Spring Heeled Jack, Part 1 - Mythillogical Podcast

[@TheHistocrat]

This podcast is now also available on Spotify, iTunes and Stitcher! You can find it at the links below: Spotify - open.spotify.com/episode/0E8JeUG5Q5mpl0bdWAOdf3 iTunes - podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/spring-heeled-jack-part-1/id1514656609?i=1000496710508 Stitcher - www.stitcher.com/show/mythillogical-podcast/episode/springheeled-jack-part-1-79011977

[@Hav3nM]

I finally found your podcast on my podcast app and I am so thrilled. Thank you

[@AtomicDoorknob]

if you guys do a modern myth i would like to see a video on mothman especially if you aren't familiar with that story

[@WhitneyDahlin]

Really miss this series I was waiting for the mermaid episode with baited breath!

[@121BigRed]

Don't worry about the length of the episodes, the deep dive into the topic is the reason I listen. Looking forward to learning more in the next episode.

[@killintime8431]

Oh gosh James

[@SaintClutch]

Legend has it his boots were used by an apprentice of the grey fox to steal an elder scroll during the oblivion crisis

[@jkwalzo]

Crossover, perfect boots for sneaking into Riftweald Manor at level one to snatch Chillrend, although I wouldn’t recommend due to lower base damage.

[@F.A.Jaramillo]

My friend is in Hospice, and we both listen in the night until she falls asleep. Love your work, much appreciated. 💫

[@elgoogkcuf]

bless your heart. you sound like a one in a million friend.

[@jackmace6531]

legend.

[@jkwalzo]

Bless you dude.

[@kelliv2995]

❤❤❤

[@TheHistocrat]

An additional credit that we forgot to include in the video, a number of the newspaper images used in this video were taken from the British Newspaper Archive.

[@MrBazzabee]

Great show lads. When I was a young boy in the mid-60,s--and I was jumping about in the street. My grandma would shout to me----You look like Spring-Heeled Jack.

[@rojopantalones9791]

I'm incredibly thankful for this series, as I've been using it to better understand just how myths come into being. It's been helpful in the creative writing process to create a more believable and worldly environment for characters to explore. Something that starts out as maybe an obscure animal or strange individual, its story grows in a multi-generational game of telephone to the point where it becomes this completely fantastical being.

[@reporebo]

Best coverage of this legend I’ve heard, really appreciate the depth and analysis you put into this! Can’t wait to listen to more episodes.

[@gh0stdog89]

From memory, the first time I remember hearing of Springheeled Jack was in the Skulduggery Pleasant books

[@patbonny1175]

Springheel Jack is featured in a short story - 'strawberry spring' from "Night Shift" by Stephen King, it was the first time I'd heard of him.

[@sophiehannan8469]

He’s also featured as a recurring character in the Skulduggery Pleasant series!

[@jackieblue9536]

Yes...

[@killintime8431]

And in an old ninja turtles cartoon episode

[@MrKiingpin]

Just found this channel and WOW this podcast is better than most big budget history type documentaries

[@3fingerroll]

this is the most in depth and best researched study of this story i have ever found , New sub !!

[@instinctivelychelsea2905]

I believe tangents and and details is what gave birth to the first podcast !

[@NecromancyForKids]

I like that the backgrounds for the time and the legends are given.

[@VideoSaySo]

Spring Heeled Jack...the original Parkour Master! Lol!

[@Pdstor]

The difference between the Hamersmith Ghost attacks and the Springfield Jack attacks was the middle of the 1830's, during which Penny Dreadful stories (like the incredibly infamous Varney the Vampire) first hit it big. I bet the kitsch comic book element may have been drawn from these and circulating stories much like them, which brought nonlocal legends to the working class. That's just my unprofessional guess, but it is a notable coincidence.

[@dasociety129113]

Your content is so well researched. You have an amazing ability to make deep content that has a great appeal to dummies like myself. Would love to hear your make a video on the codex gigas (devils bible) and aleister crowly. Love your work thankyou

[@DukeDukeGo]

An episode on the wild hunt would be very interesting as well. Osp did an halloween episode on this and before that I didn't know much about it except that it had some connections to Odin, but turns out the topic has so many variations that a 1-2h podcast could easily be filled

[@Grinnar]

I hope you saw that they eventually did after this. 😊

[@edgewiseCL]

To think this suggestion inspired them...ahh ..the power of the comment section

[@ThatBernie]

Yay a new mythillogical video! That intro music gets me in a folksy mood every time :)

[@joannaoconnor9418]

Oh lord not only was I about to type the same thing word for word....we have the same name!!

