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Return of Spring-heeled Jack?
Spring-heeled Jack, the legendary bogeyman familiar to students of British folklore, has been invoked by news of an extraordinary experience with a road ghost in Surrey. Scott Martin and his family...
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Spring-heeled Jack is back
2012 is shaping up as a leap year in more ways than one. Back in February I posted news of the return of the Victorian bogeyman Spring-heeled Jack. A mysterious leaping figure scared a family as it...
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Dark River and Sheffield Spooks
The nights are drawing in, Hallowe’en is approaching and traditionally this is the time for all things supernatural. Sacred to Death and other Victorian ghost stories from Sheffield (credit: Fortean...
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Sheffield’s spring-heeled legend
It’s Hallowe’en and time for me to tell a ghost story that is rapidly becoming Sheffield’s best known supernatural legend – the Park Ghost or Spring-heeled Jack. Last week I was surprised to find my...
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Haunting my bookshelves in 2012:
Here’s my choice of other key books that floated my folkloric boat during 2012: Karl Bell’s book The Legend of Spring-heeled Jack (Boydell Press) The Legend of Spring-heeled Jack: Victorian urban...
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Scared to Death – book launch
Who was Spring-heeled Jack, the agile bogeyman that terrorised Sheffield and escaped pursuers by making gigantic leaps? What were the eerie sounds in the sky known as the Gabriel Hounds? And why did...
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