From Hell (Jack the Ripper) - History Buffs Reaction

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[@andyserri]

Yes! After watchng your reaction to Lemmino's Jack the Ripper around 670 times probably, I've been waiting for more of it~

[@joelsirola5440]

I actually had a routine every weekend on friday or saturday to watch it bcs it's so good + VTH commentary on top is just amazing

[@MultiPhoenix06]

@@andyserri It's SO good. Pretty much perfect

[@HistoryBuffBro]

Sir, I have never seen anybody use the tilde in a sentence other than when they’re making a sentence look more sensual in fanfiction… and by anybody I mean me.

[@austinhgat]

I thought I was the only one religiously rewatching that video!!

[@ggx4971]

Same! I wish he did more content about Jack the Ripper

[@jake5773]

I think it was the ghost of Napoleon getting back at the British public for calling him short. HE WAS AVERAGE HEIGHT FOR THE TIME!!

[@kylirwolffe5614]

lol 😂 I can believe that.

[@PopeSixtusVI]

My psych nurse dad suggests that the letters degrade in quality possibly because the writer's mental health was deteriorating; hence the deaths getting more viscious. He also believed the killer died shortly thereafter of God knows what (drunken accident, smoking, heart attack, who knows) because someone like that wouldnt stop killing until he was caught or died.

[@LordValorum]

I think a certain Batman series had a good way to describe this. Young Bruce tries to uncover a grand conspiracy to murder his parents but eventually it all is just nothing and Albert explains to him "Sometimes there isnt a great conspiracy. Sometimes horrible things just happen..."

[@DonnyTinyHands]

Fun Fact: Woodrow Wilson was Jack the Ripper.

[@hydrogammer7623]

Would explain a lot.

[@I_Stole_A_BTR-80]

Instead of childish insults in politics, I want something more like this. Just nonsense like "You're responsible for the Siege of Vienna" or "You ordered the charge for the Anglo Saxons at the Battle of Hastings"

[@GeckoTalks]

​@@I_Stole_A_BTR-80 agreed

[@vicenteignaciodiaz7012]

@@I_Stole_A_BTR-80 "Your tax policy was so bad, it caused the bronze age collapse."

[@jazmine.leigh227]

I did a huge Jack the Ripper presentation as my final project for high school 11 years ago…I still will never tire of JTR content!! Especially from you. A fascinating case during a fascinating time period.

[@thenewjack5927]

H😊

[@jc_money_us9598]

Loved your Lemmino reactions all of them!

[@jeffslote9671]

From Hell was written by Alan Moore. He’s one of the greatest graphic novelists in history. V for vendetta, The Watchmen, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and various other great works. If haven’t read his books go do it now

[@BrianS_IN]

Same thoughts on Mindhunters. It is a crime there were no more seasons!

[@username.exenotfound2943]

david finchers fault, mindhuter and kingdom were the best netflix shows prematurely canceled and maybe warrior

[@thewoogs]

I was so into it and it just ended randomly 😭

[@BleydTorvall]

History Buffs does such great work, I think I've watched all his videos so far. You more or less fact checking him and adding a bit more detail and context is always a treat.

[@bryanmclaughlin7020]

Sad you can’t react to leminos videos anymore, good on you for respecting his wishes though!

[@bryancurrie1486]

Wait, why can’t he? Did Lemmino tell him to stop after the JFK video?

[@josephb4224]

Yea I'm curious about this too

[@jacthing1]

Yeah why can't he?

[@jake5773]

Lemino asked people to stop reacting to his videos. It was mostly streamers that were "stealing" his content to make money off of. VTH never gets money for his reaction videos, the original content creators do, but he respected Lemino's perspective and quit reacting to his videos.

[@jc_money_us9598]

@@jake5773 VTH doesnt make anything from any of his reaction videos or just the Lemmino videos?

[@lukaslambs5780]

1. The KZbin copyright system is broken and could destroy the app if they aren’t careful (and I’m sorry you have to deal with it) 2. I saw Lemino say something to the effect of “I don’t like reaction content” in a q&a he posted a few months ago. 3. Awesome video as always!

