Sean Manchester - Vampire Hunter

Myth Buster said:
Both.

As previously stated:

Originally Posted by Skeptic Guy [URL]http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/helloworld/buttons/viewpost.gif[/URL]
Why would Sean dress up in a Nazi uniform for a supposed factual series of stories on the "Nazi-Occult connection"?

He didn't.
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Thank you for the reply. Are any of the articles, for which he was commissioned to do work, available for reading via the 'net?

As far as the claim that he was falsely accused of being in the regalia, for photographs in the articles, I do not feel that has any relevance to the actual content of the articles or any of his other claims regarding the paranormal.
 
The link is to Manchesters 'Vampire Research Society' on one picture there is a woman that he claims to have been bitten... This certainly qualify him as a loon in my book and with no further evidence a fraud...
 
Clu said:
Hi... psst over here... which other people? any links perhaps?
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I am not going to place others in the firing line of the sort of abuse I am receiving for not going along with those out to attack someone with fase allegations.
 
Which allegations are the false ones? that he believes in evil kritters that bite people in the neck? or have I missed something
 
When did asking questions amount to abuse... I would imagine that if you were in this line of 'work' you'd get pretty thick skinned
 
Myth Buster said:
I am not going to place others in the firing line of the sort of abuse I am receiving for not going along with those out to attack someone with fase allegations.
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Well, if you are not going to provide substantiating evidence, or link to others that make the same claim as you so we can examine their evidence, you should retract your claim because it is nothing more than opinion.
 
Vampires don't exist?

Paul said:
In which he doesn't claim vampires exist.
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However ...

Television presenter Sandra Harris made it very clear to everyone she was interviewing that she was asking them about vampires. The unabridged text of an interview with David Farrant on Today (Thames Television), 13 March 1970, follows:

Sandra Harris: “Did you get any feeling from it? Did you feel that it was evil?”

David Farrant: “Yes, I did feel it was evil because the last time I actually saw its face, and it looked like it had been dead for a long time.”

Sandra Harris: “What do you mean by that?”

David Farrant: “Well, I mean it certainly wasn’t human.”

Some children were also interviewed and asked about the vampire they claimed to have seen. But the bulk of the programme was taken up by an interview with the president of the British Occult Society who warned against Farrant's proposed lone vampire hunt in the graveyard (something Farrant had confided immediately prior to these interviews to the BOS president). That vampire hunt would not materialise for another five months when Farrant was arrested on the night of 17 August 1970 in Highgate Cemetery.

David Farrant's second interview was on 24 Hours (BBC), 15 October 1970. Viewers saw him entering Highgate Cemetery, removing a cross and stake from his belt, then prowling amongst the tombs, reconstructing his stalking of the vampire in the graveyard on the night of his arrest when police discovered him hunting vampires in August 1970.

A full transcript of the introduction to Farrant and interview with him follows:

Laurence Picethly: “On August the seventeenth, Farrant decided to pay a midnight visit to the cemetery to combat the vampire once and for all. At the cemetery, Farrant was forced to enter by the back wall [footage shows him entering via the rear of the cemetery], as he still does today. He armed himself with a cross and stake, and crouched between the tombstones, waiting. But that night police, on the prowl for vandals, discovered him. He was charged with being in an enclosed space for an unlawful purpose, but later the Clerkenwell magistrate acquitted him. Now, in spite of attempts by the cemetery owners to bar him, Farrant and his friends [none of whom were discovered by the police or subsequently identified by Farrant] still maintain a regular vigil around the catacombs in hope of sighting either the vampire or a meeting of Satanists.”

The televised reconstruction continued with Farrant demonstrating his stalking technique with a cross in one hand and a sharp wooden stake in the other, and concluded with a very brief interview with Laurence Picethly.

David Farrant: “We have been keeping watch in the cemetery for … [pauses] … since my court case ended, and we still found signs of their ceremonies.”

Laurence Picethly: “Have you ever seen this vampire?”

David Farrant: “I have seen it. Yes. I saw it last February, and saw it on two occasions.”

Laurence Picethly: “What was it like?”

David Farrant: “It took the form of a tall, grey figure, and it … [pauses] … seemed to glide off the path without making any noise.”

The interview with Farrant concluded at this point. The above text reproduces it in its entirety.

