Spring Heeled Jack's Final Sightings
For twenty years the name of Spring Heeled Jack was once again thankfully absent from the collective conversation of London residents. Queen Victoria died in 1901 leaving England with a new monarch, the world was beginning its most difficult and progressive century.
So it came as quite a shock to Londoners to hear reports from Liverpool that a creature had been spotted after attacking a young lady as she made her way home. A tall dark figure with red eyes and traces of flickering blue flame emitting from its insane grin, long birdlike claws that hung where hands should have been and the creature had eluded capture by making a superhuman leap over a sheer brick wall and off into the night. Moving as freely and intensely as it had some 67 years previous, Spring Heeled Jack was alive.
The encounter in Liverpool in 1904 was the last documented account of a Spring Heeled Jack sighting. In the years that followed there were unsubstantiated accounts of dark figures moving through the streets of England's cities but the country was soon to be playing its part in the war and paranoia was rife, with police unsympathetic to such fanciful stories.
Spring Heeled Jack was witnessed by hundreds if not thousands of people during its reign of terror and it is entirely feasible that some of the story has become gnarled and the victim of artistic license but there is no doubt that many people saw a figure matching Jacks all across England throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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