[@bertmustin]

His choice but very disappointing to hear even if a lot of his content isn't historically related.

[@philingrouille7198]

I would also recommend Debunk File's Jack the Ripper video. Doesn't just go over the murders and suspects, but it also goes through each victims life before they were killed. It's on par with Lemmino's Jack the Ripper video

[@collimus]

I just finished Ripper Street since you recommended it in your lemmino video. I loved it! Thank you, Chris.

[@michaelshelton5488]

Scotland Yard should've brought in Sherlock Holmes to consult on this case.

[@TheMoviePlanet]

44:01 Just so you know, the author Alan Moore famously disdains every film made from his works (which include this, V for Vendetta, Constantine, Watchmen, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen,...) and requests his name not be included in the credits.

[@adamwitkowski2240]

After the 30th time watching the lemmino reaction I started getting videos popping up from a channel called Jack The Ripper Tour. He does excellent work all of his videos are on Jack the Ripper and true crime in Victorian London in general it’s fascinated me. Highly reccomend watching him he brings in authors and historians to talk abt all aspects of the case and their opinions. For an amateur KZbin historian it’s like candy I can’t get enough of it!

[@thefloatingkudu]

I absolutely love listening to you speak about the ripper - the reactions to lemmino were top-tier! Would love to see you do another deep dive on this topic in the future!

[@A.J.Clemente]

Geroge Lusk is always presented as some violent vigilante organising mobs. In the 1988 TV series Jack the Ripper starring Michael Caine, they even portray Lusk as a menacing communist rabble-rouser. In fact, he was quite a slight man with a soft-spoken voice who was only interested in setting up passive neighbourhood watch communities.

[@hans-petterlangvik3154]

( "In the grand scream" is enough for me to give you a thumbs up, lol ), keep up the good work.

[@GodlessScummer]

Alan Moore notoriously refuses to get involved with any movie adaptations of his books. Whether it be Watchmen, V for Vendetta, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, or From Hell.

[@chinahepcat]

Murder by Decree is a great movie, very fictionalized but great, imo. I agree From Hell was not a good film but the sets and costumes were amazing.

[@JervisGermane]

Ooh! This looks exciting. I'll have to listen to it right after I finish listening to the other video of yours I'm currently listening to.

[@danielallen3454]

Since it's mentioned in the video, if you have any interest in history and haven't read it yet, 'Devil in the White City' is a fantastic read. It juxtaposes the task of building the World's Fair and all the work and wrangling that went into creating a human marvel with the hideous career of Holmes and the building if his human deathtrap.

[@rseandunham]

Second the suggestion. I am almost afraid that the movie will focus too much on Homes and not as much on the building of the Fair which is as interesting as the building of the Murder Castle. The book provides both.

[@zigzgshodzixhoxohxh3800]

0:46 anyone know why Chris doesn’t react to Lemmino anymore?

[@antonakesson]

To honor LEMMiNO's wishes of no reactions to his videos

[@zigzgshodzixhoxohxh3800]

@@antonakessonthanks! Didn’t know Lemmino had requested that

[@generichuman2044]

Sadly lots of lazy streamers were playing his videos in full while eating or leaving the room, adding absolutely nothing. They also left no reason for anyone to click on the original so they took views and money from Lemmino

[@9Ballr]

I let out a grand scream when I saw this reaction video!

[@colax13459]

The Mary Jane Kelly images is horrifying

[@johnmcmanus2447]

Yes it is. That poor woman. Just imagining what her final moments must've been like is just...**shudders**

[@colax13459]

@@johnmcmanus2447Jack the Ripper is terrible human being but Mary Jane Kelly photos is just sick

[@daytrippera]

"People will look back and say I gave birth to the 20th Century" Bilbo Baggins

[@professorpewpuew]

Loved your Lemmino reaction to Jack. Been looking forward to more!

[@marinanguish9928]

I'm sorry if Lemmino has been retired from reactions, his video are pretty good

[@argantyr5154]

10:09 is that where the term "hangover" comes from ?

