Spring-Heeled Jack Deep Dive: Fact or Fiction? Exploring the Victorian Urban Legend

[@Stevehatesgravel]

Reminds me of the tale of the phantom raspberry blower of old London Town

[@user.Chrissyzaurus]

Omg was that 2 Ronnie's vaguely remember it 😅

[@rosie_nix]

That was inspired by him, and JTR.

[@domcampbell9428]

Blast from the past 😃

[@Simonsuryakant]

Spring - Heeled Jack is one of my favourite Urban Legend. Greeting from Sweden :)

[@eeriesvault]

I hope you enjoy the video, thank you 👍👍

[@Simonsuryakant]

@@eeriesvault Ofc I did, great job!

[@Paul_1971]

I have been obsessed with Jack since I saw him in a myths and legends book when I was about 8. Cant wait to sit down and have a proper watch of this!

[@Rat_Queen86]

I’m glad you mentioned the similarities to Batman. Spring Heeled Jack does actually remind me of a Batman villain- the Scarecrow. He was all about fear, scaring people and was a tall, imposing figure, which is interesting. Great research and video!

[@oneoflokis]

Yes. And the acclaimed writer Philip Pullman had that idea as long ago as the late 1980s, in the form of his children's graphic novel entitled Spring Heeled Jack (which of course does not mention Batman for copyright reasons. But the parallels are obvious. And Pullman was obviously inspired by some of the later "Jack" related penny dreadfuls.)

[@celestenova777]

This has been the most in depth video of Spring Heeled Jack I've heard, great research! It's complex and I changed my mind whether he was a supernatural being or human, still not sure but he does sound rather alien, a bizarre case for sure.

[@eeriesvault]

It's on odd one. I am leaning towards "human", with the majority of attacks seeming to fit with that. I think the ghostly versions and animal versions might have been subsumed into the lore by way of the penny dreadful stories and reported in the papers as fact. But who really knows?

[@oneoflokis]

​@@eeriesvaultIndeed!

[@oneoflokis]

I agree! But I like the one on Bob Gymlan's KZbin channel too. Have you seen that one?

[@randallbesch2424]

@@eeriesvault just imagine the Spring-Heel Jack has escalated over the centuries turning from a masher to a molester to a rapist-murderer leaving grisly tableaus of his kills? But what is he? Glowing red eyes says parabiological being and super jumping abilities have also manifest from such beings over the years. Did it start as a man fixed up then another exemplar of the PHENOMENA takes over copying then going beyond what no human could do then and now?

[@jimroberts3009]

Japanese songster, Retro TV maestro and now Eerie Tale story teller! My god sir, is there no end to your talent!

[@eeriesvault]

I can do laminate flooring as well 😂😂😂

[@jimroberts3009]

​@@eeriesvaultDo you do free estimates? 😂😂😂

[@jStevieO1]

Great Job ! excellence in Derkness !

[@jessehutchings]

Absolutely wonderful episode with exciting accounts and delivered with the narrator's signature charm. G'day, lads

[@jespermortensen-sj5fl]

Fedt content 😊

[@dinara_safina]

So glad I watched this before it got dark, haha. I'm hoping you cover Jenny Greenteeth sometime. She scared the crap out of me as a kid!

[@eeriesvault]

Definitely on the list 👍👍

[@randallbesch2424]

There is one movie that had Jenny Greenteeth played by Robert Picardo and it was a terrifying character.

[@dinara_safina]

@@randallbesch2424 Was that Ripley Scott's Legend? I've always loved that movie. There was a show too in the 80's that featured Jenny Greenteeth, but sadly, I don't know what it was.

[@Duececoupe]

You just popped up in my feed, watched, liked and subscribed! Greetings and salutations from a Swede in Glasgow! 🍻

[@eeriesvault]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@kidcthulhufortney1320]

A most excellent video. I appreciate your dependence on contemporary sources and the de-emphasis on the recent alien nonsense. I like how you approach the story analytically and with healthy skepticism as opposed to the more ludicrous material I've seen on Ol' Jack.

