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I am new to your channel, hence I started at the other end, so am starting at the beginning :) I just wanted to say on top of being very entertained your visual style is up there with Brickimmortar (look him up, exceptional fellow) as too are the compositions backing it. I am a sound engineer and composer though these days more as a hobby, I appreciate a darker atmospheric tone to music, Britney was never my thing... Now as to Jack, my grand parents told me of him, they passed some 30yrs ago now, but they said the last time they knew of him, he was seen jumping over houses down a London street on the day before the first world war broke out. They were not religious people but they certainly spoke of it as if it were a bad omen. Ever a curiosity.
My old London born Granny who was 86 years old in 1959 told me one day when I was messing around with my brothers whilst the family were visiting that," If we don't behave Springhieel Jack would get us."
@@TheCrazyMoparDude68 Hundreds of miles in a straight line over every terrain, stopping at water and picking up in exactly the same line on the other side, over fences and other obstacles and maintaining the line while doing all of it in one night leaving tracks that by all accounts resembled hoofprints. Sound like rabbits or birds to you?
I read a book many years ago. It said he was last seen in my home town of Warrington. The Cockhedge part of the town centre where a shopping complex now stands.
@@dnuoBnomiS I never knew that myself. I'd heard that the last two reported sightings were in the Birmingham Black country area and Toxteth Liverpool in 1901? The author John Matthews wrote a fascinating book titled, "Spring Heeled Jack Steampunk Hero." It's the last word on the subject.
Living back in 1800's London must have been a wrteched place to live. I wonder why they named their killers Jack? Never heard of this, but its very interesting. 👍
It is only wretched for us to look back upon such life. For those living in the city it would have been a better life than the alternative which was peasant life.
I'm guessing it was a common name and became a generic term for a young man. Similar to how we use the name Karen now to describe a particular type.of lady. They used the phrase jack of all trades and jack the lad.
Magician or a wealthy prankster. Very physically fit. Metal gloves and the helmet is a clue. Helmet to prevent injury from the high jumps. Springs on the shoes. Knowledge of pyrotechnics. Perhaps a former circus performer or acrobat.
That’s what I was thinking too There are also different chemicals that cause coloured flames. I was wondering if he had some kind of a face covering on
My first visit to your site, what have I been missing to this day? Superbly narrated and presumably all your own work, telling stories in such an authoritative manner, is a true art form, and is an ancient skill, developed and ehchanced over the millennia and now using our technology to allow anyone living on the planet access to this super tale. I'm v.lucky, I've both liked, described, and have your back catalogue to savour. VBW and many, many, thanks! x
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Spring-heeled Jack didn't just terrorize Victorian England, he also was a figurine in the 'monster in my pocket' toy line and a level boss in the video game from the same series (nes).
Your channel is right up there among my favorites with Bedtime Stories! As an American, I love listening to British narrators, as they are so well-spoken, and you have a great narrating voice perfect for listening. I remember reading about the Spring-Heeled Jack in 1989 when my parents got me a really cool book called Atlas of the Supernatural or something similar. The story has always fascinated me -was it a prankster, some interdimensional being, or some alien visitor? I listen to your channel at night, both watching on the TV and as I fall asleep with my tablet. It is something I truly look forward to daily! Keep up the great work!
I wonder if Jack’s jumping abilities were just what is now termed parkour. It may only have been invented as an urban sport in the 2000s, but the physics of it have always existed. Some athletic guy who didn’t mind defying social norms could have figured it out, kept the knowledge to himself, and used it to scare people and make quick getaways. The supposed ability to breathe fire was probably just a flamethrower. The fact that reports of his activities are extremely unreliable makes it difficult to say what exactly people saw. I have no doubt they didn’t see what they think they did, especially as they were witnessing it all in the half-dark. And these things always grow in the telling, anyway.
Man alive, this comment had me laughing out loud, for real...the secret knowledge of.parkour? With hidden blades, and flamethrower dentures? Because everyone knows of the one feted Dak Arts of the League of Killer Acrobats....their legendary skills passed down thrown hidden symbols and occult practices such as the ability to pose for not one, but two pretentious selfies.in a day, the acrobatic way they ordered a pumpkin.spice latte. Ah, mystics all. But please, never stop making these comments, for everyone else's entertainment
@@corstafine Okay, what’s your explanation then, if you’re so smart? Also, I didn’t say anything about flame thrower dentures, I just said flamethrower. I meant that the flames weren’t coming from his mouth at all but from a handheld device. Sorry if you’re too dense to understand that without me spelling it out.
@@kate_cooper you may be correct .I was thinking the same when I first heard of the story.i have seen many street "free-running " and many individuals are just incredible in the ability.
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I think the name Jack was probably used to describe a certain type of younger man, in much the way we call a certain type of woman "Karen" these days. The term "Jack the lad" is still used today to describe a kind of raucous young man
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I grew up with tales of spring heeled jack as i lived just round the corner of his sighting on Baliff st, Northampton. I remember being so scared as a kid
A long shot, but maybe Spring heeled Jack was some kind of a weird time traveler..like an escaped criminal from some other dimension? It might explain how he got around, the blue flames and his hands?
