english vampires

[3stepsahead]

Does anyone have some information regarding gravestones marked with a scull-deemed as victims of vampirism, in the scarborough area?

i will offer rewards;)

[rixxmixxhell]

Can you expand, you didnt really explain yourself, and you mean skull i think.

Deemed as vampire victims, by whom, please expand, and why do you want to know so? Is there a report or something?

Rick

[3stepsahead]

yes hello.
My english is quite bad but i try.

Ill tell the story.
Some ten+ years ago i was with some people to scarborough and we did some sightseeing with a guide and stuff. One day we went to a small "river" town quite popular and very beutiful place. We went to a cemetary, dont remember if there was a chapel but it might been ( or just masouleums)
The whole cemetary was on a small, fairly steep hill. The tourguide said that the gravestones marked with a skull was victims of vampires or dracula himself idk.

one of the points i am making is, this kind of stories should be quite popular and easy to find on the net, but a small search gave nothing (may be me lol)
and that, may those buried be marked for some other reason?
just interested in facts or stories or even photos or other input.

[kweli]

yes hello.
My english is quite bad but i try.

Ill tell the story.
Some ten+ years ago i was with some people to scarborough and we did some sightseeing with a guide and stuff. One day we went to a small "river" town quite popular and very beutiful place. We went to a cemetary, dont remember if there was a chapel but it might been ( or just masouleums)
The whole cemetary was on a small, fairly steep hill. The tourguide said that the gravestones marked with a skull was victims of vampires or dracula himself idk.

one of the points i am making is, this kind of stories should be quite popular and easy to find on the net, but a small search gave nothing (may be me lol)
and that, may those buried be marked for some other reason?
just interested in facts or stories or even photos or other input.

Was it Whitby you visited by any chance? it's on the same coastline as Scarborough and there's a church & graveyard atop a hill. Whitby is the place that inspired Bram stoker to write Dracula.. legend has it, that the Count is buried there too, in the graveyard of St Mary.

I'm not saying vampires don't exist but those type of tour guides are there to spin a yarn.. Tourism relies on the creation and spreading of folklore.

Edit: the chap in this link mentions the skull & bones on the graves. It seems it is Whitby you're thinking about. http://www.whitby-yorkshire.co.uk/whitby/whitby.htm

I always thought the skull & crossbones was to mark the grave of plague victims, but there's a few different answers here:
http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/History/Question338807.html

[3stepsahead]

Hello kweli
I have large problems recalling the places involved and that kinda halts the progress anyway the legend you describe do fit the storyline at least.
i found a few photos of cemetarys in whitby and none of them matches so far. This would lead to a lot of guessing so i hoped someone had an exact location of at least a similar place.

note the cemetary is not ontop a small hill it frankly IS the hill. kinda like a large dirt mound or something.

Several of the tombstones has a scull marked into them. Ive seen it.

[kweli]

Hello kweli
I have large problems recalling the places involved and that kinda halts the progress anyway the legend you describe do fit the storyline at least.
i found a few photos of cemetarys in whitby and none of them matches so far. This would lead to a lot of guessing so i hoped someone had an exact location of at least a similar place.

note the cemetary is not ontop a small hill it frankly IS the hill. kinda like a large dirt mound or something.

Several of the tombstones has a scull marked into them. Ive seen it.

Right, can't be St Mary's then.. that's quite high up - ninety nine steep steps to get to it. Good luck with your search. :)

[3stepsahead]

I wont bother to edit.
I saw footage from st marys and i can say that is NOT the place.
However parts of the town do look a like. (and the stories too) It may be that the location we were was somewhere else in that town. as i said i believe it was a rather small hill and no where near as large area as the st marys.

Thansk you for the help so far anyway.

Your reward will be in the heavens.
:D:D:D

http://www.ideocast.com/archive.asp?aid=12013
I believe in the second segment somewhere they talk about the possibility that vampirism and the possesions that follow can be something else than we have heard in the movies.

[zero1]

I'm not sure about graves with skulls on them, but the poet T.S. Elliot was turned at some point. I don't know where his grave is, he was a naturalized British citizen; I don't think it's in Fair Scarborough. You might want to check him-it out...