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Spring Heeled Jack

Spring Heeled Jack

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This week on Tales of History and Imagination we return to an episode from the first season to give it a new coat of (red) paint… speaking of, we’re going back to London in 1837 to discuss newspapers, the death of ‘Silly Billy,’ ‘painting the town red’ and a mysterious sex pest whose legend took on a life of it’s own throughout the remainder of the century…

Content warnings: This week we discuss a sexual abuser.

Sources Include:

I failed to keep a list on this one back in 2020, (apologies all) and mostly built it up from online articles and a Reader’s Digest book on Mysteries … but

Mike Dash’s ‘Spring Heeled Jack: To Victorian Bugaboo from Suburban Ghost

Was a given.

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