saw a documentory,
One might wonder why there is no evidence of vampire
activity today, there is! Highgate Cemetery is an unkept
and a rather frightening place in London, England (Baumann
69). An epidemic of ghost sightings began in 1967 and still
continues; there is evidence that at least one of the
ghosts is a vampire (Baumann 70). Dead foxes and rabbits
were found in the Cemetery; they had wounds around their
throats and their bodies have been completely drained of
blood (Baumann 70). Manchester, President of the British
Occult Society, personally investigated the matter and
found that the most accurate description of the phantom
came from a man who had been attacked one night while
walking in the Cemetery (Baumann 73). Elizabeth Wojdyla had
the symptoms of a vampire victim and contacted Manchester;
she bore the “mark of the vampire” on the side of her neck
(Baumann 74-75). On several occasions, Elizabeth went into
a trance and sleptwalk to the northgate of the Cemetery and
then came back (Baumann 76). She was attacked several times
by the vampire and desperate measures were taken to prevent
further attacks (Baumann 76). The attacks stopped, which
indicates that “the ancient anti-vampire remedies still
worked in the twentieth century” (Baumann 77). The vampire,
unfortunately, found another victim “Lucy”, who refuses to
reveal her real name, and who developed the same symptoms
as the ones Elizabeth had (Baumann 77). Manchester believed
that if Lucy were followed sleepwalking, the vampire’s
grave would be found, which is what happened; but he could
not give it the vampire treatment because disturbing a
corpse was against the law (Baumann 77-81). The entrance to
the tomb was sealed (Baumann 82). Four days later, a body
of a dead man was found in the Cemetery; he had died from a
vampire attack (Baumann 82). Things that can not be
explained logically still happen in Highgate Cemetery
(Baumann 82). “Twentieth-century man may refuse to believe
in vampires”, says Manchester, but he insists that they are
by no means a thing of the past (Baumann 74).
Works Cited
Baumann, Elwood D. Vampires. New York: Franklin Watts, 1977.