Before the days of Jack the Ripper, there was another Jack terrorizing the streets of Victorian London. Spring-Heeled Jack, the fashionable shape-shifting Victorian Era boogeyman terrorized citizens from all walks of life for upwards of 50 years without ever directly taking a single life. Over a century later, the mystery remains: was this monster truly a lunatic on the loose, or merely an urban legend?
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