[@hazardousmaterial5492]

Yes

[@zeroforcemember]

Down and out in Paris and London by George Orwell has a pretty good description of those sleeping quarters

[@Skyruff-the_original]

I agree with the take that as a group, people abhor chaos, we prefer to think that there is something or someone behind the scene in complete control no matter the evidence. We feel comfort in any form of control when compared to the sheer terror we feel in chaos.

[@johnf-americanreacts1287]

I too a ripper tour just last month while I was in London. So fascinating to walk those same streets.

[@MaxVolumeHD]

The main actor in Mindhunter is Jonathan Groff from Hamilton too which is pretty funny to see him in such a different role

[@antonakesson]

Btw for anyone wondering where that speech about "eyes of a psychopath" comes from it is from Halloween (2007) performed by Malcolm McDowell. Horrible remake of a classic that I still love just due to how young I was and being part of my journey through slasher movies.

[@harmonydavis6784]

Mind hunter is GREAT.... Jonathan Groff is one of my favorite actors

[@charlayned]

I'm so glad you busted that H.H. Holmes thing, that's a ridiculous assumption on several parts. I've seen other "documentaries" that have the Ripper coming to America, one of which discussed him killing a prostitute in Galveston and another that he was the "Servant Annihilator" of Austin Tx (or the Austin Axe Man, another name given). It's all so weird and we'll never know for sure. I've toyed with the thought of him being a vampire, due to the disappearance, but that's been done to death (pun not intended). I write vampire novels and I do a lot of research before writing. Your discussion of things not invented yet made me think of the writing of my first book when I spent about a month looking at clothing that was and wasn't in late 1800s and 1900. Things like bra's, zippers, hair conditioner, etc. I drove the archivists in New Orleans crazy trying to find out when the first car was used in the city. I'm going to be going to watch your Lemmino series next. Thanks for a great afternoon of Ripperology.

[@lankylankersson3246]

On the vampire element. It was a long time since I read it but this is played with in the "official" Dracula sequel by Bram Stokers great grand-nephew (or something like that) but I have a memory of it covering "the Autumn of Terror". In case you want to give it a read for part of research into the idea, I won't spoil details - especially as by now I've forgotten specifics and I don't have any inclination to reread it!

[@charlayned]

​@@lankylankersson3246 Hmmm, I'll have to give that a read. I have worked in Vlad Dracula in my series (he's retired, tired of the vampire politics and the way the society is). I also have Jean Lafitte (because no one knows where he is buried or exactly when he died, so....) and Gregori Rasputin because anyone who can be poisoned, shot, stabbed, and thrown into an icy river deserves to be immortal (I know, they found the body but....) They not the major characters, But Lafitte is there pretty much all the time with the mains and Rasputin just joined the story and has a small bit to play. :)

[@marsindustries]

Murder by Decree Is another film about Jack the Ripper that I actually really enjoy, it stars Christopher Plummer and James Mason as Sherlock Holmes and John Watson, respectively. It’s highly fictionalized as well, since it’s loosely inspired by the book by Stephen Knight; but still a favorite of mine nonetheless!

[@IDKeffect82]

So you knew I looked up the photos and you were right. This person is a legit monster who had no bounds.

[@williamowsley9771]

Great job again. Fascinating story. Still unsolved over 120 years on. Scotland Yard's DB Coooper.

[@funckeykillerf7234]

You should really watch the 1988 mini series, its not accurute to who Jack the ripper was, but its handling the royal conspericy much better then this movie.

[@djflick8631]

Still watch your Lemino reactions for Jacky boy every once in a while great stuff !!

[@terasmith4769]

Patricia Cornwell wrote a book pointing to Walter Sickert as the killer.

[@davidwalker3626]

On the Jack the Ripper Tour channel, author and Ripperologist Steven Blomer and the host Richard Jones have a video discussing whether or not Aaron Kosminksi is the best candidate for Inspector Swanson's "Kosminkski." It is about an hour-long discussion, and interestingly Blomer prevents tons of evidence showing that Aaron Kosminski is indeed still the most likely candidate of any Polish Jew committed at that time that we know about.

