North London covers the boroughs north of the River Thames, including Enfield, Haringey, Islington, and Camden — home to the Enfield Poltergeist and one of Britain's most famous claimed vampire cases.
The Highgate Vampire
Highgate Cemetery, dating to the 1800s, gained international notoriety in the early 1970s over "The Highgate Vampire" — a reportedly tall, dark figure with red eyes said to have been sighted gliding among the tombs at night. British occultist David Farrant publicly claimed to have seen a seven-foot-tall spectral figure outside the cemetery gates, and a group calling themselves the North London Paranormal Investigators reported encountering a similar tall, dark figure during their own visit. The case sparked a well-documented rivalry between competing investigators over the figure's true nature and origin, and remains one of the most widely cited British vampire legends of the 20th century.
Enfield
The London Borough of Enfield is the setting of the Enfield Poltergeist, Britain's most extensively documented poltergeist case — see that page for the full account. The borough is also associated with "the phantom coach of Enfield," a horse-drawn coach said to float above Bell Road at high speed, blamed for several road accidents, and with the ghost of a woman reportedly executed for witchcraft on Hadley Road in 1622.
Islington and Finsbury Park
Residents of Gloucester Drive, Finsbury Park, have long reported the sound of unexplained footsteps starting outside a specific house late at night and continuing across nearby front gardens — a reputation that has earned the street a place among Britain's most cited haunted streets.