In 1970s London, a dark presence was said to haunt Highgate Cemetery. The Highgate Vampire sparked media panic, mass hysteria & two young vampire hunters ...| David Castleton Blog - The Serpent's Pen
Jane Lewson - a likely model for Dickens's Miss Havisham - reputedly lived to 116 in a gloomy, grimy mansion, never washing or changing her ...| David Castleton Blog - The Serpent's Pen
The British Museum houses a 'cursed mummy' blamed for sicknesses, deaths & even sinking the Titanic. Once a princess & priestess of Amen-Ra ..| David Castleton Blog - The Serpent's Pen
Joe Magarac was a superhuman giant who laboured in Pittsburgh steel mills. Joe, made of steel, stirred molten metal with his bare hands & ...| David Castleton Blog - The Serpent's Pen
In 1954, hundreds of children joined a hunt for the Gorbals Vampire, a boy-eating ghoul said to haunt Glasgow's Southern Necropolis. A major moral panic ...| David Castleton Blog - The Serpent's Pen
Manhattan was to have been home to a 465-foot owl-shaped tomb. Within, chains would suspend the coffin of the fabulously rich newspaper owner ...| David Castleton Blog - The Serpent's Pen