Awesome or Off-Putting is a weekly delve into cryptozoology, ufology, aliens, medical marvels, scientific wonders, secret societies, government conspiracies, cults, ghosts, EVPs, ancient artifacts, strange facts, odd sightings or just the plain unexplainable.
Of all the paranormal topics we've covered over the past 6 or 7 years, Spring Heeled Jack has been one of our favorites. What's that, now? You don't remember him at all? Well let us give you a brief synopsis.
He was sighted all over England within a decade or two of Jack the Ripper. He was known more for scratching and jumping than killing. An original witness/victim described him like this:
"He was wearing a kind of helmet, and a tight fitting white costume like an oilskin. His face was hideous; his eyes were like balls of fire. His hands had claws of some metallic substance, and he vomited blue and white flames."
And now he's supposedly been sighted again. Are you curious?
Well by all means click on!
The first descriptions of Spring Heeled Jack went something like this (citing our own 2006 article):
"Spring Heeled Jack is a man whose sightings were first reported in or around 1837 London – his was a terror that equaled or surpassed that of even Jack the Ripper. He reportedly had the ability to jump incredibly high, had metallic claws, and eyes that resembled red balls of fire."
We know what you're thinking – sounds like a Republican candidate in the 2012 US presidential election. It's not though. You'll just have to trust us on that one. Until now the last time he'd been seen was in 1986 when he bounded past a traveling salesman who was walking down a lonely country road.
The descriptions are generally pretty similar; a man wearing a helmet, metallic claws protruding from his fingers and wearing a rather tight outfit. The chief description (and from whence his name is derived) is his ability to jump inhumanly high into the air with little to no apparent effort.
Well, Jack is back. Maybe. We'll let you decide. This from a website called your local guardian:
"Scott Martin and his family were travelling home by taxi on Tuesday, February 14, at about 10.30pm when they saw the terrifying figure they have likened to the legendary Spring Heeled Jack dart across the road before leaping 15ft over a bank as they approached Nescot College on the Ewell bypass. The couple, an accountant and a manager of a building company from Banstead, their four year old son and the taxi driver all reported seeing the same figure."
Not everybody thinks it's Spring Heeled Jack. Other paranormal explanations are put forward though. Some say it's a ghost haunting the area. Others say it may be an alien used to greater gravity.
Those explanations are so stupid when the thing is obviously The Hopping Phantom of Calchín. If you think about it, that's really the only explanation that makes any sense.
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