Yes indeed. Spring Heel Jack appears to a deprave Entity from another dimension. It somehow entered our Reality and was trapped here for a while until another portal opened up and it exited. Then it came back later as Jack the Ripper an entity more depraved than ever before.
Heard this story before but with as much detail. Thank you for this video. I don’t know if you’ve heard of the 8ft tall ‘Werewolf’ that’s been spotted in the Beverly/Hull area over the years?. His nickname is Old Stinker and the last time he was spotted was 2016 where a couple saw it with a German Shepard in its mouth as it jumped over an 8ft fence in a single bound with the dog still in its mouth.
@@TheTapeLibrary yeah he comes up every couple of year with people having sightings of him. I think even police have spotted him a couple of times. Looking forward to your werewolf video, as I work through your other videos lol. 👍🏻
Great Narration, and a very captivating story, , loved your delivery, not over the top like other channels, that's me subscribed, looking forward to your other subjects, many thanks...
I think such things are typical of a situation where a small event is blown out of proportion. This is quite universal, and we had our own version of this phenomenon in my small town in Norway, which we called the ‘black lady’. There’s something in the collective psyche that makes these stories stick, like when people claim ‘we heard his laughter and saw blue flames when he jumped between rooftops’. It’s an early myth legend, but it’s still entertaining though.
Do not underestimate the power of human consciousness. Our very character and personality comes from our consciousness. Demons are more than likely some form of personality that rises out of the spaces in our minds and their presence is as real as us who inhabit our human personalities.
Thank you i very much enjoyed this. I have a feeling you could read a restaurant menu and make it great. Lol seriously you deserve far more subs,you content is fabulous!🎉
My dad told me and my siblings that story.i always thought he made it up.im 49 now and I was told this story when I was 10.I'm shocked that he was real.😮😮😮😮
I love this character, I read he had deer like hooves for feet , was 8 foot tall , and people would find his hoof prints entering drainpipes and exiting on to the roof!
I realise this is an older video, but I am consuming your content like treats. Spring Heeled Jack is a particular favourite of mine, and has been since I was young. This is really well researched, since it's really hard to gather information though the time that has passed. Though the last time I looked there were not so many books about him (my own is the Peter Haining), it seems that people have picked up on the story over the past ten years or so. What do you think of Haining's idea that Jack was some kind of astronaut? It's true, there are some things about the description of him that might mean more to a contemporary audience than the people of 1830s London. That in itself is kind of tantalising. I really enjoyed this one. Thank you so much. 🙂
Honestly, I do not have anything close to a prediction of what spring heeled jack was. I need to refresh my memory about the various theories though as I always loved this story.
He is what we call a hedge hopper there's plenty of modern day spring heeled Jack's about the prisons are full of them it's just they can't leap over the prison walls
I don't understand why the girl in the 1st story even answered the door. She was "apprehensive" for starters, never got company that late, and already knew the rumors about jack (I think that's what he said). I wouldn't have bc if it was important, I'm sure whoever it was would've yelled in to the family. Thats just me tho . Also it's weird that London had both "spring heeled jack" and " jack the ripper", I wonder if they were the same person or entity or 2 separate entity's?
The name “Jack” during the Middle Ages was used as a slang word for “man” - so maybe with this character, and Jack the Ripper, both being unknown, it makes sense that they would be given the name Jack.
More than likely it never happened and is only a story. It there is any truth to the stories, it was a man that was dressed up and attacking people. Over time the stories just grew more and more dramatic.
I think that the last time this creature was seen was back in the 1950's in Liverpool [UK}. I may be incorrect with that but that is what I read somewhere. I believe that this creature could have been of alien origin.
In an old book on inns around Bath there is a mention of a sixteen-string Jack and / or Springheel Jack. It claimed that he came from the Bathwick Hotel on Bathwick Street, Bath. Now an restaurant or takeaway. It is just a few metres away from where Jane Austen lived.
I've always found interesting in old stories before it became uncommon for people to care for their own dead, when one speaks of something feels like a corpse. It had more gravitas when it was far more possible that the person (especially a woman) saying it might have dealt with funeral preparations and therefore knew when a dead body could and might feel like.
