Lucy Scales

An eighteen-year-old from Limehouse. On 28 February 1838 Lucy Scales was walking home with her sister from their brother's house in Narrow Street. In Green Dragon Alley a tall, cloaked man with a small lantern waited in silence, then blew blue flame into her face. She was briefly blinded, fell, and suffered violent fits for hours. Her attack came nine days after Jane Alsop's, yet only one paper reported it. Both cases became the root of the Spring-heeled Jack legend, still recalled when a mob fired on him at Newport Arch, Lincoln, in 1877.

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Spring-heeled Jack and the "Suburban Ghost" scare, London, 1837 to 1838

October 1837 · London suburbs: Clapham Common, Peckham, Old Ford (Bow) and Limehouse

United Kingdom

Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 23 sources

26Thinly documented

Witness and victim, attacked in Green Dragon Alley, Limehouse, aged 18

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Jane Alsop and Spring-heeled Jack: the Bear-bind Lane attack

February 19, 1838 · Bear-bind Lane, between Bow and Old Ford, East London

United Kingdom

Cryptid · Creature · 25 sources

20Thinly documented

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Lucy Scales and Spring-heeled Jack, Green Dragon Alley, Limehouse

February 28, 1838 · Green Dragon Alley, off Narrow Street, Limehouse, East London

United Kingdom

Cryptid · Creature · 23 sources

27Thinly documented

Victim and main witness, of Week's place, Limehouse

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Spring-heeled Jack shot at by a mob at Newport Arch, Lincoln (1877)

c. 1877 · Newport Arch, Lincoln, Lincolnshire

United Kingdom

Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 20 sources

16Thinly documented