[@jesseglass5674]

I quite enjoyed this. As a fan and researcher of Springheeled Jack, I was very happy to see new sources to take a look at in your excellent program. Not sure if you consulted Mike Dash's paper on Springheels--it's online- but take a look if you haven't. There was also a Springheeled Jack active in Baltimore, Maryland in the Highland Town area in 1941. This was reported in the Baltimore papers. It seems he got around. You also did not mention that Todd Slaughter portrayed Springheels Jack in the movie The Curse of the Wraydons. Take care and a many thanks! Jesse Hlass

[@Zafarnama111]

Excellent as always, Sir Eerie. Your content is improving with each upload.

[@Geffo555]

Excellent. You put so much detail into your stories. And I do love a mystery.

[@bigbossimmotal]

YES! I suggested this as a good topic for an EV video. This is gonna be GOOD!

[@bigbossimmotal]

NATURALLY I was not disappointed! THIS is exactly why I thought this would be the PERFECT vid for you to make. I am very glad that you did. As soon as I heard your take on 'The Sandown Clown' I knew you would be the one to do Jacks story some justice. I like the imagery in this one too. That shot at 8:00 where he has 7 fingers on each hand, that must be A.I. I assume? The A.I. doesn't seem to be able to do human hands very well.

[@solidshadow01]

Excellent and comprehensive layout! Thank you!

[@zm73will]

I've always been fascinated by him. As a child in the 70s, I always pictured the hymn 'lord of the dance' as a Spring Heeled Jack character dancing on the roof tops of Victorian smokey rooftops.

[@SueKing-hy7kj]

Im from Liverpool and my grandad reckoned he saw him

[@robertseddon2512]

😊 I will watch this while eating my tea later, from what I can remember jack was seen in my neck of the woods Liverpool in the early 20th century. ❤

[@eeriesvault]

Yep, near Everton

[@jessehutchings]

Y'all are EATING tea now??

[@stevendunkley8284]

​@@eeriesvaulta friend of mine witnessed him in Everton . He goes by the name of jumping jack now apparently

[@CarolWoosey-ck2rg]

​@@eeriesvaultMy Grandmother witnessed it

[@hollywoodpineapple8337]

@@stevendunkley8284 In recent times? O.O did he do anything in particular?

[@mikebelshaw7718]

A great video, very enjoyable

[@stevebrooks1311]

Loved it, great research, great insight, great video!

[@eeriesvault]

Thank you 👍

[@LocustaVampa]

He's one of the best Monster In My Pocket figures. Such a chipper chap.

[@robertseddon2512]

Love the jack art work .

[@dwitefry4157]

If there was one thing I wanted you to put in your vaut, it was my man Jack. And unsurprisingly, you did a bloody good job.

[@thefrecklepuny]

Get this villian made into a movie! Spring Heeled Jack is a fantastic name.

[@mikebelshaw7718]

This guy is must likely a ET visitor, having a laugh

[@CWHardwick]

Wow, I wonder if I'm related to the Mr.Hardwick in the story, I still have family in the area 😊

[@CordellPotts]

The ladies having "violent fits for hours" after having contact with the blue flame... Some kind of nerve toxin? Was it even a flame? Or did it's color and density resemble a flame?

[@raziel3726]

Great video 👍🏻👍🏽👍🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@jamesmentzer]

Shapeshifters maybe?

[@jrc1568]

It's like he enjoyed the shock and fear he received rather than intending 'harm' in a lot of cases.. Bit like an extreme prankster. Could even be a case of extreme 'hysteria' as people do like to elaborate and add to odd claims, even today you can see this in videos and cgi that some people post up. There's always an element who will believe in more or less anything. Strange, terrifying and fascinating. It actually adds to the legend that it has never been solved.

[@DJAMAJD]

Spring Heeled Jack was just an OG free runner 😂

[@Unknown-UpTown-Resident]

U know an episode is good when it feels like it went by in 20 minutes, then u look and see it was 50 minutes long!! 🤣

[@eeriesvault]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@h.bsfaithfulservant4136]

You're going from strength to strength Eerie 👍 I reckon you really enjoyed this one... your neighbours must be terrified of you if they hear you recording 😆. I've heard that Alistair Crowley was a British Intelligence asset... I'm thinking old Springy might have been the same, and Jack the Ripper/s ...ditto.

