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Decoding The Unknown

Unmasking the Chilling Legend of Spring-Heeled Jack

Decoding The Unknown

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4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

The mystery of Spring-Heeled Jack: Victorian England's notorious urban legend. Stories of a fire-breathing demon caused fear, but were later revealed to be a wealthy man in disguise. A commentary on England's strict class system and cultural influence through penny dreadfuls and a play. Despite many copycats, the true identity remains unknown. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello,

0:03.0

welcome back to another episode of Decoding The Unknown, this one, Spring Hill, Jack, Man, Myth, or Demon.

0:06.0

Tell you what he's not, a demon, because demons aren't real.

0:09.0

Unless you could say like people are demonic, like as in bad, but not like some you know pointy ears and

0:15.0

not like a Vulcan but like you know a devil or something like that I've never

0:19.6

heard I've heard of Spring Hill Jack I've no idea what it is what he is who he is anything

0:24.6

like that I literally don't know anything else about this thank you Kevin for

0:27.4

writing this script the format here as I've never read this before we're going to

0:30.5

explore it together maybe Maybe do some decoding.

0:32.6

Let's jump in.

0:33.6

When I was in high school, my friends and I went to the theater to see what would turn

0:41.3

out to be one of the worst movies I've ever had the displeasure of watching.

0:44.6

As we were waiting in line to get in, we saw the audience from the previous showing walk out in silence.

0:49.3

There wasn't a single happy face among the hundreds of audience members, and one of my friends said to the

0:53.5

rest of us if I walk out at the theater looking that disappointed I'm going to be

0:57.3

very disappointed layers of disappointment tell you what what I was in secondary school which is I think what we call high school in the UK ages 11 to 18.

1:06.2

Me and my mate, we must have been like 13 and we went to see a movie called Kung Fu Hustle,

1:10.3

which I later learned is quite a popular and apparently like influential movie or something in terms of like style or whatever but 13 year old Simon

1:17.3

I'm just opening a Coke Simon can you hear that Simon and his mates were like what did we just watch that was the biggest load of garbage and because we were 13 going to the cinema was a lot of money you know

1:25.8

You'd be like oh, okay

1:27.3

It's probably like four pounds or whatever it was back in the day because I'm old and we just left down we're like we just you know nowadays I'll just leave

1:34.0

leave the cinema.

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