
Spring-Heeled Jack (Victorian Mystery!)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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Springhill Jack - The Fall of the Black Hawks
A carpenter named thomas millbank, who had a companion that was a bricklayer named payne came under suspicion. A man named james smith witnessed the encounter with jane alsop mike dash explains the testimony of a coach wheelwright called james Smith seemed particularly devastating. Later that night in the coburn road, paines said to the other, it was rascally. I have no doubt but that the man milbank was the person who had so frightened the missus elsop.
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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.
