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SPRING HEELED JACK

London, England

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The End of Spring Heeled Jack?

Jack next attacked a young woman on Green Dragon Alley in Lime house, the girl was temporarily blinded by a bolt of blue light hurled by a tall dark figure with glowing red eyes. Spring Heeled Jack was spotted throughout London over the next few decades, regularly reported to be seen surveying the city from church spires, bridge tops and even the Tower of London.

The Mayor was under immense pressure to rid the streets of this predatory spectre that had an unsavoury attraction to young girls. Gangs and police patrols scoured the city for Jack and sightings became fewer and more fleeting.

During the 1870's Jack was driven through the streets by a public patrol of irate vigilante Londoners but at the moment they believed they had cornered Jack he leapt over a huge hedge leaving his pursuers marvelling. The same decade saw reports from all over England. Spring Heeled Jack had been travelling and was up to his old tricks in cities hundreds of miles away from London.

A decade later and Jack was back in London, the creature attacked two sentry guards wrapping its icy talons around the guard's necks and attempting to strangle them. The veracity and intensity of Spring Heeled Jacks attacks were escalating wildly and an appropriate response was required.

The opportunity arose on a winter's night sometime in 1884 in South London. Jack had been spotted by a small group of people leaping from the pavement to the roof tops and back again as he wandered down the street.

The police were contacted and instigated a sweep through the area where Jack had been spotted. The search parties began to converge and a desperate figure of Spring Heeled Jack was herded toward an ambush.

Chased through the streets Jack came upon a large party of armed guards who instantly sent volleys of rifle fire at the demonic figure. It seemed as though any living creature would have died under such a barrage of fire but Jack leapt nimbly over the group and disappeared into the night.

That was all that was heard from Spring Heeled Jack and the public began to believe that the creature was truly dead, that the bullets had been true and the beast had curled up and died of its injuries in whatever pit it slept.

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