As I recall, claiming to be a police officer has been a favourite tactic of serial r*pists and k*llers, as it‘s assumed potential victims will trust an authority figure and lower their guard. I feel sure there was at least one real serial criminal behind the Springheel Jack legend, and maybe even a few copycats. But that doesn’t quite explain Jack’s rapid and infectious spread. It’s like he tapped into something deeper in the Victorian English psyche. I believe stories about monsters, demons, etc. reflect the cultures in which they are told, and Victorian England had more than a few sins to repent. Staggering wealth inequality, misogyny, colonialism, s*xual and emotional repression, etc. Jack was Mr. Hyde to the Victorians’ Dr. Jekyll, a convenient scapegoat upon which all chaos and violence could be blamed. They picked up the story and spread it as a way of absolving themselves of responsibility for their very corrupt and rotten culture. You picked up on the SA theme of the legend, which I find especially pertinent. It’s not rich men above the reproach of the law who are taking advantage of pr*stitutes and working-class servant girls, you see, it’s the Devil, in the form of a high-jumping, fire-breathing r*pist. Obviously, there’s no controlling or punishing the Devil; all we can do is hide inside our homes and hope to be spared from his mischief. You see how such stories might be used to excuse a lack of justice for crimes against s*x workers, the poor, and other people deemed to be “worthless” in their culture. The statement by the Mayor of London makes me think Jack was also a symbol of female hysteria: that is, women aren’t going insane because of abusive husbands and fathers, the denial of all civil rights, and generally being treated like things and cattle, it’s because they saw a monster that scared them out of their wits. It’s not for nothing, IMO, that Jack’s victims are usually women, or police intervening on behalf of women. He’s a bogeyman tailor-made for the Victorian woman, all but helpless under the thumb of patriarchy. From a certain point of view, Jack could even be a heroic figure, exposing the lies of the people in power. If urban legends are like diseases we can catch, they’re diseases of our own making, made up of everything we choose to ignore or sweep under the carpet. There’s no escaping or turning a blind eye to our own hypocrisy: if allowed to fester, it will give birth to something we can’t control, something which could potentially manifest for real in the form of, say, a copycat criminal who heard the story and thought it would be fun to act it out in real life. Cultures evolve and learn from their mistakes, and so the demons get weaker, but they never seem to quite disappear completely, not once they’ve gotten a really good grip on the collective subconscious. They’re always there, lurking, waiting for our social conditions to favour them once more. The fact I have to censor words like s*x and r*pist to avoid ticking off the UA-cam algorithm suggests Jack might not be as far from a rebirth as we’d like to believe he is. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
Spring Heeled Jack (although I remember it as Springheel Jack) is the title of a short story in one of Stephen King's anthology books. I read it years ago (like, pre-internet) and didn't quiiiiite get it, because I'd never heard of him! I don't remember it well, but do know that he'd been portrayed as a handsome man purchasing flowers for his lover (whom he later killed) with passersby noting the 'fresh face of love' air about him. I think because of this I'd connected his name with the season rather than an ability to leap! Haha...but this is my very old recollection of what I interpreted from Stephen King's written interpretation of a person/urban legend I'd never heard of, so details are admittedly fuzzy. Thanks for filling in some blanks I hadn't known I was missing!
Somewhere in the mid to late 90s, I live in the Yukon, and we heard a story called the Devil at 98. The 98 was a rough bar in Whitehorse, this one night a dude walks in with a long trench coat and a big black hat, and he rings the bell. The bell is rung at this bar anytime someone buys drinks on the house for everyone inside. So everyone happy gets thier free booze. This dude kept pulling out money and buying shots after shots for everyone. The bartender lady, My mom knows her name, she was on duty, she was serving the drinks to everyone and this dude never took a shot. He just sat there buying drinks on the house. She started getting creeped out by this man, and it got to the point where she asked the bouncer to make this dude leave. The bouncer walks over and puts his hand on the shoulder to tell him get moving, the dude looks at him and smiles and opens his mouth and black smoke came out filling the place. People started pointing out this dude had hooved feet they can barely see under the long black coat. People start running out and the dude is gone, later that night people said they saw a man, fitting the discription as the one sitting in the bar, and he was leaping from building roof to roof. It was a native elder that told me he saw this. And a few others in whitehorse said they seen the devil at 98. He appeared again apperently a while after, a old dude died in the town of pelly and apperently 2 girls pushed him down steps which killed him, word was that ppl in pelly started seeing this same trench coat dude with hooved feet looking for those 2 girls. Ps. The bartender lady my mom knew quit her job over seeing this "devil" and moved to another town, id have to ask my mom what was her name.
Yeah probably. Jack was probably a disturbed stalker who did like to attack peoples at night (happen even today, there are several crime cases in last years who sound similar with a mad hide in the dark who attacked peoples) and later they build a story on it. But there's ever a bottom of thruth
Spring heeled jack seems to have built on and incorporated elements of previous myths and stories. In the early 1800s, rumours spread of ghosts that would wander round cities, attacking lone pedestrians. The Hammersmith Ghost and Southampton Ghost were two examples. The Southampton Ghost was also said to have been able to keep around like Spring Heeled Jack. These kinds of urban myths were quite common until at least the later part of the 20th century. Places like London were undergoing huge social change, and crime in some areas was off the scale. Many people were very poorly educated and superstitious, and crime detection was primitive. So you had a whole mythology rising up which seemed to embody and explain the crime around the city. People love nothing better than being frightened (particularly kids) and the "Penny Dreadfuls" made a lot of money out of it. It's no surprise that the most famous of spring heeled jack's supposed attacks were on two teenage girls.
