Cometh the Hour - But not the Man

There is a fourteenth century saying that "opportunity makes the thief," and David Farrant saw his opportunity in the early 1970s and stole other people's identities, titles and the name of an extant organisation (the British Occult Society), but he was found out and punished with a significant term of imprisonment. However, subsequent generations who know little if anything about Farrant's infamous history of opportunistic publicity-seeking and theft might be forgiven for knowing no better when confronted with an endless stream of pernicious propaganda from Farrant and his flunkies.

Today is the day of what he believes to be his coup de grâce. It might have proven to be his undoing if anyone could have bought tickets to put questions openly to him. But he was never going to allow that to happen. Not only are all the speakers his hand-picked acquaintances, but every one of them support his derision and discrimination against the traditionalist Christian exorcist Seán Manchester.

"Della here! Unfortunately Ken Rees, our scheduled speaker for this session (Why Highgate? Liminal Space, Leys & Environmental Influences), is now unable to attend the Symposium for personal reasons. We apologise to Symposium attendees for any disappointment caused." (12 July 2015)

However, Ken Rees spoke at a Theosophical Society meeting not too long prior on the topic "Creating Personal Mystery." Maybe he felt he would be surrounded by too many people creating their own personal mystery at the Symposium? 

"Due to unforeseen circumstances, as of today Neil Arnold is no longer able to attend the event." (15 July 2015)

Another skittle falls. And then someone 

who had been looking forward to attending The Highgate Vampire Symposium 2015 was summarily banned. David Farrant's message of July 18th (the day before the Symposium) to Trystan Lewis Swale (who promptly published it on the internet) follows:

Though signed by David Farrant, the message is obviously written by the person known as "Della Farrant." Trystan Lewis Swale responded:

"Thanks for the email you’ve put your name to, it’s good to hear from you despite the circumstances. I see you’ve requested the correspondence be ‘private and confidential’, though I think it appropriate to fill the role of pantomime villain."

D-Day (or F-Day) Approaches

Nerves fray with hours to go to the highly exploitative and transparently bogus Highgate Vampire Symposium being held above the Gatehouse pub, Highgate, London, with a £12.00 per ticket fee.

Seán Manchester has received threatening mail from Farrant and company, two speakers have pulled out and a legitimate ticket purchaser who might pose awkward questions has been banned as the countdown begins to the most flagrant bandwagoneering exercise in shameless self-publicity ever attempted by David Farrant since hoaxing his phoney ghost forty-five years ago.

Parasites have always been a phenomenon where the Highgate Vampire case is concerned, but those who don't believe in demonology or vampirology holding a Symposium to exploit Seán Manchester's work and then devoting only 15% of the time to a debate about the vampire itself while only inviting Seán Manchester's detractors to contribute to the event is laughable, or, at least, it would be if it wasn't so pitifully predictable.

What we have is a bunch of self-proclaimed and self-styled "experts" discussing something they don't believe in and know absolutely nothing about. That will be £12.00 per ticket per person please. 

Utterly pathetic!