[@RaGe.Ranger]

What is the name of it I can never remember

[@joannaoconnor9418]

@@RaGe.Ranger name of what? Synchronicity?

[@RaGe.Ranger]

@@joannaoconnor9418 the song

[@ThatBernie]

Joanna O'Connor Hello distant cousin!

[@SoaringShade]

I made a bit of local folklore in my town while I was doing parkour at night. I was on a rooftop and some guy yelled at me to get down. I thought nothing of it. The next day my towns local paper had a story about "a figure clad in black. Was it a bungling burglar, spring heeled jack, batman. One of the most memorable moments in my life. I'm honored to be possibly considered spring heeled Jack or batman 😂

[@adrianaslund8605]

I actually knew about him before Oblivion. Reading an old book about various mysteries. I also learned about spontaneous combustion there. He was also featured in a collectible monster subscription thing my friend had. That's also where I learned about wendigos. Which are scary if you live in the woods.

[@ohiogrows3668]

Bro, I get severe sinus infections once a year. Last year I had one so bad, after sleeping a few hours when I finally got up and tried to stand, the shift in fluids cause such intense pain in my head, I pissed my pants and passed out

[@Bassist-Beneath]

Goddamn I get em sometimes too but never that bad. I feel like I’m gonna pass out when I stand up with a bad one, but it’s never actually happened...

[@memomorph5375]

I had one and had to go on ceftin antibiotic

[@coyotemojo]

looking forward to the update on this year's.

[@notinspectorgadget]

Oh.....kay?

[@Cate7451]

Ohio Grows that sounds awful! Take care!

[@lilgreeneyesp637]

Theres also many stories of him being in liverpool..well documented, over time..

[@alecsmith3448]

This all sounds like a more violent version of Scooby-Doo

[@hollywoodpineapple8337]

​@@Archangelm127Closest we got was Zombie Island

[@apex2000]

Now we need steam punk scooby gang

[@instinctivelychelsea2905]

Was so excited for another mythillogical!!!

[@DrDrolly]

Just dicovered your channel, a real treasure chest!

[@DrDrolly]

And the best part of it is, i dont have to wait 14 days haha. Like Sub An 10$ to you sir!

[@skjaldulfr]

Yes! The earliest I recall hearing reference to this was also TES IV: Oblivion!

[@razielthered]

I remember them from Oblivion, well his boots xD

[@onefeather2]

Love the art work and the in depth that you go into on subjects.❤️

[@adriansandoval2331]

Awesome Podcast, Assassin's Creed Syndicate has a mission where you have to capture Springheeled Jack

[@isaacrushing8007]

I found you randomly, but I beg you to keep going. Subscribed. Please, Sirs, may we have another? Lol

[@Ruby-ep8oc]

Impressive research . I've been very interested in the spring heeled black stories . It's bad enough with Jack the Ripper in 1888 terrorizing London without Spring heeled Jack adding to it.

[@wonderoushistoryofclassicf9193]

This is absolutely fantastic

[@Choices2aa]

I wish they would do a movie about Spring Heeled Jack Christopher Walken would be great to play him and Tim Burton directing it also with Johnny Depp. Spring Heeled Jack is an urban legend in London, England. I have a comic book of him.

[@JB-hl1qx]

Do you recall the name of the comic book? Was is Marvel or DC ? I'm a comic book collector and would love to know so I can find one myself.

[@StephenRansom47]

Hey 👋 The Histocrat … rewatched Who Framed Roger Rabbit… Judge Doom becomes Spring-Heeled Jack in the final battle… I gasped … never noticed before BUT its him.

[@starboard9551]

"A Ghost Did It" Judge: "Case Dismissed"

[@killintime8431]

Maybe 🎅🏿

[@BrightBrandi]

My first hearing of spring heel jack was in a ghost story book when I was probably 12 or so

[@itsalondonthing9562]

The being that is spring heel jack and the perpetrator of the 1855 devil's hoof prints mystery in Devon are one and the Same

[@alexandersvideopicks8735]

Long time D&D and Pathfinder player and gamemaster here. Loved the Pathfinder reference. Spring-Heeled Jack is a fun monster to through at the players, especially in a crowded city. Not to be contrary here, in regards to your excellent research and the accounts and articles you unearthed, but many of those accounts and articles relate entirely different descriptions. What if these were all different creatures, active in those areas at those particular times? English and other European belief in the Fae was strong for ages and still exists to this day. What if all these "creatures" and "ghosts" and what have you, were actually Fae creatures, perhaps near a place where the walls are thin between our world and theirs? If, that is, we are assuming any of these "creatures" and "ghosts" are supernatural in origin, of course.