I find the euphemisms for SA interesting. It shows an incredibly violent and disturbed individual, who if real, was a genuine menace. Physically and sexually assaulting women and girls, is terrifying, and makes him much more disturbing. I never see anyone mention the euphemisms for SA, which adds a whole other frightening dimension to the story.
There are other documents that I’ve seen in the Cheshire vault that report one at the Train Station in Warrington way back when it was still Lancashire
So many mysteries throughout the world and I've never experienced any of them I want to see these things for myself and witness the world of the unknown for myself I'm curious what these entities would think of me
We should all take a moment to forgive Spring-Heeled Jack for his various assaults and thank him for promoting safety awareness by wearing a helmet while leaping around cities terrorizing people.
So msny visits from aliens over the eons - spring heeled jack , jack the ripper , the moth -man , saqswatch , werewolves , yeti, devil creatures with horns etc. Been visiting us for many years .
I suspect "Jack" was a nickname given to a certain type of young man, in much the same way we call a certain type of woman "Karen" now. Saying someone is a "jack the lad" is still common in the UK - used to describe a certain type of raucous young man
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I am new to your channel, hence I started at the other end, so am starting at the beginning :) I just wanted to say on top of being very entertained your visual style is up there with Brickimmortar (look him up, exceptional fellow) as too are the compositions backing it. I am a sound engineer and composer though these days more as a hobby, I appreciate a darker atmospheric tone to music, Britney was never my thing...
Now as to Jack, my grand parents told me of him, they passed some 30yrs ago now, but they said the last time they knew of him, he was seen jumping over houses down a London street on the day before the first world war broke out. They were not religious people but they certainly spoke of it as if it were a bad omen. Ever a curiosity.
My old London born Granny who was 86 years old in 1959 told me one day when I was messing around with my brothers whilst the family were visiting that," If we don't behave Springhieel Jack would get us."
This mystery is right up there with the Devil’s Hoofprints for creepiness.
The Jersey Devil....he started me down this wavy track..
The Devil Hoof Prints was misidentified rabbit and bird tracks in the snow.
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Hundreds of miles in a straight line over every terrain, stopping at water and picking up in exactly the same line on the other side, over fences and other obstacles and maintaining the line while doing all of it in one night leaving tracks that by all accounts resembled hoofprints. Sound like rabbits or birds to you?
@@doormatt4393exactly 💯, it a weird encounter that im GLAD i was not around for.
Those are very dedicated rabbits and birds!
I read a book many years ago. It said he was last seen in my home town of Warrington. The Cockhedge part of the town centre where a shopping complex now stands.
English people are rhe best people.
Very interesting.
He was last seen in the black country in 1901.
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Interesting! I’m from Warrington 😊
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I never knew that myself.
I'd heard that the last two reported sightings were in the Birmingham
Black country area and Toxteth Liverpool in 1901?
The author John Matthews wrote a fascinating book titled, "Spring Heeled Jack Steampunk Hero."
It's the last word on the subject.
Living back in 1800's London must have been a wrteched place to live. I wonder why they named their killers Jack? Never heard of this, but its very interesting. 👍
It is only wretched for us to look back upon such life. For those living in the city it would have been a better life than the alternative which was peasant life.
I'm guessing it was a common name and became a generic term for a young man. Similar to how we use the name Karen now to describe a particular type.of lady. They used the phrase jack of all trades and jack the lad.
It was a nickname for the devil. They used it because they didn't want to use his real name for fear it might summon him.
@@adnaanuyou are exactly right according to British history I’ve read.
@@doormatt4393 what about the Union Jack?
Magician or a wealthy prankster. Very physically fit. Metal gloves and the helmet is a clue. Helmet to prevent injury from the high jumps. Springs on the shoes. Knowledge of pyrotechnics. Perhaps a former circus performer or acrobat.
That’s what I was thinking too
There are also different chemicals that cause coloured flames. I was wondering if he had some kind of a face covering on
Read about this character in primary school, and its always fascinated me since...50 years later!
I also read about it in primary school, 35 years ago.
Same here
My first visit to your site, what have I been missing to this day? Superbly narrated and presumably all your own work, telling stories in such an authoritative manner, is a true art form, and is an ancient skill, developed and ehchanced over the millennia and now using our technology to allow anyone living on the planet access to this super tale. I'm v.lucky, I've both liked, described, and have your back catalogue to savour. VBW and many, many, thanks! x
thank you!
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I appreciate that! Welcome to the channel!
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Appreciate the love! Lots more to come in future
I think that Jack was a ‘free runner’…probably the first.
Lmfao
Parkor.
Your not far off. A story like that could take off and become a legend or myth.
@@captainamerica6525 😎it's possible.
And a deranged magician. 😂
Spring-heeled Jack didn't just terrorize Victorian England, he also was a figurine in the 'monster in my pocket' toy line and a level boss in the video game from the same series (nes).