"Lone Vampire Hunter caught on the Moonlight Trail of the Highgate Vampire" The Sun newspaper, 19 August 1970:

"A man armed with a wooden stake and a cross went on a vampire hunt in a cemetery. But all he found were police. And they arrested him. [David Farrant], aged 24, told magistrates at Clerkenwell, London, yesterday: “My intention was to search out the supernatural being and destroy it by plunging the stake in its heart.” [Farrant], unemployed and of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to entering enclosed premises ~ Highgate Cemetery ~ for unlawful purposes. Detective-Sergeant Neville Brown ~ who showed the court a large wooden crucifix attached to a piece of rope and a wooden stake ~ said [Farrant] had heard talk of the vampire of Highgate Cemetery. He heard that it rose from a grave and wandered the cemetery “on the lookout for human beings on whose blood it thrives.” [Farrant] was remanded in custody for reports until September 8.”

The above report appeared in The Sun. Similar reports appeared in the Evening Standard, 18 August 1970, and the Evening News, 18 August 1970.

A photograph of David Farrant with his stake, wearing a rosary and crucifix, was published in the Evening News, 29 September 1970.

In The Sun, 19 August 1970, and the Daily Mirror, 19 August 1970, David Farrant was referred to as "Alan Farrant." Yet in the Daily Express report covering the same court case and identical story Farrant were referred to as "Allan Farrow." Local newspapers also referred to him as "Allan Farrow." However, the Evening Standard, 18 August 1970, referred to him as "Allan Donald Farrant."

Reuters' press agency syndicated Farrant's Clerkenwell Court case using the name "Allan Farrow." Hence in Donald F Glut's book True Vampires of History (1971) we read: "In August, 1970, Reuters told of a 24-year-old man named Allan Farrow who was arrested for trespassing in a London graveyard. Farrow, armed with a crucifix and sharpened wooden stake, was caught by police at St Michael's Churchyard. He said that he was on his way to Highgate Cemetery."

Any confusion over his name arose because Farrant himself offered various pseudonyms to journalists in early 1970. Farrant's associates knew him by the name "Allan" and not the name "David" throughout this period.
 
This doesn't prove that M. isnt a loon^2 just that Farrant is... again: which allegations are the false ones?
 
Myth Buster said:
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That is not what you posted, you linked to an interview with Mr Farrant in which he freely answers questions and definitely doesn't claim vampires exist. What is the source of your new post and why do you find it necessary to be deceptive if you have so much evidence for your assertions?
 
The only way "Myth Buster" can have the "detailed knowledge" is to be in daily commune with Sean Manchester, real ALL his sites on a daily basis, and also to have psychic powers into Seanybay's mind, as otherwise Myth Buster takes the horrible risk of getting something wrong and ending up at the wrong side of the fence and becoming the object of SM's "hate-mongering" (lovely term of phrase) and being called many nasty things into the bargain, like erm, a Dysfunctional miscreant is a fave of the bish's and an "interloping charlaton" another. And even if you didnt get anything wrong, or write anything with any anti-Manchester theme, is he takes exception to the slightest thing, woe betide! If you dont humbly apologise andw rite what and write what he distates--usually soem far fetched nonsence about how wonderful he is, then you are struck off hsi social list and relegated to being a "Satanist" --and even worse! "In leagye" forsooth!!! with David Farrant.

So no, I dont believe Myth Buster is any other than the Great Manny himself. Others--well, there's old Dennis and old Katy, stalwarts of his msn board, a deal cardinal and other aged boffins and "celebrities", there was "Exortate" off Fortean Times,I'd have to look in my paper files for the rest of his nom de plumes but this "mysterious friend and supporter" has been popping up for years under various hats.

greenwych
 
Greenwych "bungalow" myth scotched

Paul said:
Why on earth would your sooper seekrit research include da bish's ownership, or not, of a bungalow?
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It is nothing to do with my research. Greenwych plagues the net with nonsense of this sort and it was addressed on a forum dealing with some of these myths by Sean Manchester's secretary and friend of many years who stated that he has never owned or lived in a bungalow. It is a simple matter of fact, nothing else, which is probably why Greenwych keeps repeating her falsehood.
 
Is that really the worst allegation you can find, that the bish hop is living in a bungalow...? If it is not I would really like to know what the other 'false' allegations are and where exactly is the abuse? Critique can hardly be considered abuse, right?
 
Arkan_Wolfshade said:
Well, if you are not going to provide substantiating evidence, or link to others that make the same claim as you so we can examine their evidence, you should retract your claim because it is nothing more than opinion.
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Most of what I am finding on this thread is nothing more than opinion, conjecture and fabrication. That is what attracted me to contribute some hard facts and explode a few myths. My skin might or might not be thick enough to deal with the innuendo and abuse I face from certain quarters, eg accusing me of being someone I am not etc, but others who have reached the same or similar conclusions as me might not have the same resilience and I cannot presume they have. Anyone of a mind to enter the arena will do so, but past experience has shown that it is always the anti-Manchester brigade who delight in this sort of circus.
 
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