Part two of a double-header on the story of The Highgate Vampire takes a closer look at the principle players - David Farrant, and Reverend Sean Manchester - to explore the background of two extraordinary characters, the unsavoury and unsettling beliefs that so often lurk behind the irrational and the conspiratorial world-view, and asks why Bunkum & Ballyhoo.Selected Sources:The Highgate Cemetery Vampire Hunt: The Anglo-American Connection In Satanic Cult Lore by Bill Ellis, in Folklore (1993)London Uncanny by Clive BloomThe Highgate Vampire by Sean ManchesterHaunted Highgate by Della FarrantThe Vampire's Bedside Companion by Peter UnderwoodI am also indebted in these episodes to the work of Anthony Hogg, Erin Chapman, and Kevin Chesham.Audio Sources:True Horror with Anthony Head (2004)Father Ted S3E1, "Are You Right There Father Ted?" (1998)

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