my mate's dad was actually at one of the Highgate Cemetery 'vampire hunts' in '70 and it was a circus

Telling this how he told it down the pub, so half pub-story half real. Highgate Cemetery, North London, around 1969-1970. Two guys, David Farrant and Sean Manchester, get into a very public feud over whether a 'vampire' / tall dark figure was haunting the cemetery. The papers ate it up. On a night i……