Spring Heeled Jack


	Spring Heeled Jack
CrazyRedHead
7-25-2007 3:11 PM
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weird, bizarre, legends, uk, monsters
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7-25-2007 4:29 PM
BartendingBear
Da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da... Spring Heel! (POW!)
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/355818dc-2f7a-4d98-aac3-796cfcaded84/E6CADFAB-C215-4CE0-BA8F-E00D53300F28/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spring_Heeled_Jack&oldid=146601296" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spring_Heeled_Jack&oldid=146601296" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spring_Heeled_Jack&oldid=146601296"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/en.wikipedia.org/img/F2DCA16E-CD19-4F2D-A065-0141C37B0E08" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spring_Heeled_Jack&oldid=146601296"><B>Spring Heeled Jack</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spring_Heeled_Jack&oldid=146601296">is a character from <A title="English folklore" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_folklore" linkindex="11" set="yes">English folklore</A> said to have existed during the <A title="Victorian era" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_era" linkindex="12" set="yes">Victorian era</A> and able to jump extraordinarily high. The first claimed sighting of Spring Heeled Jack that is known occurred in 1837</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spring_Heeled_Jack&oldid=146601296">Many theories have been proposed to ascertain the <A title="Human nature" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_nature" linkindex="22">nature</A> and <A title="Psychological identity" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_identity" linkindex="23">identity</A> of Spring Heeled Jack</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spring_Heeled_Jack&oldid=146601296">Spring Heeled Jack was described by people claiming to have seen him as having a terrifying and frightful appearance, with <A title="Devil" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil" linkindex="27" set="yes">diabolical</A> <A title="Physiognomy" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physiognomy" linkindex="28" set="yes">physiognomy</A> that included clawed hands and eyes that "resembled red balls of fire". </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spring_Heeled_Jack&oldid=146601296"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/en.wikipedia.org/img/5972DF5F-D015-41A6-9745-E7A4E3FE3B5C" alt="Picture from a penny dreadful of Spring Heeled Jack jumping over a gate." /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spring_Heeled_Jack&oldid=146601296">Perhaps the best known alleged incidents involving Spring Heeled Jack were the alleged attacks on two teenage girls, Lucy Scales<SUP class="reference" id="_ref-5"><A title="" href="#_note-5" linkindex="88" set="yes">[8]</A></SUP> and Jane Alsop. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spring_Heeled_Jack&oldid=146601296"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/en.wikipedia.org/img/5EFCB27F-BBCF-4BCA-9DC9-2CBF361AFBAA" alt="Spring Heeled Jack as depicted on an early penny dreadful." /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spring_Heeled_Jack&oldid=146601296">A <A title="Sentry" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentry" linkindex="130" set="yes">sentry</A> on duty at the North Camp peered into the darkness, his attention attracted by a peculiar figure bounding across the road towards him.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spring_Heeled_Jack&oldid=146601296">As the soldier turned back to his post, the figure reappeared beside him and delivered several slaps to his face with <I>"a hand as cold as that of a corpse"</I>. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spring_Heeled_Jack&oldid=146601296"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/en.wikipedia.org/img/26948200-1C82-47A7-9C8B-F7D2ADFA61E8" alt="Ad for a Spring Heeled Jack penny dreadful (1886)" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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