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Halloween Tales From Spooky London Highgate Cemetery.

Continuing ‘Shocktober’ we bring you one last story from bizarre spooky London. Heading over to Highgate cemetery, the city of the dead takes up 20 acres of a North London hillside.  It was opened in 1839 and was so sought after that you were not anybody unless you were buried there, not that you were anybody anymore if you needed a ‘hot plot’. The monuments to the dead became ever more outlandish as people tried to outdo one another. Less keeping up with the Jones, more keeping up with the creepy crypts. The dark days of World War 11 saw the cemetery go into decline and by the 1960’s it was dilapidated, the situation was quite ‘grave’. Rumours started that sinister cults were holding strange ceremonies amongst the ruins. One man whose car had broken down ran screaming down the street after spotting a pair of red eyes watching him from behind the rusty gate.  Another walking along the forbidding Swains’ Lane found himself knocked to the ground by some strange apparition that appeared from the wall of the cemetery. The thing dissolved into nothing as soon as a car appeared and the man ran away never to return. The hunt for an un dead vampire soon ensued with spook hunters and media making nightly vigils. Of corpse the pain in the neck was never found and the hunt was all in vein. Bells could be heard ringing in the then disused, abandoned chapel. The cemetery has now been restored but the haunting still continues to this very day. The ghost of a grey haired lady who runs around the gravestones looking for her children is frequently seen as is the strange spectre of a shrouded figure who gazes wistfully into space as if yearning for something that is no longer there. Maybe he was just waiting for the phantom bus? Enough to send you stark grave-ing mad! fire