Woahhh I have played that game! Never realized that was spring heel
@@nolancampbell4451 yeah it's that first boss the guy who jumps waaaaay up in the air and looks sort of like a hunchback in a mask.
Again, I loved the video. We had stories of Spring-heeled Jack in my area, of attacking people leaving church activities after dark.
I remember being so scared to see him if I was walking home at night, I kept looking at the ground!
Your channel is right up there among my favorites with Bedtime Stories! As an American, I love listening to British narrators, as they are so well-spoken, and you have a great narrating voice perfect for listening. I remember reading about the Spring-Heeled Jack in 1989 when my parents got me a really cool book called Atlas of the Supernatural or something similar. The story has always fascinated me -was it a prankster, some interdimensional being, or some alien visitor? I listen to your channel at night, both watching on the TV and as I fall asleep with my tablet. It is something I truly look forward to daily! Keep up the great work!
Thank you!
Trust me, not all brits so eloquently 😂😂😂 I certainly don’t, but my fellow countrymen does 100% matey 😂
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I remember the musician called Spring Heel Jack in the late 1990s, He was actually good, so I looked up the name and found out about Spring Heel Jack
Weird, I was just thinking about this legend the other day. Great video!
Never heard this story before. Fascinating
As usual, I've learned much more about an odd subject that I thought I was overly familiar with. Your videos are so well researched!
Thank you! I always feel like I could do more in terms of research (but obviously jobs get in the way), so it's nice to hear this!
@@TheTapeLibrary That feeling that you could do more is what drives you past your competitors.
I wonder if Jack’s jumping abilities were just what is now termed parkour. It may only have been invented as an urban sport in the 2000s, but the physics of it have always existed. Some athletic guy who didn’t mind defying social norms could have figured it out, kept the knowledge to himself, and used it to scare people and make quick getaways.
The supposed ability to breathe fire was probably just a flamethrower.
The fact that reports of his activities are extremely unreliable makes it difficult to say what exactly people saw. I have no doubt they didn’t see what they think they did, especially as they were witnessing it all in the half-dark. And these things always grow in the telling, anyway.
Man alive, this comment had me laughing out loud, for real...the secret knowledge of.parkour? With hidden blades, and flamethrower dentures? Because everyone knows of the one feted Dak Arts of the League of Killer Acrobats....their legendary skills passed down thrown hidden symbols and occult practices such as the ability to pose for not one, but two pretentious selfies.in a day, the acrobatic way they ordered a pumpkin.spice latte. Ah, mystics all.
But please, never stop making these comments, for everyone else's entertainment
@@corstafine Okay, what’s your explanation then, if you’re so smart?
Also, I didn’t say anything about flame thrower dentures, I just said flamethrower. I meant that the flames weren’t coming from his mouth at all but from a handheld device. Sorry if you’re too dense to understand that without me spelling it out.
@@kate_cooper you may be correct
.I was thinking the same when I first heard of the story.i have seen many street "free-running " and many individuals are just incredible in the ability.
It was a blue flame and came from his mouth according to more than one witness aswell as glowing red eyes
Hell to the yeah!! Perfectly done as always, plus I noticed your vids are coming out more frequently which is freakin awesome!!! Keep it up tape library you are the best!! 😎
The intro is scary, love how you edited the video.
You deserve a subscriber.
The film about this legend starring Todd Slaughter is well worth watching. Loads of over the top, scene chewing, manic acting and hilarious dialogue.
Didn't know there was one in him, what's the title of the movie???
The curse of the Waydrons? Watched it once very funny!
Can this be the same jack the ripper or jack from the jack be nimble jack be quick, jack jumped over a candlestick nursery rhyme?
Jack the Ripper was an anointed name not a natural name.
I think the name Jack was probably used to describe a certain type of younger man, in much the way we call a certain type of woman "Karen" these days. The term "Jack the lad" is still used today to describe a kind of raucous young man
No one:
Spring Heeled Jack: _PARKOUR!!_
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I grew up with tales of spring heeled jack as i lived just round the corner of his sighting on Baliff st, Northampton. I remember being so scared as a kid
Probably a heroin addict going by that street in modern times 😂
I’m so glad I found your channel, really excellent stuff.
Thank you!
Was the ripper n springheeld one and the same ? 🤔🤫
A long shot, but maybe Spring heeled Jack was some kind of a weird time traveler..like an escaped criminal from some other dimension? It might explain how he got around, the blue flames and his hands?
Exactly what i think it could be 🤔🤫🙂
Yes indeed. Spring Heel Jack appears to a deprave Entity from another dimension. It somehow entered our Reality and was trapped here for a while until another portal opened up and it exited. Then it came back later as Jack the Ripper an entity more depraved than ever before.
Heard this story before but with as much detail. Thank you for this video. I don’t know if you’ve heard of the 8ft tall ‘Werewolf’ that’s been spotted in the Beverly/Hull area over the years?. His nickname is Old Stinker and the last time he was spotted was 2016 where a couple saw it with a German Shepard in its mouth as it jumped over an 8ft fence in a single bound with the dog still in its mouth.
