THE ‘VAMPIRE ATTACKS’ OF THE 1920s I stumbled upon the Strange Days website, which listed weird events in the area going back to the 1920s. On 22 April 1922 an office-clerk was on his way to work in the West End, when he felt an invisible assailant grab him as he turned into Coventry Street. The mystery attacker pierced his neck and drew blood. The clerk fainted. He was taken to Charing Cross Hospital, where it was concluded that he had been stabbed with a thin, tubular object. The clerk was adament that there had been no one near enough to him at the time to inflict such a wound. This was all very odd enough, but just over 2 hours later somebody else turned up at the hospital with neck injuries, also citing an unknown assailent. Incredibly, a THIRD victim appeared later on. Both people had been attacked in exactly the same location as the office-clerk. Rumours that a vampire was on the loose in the area became rife. The gossip-machine even had it that the police had hired a professional vampire-hunter (something which the police emphatically denied) to stalk the creature. One policeman though said he did believe that a vampire was buried in Highgate Cemetary, with (appropriately enough) a stake through its heart.
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