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  Date / Time: 3/2/2009 2:21 AM UTC

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  dear listeners,
  Have we got a treat we have david farrant acclaimed vampire hunter and paranormal investigator will be comming on the show very soon. we have got back an e mail saying he would love to come on and talk about it on the show. let me give you some background. this is taken from wikepedia"

  In later years, Manchester wrote his own account of his doings that night (The Highgate Vampire 1985; 2nd rev. ed. 1991). According to his narrative, he and some companions entered the cemetery, unobserved by the police, via the damaged railings of an adjoining churchyard, and tried to open the door of one particular catacomb to which a psychic sleepwalking girl had previously led him; but try as they might, it would not budge an inch. Failing in this, they climbed down on a rope through an existing hole in its roof, finding empty coffins into which they put garlic, and sprinkling holy water around. ^[10].

  Some months later, on 1 August 1970 (Lammas Day), the charred and headless remains of a woman's body were found not far from the catacomb. The police suspected that it had been used in black magic. Soon after this incident, there was a noticeable surge in both Farrant's and Manchester's activities. Farrant was found by police in the churchyard beside Highgate Cemetery one night in August, carrying a crucifix and a wooden stake. He was arrested, but when the case came to court it was dismissed ^[11].

  A few days later Manchester returned to Highgate Cemetery, but in the daytime, when visits are allowed. Again, we must depend on his own published book for an account of his actions, since neither press nor police were present. He claims that this time he and his companions did succeed in forcing open, inch by inch, the heavy and rusty iron doors of a family vault (indicated by his female psychic helper). He lifted the massive lid off one coffin, believing it to have been mysteriously transferred there from the previous catacomb. He was about to drive a stake through the body it contained when a companion persuaded him to desist. Reluctantly, he shut the coffin, put garlic and incense in the vault, and came out from it ^[12].

  A later chapter of Manchester's book claims that three years afterwards he discovered a vampiric corpse (he implies that it was the same one) in the cellar of an empty house in the Highgate/Hornsey area, and staked and burned it ^[13].

  Manchester's story is full of melodramatic details mirroring the Dracula mythos: the sleepwalking girl; the vampire transported to England in a coffin; a coffined corpse 'gorged and stinking with the life-blood of others', with fangs and burning eyes; his own role as a Van Helsing figure. If he did indeed act as he describes, it can be regarded as a good example of what folklorists (following terminology established by Linda Degh) now call 'ostension' and legend tripping. This means the real-life imitation of elements from a well-known tale, often involving role-playing, and sometimes leading to ritual acts of vandalism and desecration" "Seán Manchester, former patron of the Yorkshire Robin Hood Society, claimed^{[citation needed]} also to have discovered a vampire by Robin Hood's Grave on the Kirklees Estate which he visited in 1991. The "vampire nun of Kirklees" was assumed to be the prioress who allegedly had bled Robin to death.^{[citation needed]} Such allegations, at least, have been made by Yorkshirewoman Barbara Green who is antipathetic toward Seán Manchester who denies claiming to have found a vampire at the Kirklees Estate and did not visit the aforementioned grave in 1991. He did carry out a vigil at Easter 1990, but he did not subsequently claim to have made the discovery a vampire. The mystery at Kirklees became known as the Kirklees Vampire following much promotion as such by Barbara Green who gave interviews to her local newspaper, which quoted her about what she claimed to have seen as follows: "Like a bat she hung there for what seemed like an eternity, her black nun's robes flapping eerily while her eyes flashed red and venomous and her teeth bared sharp and white between snarling blood-red lips." (Brighouse Echo, 12 November 1995). So the discovery of an alleged vampire at Kirklees has more to do with Barbara Green than it does with Seán Manchester" these are quotes from the wicapedia sight its not my beliefe or my opinion this was written to for you to draw up questions and your own conclusion.

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