The Hampstead and Highgate Express continued to pursue the sensational 'vampire' tale over the next few months, interviewing Farrant and Manchester on many numerous occasions. Farrant stated in one article that he discovered dead foxes in the cemetery but could not figure out how they died.
The article was published on March 6, 1970. Manchester also claimed to have seen the foxes as well and speculated that the vampire may have been feeding on them. The animals were found drained of blood and their necks torn open, according to reports.
The national and even worldwide media quickly picked up on the unbelievable Highgate Vampire ruckus. Articles emerged in the national press, ITV and the BBC produced television programmes, and even the international news agency Reuters covered the case.
A cultural shift was happening in the United Kingdom and to a lesser scale the world. Stories of the strange and mysterious were no longer being swept under the carpet and in some cases given front page headlines. The Highgate Vampire was part of a rising fascination. Vampires had been the subject of a lot of TV shows and horror films and in fact the film ‘Taste the Blood of Dracula,’ a Hammer Horror film released in 1970, was filmed in Highgate Cemetery.
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