In the year 1837, there was a girl named Mary Stevens who worked as a servant in Lavender Hill, London. One night she was walking towards her home when suddenly a mysterious figure leapt at her in the dark and started grabbing her with his arms. He ripped off Mary's clothes and began to kiss her face and started hurting her by scratching with sharp metallic claws. According to Mary, that strange entity was as cold and clammy as a corpse. She started screaming loudly in panic and immediately the attacker fled from there. He comfortably crossed the nine feet high wall in one jump.
Hundreds of such reports surfaced in the 19th century when people claimed to have seen a creature whose hands were armed with metallic nails and had the leaping abilities to quickly flee the scene. Maybe this was the reason why people named this entity as "Spring-heeled Jack". In 1838, the two most famous cases were reported in London of two girls named Lucy Scales and Jane Alsop.
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According to the Alsop case, a man claiming to be a police officer rang her doorbell late at night, and asked her to bring a light, claiming that "he caught Spring-heeled Jack in the nearby dark alley ". But the moment she handed him the candle, he took off the police dress under which he revealed his tight-fitting clothes resembling white oilskin, presenting a most terrifying and frightful form. His eyes were burning like two red balls of fire, and he was breathing out blue and white flames from his mouth. Without saying a word, he quickly held her tightly in his arms and started cutting her clothes with his claws which made her injured. She screamed for help and fortunately, Alsop's sister was able to scare off the attacker, forcing him to flee the spot.
Now more and more such incidents began to happen to women, and in the same year, hundreds of letters were received on Lord Mayor's desk in London, which actually of the women who had been victims of Spring-Heeled Jack, complaining of similar incidents. Mayor took this matter very seriously and ordered the police to catch the criminal soon. But it was not an easy task for the police to catch such a paranormal entity. But as time progressed, these sightings stopped on their own, but still, it remains unclear if Spring-Heeled Jack was a real man or some other entity, making his legend to still survive.
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