The first definitive book that gives the real facts behind the famous case of the Highgate ‘vampire’ said to lurk in and around Highgate Cemetery in the late 1960’s and throughout the 1970’s (and that still does according to some more recent accounts).
The central figure to the case in those early days was occult investigator, David Farrant, who made headlines at the time after being taken to court for allegedly ‘hunting the vampire’ one night - a cross in one hand and a stake in the other - according to contemporary newspaper reports. He was acquitted on that occasion, but some public light was nevertheless thrown into his (then) on-going investigation into the case, and the activities of the British Psychic and Occult Society of which he was President. It also uniquely led to him being branded as modern-day ’vampire hunter’.
In the book, he reveals the experiences of many people who claimed to have encountered this malevolent demonic entity, and tells the true story of what really happened behind the gloomy walls that surround London’s Highgate Cemetery.

 

 

"On a sudden umpulse, I made for the back wall which the police where approaching thinking that it was possible to reach this without being spotted and then scale this further along. After all, this was the nearest way out. Unfortunately, just by the wall, I was caught by a flashlight and quickly arrested. Luckily, however, the police must have assumed that their captive was alone for they made no attempt to look for other people.
Perhaps ironically, any concern about being arrested was not so much out of fear for having done anything wrong or illegal, but because the seance would be misunderstood and such misunderstandings might attract adverse publicity to the investigation and the Society."