How The Legend Of The Spring-Heeled Jack

The Legend of the Spring-Heeled Jack dates all the way back to the early 1800’s to be exact. Tthe first report was in 1837 as described in “ Mike Dash’s exhaustive history of the figure’s reported appearances” , the residents in a london neighborhood started reporting bizarre attacks., Tthey said a “ghost” or “devil” was attacking primarily women;, the figure would ring a doorbell and when someone would answer it would ravage their clothes with its claws., Theretheir were other reports of the figure just attacking people who were out walking the streets., Tthroughout the year there were many similar reports of strange attacks. ThereTheir were many different descriptions and& stories; they were starting to hit majorMajor Londonlondon papers. ,Iin January of 1839, John Cowan, the lord mayor of Londonlondon at the time came out to address the situation bringing up the theory that the attacks were done by a gang of wealthy jerks but that didn’t stop the legend from growing and as

Most of the initial reports took place in primarily smaller villages, but these last two attacks took place closer to the city, and they both drew a lot of attention while this did was “stoke the fire” of the Spring Heeled Jacks legend. After these attacks the Spring-Heeled jack became a popular “boogyman” across london, Parents would tell stories of the jumping devil to scare their kids into listening to them. Mysterious unsolved crimes would be attributed to Jack by reporters looking to sell papers. Reports of Spring-Heeled Jack continued popping up all over the country if less frequently and from much less substantial sources as the spate of occurrences in 1837-38. Copycat attackers were captured all the time trying to take advantage of the