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 of course, the 'vampire' once said to prowl the cemetery. The Gatehouse Public House sits only minutes away from the gothic cemetery confines and the legend of the vampire......

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 bat-like creature had been seen in the vicinity of West Drayton Church, as I have mentioned before, and some believed it was the vampyric spirit of a creature once......

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 on a rather bizarre discovery – the alleged grave of a vampire... well, not just any vampire, but the king of the undead, Count Dracula! Whilst renovations were underway......