[@donaldedgar1004]

It could be like a mechanical robot but not of that time or realm perhaps 😎

[@robwatson3027]

Nice video, but where's your accent from, dude?

[@douglas136]

I always wondered if Jack the Ripper took inspiration from Spring heeled Jack?

[@StephanieFlynn-y3i]

Very interesting.

[@oneoflokis]

Spring-heeled Jack terrorised businessmen out after dark; and servant boys answering the door of fine houses for their masters as well. One of those said he saw an embroidered initial plus a coat of arms on the latter's chest as well. 🙂

[@iamgod6464]

It was an Entity from another Dimension. A Portal had opened up, Spring Heel Jack entered wondered around for a while, then exited.😈

[@randallbesch2424]

Then returns again and again all over the globe?

[@phantom_not_chopper]

AR as ER drove me nuts this type of thing is right up my derk alley but I had to switch it off

[@Ricimer671]

I am really glad you posted this comment as I thought it was just me!

[@garryarmit8688]

Why is he doing that?​@@Ricimer671

[@andrewflowerandrehew9765]

The boots of springheeld jack are in the elder scrolls iv oblivion

[@JamesLynch-h5w]

Spring Heeled Jack is quite a good story, but just that. No physical evidence. Just stories, but good ones! Urban legend back in the day. However... Where did that urban legend come from? What was the spark?

[@austinisfullpleasedontmove653]

It is straight out of Scooby Doo.

[@faithruckdeschel1294]

I always thought SHJ was the malevolent spirit of Jack the Ripper, but I'm guessing JTR came after?

[@eeriesvault]

Yep a few decades later

[@randallbesch2424]

Some claim that old Jack has been around for longer than 100 years traveling all over the world. He was also shot at by soldiers. Any relation to the "Mad Gasser of Mattoon" by chance?

[@eeriesvault]

The Mad Gasser did crop up in my research but I wasn't sure how "paranormal" a situation that was

[@ericsonofjames4573]

I’m trying to figure what could cause blue flame? It’s mentioned more than once. Was there a flame throwing device back then that could have been modified?

[@eeriesvault]

I'm thinking it might have been a parlour trick like when fire eaters spit flames. In the Alsop case Jack holds the candle close to his face and then spits the flame.

[@ericsonofjames4573]

@@eeriesvault That’s a good idea. I don’t recall hearing about multiple fire breath attacks. But what chemical would burn blue? And let’s not forget back then they were using mercury and lead as medicine. Who knows what they might have used. Maybe SHJ stopped because he poisoned himself.

[@FriedaFuzzypaws-f3h]

Corvo Attano has entered the chat

[@JeffTheJoker-ci1iq]

Just my two cents here, but I don't think it to be entirely out of the realm of possibility that Jack was indeed a member of the aristocracy, and was in concert with others, in possession of an unknown, exotic technology which they had acquired from a prior, much more technologically advanced, older civilization, and that this technology is what enabled Jack to do these seemingly inhuman, supernatural things. This technology could have had some form of holographic projection also, which enabled the appearance of various life forms, in an exaggerated context, thus contributing to the fear factor. I believe it is possible, though admittedly theoretical on my part, that this was meant to test the prototypical form of this reverse engineered technology....This seems to be rather outlandish in terms of theory, but I trust, is no more outlandish than Jack himself.

[@rackthejipper5304]

I was thinking that if Jack actually existed, he could have been a magician who had worked out ways to perform illusions on random people. For example, the breathing of flames could have just been the spewing of alcohol being lit by a flame, which would explain why he asked for the lit candle and was carrying a lit torch.

[@themajesticmagnificent386]

It was important to people of Victorian Britain to name anyone of infamy “Jack”….Perhaps if they didn’t name anyone of questionable character “Jack”..Then both Spring heel and the Ripper would never have had happened.!

[@cynthiagibson6793]

Mar- KEE

[@afwalker1921]

I'm sorry to say this, but this is just fun!

[@mrliberty8468]

Perhaps an illusion maybe a simple projection.

