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font-family:"Times New Roman";color:maroon'> by the Right Reverend <span class=SpellE>Seán</span> Manchester<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoTitle><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:maroon'>about the Highgate Vampire case (1969-1982).</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;color:maroon'> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:maroon'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:maroon'><a href="http://friendsofbishopseanmanchester.blogspot.com/2011/02/last-highgate-vampire-interview.html"><span style='text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><v:shapetype id="_x0000_t75" coordsize="21600,21600" o:spt="75" o:preferrelative="t" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" filled="f" stroked="f"> <v:stroke joinstyle="miter"/> <v:formulas> <v:f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0"/> <v:f eqn="sum @0 1 0"/> <v:f eqn="sum 0 0 @1"/> <v:f eqn="prod @2 1 2"/> <v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth"/> <v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight"/> <v:f eqn="sum @0 0 1"/> <v:f eqn="prod @6 1 2"/> <v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth"/> <v:f eqn="sum @8 21600 0"/> <v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight"/> <v:f eqn="sum @10 21600 0"/> </v:formulas> <v:path o:extrusionok="f" gradientshapeok="t" o:connecttype="rect"/> <o:lock v:ext="edit" aspectratio="t"/> </v:shapetype><v:shape id="_x0000_i1025" type="#_x0000_t75" style='width:498.6pt; height:373.8pt'> <v:imagedata src="LastInterview_files/image002.jpg" o:title="HighgateVampire"/> </v:shape></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:maroon'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoTitle style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:13.0pt; color:maroon'>Bishop <span class=SpellE>Seán</span> Manchester s spoke for over two hours as three cameras recorded the historic occasion for posterity on the forty-first anniversary of the first time he brought to public attention the existence of a contagion at Highgate. The <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Hampstead &amp; Highgate Express</i>, 27 February 1970, filled its front page with his startling revelations, albeit misquoting him and misrepresenting another exorcist, Reverend Christopher Neil-Smith, in their article written by <span class=GramE>editor</span> Gerald <span class=SpellE>Isaaman</span>. Since then the bishop has contributed to hundreds of interviews and television documentaries about his mysterious investigations spanning a period of no less than thirteen years. Now he feels that everything there is to say about the case has been said. He finds himself answering the same questions he was being asked four decades ago, and while Bishop Manchester fully understands the enduring fascination the case holds % he wrote his <a href="http://www.holygrail-church.fsnet.co.uk/Books.htm"><span style='color:maroon'>book</span></a> about his experiences to satisfy this need % the time has now come to draw a line under the topic. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoTitle style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;color:maroon'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoTitle><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt; color:maroon'><a href="http://vampireresearchsociety.blogspot.com/"><span style='color:maroon;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><v:shape id="_x0000_i1026" type="#_x0000_t75" style='width:496.8pt;height:262.8pt'> <v:imagedata src="LastInterview_files/image003.jpg" o:title="HighgateVampireInterview"/> </v:shape></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoTitle style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;color:maroon'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoTitle style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:13.0pt; color:maroon'>Despite that day in February 1970 becoming a defining moment in his life, the bishop believes enough is enough and wants no longer to talk about it. In an opening chapter of <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Highgate Vampire</i> back in the previous century he wrote: <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyText><span style='font-size:13.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyText style='text-align:justify'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style: normal'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:maroon'> The reality I once experienced exists no longer and although its memories are the most potent that I possess, they now seem so far away % possibly because next to the hunger to experience a thing, there is no stronger hunger than to forget. </span></i><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:13.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p style='text-align:justify'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:maroon'>Bishop <span class=SpellE>Seán</span> Manchester, an opponent of the&nbsp;suffocating influence of&nbsp;modernism and the dictatorial liberal elite&nbsp;in both secular and ecclesial life, will continue to make broadcast contributions where it is in the public interest or where an opportunity to address an injustice arises. He will not, however, be willing to contribute any further media interviews about the incidents he investigated from 1969 to 1982 known as the Highgate Vampire case.&nbsp;His final interview was broadcast on television&nbsp;at 8.00pm Pacific Time&nbsp;/&nbsp;11.00pm Eastern Time on Richard <span class=SpellE>Syrett s</span> <em><span style='font-family:Arial'><a href="http://www.visiontv.ca/Programs/documentaries_conspiracyshow.html"><span style='color:maroon'>The Conspiracy Show</span></a></span></em> (Vision TV) on&nbsp;1 April 2011. Also included in the programme were paranormal commentators&nbsp;<a href="http://www.theconspiracyshow.com/tcs/The_Conspiracy_Show/Guests.html"><span style='color:maroon'>Rosemary Ellen <span class=SpellE>Guiley</span>, Joe <span class=SpellE>Nickell</span> and Neil Arnold</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoBodyText3><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyText3 align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'><a href="http://www.holygrail-church.fsnet.co.uk/Books.htm"><span style='color:maroon;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><v:shape id="_x0000_i1027" type="#_x0000_t75" style='width:498pt;height:316.8pt'> <v:imagedata src="LastInterview_files/image004.jpg" o:title="BishopTVInterview"/> </v:shape></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyText3 align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyText3 align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight: normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>Seated in the chapel dining room at his private retreat, Bishop <span class=SpellE>Seán</span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight: bold'> Manchester gives his last interview.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyText3 align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight: bold'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyText3 align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight: bold'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>All photographs are copyright © +<span class=SpellE>Seán</span> Manchester, 2011.</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyText3 align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight: bold'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyText3 align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight: bold'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyText3 align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight: bold'><v:shape id="_x0000_i1028" type="#_x0000_t75" style='width:75pt;height:97.8pt'> <v:imagedata src="LastInterview_files/image005.gif" o:title="cross_style2_silver_glowing_md_clr"/> <o:lock v:ext="edit" cropping="t"/> </v:shape><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyText3 align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight: bold'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyText3><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyText3><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'><br style='mso-special-character:line-break'> <![if !supportLineBreakNewLine]><br style='mso-special-character:line-break'> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> </body> </html>