Okay I 100% need to look up old stinker! I do actually have a werewolf related video in the pipeline.
@@TheTapeLibrary yeah he comes up every couple of year with people having sightings of him. I think even police have spotted him a couple of times. Looking forward to your werewolf video, as I work through your other videos lol. 👍🏻
Yes, Old Stinker, The Hull Werewolf. He made the papers a few years back.
My granddad said he was seen around the turn of the last century, on the roof or Boaler st school, Everton, Liverpool.
Certainly got around.
Great Narration, and a very captivating story, , loved your delivery, not over the top like other channels, that's me subscribed, looking forward to your other subjects, many thanks...
Thanks and welcome to the channel!
I think such things are typical of a situation where a small event is blown out of proportion. This is quite universal, and we had our own version of this phenomenon in my small town in Norway, which we called the ‘black lady’. There’s something in the collective psyche that makes these stories stick, like when people claim ‘we heard his laughter and saw blue flames when he jumped between rooftops’. It’s an early myth legend, but it’s still entertaining though.
oh that’s super interesting, thanks for sharing that!
Full of black ladies now
Do not underestimate the power of human consciousness. Our very character and personality comes from our consciousness. Demons are more than likely some form of personality that rises out of the spaces in our minds and their presence is as real as us who inhabit our human personalities.
Thank you i very much enjoyed this. I have a feeling you could read a restaurant menu and make it great. Lol seriously you deserve far more subs,you content is fabulous!🎉
Well narrated, clear & legible & also……. thoroughly enjoyable !
Thank you kindly!
My dad told me and my siblings that story.i always thought he made it up.im 49 now and I was told this story when I was 10.I'm shocked that he was real.😮😮😮😮
Real? You honestly think it's real? The level of stupidity is getting out of hand!
I love this character, I read he had deer like hooves for feet , was 8 foot tall , and people would find his hoof prints entering drainpipes and exiting on to the roof!
Jeez..cannot get much worse than Jack!.. whatever he was...he was evil perhaps even the devil or a devil...
Great video 👻💀👿👽🦉🐝💛
Ah just what I need before going to bed
I realise this is an older video, but I am consuming your content like treats. Spring Heeled Jack is a particular favourite of mine, and has been since I was young. This is really well researched, since it's really hard to gather information though the time that has passed. Though the last time I looked there were not so many books about him (my own is the Peter Haining), it seems that people have picked up on the story over the past ten years or so.
What do you think of Haining's idea that Jack was some kind of astronaut? It's true, there are some things about the description of him that might mean more to a contemporary audience than the people of 1830s London. That in itself is kind of tantalising.
I really enjoyed this one. Thank you so much. 🙂
Honestly, I do not have anything close to a prediction of what spring heeled jack was. I need to refresh my memory about the various theories though as I always loved this story.
He is what we call a hedge hopper there's plenty of modern day spring heeled Jack's about the prisons are full of them it's just they can't leap over the prison walls
What a strange story
Excellent presentation!🇺🇸
I don't understand why the girl in the 1st story even answered the door. She was "apprehensive" for starters, never got company that late, and already knew the rumors about jack (I think that's what he said). I wouldn't have bc if it was important, I'm sure whoever it was would've yelled in to the family. Thats just me tho . Also it's weird that London had both "spring heeled jack" and " jack the ripper", I wonder if they were the same person or entity or 2 separate entity's?
Really the only similarity between them is the name, which, of course wasn't their name's, it was just the titles given to them by the media.
The name “Jack” during the Middle Ages was used as a slang word for “man” - so maybe with this character, and Jack the Ripper, both being unknown, it makes sense that they would be given the name Jack.
@@geslinam9703 As in "Jack the lad"
More than likely it never happened and is only a story. It there is any truth to the stories, it was a man that was dressed up and attacking people. Over time the stories just grew more and more dramatic.
Recently discovered your channel and am enjoying these stories. Thanks!
At the beginning, why did the teenage daughter have to go out to greet him? Lol.
So when people knock at ya house, do ya open the door and greet them?? Or leave them outside???
I think that the last time this creature was seen was back in the 1950's in Liverpool [UK}. I may be incorrect with that but that is what I read somewhere. I believe that this creature could have been of alien origin.
LMFAO!!!
Wasn't London a tough city to live in back then, what with Jack the Ripper , and this Springheeled Jack character.
The children dealt with 'Jack' while the parents stayed safe within the house?
exactly 😂
This is a truly terrifying tale!
Well said and pondering.
In an old book on inns around Bath there is a mention of a sixteen-string Jack and / or Springheel Jack.
It claimed that he came from the Bathwick Hotel on Bathwick Street, Bath.
Now an restaurant or takeaway.
It is just a few metres away from where Jane Austen lived.
This is so awesome.