[@jamescasey240]

Funny! Try running around Peckham these days in a brass suit! You'd get stripped and your suit weighed in at the scrappy 8 the next morning! 😂

[@lj90256]

There’s a spring heeled jack in the steam punk tarot. Google image it. 😊❤️👍🏽🇬🇧

[@balazsvarga1823]

A bored prankster with money embellished by rumors. Remember how objects seem taller in the dark? Maybe he climbed tall walls that were climbable by a nimble and fit person. -Be a prankster who likes tearing at women's clothes. -100 years later, nanananananana Batman!

[@griff5476]

London's Victorian anti-Spiderman.

[@Vejur9000]

England’s Mothman, in mock human form.

[@AgentHarris-ww1sy]

comgrats on 6.66K subs

[@dalegallacher7074]

He was the father of parkour

[@LucicPower]

Isembard Kingdom Brunel

[@princerupert6161]

For my pert.. I won't listen in the derk.... I do love a good perrtie with my dear old fairder...oh, please! C'mon.. Why the faux jordie? Hebben? 😅

[@somniumisdreaming]

Not geordie reckon Shields or Sunderland.

[@somniumisdreaming]

Or maybe west Northumberland. Whatever, its not fake geordie. Its a northern accent from nearby though.

[@Foreversumner]

Sounds like a shapeshifting alien

[@randallbesch2424]

Would make for an interesting novel and movie(s) I'd say.

[@monstermoonshine]

I didn't know about the appearances involving ghostly bull, bear, and baboons. The baboon form reminded me of the Monkey-man incident in India in 2001, whose behavior is also similar to the spring-heeled Jack (though the Monkey-man is not as tall as the baboon mentioned in this video). The channel Bedtime Stories explored the Monkey-Man recently for those who are interested: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eYC6g5p4iMeqY6M

[@davidgoodfellow2384]

There's a few spring heeled Jack's around these parts appropriately named hedge hoppers I notice Jack has an unhealthy apatite for young lasses as do the local hedge hoppers we know who you are can't prove it but if I catch you you'll wish you had springs like dirty jack

[@las10plagas]

I have seen many videos aubout Jack, but non of them were so in depth as this video. from the other videos, I had the impression, that Jack only attacked a few people in one city and then disappeared. the other youtubers didn't do their homework, I guess ;-) I just don't understand why they thought these animal attacks were done by Jack O__o

[@eeriesvault]

Yeah that's not clear from the reports at all and I think they might be fictional elements that were unwittingly synthesised with the factual encounters.

[@randallbesch2424]

@@eeriesvault such things can happen with those more interested in selling over reality.

[@cynthiagibson6793]

Is crowd madness

[@Budgie-d6k]

I just killed him on assassins creed syndicate, he was a sod to catch but I got the bugger!

[@eeriesvault]

Did you get a trophy called "Jumping Jack Flash" or something like that?

[@Budgie-d6k]

@@eeriesvault Nah mate ... The only jumpin jack flash I got is on through the past darkly by the Stones

[@tollcross4755]

What is the "derkness" ?😮

[@christinespaulding8332]

Got to be paranormal or imagination

[@randallbesch2424]

Imagination isn't that strong.

[@mikebelshaw7718]

What happened to the pol on were your from I,e your accent

[@garyfinn8772]

Alexxxx

[@cynthiagibson6793]

You eat tea and not drink it?

[@EVITANDY]

Where is your accent from? Some of your pronunciation is bizarre.

[@deewhite4346]

Been wondering that , it's driving me mad trying to figure it out 😂

[@sb6678]

Weird accent of narrator. Probably AI

[@randallbesch2424]

Probably Irish a well known A.I. accent.

[@CWHardwick]

Not weird at all, and it's an actual person. Listen closely

[@ENG5759]

In 2021 myself and two daughters seen a black figure standing under a tree, it changed shape and leapt across the car bonnet that we were travelling in ( 20mph ) it disappeared up an ally way, three of us saw it it came within the length of the car bonnet. ( Rock ferry wirral )

[@JamesLynch-h5w]

Spring Heeled Jack is quite a good story, but just that. No physical evidence. Just stories, but good ones! Urban legend back in the day. However... Where did that urban legend come from? What was the spark?

[@randallbesch2424]

Maybe from real happenings.