Jane Alsop's encounter with Spring Heeled Jack
One night in 1838 a young woman named Jane Alsop answered a furious rapping at her door, it was a police officer asking her to bring a candle, for they had captured Spring heeled Jack. Miss Alsop of course wanted to see the famous demonic creature so she fetched a candle and hurried outside.
Outside stood the policeman who reached for the candle, only as he raised his hands young Jane was able to see beneath the candlelight that they were not hands, but claws. Before she could react the creature was on to her, raking at her face with its claws.
Her screams were heard inside and Jane's sister ran out into the night, scaring Spring Heeled Jack away. Though badly shocked by their ordeal the Alsop sisters were able to give a more detailed account of the creature's appearance than any previous witness. These new details made many Londoners believe that Spring Heeled Jack was not sent from the pit, but descended from the heavens above.
The Alsop sisters again described the creature as many had before it but both girls stated that their attacker had not been wearing a hat, but a helmet of some kind. They also described a white shining suit beneath the black cloak.
The terrified girls also claimed that Spring Heeled Jack did not leap as any person would leap, rather he levitated and then shot rapidly in a straight line, and there seemed to be no physical effort.
Rather than Jack being Spring Heeled his behaviour suggested that he was propelled into the air by something more powerful and advanced, perhaps rocket heeled Jack would have been more appropriate. As word spread throughout the Victorian London the people began to speculate that it was electrical sparks that flew from the grimace of Spring-Heeled Jack.
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