“INSIDE THE MIND OF JACK THE RIPPER” and More True Horror! #WeirdDarkness
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2022
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
IN THIS EPISODE: Jack the Ripper stalked the West End of London in 1888. He was never captured. How did he do it… and how did he get away with it? *** We’ll learn about a supposedly real spider from Central Africa with a leg span of 5-feet across.
(Dark Archives episode from November 18, 2020)
SOURCES AND ESSENTIAL WEB LINKS…
“Giant Spider of the Congo” by Terrence Aym, from Helium.com (link no longer available)
“Inside The Mind of the Ripper” by Josh Clark and Patrick J. Kiger for History’s How Stuff Works: https://tinyurl.com/y26ghwlq
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| 1:00.8 | The East End of London was a dire place in 1888. |
| 1:05.6 | Opium dens and brothels shared cramped quarters alongside family housing. |
| 1:11.1 | Drunken residents spilled from the pubs into streets where children played. |
| 1:16.1 | Violence was commonplace. |
| 1:18.4 | Price for help of murder generally went unanswered. |
| 1:22.0 | The living conditions in the East End reflected the poverty of its residents. |
| 1:27.3 | There was precious little access to clean water and diseases like tuberculosis and diphtheria spread easily. |
| 1:35.3 | Some women engaged in casual prostitution to supplement their family's incomes. |
| 1:41.6 | It was a bleak, depressing and often menacing place to live. |
| 1:46.8 | Which makes it all the more significant that in the fall of that year a series of murders were |
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