the well known ghostly cyclist said to chase 0:26:58.760 --> 0:27:04.480 women down Swain's, while one detailed a particularly terrifying encounter 0:27:04.760 --> 0:27:08.760 at nearby viaduct pond on Hampstead Heath, in which a 0:27:08.800 --> 0:27:12.280 ghostly figure was apparently seen to walk solemnly into the 0:27:12.320 --> 0:27:16.360 water before turning back to wave at the viewer as 0:27:16.400 --> 0:27:20.160 if beckoning them to join them. The figure then vanished 0:27:20.200 --> 0:27:25.159 with a horrific and nauseating cry. Over the next six weeks, 0:27:25.800 --> 0:27:29.840 eighteen accounts of apparent sightings were published, with many more 0:27:29.880 --> 0:27:34.000 put forward. Though Farrant was determined to keep an open 0:27:34.119 --> 0:27:38.720 mind about what exactly was taking place, Sean Manchester had 0:27:38.760 --> 0:27:43.480 already drawn his conclusion. He too had continued his own 0:27:43.520 --> 0:27:47.960 investigations at Highgate Cemetery and had also noted the unusual 0:27:47.960 --> 0:27:52.720 amount of fox carcasses, Only he hadn't found them seemingly 0:27:52.800 --> 0:27:58.240 untouched like Farrant, but with as he later said, lacerations 0:27:58.280 --> 0:28:03.399 around a throat and completely drained of blood. Given all 0:28:03.440 --> 0:28:08.040 the evidence from the apparent experience of Elizabeth voidiwa the 0:28:08.160 --> 0:28:12.199 numerous sightings of a tall, spectral figure haunting the graveyard 0:28:12.840 --> 0:28:16.639 and draining the energy of anyone unfortunate enough to cross 0:28:16.640 --> 0:28:21.480 its path to the mutilated foxes, there was only one answer. 0:28:22.560 --> 0:28:32.399 A vampire was stalking Highgate Cemetery. 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