[@HA1LILPALAZZO]

22:53 I am so glad you pointed this out you know, that the From Hell letters and the previous two were most likely two seperate people. I do agree that the first 2 letters were most likely hoaxes, by journalists looking for a scoop or by some weirdo who just got lucky(!) with the details. I have come across a couple of other reasons for the different letters. - They are from the killers (team of two and they are sending thm to annoy the police) - They are both fake (a lot of weirdoes in the East End of London) I mean the police did get a letter from one saying they were a giant vulture I would love to have a conversation about the East End murders with you :)

[@VillesSacrament]

Great video. Have been learning/researching Jack the Ripper for about 22 years now and never get tired of learning more. Had a couple of questions…do you think that there was 2 killers or just one person committing the crimes? And also makes me wonder if the And have you heard of the theory that Degas was Jack the Ripper? Saw that one recently on TikTok. Like hearing the theories that other people might have about who Jack the Ripper was.

[@TerminalSports45]

44:04 Oh that's just par for the course of Alan Moore, the guy infamously hates every adaptation of his comics and graphic novels (notably Watchmen) with the exception of one. A Justice League episode called "For the Man Who Has Everything." So much so that he allowed himself to be credited as a writer in the episode which is extremely rare from him.

[@mikey3244]

So excited I love your Jack the Ripper content!

[@JohanLindwall-cn4gf]

Appreciate your "range" when it comes to your reactions, watching and reacting to all periods of history.

[@ScottLatimer2486]

As to your comment at 44:21 where they mess up stories that are already so interesting, I have wondered that about a LOT of movies.

[@TheTonyahawk]

While the murders themselves don't exactely match so much of the Zodiac mirrors this. Like Jack the Zodiac will never be solved.

[@TheHistoryKing-SE24]

I own this movie and I thought it was good, despite the obvious inaccuracies. I also don’t blame him Chris for basically having a “Holy Shit” moment because for a second the video showed the ACTUAL photo of Mary Jane Kelly.

[@kilagorila]

You rating the suspects from 1-10 in that previous vid was really interesting to hear. If you do the same with the Zodiac suspects one day, it will be my new favourite thing on this channel aha

[@Davanthall]

I genuinely do apologize if this comes across as insensitive, but....I seriously don't understand what you're talking about when you discuss how "horrifying" the Mary Jane Kelly photographs are. Maybe I'm looking at the wrong ones, idk, but every photo of that scene I've found is extremely blurry and fuzzy, I mean this is a camera from 1888 after all. I just don't get how some one could be "scarred for life" when you have to actively try and decider which fuzzy gray blob is supposed to be a wound and which fuzzy gray blob is supposed to be the gore on the bed and which fuzzy gray blob is supposed to be one of the few parts of her body that wasn't mutilated. I'm sorry, I just...I've seen pencil drawings that are creepier and more disturbing than that photo....

[@z247-d5t]

Great video. I pretty much agree with you on everything. Especially that there was another kosmisky.

[@davidnicholas7516]

The Royal Conspiracy thing always seemed crazy to me, but of course it's the sort of thing that appeals to people. I read a bunch of books about Jack when I was in high school and just after (which means 50 years ago) and one of them made an interesting point, or suggestion. According to that author, there was a rumor going around after Mary Jane Kelly's murder, that the Prince Albert Royal or whatever his name was had been seen leaving the apartment. The author accepted that the actual prince wasn't the killer, but supposed that said killer might have *resembled* the prince, and been mistaken for him. There are a million theories. As for H.H. Holmes I agree with Chris, there are few similarities. One other intriguing (though again highly unlikely) connection is the much less well-known "Servant Girl Annihilator" who terrorized Austin, Texas a couple of years earlier. The biggest problem with this connection is that the Austin murderer used an axe, not a knife, and didn't perform any "surgery" beyond killing the women with said axe. By the way, in this case we know the nickname came from a writer: O. Henry (pen name of William Sydney Porter, a short story writer of considerable renown) coined the name for the guy while working as a journalist.

