 Jack was said to exist during the Victorian era and was known to be able to jump extraordinarily high. He was seen all over England but especially in the Midlands, Scotland and suburban London. He is described to be tall and thin with terrifying looks such as clawed hands and eyes that resembled balls of fire. He was first sighted in London in 1837 by a business man who was returning home, he saw a figure easily jump over the high cemetery railings and land in his path, he then just disappeared. After this the figure was spotted more and more and he was attacking the women by kissing them over their faces and clawing away their clothes sometimes leaving nasty marks from his claws, some women were said to never recover from the attacks because he had sent them into seizures from the fright he caused them, he also was known to jump in front of carriages to scare the horses so the people in side sometimes got injured from the sudden stopping and jolting. Spring Heeled Jack had become one of the most notable figures of the moments with reports about him being widespread. This continued for many years until the last of the regular sightings in Liverpool in 1904 when he appeared on the rooftop of Saint Francis Xavier’s Church, when a group of people went towards him after seeing him jump to the ground, when they got there he jumped the entire crowd to get away. Since then there have still been sporadic sightings of Jack. There have been many theories to try and establish the certainty and identity of Jack and these debates are still spoken about today. Some think that the stories should be dismissed as mass hysteria which were developed about bogeyman and were popular around that time and which had people exaggerating the full truth about what could of appeared before them, others think that he was the work of individuals who were carrying out pranks for bets one of the men accused of this was the Marques of Waterford but even after his death the reports continuing so people believe others continued where he left off, and another theory is that it was paranormal some kind of a extraterrestrial figure who would manifest himself purely to cause trouble. Since the very first reports of Spring Heeled Jack he has become a very successful fictional character, with many works written about him, the most popular being during the 19th and 20th century. One of the earliest plays was in 1840 by John Thomas Haines and was called Spring Heeled Jack the Terror of London and tells him being an outlaw that attacked women because his own sweetheart had betrayed him.
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