In the age of Victorian London was the center of some strange episodes that still has no explanation.
the evening of September 25, 1837, Polly Adams, aged 23, was walking quietly in the company of her friend Mary near a park in London when, intrigued by the noises coming from a bush, approached. Tell then that he saw jump out of a tall man with a black cloak, and disfigured by the long claws. The girl was seriously injured but still alive, and the day after he told police: "I saw the creature right in his face was half man and half devil, had long claws, his eyes seemed to fire and was wearing a long black coat boots and dark, it was the devil himself ".
was the first glimpse of what the newspapers of the call Hopper or Jack Spring-Heeled-Jack, Jack Spring-heeled . A large area was the scene of his appearances, from the suburbs of London to Liverpool.
One evening, the doorbell of the family Alsop, a Berahind Lane in the town of Bow, he began playing again. The parents then sent their daughter Jane to open the door. The figure was indistinguishable in the dark, and so she came up immediately with the candle. He will say that he saw red eyes, face horribly malformed covered by a transparent sphere and a strange light that hung from his chest. A flash of blue invests the girl. The lashes out at him. To emit a dull and gloomy. The girl tries to escape but was immobilized and, tell, the creature began to scratch his face, neck and back and cut locks of hair. Upon arrival, parents and neighbors, attracted by the cries of the girl, "Jack" a leap that left his mouth open to everyone present.
the evening of September 25, 1837, Polly Adams, aged 23, was walking quietly in the company of her friend Mary near a park in London when, intrigued by the noises coming from a bush, approached. Tell then that he saw jump out of a tall man with a black cloak, and disfigured by the long claws. The girl was seriously injured but still alive, and the day after he told police: "I saw the creature right in his face was half man and half devil, had long claws, his eyes seemed to fire and was wearing a long black coat boots and dark, it was the devil himself ".
was the first glimpse of what the newspapers of the call Hopper or Jack Spring-Heeled-Jack, Jack Spring-heeled . A large area was the scene of his appearances, from the suburbs of London to Liverpool.
One evening, the doorbell of the family Alsop, a Berahind Lane in the town of Bow, he began playing again. The parents then sent their daughter Jane to open the door. The figure was indistinguishable in the dark, and so she came up immediately with the candle. He will say that he saw red eyes, face horribly malformed covered by a transparent sphere and a strange light that hung from his chest. A flash of blue invests the girl. The lashes out at him. To emit a dull and gloomy. The girl tries to escape but was immobilized and, tell, the creature began to scratch his face, neck and back and cut locks of hair. Upon arrival, parents and neighbors, attracted by the cries of the girl, "Jack" a leap that left his mouth open to everyone present.
The attacks multiplied. Among the suspects, there was also Marquis Henry de la Poer Beresford of Waterford, a nobleman who practice different sports, with a restless and inclined to make jokes of various kinds. It was said that he had built boots with springs that allowed him to make extraordinary leaps, but he died in 1859, while "Jack" for a long time will continue to attack men and women.
In 1877, in Newport, "Jack" was struck by several shots rifle at short range, but it vanished the same with a prodigious leap, "according to the words of the witnesses.
In 1877, in Newport, "Jack" was struck by several shots rifle at short range, but it vanished the same with a prodigious leap, "according to the words of the witnesses.
The last appearance was recorded on September 10, 1904 , in Liverpool, where he was seen by thousands of people jumping from rooftop to rooftop with his laugh on the devil.
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