[@BedsitBob]

The two part movie, starring Michael Caine and Lewis Collins, was excellent.

[@snhojpoj535]

I highly recommend the first season of a show called Whitechapel, it's about a copycat Jack the Ripper in the modern day

[@TorvusVae]

One thing that gets overlooked sometimes when people say the investigation into Jack the Ripper was incompetent or that they shouldn't have cleaned up the crime scenes is that at this time, police forces were a new thing. No one really knew yet whether the priority of the police should be keeping the peace or investigating crimes. Most of what they did was basically riot control. The show you mentioned, Ripper Street, does a really great job of portraying this.

[@lutherfloyd597]

Hey VTH, I was wondering if there's anywhere we could take a look at your essays about jack the ripper?

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

I don't have a copy of it unfortunately. Typed on a word processor in the days before computers.

[@thebattlefieldgods2126]

You could ask your school if they have a copy? ​@@VloggingThroughHistory

[@CosmosJack]

The podcast "Morbid" does one of the best Jack the Ripper presentations for 2 reasons - each of the 5 episodes tells the life story of one of the victims, and one of the hosts is an autopsy technician so she drives home how incredibly skilled and knowledgeable JtR must have been given her own experience.

[@gianlucapinelli6807]

Great video

[@generichuman2044]

I despise how studios think you can only sell movies by having the most outlandish answer to an unsolved case. Like most serial killer cases, the real solve is probably quite boring and just shows the horrors that everyday people are capable of. London was one of the busiest citites in the world at this time. Ships and carts were arriving with tourists and immigrants from everywhere all the time. JTR could just be someone who had killed elsewhere in the world and was bought to London for work or pleasure, killing whilst he was there and then vanishing into the night. There are so many possible suspects already so why do people feel the need to create grand conspiracies. Respect the women who lost their lives and respect the mostly good work of an unprepared set of detectives.

[@svenrio8521]

The Jack the Ripper story is so interesting. The mystery is one of the most interesting in history

[@KyleLamberty1000]

Why dont you react to lemmino any more

[@AMERICANNERD76]

When it comes to infamous and mysterious serial killers, Britain has Jack the Ripper while America has the Zodiac Killer!

[@theunfortunategeneral]

There´s a Sherlock Holmes game about this.

[@lsjansen]

I listened to Patricia Cornwall's book on audio and my suspicion for why she picks the artist is because she personally just does not like him. I was not really able to take her theories/suppositions very seriously once I realized that fact.

[@Alex-s-m2p]

I remember her book. Why didn't she like the artist again?

[@lsjansen]

@@Alex-s-m2p I can't remember exactly, but my impression is that she finds him detestable, doesn't like his artwork, or subject matter. (His artwork is unpleasant to look at, but Cornwell's responses to this artist feel visceral and personal.)

[@sclarke6969]

Closing statement is how i feel about rings of power 😢

[@gmwdim]

I'm not a content creator so I haven't experienced this myself but based on your comments and that of other content creators the YT demonetization policy sounds like a nightmare.

[@ninjawarrior8994]

Idk if you've heard or watched videos from the KZbin Channel "Living Ironically in Europe" but he's just released an hour+ long video called "The History of Hungary I guess"

[@andywarda1481]

This will be good I love your videos and this is an interesting subject. Never seen the movie, but I have read the comic years ago.

[@rainbowappleslice]

Normally i request VTH to do a reaction to 'know your ally: britain', but today i'm requesting a reaction to the new epic history TV series on Nelson's battles. Videos worthy of the legend himself

[@MalikF15]

So the Jack the Ripper had blue balls and found a new victim . That’s really dark

[@robinhooduk8255]

please do a reaction to the ripper diary documentary, i know you dont give it much credence, but id love to see you pick it apart as not seen anyone critical do that, you just hear experts dismiss it but dont give any reasons why.

