Spring-Heeled Jack: Victorian London's Leaping Phantom

<p>A figure in a black cloak with eyes of fire, who breathed blue flame, slashed with iron claws, and leapt clean over walls and rooftops to vanish into the dark. For most of a century, he terrified Victorian Britain — and to this day, no one is sure whether he was a man, a myth, or something in between.</p><p>This episode separates the real attacks from the legend of Spring-Heeled Jack: the named young women assaulted in eighteen thirty-eight, the panic the penny dreadfuls fed, the notorious aristocrat suspected of starting it — and how an entire nation talked itself into believing in a monster, in a story that feels eerily modern.</p><p>New dark story every day. Follow Six Feet of History wherever you listen.</p><p> #History #DarkHistory #HistoryPodcast #Folklore #VictorianHistory / #SpringHeeledJack #UrbanLegend #VictorianLondon #FolkloreFriday #SixFeetOfHistory</p><p>Spring-Heeled Jack, Victorian London, urban legend, folklore, penny dreadful, mass hysteria, bogeyman, nineteenth century, dark history, history podcast, British history, moral panic, Jane Alsop, Marquess of Waterford, true history, ghost story, gaslit London, folk devil, Six Feet of History, leaping phantom</p>