Photo of the Day: Hallowe’en Shopping
Popping in for a pint of fresh blood? A vampire visits Costcutters in Manor House on the weekend. Photo by Kulbowski via the Londonist Flickrpool.
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The Saturday Strangeness
75. A Gaggle Of Ghosts: Part Five After a recent visit to the village of Highgate I’d like to share with you some of the area’s lesser known ghosts, as previous episodes of The Saturday Strangeness have covered the phantom chicken of Pond Square and …
The Saturday Strangeness
66(6)! The Coventry Street Vampire It is a case obscure, hardly spoken of. Whilst the legend of the Highgate ‘vampire’ continues to intrigue and be discussed, something just as wicked occurred several decades before, in the West End at Coventry Street. In 1922 a giant …
The Saturday Strangeness
65. Dracula Woz ‘Ere! I’ve mentioned in two previous posts (episodes 1 and 20) the mystery and controversy of the Highgate Vampire, and now for a foggy yarn of another London blood-sucker! On the 15th and 17th of August 1978, the London Evening News reported …
