18: Spring-Heeled Jack

We travel back to Victorian England to take a look at the terror of London, Spring-Heeled Jack! Who is this mysterious figure, and did they inspire Batman?

 

• Institute of Fiscal Studies Report

• Mike Dash on the Two-Penny Hangover

• 5 Reasons Why The Victorian Era Was Utter Insanity (Video) 

• Gruesome Victorian Medicine (Video)

• History and Sewage: The Great Stink (Video)

• The Strange World Of Ghost Hunting (Video)

• Destroying Artifacts for Profit Is Nothing New (Video)

• The Great Moon Hoax (Smithsonian)

• Monstrum Spring Heeled Jack Video

• JS Mackley on the Spring-Heeled Jack Library

• The Spring-Heeled Jack Library

 

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Podcast Artwork by Sergio R. M. Duarte

Podcast Music by Renzo Calma

Motion Graphics by r2ktalha