Spring Heeled Jack — Victorian England's Demon — The Sinister Past
London, 1837-1904. For nearly seventy years, witnesses across England report attacks by a tall, thin figure who breathes blue fire, has clawed hands, and can leap over walls and buildings in a single bound. Police investigations find nothing. Military patrols find nothing. The sightings simply stop — and no explanation is ever offered.
In this episode, we trace the documented paper trail behind Spring-Heeled Jack, from Mary Stevens's 1837 attack and the Jane Alsop and Lucy Scales cases that made him a national sensation, through the Aldershot and Lincolnshire military incidents of 1877, to…
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