Highgate Cemetery

This guide to Highgate Cemetery in London opens on the night of March 13, 1970, when a mob armed with wooden stakes scaled the locked gates hunting a vampire, a scare that began with a letter to a local newspaper about a grey figure glimpsed among the graves. It follows the flood of sightings that followed, and a self-styled bishop named Sean Manchester, who offered the press an explanation involving a medieval Romanian aristocrat. Along the way you'll hear about the cemetery itself, opened in 1839 as one of London's grand Victorian burial grounds, with its winding paths and hillside catacombs. Wander slowly among the ivy-covered tombs.