Spring-Heeled Jack and Other Prowling Ghosts, part 2

Strange Familiars

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🗓️ 5 May 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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In the second part of our series exploring the “prowling ghost” phenomenon in 19th Century England, we hear about naked ghosts, human “monsters”, and the introduction of Spring-Heeled Jack entities in all their various forms. Visit https://www.wildfoods.co and enter the code STRANGE for 12% off your entire order. If you would like to help us continue to make Strange Familiars, get bonus content, t-shirts, stickers, and more rewards, you can become a patron: http://www.patreon.com/StrangeFamiliars If you would prefer a one-time payment to help us out, here is a PayPal.me link - you can change the number 25 in the URL to any amount: https://www.paypal.me/timothyrenner/25 Strange Familiars ‘Awoken Tree’ t-shirts are available in our Etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/listing/739690857/strange-familiars-podcast-awoken-tree Check out the Strange Familiars ebay store: https://www.ebay.com/str/strangefamiliars Strange Familiars t-shirts and other designs are available here: https://www.teepublic.com/user/darkhollerarts Episode 165 notes and links: 90 Days to the Perfect Puppy: https://perfectpuppies.sithappens.us/90-days Episode art is by Timothy… this is the full illustration: You can purchase the original illustration of Spring-Heeled Jack our etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/listing/790669956/spring-heeled-jack-1-illustration-by Some of our research for this series comes from the book Spirits of an Industrial Age: Ghost Impersonation, Spring-Heeled Jack, and Victorian Society by Jacob Middleton. https://www.amazon.com/Spirits-Industrial-Age-Impersonation-Spring-heeled/dp/1499268777/ Strange Familiars Photo of the Week #21: Clown Gang You can purchase this photo in our etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/listing/790668458/clown-gang-real-photo-postcard-strange Timothy’s books: https://www.amazon.com/Timothy-Renner/e/B072X44SD5 Our Lost Grave etsy shop has art, books, patches, and more ... including original art done for Strange Familiars: https://www.etsy.com/shop/lostgrave Alison: https://www.etsy.com/shop/odpeacock Chad’s YouTube channel where you can see some videos of Pandemonium, the dynamite shack and more: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNB7MSJ2F1SRBPcQsEFLnvg (make sure to subscribe to Chad’s channel, Ruck Rabbit Outdoors.) Contact us via email at: strangefamiliarspodcast@gmail.com http://www.facebook.com/strangefamiliars Join the Strange Familiars Gathering group on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/strangefamiliars/ instagram: @strangefamiliars http://www.strangefamiliars.com Intro and background music by Stone Breath. You can find more at http://stonebreath.bandcamp.com The closing song is Where the Crows Go by Stone Breath. It comes from the album The Snow-White Ghost-White Stag: https://stonebreath.bandcamp.com/album/the-snow-white-ghost-white-stag Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/strange-familiars/donations Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're going to be. They claim that dark eyes was just to be created a slightly different than what they are.
0:28.0	We talked and she came to her. Oh, Welcome to Strange Familiars. If you've experienced something strange, if you've had an encounter with the
0:59.3	paranormal, a scripted like Bigfoot, a ghost, a UFO, or if you know of a
1:02.9	uFO or if you know of a story you think we should cover
1:06.4	You can contact us via email strange familiar's podcast at gmail.
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1:12.0	So this is part two of our prowling ghost stories. If you didn't hear part one
1:19.0	you would go back to last episode Spring Hill Jack and Pralingoas Part 1, and you can start there.
1:27.0	For a short recap, basically we're talking about this phenomenon in the 19th century of people dressing up as ghosts and
1:36.9	scaring people. It started with an email we received talking about Lee
1:40.8	Master who we covered in a previous episode, and his pension for dressing
1:45.2	up as a ghost and scaring people, and apparently it's a thing.
1:48.9	I thought it was just Scooby-Doo related.
1:50.7	Or it was a thing, I guess. I don't I don't imagine too many people are doing this anymore. Well, we're just not going to see them right now.
1:57.0	And we talked about mainly the several hammersmith ghosts, the first sort of prowling ghosts as they were called.
2:06.7	They made a distinction between these prowling ghosts and the sort of previous ghosts.
2:15.9	They called the prowlingling Ghost, modern Ghost, back in the 19th century.
2:20.1	They're of course not modern to us, but they called a Modern Ghost. These Prowling Ghosts, they would wander around and they showed up at different places they weren't associated
2:25.1	as traditional ghosts were with like one graveyard or one church or one house.
2:30.5	And they were scaring people and it seems for the most part to be people in costumes, but there's also some very strange things reported like headless horses and white bears and different things like that that are frightening people along with what seems to be
2:46.3	supernatural powers associated with some of these things, bulletproof and glowing eyes and breathing
2:51.7	fire and so forth. This is a very interesting set of stories and we left off in the
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