1837: The Story of: Spring-heeled Jack - Victorian England's "Bogeyman"

News of the Times 149v | 1837
Spring-heeled Jack - Victorian England's "Bogeyman"
England has its own night time terror bogeyman, called Spring-Heeled Jack!  From news accounts of women being attacked by a mysterious cloaked figure spouting white and blue flames who could leap onto rooftops.  Natch!
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