 In 1954 the cemetery played host to a large group of child "vampire hunters" searching for the purported "Gorbals Vampire".The incident, sparked by an urban myth that a vampire had killed two local children, was blamed on American horror comics such as "Tales from the Crypt", despite none of the comics referring to the creature in question, and the ensuing moral panic led to an increase in comic censorship.In 2016, a mural which features the vampire and a brief line describing the 1950s event was created by Ella Bryson and Art Pistol.