I've always found interesting in old stories before it became uncommon for people to care for their own dead, when one speaks of something feels like a corpse. It had more gravitas when it was far more possible that the person (especially a woman) saying it might have dealt with funeral preparations and therefore knew when a dead body could and might feel like.
As I recall, claiming to be a police officer has been a favourite tactic of serial r*pists and k*llers, as it‘s assumed potential victims will trust an authority figure and lower their guard. I feel sure there was at least one real serial criminal behind the Springheel Jack legend, and maybe even a few copycats. But that doesn’t quite explain Jack’s rapid and infectious spread. It’s like he tapped into something deeper in the Victorian English psyche.
I believe stories about monsters, demons, etc. reflect the cultures in which they are told, and Victorian England had more than a few sins to repent. Staggering wealth inequality, misogyny, colonialism, s*xual and emotional repression, etc. Jack was Mr. Hyde to the Victorians’ Dr. Jekyll, a convenient scapegoat upon which all chaos and violence could be blamed. They picked up the story and spread it as a way of absolving themselves of responsibility for their very corrupt and rotten culture. You picked up on the SA theme of the legend, which I find especially pertinent. It’s not rich men above the reproach of the law who are taking advantage of pr*stitutes and working-class servant girls, you see, it’s the Devil, in the form of a high-jumping, fire-breathing r*pist. Obviously, there’s no controlling or punishing the Devil; all we can do is hide inside our homes and hope to be spared from his mischief. You see how such stories might be used to excuse a lack of justice for crimes against s*x workers, the poor, and other people deemed to be “worthless” in their culture.
The statement by the Mayor of London makes me think Jack was also a symbol of female hysteria: that is, women aren’t going insane because of abusive husbands and fathers, the denial of all civil rights, and generally being treated like things and cattle, it’s because they saw a monster that scared them out of their wits. It’s not for nothing, IMO, that Jack’s victims are usually women, or police intervening on behalf of women. He’s a bogeyman tailor-made for the Victorian woman, all but helpless under the thumb of patriarchy.
From a certain point of view, Jack could even be a heroic figure, exposing the lies of the people in power. If urban legends are like diseases we can catch, they’re diseases of our own making, made up of everything we choose to ignore or sweep under the carpet. There’s no escaping or turning a blind eye to our own hypocrisy: if allowed to fester, it will give birth to something we can’t control, something which could potentially manifest for real in the form of, say, a copycat criminal who heard the story and thought it would be fun to act it out in real life. Cultures evolve and learn from their mistakes, and so the demons get weaker, but they never seem to quite disappear completely, not once they’ve gotten a really good grip on the collective subconscious. They’re always there, lurking, waiting for our social conditions to favour them once more. The fact I have to censor words like s*x and r*pist to avoid ticking off the UA-cam algorithm suggests Jack might not be as far from a rebirth as we’d like to believe he is.
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Awesome doc. Thank you.
Parkour Jack and his alcohol fire breathing trick…
Spring Heeled Jack (although I remember it as Springheel Jack) is the title of a short story in one of Stephen King's anthology books. I read it years ago (like, pre-internet) and didn't quiiiiite get it, because I'd never heard of him! I don't remember it well, but do know that he'd been portrayed as a handsome man purchasing flowers for his lover (whom he later killed) with passersby noting the 'fresh face of love' air about him. I think because of this I'd connected his name with the season rather than an ability to leap!
Haha...but this is my very old recollection of what I interpreted from Stephen King's written interpretation of a person/urban legend I'd never heard of, so details are admittedly fuzzy.
Thanks for filling in some blanks I hadn't known I was missing!
I think you mean Jumpboots Jamstrang, great video btw.
Jack the Ripper? Jumpin’ Jack Flash? Jack o’ lantern?
I think it was an alien, I'm suprised Dr Who hasn't made an episode dedicated to spring heel jack
Somewhere in the mid to late 90s, I live in the Yukon, and we heard a story called the Devil at 98. The 98 was a rough bar in Whitehorse, this one night a dude walks in with a long trench coat and a big black hat, and he rings the bell.
The bell is rung at this bar anytime someone buys drinks on the house for everyone inside. So everyone happy gets thier free booze.
This dude kept pulling out money and buying shots after shots for everyone.
The bartender lady, My mom knows her name, she was on duty, she was serving the drinks to everyone and this dude never took a shot. He just sat there buying drinks on the house.
She started getting creeped out by this man, and it got to the point where she asked the bouncer to make this dude leave.
The bouncer walks over and puts his hand on the shoulder to tell him get moving, the dude looks at him and smiles and opens his mouth and black smoke came out filling the place. People started pointing out this dude had hooved feet they can barely see under the long black coat. People start running out and the dude is gone, later that night people said they saw a man, fitting the discription as the one sitting in the bar, and he was leaping from building roof to roof. It was a native elder that told me he saw this. And a few others in whitehorse said they seen the devil at 98.
He appeared again apperently a while after, a old dude died in the town of pelly and apperently 2 girls pushed him down steps which killed him, word was that ppl in pelly started seeing this same trench coat dude with hooved feet looking for those 2 girls.
