4. Highgate Cemetery, London
Highgate Cemetery is popular either for some of the people buried there as well as for its vampire stories. The cemetery opened in 1839, as part of a master plan to create seven large, modern cemeteries, often known as the "Magnificent Seven", around the outside of central London. The inner-city cemeteries, especially the graveyards placed on individual churches, had become unable to deal with the number of burials and were considered to be a hazard to health and an undignified way to treat the deceased. Highgate, like the others of the Magnificent Seven, soon started to be a stylish location for burials and was considerably admired and visited. The Victorian attitude of death and its presentation resulted in the making of an abundance of Gothic tombs and structures.
Apart from obtaining such famous people buried there as Karl Marx, Douglas Adams, and the parents of Charles Dickens, Highgate Cemetery has long been famous for its supranatural activities, as well as other strangeness. The most popular spook in this cemetery is The Highgate Vampire, who is really a vampire in the classic sense, identified as a 7-foot-tall, dark man appearance with hypnotic eyes and dressed in a long black coat and high top hat. There have been numerous sightings and experiences since the late 1960s. There are also a sighting of The ghost of an insane old woman found racing among the gravestones, her gray hair flowing behind her as she look ups for her little ones.
Highgate Cemetery ghost stories is full of melodramatic details mirroring the Dracula mythos: the sleepwalking lady; the vampire shipped to England in a coffin; a coffined corpse 'gorged and stinking with the life-blood of others', with fangs and burning eyes.
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