London, The Unfinished City.

Highgate's King of the Undead The Legend & Early Sightings By the late 1960s, Highgate Cemetery had fallen into severe neglect, becoming overgrown with ivy, choked with weeds, and damaged by vandals. Against this eerie Victorian backdrop, chilling stories began to take hold.  In 1967, two teenage girls claimed to have seen the dead rising from their graves, while another woman woke one night with "something cold and clinging" on her hand that left marks on her skin. Other reports made claims of a "tall man in a hat" walking along Swain's Lane, before "melting" through the walls of the cemetery. Rumours escalated rapidly as dead animals were found drained of blood, and visitors claimed to suffer sudden drops in temperature, psychological paralysis, or hypnotic trances near the cemetery grounds. The Newspaper Catalyst The sightings burst into public consciousness when local media began covering the strange phenomena. On February 6, 1970, David F...