[@cobbler9113]

Time to pester you to play Sherlock Holmes vs Jack The Ripper on your gaming channel 😄

[@kaseymonroe1063]

I think the cinematography is really good, though. No Mulholland Drive, but really good. Also, Ian Holm is severely underrated. If I'm watching an ahistorical movie, I'll take it over Braveheart any day of the week.

[@simonlewis7253]

Despite the bad accents, I love the film as a piece of entertainment. It inspired my interest in Jack the Ripper. I got the graphic novel afterwards and was disappointed. I found it overblown with nonsense like time travel.

[@chimpboy9760]

It wasn’t a common occurrence. They had like 8 murders a year normally.

[@kieranfrancke790]

Lemino reactions I miss them.

[@brandonstraubel29]

Chris, any chance of updating this to include the Jack the Ripper Tour you did?

[@patjacksonpodium]

24:51 In the movie Terrifier 2, the end of *THAT* scene (iykyk) was heavily inspired by the photos of Mary Kelly's bedroom.

[@LucasLucas-ne4xs]

Murder (especially on the streets) wasn't a common thing in Victorian London. Yes, violent crime was common, gangs were a big problem and poverty, alcoholism and prostitution only generated more crime, but murder wan't very common at all, hence why the new tabloids and the sensational press had a field day with this story.

[@deanellis9030]

Chris please look up Sydney smith nepoleons nemesis

[@adityag9384]

You should play Assassin's Creed Syndicate. A very nice portrayal of Victorian London. There's also a Jack the Ripper DLC which is interesting.

[@deborahgibson9039]

I watched both Ripper Street and Mindhunters as well...both good shows!

[@finalverdict2957]

Can you do a video on H. H. Holmes

[@FilmNerdy]

Hey Chris. Great you did the Jack the Ripper tour. Can I ask who was your tour guide? Was it Richard Jones. He's done TV series, his own YT podcast and books on him and he does the most famous Jack The Ripper tour. I went with him and he's amazing.

[@Drexl_bowie]

I thought it was proven HH Holmes didn’t exist

[@PaulMcElligott]

He definitely existed, although that wasn’t his real name. It’s been proven pretty conclusively that HH Holmes wasn’t Jack the Ripper.

[@justnoone5734]

Wait you don't do reactions from Lemmino anymore? that's kinda sad ngl but I think I can see why .

[@arielabril1981]

Agree with you about Ripper street

[@TheGerudan]

I'm actually surprised to this day that JtR ever got as popular as he (or she?) got, considering that crime must've been rampant in cities like London, New York or Paris back in those days, when the police had little to no means solve cases outside of talking to people.

[@djkazc1818]

Hey Chris, great content. What exactly did you do in London JTR related? Would you recommend?

[@randomperson6433]

Me rewatching Criminal Minds and knowing my TV boyfriend Reid could have figured it out.

[@redss111]

Hello, Chris! I've had a hard day. Good to see your video

[@davidwhitfield6025]

While I do think Michael Caine's Jack the Ripper is probably the best rendition of 1988 London it is one of the first to follow the idea that it is all about HRH Albert Victor (he wasn't made Duke of Clarence and Avondale until 1890 which everyone seems to forget), Dr William Gull and the Masons. This was first put forward in the 1973 BBC TV series. However it does present this view in a far more realistic way. Caine does a fine job although his portrayal of Aberline was muddied by fictitious alcoholism and an affair, though not with any of the Five. Still a good watch. As an aside in the Caine version the term "Juwes" was assumed (by the Mason's amongst the cast) not as a misspelled Jews but to Masonic lore that refers to the three assassins Jubelo, Jubela, and Jubelum. One Ripperoliigist has actually put forward the theory that it was 3 men, HRH, Gull and his son in law Dr. Theodore Dyke Acland who committed the murders based on this word.

[@ceresbane]

so 3 human reviews and they couldn't understand that within context the swastika was not used to glorify germany war crimes but is purely coincidence?

[@jankusthegreat9233]

I remember history buff

[@paolocontest3610]

Why do you not do reactions on Lemmino anymore?

[@jasonrobbins6944]

Wasn’t Jack the Ripper one of the inspirations behind Agatha Christie’s “The ABC Murders?”