The Original Urban Legend: Spring-heeled Jack

Nineteenth-century London—a time and place of scientific advancement and technological development, but also abject poverty and income inequality—and the hunting ground of Spring-Heeled Jack. The fire-breathing, wall-leaping, claw-wielding devil attacked women in their homes and in the streets, terrorizing England for more than 50 years.

In this episode you’ll learn how Spring-Heeled Jack manifested the fears of the development of urban spaces and the upheaval of social classes and lifestyle changes city life afforded in the 1800s. Was he based on a notorious real-life aristocrat? Or a group of copycats using the mysterious monster as an excuse for bad behavior? Find out how Spring-heeled Jack, one of the first urban legends, became both a terrifying boogeyman in the press and an avenging hero in fiction.

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