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London After Dark - Spring Heeled Jack

Welcome back to our Victorian Horror series, where we explore how London’s pulp publishing boom helped shape everything from modern true crime to the monsters of pop culture. In this episode, we step into something stranger. A devil-faced figure leaping across rooftops with clawed hands and fire-breathing attacks. He was a shadowy prowler who may have helped inspire later masked vigilantes, Spring-heeled Jack, the so-called Terror of London! Was he a real attacker, a mass hallucination, a media fabrication, or the perfect storm of rumor and print sensationalism?

English
  • Originally Aired March 4, 2026
  • Runtime 16 minutes
  • Created April 21, 2026 by
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  • Modified April 21, 2026 by
    gxechidna