Episode 3572: Dark Enigma - The Hunt For a Vampire In HighGate Cemetery and Other Bizarre Happenings in 1970’s London

Please be aware the stories, theories, re-enactments and language in this podcast are of an adult nature and can be considered disturbing, frightening and in some cases even offensive.  Listener Discretion is therefore advised. 

Welcome heathens welcome to the world of the weird and unexplained.  I’m your host, Nicole Delacroix and together, we will be investigating stories about the things that go bump in the night, monsters lurking under your bed or deep in the forest, that unknown creature lurking just out of sight and frighteningly imagined creatures, ghosts, supernatural beings and even some unsolved mysteries.  So, sit back, grab your favorite drink, and prepare to be transported to today's dark Enigma.... 

And on today’s Dark enigma well we have another listener suggestion and this one, well it’s definitely one of my favorites.  So, with that said, we will still be playing our drinking game and as you know, the drinking game is only for those of us that are at home and have nowhere else to go tonight.  The choice of libation, as always, is yours, so choose your poison accordingly… Alright, now for the game part how about every time I say Vampire that will be a single shot and every time I say London, that will be a double shot.  Now that the business end is out of the way we can jump headfirst into today’s dark enigma… and we’re going to be donning our Sherlock hats as we dive into The Hunt For a Vampire In HighGate Cemetery and Other Bizarre Happenings in 1970’s London.

Ah The 70’s, a time when the clothing was the worst, the hair wasn’t much better, and the porn had real bodies and real hair… hey the afro’s weren’t just on the heads my friends, but the 70s were a pretty crazy time, but the guys in today’s story took it to a whole other level.

Local newspapers in the 1970s caught onto a story that would attract national attention - there was a vampire on the loose in HighGate cemetery, and two men were competing to be the first to catch it.  The cemetery, in North London, was the 'it place' for the resting souls of wealthy Londoners in the 19th century.  The graveyard is an impressive landscape of intricate tombstones, gothic busts battling unruly ivy, and an A-list guestbook of permanent residents including German philosopher Karl Marx and novelist George Eliot.