Spring-Heeled Jack: The Demon of Victorian London

· 53 min·

n the winter of 1838, a fire-breathing figure began stalking the dark lanes of East London — clearing walls no man should clear, blinding women with blue chemical flame, and vanishing before a single torch could find a face. No body. No arrest. No answer. What remained was a legend that outlived every suspect, crossed forty miles and forty years to haunt a military garrison, and resurfaced on Liverpool rooftops in 1904 — in broad daylight, in front of a staring crowd.