Ps. The bartender lady my mom knew quit her job over seeing this "devil" and moved to another town, id have to ask my mom what was her name.
Love this, thanks for sharing!
Geez it's getting so a friendly devil cant even buy people a few drinks.
@@claytonjacobs4098 bwahaha
I wish I'd made more note of the article at the time but I read in a local newspaper that he'd been seen in Epsom, this was within the last ten years.
I live in Epsom and you right!! He was seen by Ewell by-pass
@@RossWills-u3e I think that, as far as I know, this would be his most recent sighting.
Total nonsense
Definitely a stage actor/
magician who went crazy.
Or he was just winding people up
What ! who could leap over houses aswell ? 🤔
Last seen in Liverpool
Spring Heeled Jack AND Purple Aki? In the same city? 😮
Very well done...
Jumpin' Jack Flash
I feel like most of the stories are just hysteria. And probably only a handful are actual encounters with this person.
This is what I lean towards. What's interesting though is some of the earlier stories are some of the weirdest ones
Yeah probably. Jack was probably a disturbed stalker who did like to attack peoples at night (happen even today, there are several crime cases in last years who sound similar with a mad hide in the dark who attacked peoples) and later they build a story on it. But there's ever a bottom of thruth
I studied this as a boy.. seemed so unusual. There looks to have been more than one if you take into account the timeline.
Well done,
I remember reading about Spring Heeled Jack, but cannot remember where from
I 100% believe the women's reports on Spring Heeled Jack, and the details contained within. Such a F'd up experience. R.I.P. Sisters.
Loved the story. Thank you
Good presentation of this creepy character 😉
This was obviously batman's first version 😂
incarnation
The SA survivor interpretation is interesting.
Spring heeled jack seems to have built on and incorporated elements of previous myths and stories. In the early 1800s, rumours spread of ghosts that would wander round cities, attacking lone pedestrians. The Hammersmith Ghost and Southampton Ghost were two examples. The Southampton Ghost was also said to have been able to keep around like Spring Heeled Jack. These kinds of urban myths were quite common until at least the later part of the 20th century. Places like London were undergoing huge social change, and crime in some areas was off the scale. Many people were very poorly educated and superstitious, and crime detection was primitive. So you had a whole mythology rising up which seemed to embody and explain the crime around the city. People love nothing better than being frightened (particularly kids) and the "Penny Dreadfuls" made a lot of money out of it. It's no surprise that the most famous of spring heeled jack's supposed attacks were on two teenage girls.
Quality.👊
I find the euphemisms for SA interesting. It shows an incredibly violent and disturbed individual, who if real, was a genuine menace. Physically and sexually assaulting women and girls, is terrifying, and makes him much more disturbing. I never see anyone mention the euphemisms for SA, which adds a whole other frightening dimension to the story.
There are other documents that I’ve seen in the Cheshire vault that report one at the Train Station in Warrington way back when it was still Lancashire
My gran was English and from Windsor.my Aunt passed away in September this year in Windsor.
Sorry for your loss...God bless
💀..Really Great Job..but, whatever became ov Him..??😢
If you look it up there are apparent stories of a similar person right up to the 50s and 60s I think (been a while since I researched this one)
Is it true that Bob Kane got the idea for Batman from this guy, or is that just an old wives' tale?
jumpin jack flash?
So many mysteries throughout the world and I've never experienced any of them
I want to see these things for myself and witness the world of the unknown for myself
I'm curious what these entities would think of me
Spring healed Jack a myth in the 1800’s, written about in the book of myths readers digest, a fascinating story. 😮
It’s time to make a movie about Jack.
P.s he reminds me of the Mothman.
Thankyou 🖤 🖤
He was obviously an X-Men
Slippity-slap and away I go!
It's the police! Certainly not...Spring Heeled Jack!
We should all take a moment to forgive Spring-Heeled Jack for his various assaults and thank him for promoting safety awareness by wearing a helmet while leaping around cities terrorizing people.
So msny visits from aliens over the eons - spring heeled jack , jack the ripper , the moth -man , saqswatch , werewolves , yeti, devil creatures with horns etc. Been visiting us for many years .
If you ever meet Spring Heeled Jack, tell him to hop it.
Enjoying your videos. 👍
Appreciate it, thank you!
Blue light in his chest .... metal fingers ... enhanced physical abilities .... proto Iron Man....hmmm?
Is are there any movies about Spring hill? Jack, please reply as soon as possible. Thank you very much that's all I have to say
Not sure
Great video - but just an old wives tale
I thought this was an Oblivion video.
It seems Victorian London had a fixation on the name jack ? Maybe spring healed Jack and jack the ripper were one and the same being ? Entity ?
I suspect "Jack" was a nickname given to a certain type of young man, in much the same way we call a certain type of woman "Karen" now. Saying someone is a "jack the lad" is still common in the UK - used to describe a certain type of raucous young man
Oy, that there be the wicked demon lord Ravana himself!
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