Case file · High strangeness
The Highgate Vampire
A 1970s media frenzy over claims that a vampire haunted London's Highgate Cemetery, which led to amateur vampire hunts.
1970 CE · 51.57, -0.15 · status: claim
The account
It started with a letter by David Farrant to a local paper in February 1970 reporting a grey figure, after the cemetery had been vandalized by occultists. Folklorist Bill Ellis wrote the most thorough account in 1993.
The sceptical view
Folklorists treat it as a media sensation; no evidence of anything supernatural emerged.
Connections in the atlas
- Highgate Cemetery
- Arnold Paole, the Serbian vampire
- Vampire (upir)
- Mercy Brown vampire incident