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The Monkey-man of Delhi panic (Kala Bandar), 2001
31Partially documented
The Houston Batman
18Thinly documented
The Everton Spring-heeled Jack scare in William Henry Street, Liverpool (1904)
14Thinly documented
Spring-heeled Jack in William Henry Street, Everton, Liverpool (1904)
15Thinly documented
The Ballarat Ghost and the police sting on Herbert Patrick McLennan
16Thinly documented
The Dundee Ghost Scare: Blackness Quarry's "Big Black Man" and "Springheels" (1882-83)
17Thinly documented
Spring-heeled Jack shot at by a mob at Newport Arch, Lincoln (1877)
16Thinly documented
Spring-heeled Jack at the Aldershot Sentry Posts
21Thinly documented
The Aldershot Sentry "Ghost": Spring-heeled Jack at North Camp, 1877
18Thinly documented
The Sheffield Park Ghost: Spring-heeled Jack scare and the nightly crowd hunts of 1873
20Thinly documented
The Peckham Ghost scare: a leaping white figure in south London, 1872
20Thinly documented
Lucy Scales and Spring-heeled Jack, Green Dragon Alley, Limehouse
27Thinly documented
Jane Alsop and Spring-heeled Jack: the Bear-bind Lane attack
20Thinly documented
Spring-heeled Jack and the "Suburban Ghost" scare, London, 1837 to 1838
26Thinly documented
Names10
- Spring-heeled Jack Term · 14 stories
A phantom with a name.
- Mike Dash Person · 16 stories
A Fortean historian and writer, Mike Dash turns up across the archive as the careful voice in the debate.
- Illustrated Police News Organisation · 6 stories
A sensational national weekly.
- Peter Haining Person · 6 stories
An author whose books sit behind many retellings of the Spring-heeled Jack legend.
- Aldershot Place · 5 stories
A garrison town in Hampshire, and in 1877 the British Army's main home base.
- Dash Person · 4 stories
Mike Dash is a researcher and writer whose work runs through the archive's Spring-heeled Jack cases.
- Jane Alsop Person · 4 stories
The night of 19 February 1838.
- Lucy Scales Person · 4 stories
An eighteen-year-old from Limehouse.
- News of the World Organisation · 4 stories
A London newspaper that kept turning up when the uncanny made headlines.
- 60th Rifles Organisation · 3 stories
A British army regiment.
Videos24 · see all
The Original Urban Legend: Spring-Heeled Jack
Unmasking the Chilling Legend of Spring-Heeled Jack
Spring-heeled Jack
Spring-Heeled Jack: Terror of Victorian London
Spring-Heeled Jack: The Real Story Behind London's Leaping Phantom
Short Suck #44: The Victorian Monster of Spring-Heeled Jack
Spring-heeled Jack, the Fire-Spewing Phantom of London
Unmasking the Chilling Legend of Spring-Heeled Jack