Spring-Heeled Jack Revisited | Bonus
Hysteria 51
ForthHand Media
4.3 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2020
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
HOUSEKEEPING!!! WANT ME FLUFF PILLOW???
Maybe not that housekeeping, but it is a housekeeping week on Hysteria 51. We are switching to new host. What does that mean for you? Nothing, everything stays the same. But for us it just means some backend stuff while we get everything transitioned over. We will be back next week with brand new content, but until then enjoy one of our favorites from the back catalog, Spring-Heeled Jack!
Original Description
This week we hop BACK over the pond to merry ol’ England to tackle a most vile and sinister serial…slapper? Well – slapper, groper, fire belcher, carriage crasher, and more. This week we’re looking into the legend of Spring Heeled Jack. This mischievous prankster allegedly had metal claws, could leap over 10 ft. walls, breath blue fire, apparently loved to slap authority figures, and cause carriages to crash. But who was this British bouncer? Is this just a folk tale re-told over the years to explain away hundreds of different events, was there a person of extraordinary ability terrorizing the countryside, or were these just a series of glorified fraternity pranks? David Flora of the Blurry Photos podcast joins the fun to help us uncover the identity of Britain’s strangest urban legend. Plus, Conspiracy Bot tries to get rid of Flora (he’s protective of BRENT’S beer), the fellas all try their hands at a British accent and fail miserably (shocking), and a related ghost in Long Island sounds eerily similar to Keanu Reeves (whoa). All of that and more on the podcast that’s never terrified women by blowing fire into their face, we do it the old-fashioned way, by letting them see our work ethic and bank account – Hysteria 51.
Special thanks to this week’s research sources
Research Assistant – Raymond Walden IV
Books
The Legend of Spring-Heeled Jack | Karl Bell
The Mystery of Spring-Heeled Jack: From Victorian Legend to Steampunk Hero | John Matthews
Videos
The Mystery Of Spring Heeled Jack – https://bit.ly/2Wpxk4Z
Cryptids and Monsters: The Spring-Heeled Jack – https://bit.ly/2FyRO4H
Websites
Wikipedia – https://bit.ly/1rPK59y
Atlas Obscura – https://bit.ly/2JAEkJO
Historic UK – https://bit.ly/2JJTGNd
BBC – https://bbc.in/2p6amzN
Mysterious Universe – https://bit.ly/2uwobvA
Blurry Photos – http://www.blurryphotos.org
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Yeah, yeah, yeah, it has been brought to the Lord Mayor's attention that a most fungus |
| 0:10.7 | brute has been perpetrated in his most vile and sinister plans on the fair |
| 0:16.3 | women fault of this county. |
| 0:18.8 | The Rascal's name is Spring Hill Jack and while he often appears in a gentlemanly state he is |
| 0:26.4 | most assuredly no gentleman this villain of ill repute is known to a course |
| 0:32.0 | fair maidens with razor-like claws Our reputation to a |
| 0:35.0 | to cause fair maidens with razor-like claws, breath that brew us a fire in their faces. |
| 0:39.0 | And generally, re-receive them of their senses. He is also taken to slapping local authorities |
| 0:47.0 | and then dashing away whilst giggling like a girl of school age. |
| 0:53.0 | Damn it, Flora, stop it. |
| 0:55.0 | This isn't an episode of blurry photos. |
| 0:57.0 | You and your accent need to go home. |
| 0:59.0 | Hey Conspiracybot! |
| 1:00.0 | The fellas asked me to join the show today, |
| 1:01.0 | so I thought I'd help him with an intro introducing people to Spring Hill Jack. |
| 1:05.6 | No. No, to the intro? No to you being here. I find your presence disruptive to my |
| 1:11.1 | Chi plus you drink my beer when you come over. |
| 1:13.2 | Are Brent and John here? |
| 1:14.9 | Who? Fine, see bot. I'll leave. I win. I always do. |
| 1:19.4 | Stupid meat sack. Kue the intro. |
| 1:22.8 | They say, I'm disturbed. |
| 1:24.8 | From city to city an incredible hysterical panic spread. |
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