
Spring-Heeled Jack (Victorian Mystery!)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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- The Unmanly Blowman, a Ghost, a Bear and a Devil
By december, the london newspapers were starting to report on these events. They were sceptical, saying that they were the kinds of stories that circulated among servant girls. However, they didn't rule out the possibility that there was something at the base of them. And on january, ninth of the new year, the lord mayor of london, sir john cohan, was holding a public session in mansion house,. He revealed he had received an anonymous complaint a few days earlier: "A writer presumes that your lordship will kindly overlook the liberty he has taken in addressing a few lines" The affair has now been going on for some time, and, strange to say,
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In 19th century London, residents reported a ghostly figure in outrageous costumes would accost them, sometimes bellowing blue flame in their faces, and then vanish in the night. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli ask who was Spring-Heeled Jack and did he really exist.