[@LTPottenger]

Sounds like a fun way to spend a night out with the lads.

[@killintime8431]

Drunks your saying

[@TheDeadmanTT]

Oh there it is! I was listening on itunes and was wondering when you were gonna upload it here

[@wendychavez5348]

Before now, most of what I've heard of Springheeled Jack has been in relation to Jack the Ripper. Just pointing out that it's not necessarily a different audience.

[@angonsframes]

Yes you are right. I just loved this story of Spring heeled Jack.

[@graywolfpatriot8589]

I read a book back in the late 60s I believe it was. The book was The Road to Magonia, It had 1 long chapter on Spring Heeled Jack. It just came to mind today and I put it in KZbin search and here you are. Glad I found your podcast.. Texas, USA...

[@sagebias2251]

Thank you for all of your hard work.

[@killintime8431]

You are very welcome glad you in joyed 🎅🏿

[@chocolartsofia4038]

You guys have been very productive recently, i'm loving it! While you're at it, Charles, why not continue the history of Britain series?

[@TheHistocrat]

Mostly because I was bored after doing 4 episodes. I will do some again in 2021.

[@chocolartsofia4038]

@@TheHistocrat Thanks! Just so you know I wasn't bored, on the contrary I've watched them a few times and recomended them to a few friends. Keep up the good work, I'm thankfull for any content you put up!

[@philipwebb960]

@@TheHistocrat We weren't bored.

[@qeter129]

It has British people in it.

[@NettiGaming]

I love your history of Britain series Charles

[@daves.8869]

Thank you for expanding my mythological knowledge.

[@DrDrolly]

Thanks!

[@MrPEYTON121]

So happy I found your channel off some recommendations on a celtic paganism video. Long-form history audio is the best, and you don't seem to take a year to put something out like Dan Carlin (no disrespect, he's the goat)

[@pentegarn1]

A Strigoi mort or ghost is "semi physical". How semi physical it is depends on the amount of energy it has sucked out of living beings. Also time of year matters. In the winter the dryer more electrically charged atmosphere helps them form semi physicals bodies. And all ghosts die the "Second Death" eventually...where they just fade away slowly. For whatever reason they tend to fade from the feet up first. Then they just become shadows....and the etheric body ,or "Ka" as the Egyptians called it , just vanishes. What's left is the "Ba" of the Egyptian's religion... and it's just flung into the astral plane where it has little or no interest in the physical universe anymore.

[@dewayneweaver5782]

I wonder if this Spring Heeled Jack, wasn't a pioneer of the modern sport of parkour. Climbing shear walls and leaping from roof tops, sliding down hand rails would have seemed fantastic to a uneducated person who didn't have the benefit of KZbin.

[@SedDelMar]

Great! Thoroughly engrossing. I am completely contaminated by American pop culture, so, I was overwhelmed with the impression that ol’ jack would make an impressive super hero/villain. His escapades are Batmanesque. Save for the assaults and such. Mia culpa. I wish there was a fan fiction treatment of this fellow.

[@SedDelMar]

So... what would the British say about spring heal jack fan fic?

[@bigdaddydons6241]

1800's Ghostbusters sounds like s great time

[@ninadiamant8937]

Thank you for doing this!

[@killintime8431]

Well you are very welcome sir 🎅🏿

[@ninadiamant8937]

@@killintime8431 Though I'm a lady, I appreciate your kind words. 👍

[@brianmcleod1683]

Thank you guys for posting. All your vids are so well done. I have never heard of this legend. Man, Tim Burton should do a movie about this. Johnny Depp or Jim Carey would be perfect.

[@thelastperfectman4139]

Yeah I can't believe that Spring-Heeled Jack has not been the basis of a major movie. Seems like something perfect for a gothic horror/mystery or steam punk sci-fi (or even better a mash-up of the two). Come on Hollywood, get on the ball!

[@teaspoonsofpeanutbutter6425]

@@thelastperfectman4139 Nah that'll never happen, not when there's a million already made classics they can "remake" cough*butcher*cough instead.

[@warboats]

I'm from Hounslow mate, spot on pronunciation, not bad for a northerner anyway 😉

[@personone1686]

I would love to hear a Wild Hunt podcast

[@killintime8431]

Ya like slockin hog or something

[@wanderslob4266]

Thanks

[@getsaucedon9313]

such a good podcast

[@grey2619]

He or it was probably trying to leap from building to building to escape the shit and stench, just a thought.

[@antoninanavarre9107]

Here is an idea for an episode: did people really use to die of fright in the past?

