To this day, Spring-Heeled Jack still hasn’t been identified.
Spring-Heeled Jack, Explained
[*] The first sighting of Spring-Heeled Jack occurred in 1837.
The last reported sighting came from Liverpool in 1904, which means this creature lurked for sixty-seven years.
[*] Spring-Heeled Jack comes from English folklore and Victorian literature.
In London, his name was associated with the Boogeyman, which was meant to scare children into behaving.
Parents would claim Spring-Heeled Jack would leap up to peer into their bedroom windows at night.
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[*] Spring-Heeled Jack is tall and thin.
He wears a black cloak with a helmet and a tight-fitting white garment.
[*] Spring-Heeled Jack performs wicked pranks.
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[*] Spring-Heeled Jack is capable of making extremely high, superhuman leaps.
He can jump over entire houses, walls, and buildings.
This is how he makes his escape after attacking his victims.
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[*] Spring-Heeled Jack can breathe out blue and white flames.
He has phosphorus breath.
Then the creature escaped by jumping over a nine-foot wall.
On February 19, 1838 Aslop answered the door to a man claiming to be a police officer.
[*] Spring-Heeled Jack is capable of speaking English.
He has a high-pitched, ringing laugh that he released after scaring his victims and running away.
[*] Spring-Heeled Jack has been compared to the devil.
He has also been compared to ghosts because he is described as tall and pale.
[*] Thomas Millbank was arrested and tried at Lambeth Street court, because he claimedhewas Spring-Heeled Jack.
He was known to do anything for a bet and had acquired the nicknameThe Mad Marquis.
That is when attacks on carriage drivers became much more common.
There was also a Park Ghost in Sheffield, both of which locals believed was actually Spring-Heeled Jack.
A sentry noticed a strange figure in the darkness who ended up slapping him in the face.
When a guard shot at the figure, there was no visible effect.
Then the figure disappeared into the darkness with long leaps.
But it did not.
[*] In 1877 Spring-Heeled Jack appeared in Newport Arch in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, in a sheepskin.
A mob chased him and shot at him with no effect.
Then he escaped with his long leaps.
[*] However, others believe Spring-Heeled Jack was a paranormal creature.
They consider him an extraterrestrial entity with a non-human appearance.
They believe he has his superhuman jumping abilities from living on a high-gravity world.
[*] Others believe Spring-Heeled Jack was a demon summoned to this world from practitioners of the occult.
They believe he was brought here to cause trouble.
[*] Spring-Heeled Jack is considered a phantom attacker, like the Mad Gasser of Mattoon.
Phantom attackers appear to be human, but they have extraordinary abilities and are never caught by the police.
Their attacks are commonly witnessed by several people but the creatures existence can never be confirmed.
