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42 lines
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SUBJECT: A VICTORIAN HUMANOID ? FILE: UFO2269
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The attacker was tall and thin, had pointed ears and fiery eyes, and wore a
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cloak. He tore at his female victims' clothes and ripped their flesh with
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hands that felt like iron. When he escaped, he did not run; he bounced away.
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Those woh saw his feet swore he had springs in his boot heels.
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At first, the authorities had a hard time believing what victims were telling
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them. But by January 1838 so many Londoners had seen the figure that the Lord
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Mayor formed a vigilance committee to capture "Spring Heeled Jack."
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In one expecially notorious incident, he tried to snatch 18-year-old Jane
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Alsop right out of her own house. According to the London Times(February 22,
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1838), he "presented a most hideous and frightful appearance, and vomited
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forth a quantity of blue and white flame from his mouth, and his eyes
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resembled red balls of fire...[H]e wore a large helmet, and his dress, which
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appeared to fit him very tight, seemed to her to resemble white oil skin." The
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young woman was saved by family members.
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Ond day in 1845, in full view of frightened onlookers, Jack tossed a
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prostitute off a bridge; she drowned in the open sewer below. Sightings of a
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comparable figure were recorded elsewhere in England in 1877. In 1904 more
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than 100 residents of Everton saw a man in a flowing cloak and black boots
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making great leaps over streets and rooftops.
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Who or what was Spring heel Jack? Some suspected that hes was a rowdy
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nobleman, Henry, Marquis of Waterford, who died in 1859. Doubters countered
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that Jack-like leaps are physically impossible.
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During World War II German paratroopers swho put springs in their boot heels
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got broken ankles for their efforts. Was Jack an extraterrestrial being? In
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July 1953, three Houston residnets reported seeing a tall, bounding figure
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"wearing a black cape, skintight pants, and quarter length boots." For a few
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minutes he remained visible in the pecan tree into which he had jumped. He
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disappeared shortly before a rocket-shaped UFO shot upward from across the
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street.
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