[@sezwho8561]

Spring heeled jack was seen in the Everton and Islington area of Liverpool in the 1800s. Actual police reports

[@harrywompa]

I first encountered Spirngheel Jack from the Jackie Chan Adventures animated series... that show is the shit

[@dcrog69]

In some ways it's kind of sad that the world has lost a lot of its mystery.

[@yvellebradley2502]

Agreed. Lack of nature wildness which created many fables, such as faeries.

[@soulfuzz368]

I remember him from the monster in my pocket card set I had as a kid. I still have them somewhere...

[@killintime8431]

And an old ninja turtles episode

[@scottdavis1549]

Bob Gymlin covers this. It’s kinda cool.

[@aaronemerson4431]

My first exposure to spring heeled jack was from the 1990s toy series "monster in my pocket"

[@junkequation]

Same here, and I don't think I'd heard of him since

[@ainsel98]

alternative words for gelatinize in this context: in denmark we say "slå rødder" og "lay/laying roots" for staying around, which would also be a neat choice here

[@mattias969]

Leather apron sounds way more horrible and scary than jack the ripper

[@tenebrousoul9368]

I grew up on Victorian era novels and penny dreadfuls. I was a weird kid. I knew about Spring Heel Jack since i was 11 or 12. He's also a Monster in my Pocket.

[@jonathannelson103]

Spring heeled Jack sounds a lot like the New Jersey Devil. I wonder if there's a connection.

[@itsalondonthing9562]

Hopefully spring heel jack will return to modern day London and single handedly drive out roadman culture?

[@timburr4453]

I'm addicted to this!

[@martianmanfrommars8428]

This gave me an idea. You should do an episode on Vampires.

[@discflame]

Letterwriter: "This man is assaulting women and leaving them traumatized" Lord Mayor: "Big if true"

[@maypoole5854]

Anyone know where I can find the picture at 18:32 ?

[@nhojheding7623]

Love the music, the game merchant is great

[@jettagriffin]

Wonder where the thriller or horror movies that could stem from this are? I mean seems easy to green light.

[@arcray12]

Love me some Spring Heeled-Jack!

[@randalfandroll]

ha, my introduction was Oblivion as well

[@PierroCh5]

Sinusitis is the WORST, I hope you get better soon !

[@edgewiseCL]

I believe "monster in my pocket" introduced me to the character

[@robertalpy]

In the 1930s in provincetown Massachusetts there was a character named the black flash scaring people in eaxctly the same way.

[@MoragOctober]

40:27 "dressed in white with bladders attached to its feet, shoulders, arms, body, and head." This made me wonder if the sighting was of some eccentric scientist who was trying to invest a flying device or something. Or someone who's REALLY committed to the ghost bit.

[@nickjurr4706]

I see no comments referencing jackie Chan adventures, ill am that guy pal.

[@lakrids-pibe]

It's surprising how many of these "ghost"-stories are actually women being afraid of their violent ex-boyfriend/husband. Surprising and depressing.

[@Leroyy536]

He came too Liverpool and we kicked his arse,like the beastie boys.

[@markjones336]

Spring Heeled Jack was a alien.

[@MomDoer-qc7iw]

late comment but i would love to hear you guys playing d&d if you ever start a new campaign

[@MildlyMelancholy]

I gotta start hanging out at "Cut throat Lane"

[@barn_ninny]

Were sprung shoes a feature of 19th-century London? It seems like many reports attribute his leaping to sprung shoes, and I'm wondering where "witnesses" would have gotten the notion of such a thing. Did they just mean something along the lines of, "He leapt as though he had springs in his shoes"?

[@NettiGaming]

♡ get well soon.

[@OliveTreeistheTreeofLife]

Olive Leaf for your sinusitis! Olive Leaf is the Tree of Life! Olive Leaf in every medicine bag!!!

[@davemckinney6555]

Forgive you? The details and tangents are often as informative and entertaining as the intended tale.

[@ryleexiii1252]

Lmao I am listening to this while playing Oblivion

[@darkshadows6328]

I first heard of Jack from playing assassins creed syndicate

[@nowhereman6019]

The real horror of Spring-Heel Jack is capitalism and classism.

[@instinctivelychelsea2905]

Waffle on, I got my syrup !!!!

[@doctord.ph.d.4986]

37:12 crofty says something about suicide being a crime back in the day. But over here in the US is still pretty much is.

[@mrdarren1045]

Which makes me wonder how they ever punish such a crime?

[@Schutti73]

Please enable Subtitles for this Video

[@SarahsSeniorYear]

Slippity slap!!! And away I go!!!!