Continuing In A Not Quite An Englishman's Country Garden!

Ahh, the things you find in the Summer in your garden.  Some can be quite mysterious. Some can make you scream out "What's that?!"  If you are in the UK the answer is not Bigfoot!

The thing is that most people only pay attention to their flower bed or the height of their grass and most have no idea about insects or wildlife...or things insects leave around.  Such as this....

 Not great photos (I need a new camera!) but this brownish ball is a gall of Andricus kollari Andricus kollari.  More information can be found here:https://alchetron.com/Andricus-kollari-1700793-W

DO NOT panic as they are harmless to your trees and there is no treatment anyway.

 Now if I had a better camera it would look like this, from Nature Spot UK http://www.naturespot.org.uk/taxonomy/term/19701

Below: Wondering what that other stuff was ~everything in one shot!

 Below (left) in photo are the brown clusters of Common spangle gall (Neuroterus quercusbaccarum)

 To the right (above) the pointy items is a gall of the Oak gall wasp
Andricus, Neuroterus, Biorhiza and Cynips species More information as well as photos can be found here: https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?PID=803

Round brown objects on leaves (above left) Common spangle gall (Neuroterus quercusbaccarum) on Oak (Quercus robur)

My ornamental cherry tree has had clear sap coming from it for years.  Now, if you do a web search "sap coming from ornamental cherry tree" you get this:

Common name Bacterial cankerScientific name Pseudomonas syringae pv. morsprunorum and P. s. pv. syringaePlants affected Prunus speciesMain symptoms Sunken, dead patches of bark and small holes in leavesCaused by BacteriaTiming Cankers form in mid-spring, shotholes on foliage from early summer
Now, my tree does not have "shot~hole" so I need to up its feed and I just used the last of the chicken pellet fertilizer on it.  Leaf cutter insects I find plenty of evidence of!  But there is one thing I encourage and that is any type of garden spider building its web between branches.  

 So I do not have to worry and as fruit trees do tend to release sap and this one does this every year, has good looking green leaves and an abundance of cherries (ask the jackdaws, crows and rooks how they taste  because they were grabbing them almost as fast ~but not quite~ as the squirrel.

Oh, and I did as suggested and cut the sap away and no 'sawdust' indicating bore worm just solid wood.

Plenty of snails, as well as empty shells from where blackbirds have eaten the snail.  Slugs. Quite a few and of a lot of different types (they tend to have a meal on the food put out for foxes and the hedgehogs!).  They also make a great addition to The Green Man (photo top of page).

I've watched a couple of very large hedgehogs, who do not give a damn how much noise they make by the front door (food station in poor weather) nor how many times I have to get up to make sure it isn't burglars!

As both fox and hedgehogs alter their visiting times I was worried that I might just be feeding cats ~a good few pass through here~ and I wanted to make sure.  The old trick is to use a "sand trap" an inch thick (2.5cms) layer of sand around a food dish (in this case) and see what tracks you get. I had no sand so resorted to an old ghost hunters trick ~a layer of talcum powder.

The tracks next day showed a large gull, magpie and cat tracks but also hedgehog and fox. The hedgie tracks don't show up well but the fox ones are reasonable.

 Above, top left the rounded pad of a cat. To the right of that a canid (fox) track showing a nail print.
Below: WHERE to begin! Cat and fox but if you look at the upper right side of the manhole cover you have magpie tracks.  You can also clearly see the webbed gull tracks!

I've also seen the small vixen close to and there was no sign of mange.

There are other indicators of hedgehogs, of course. Poop.  Yes, I know that it should not but it makes me smile seeing it.  It shows if the hedgehog in question is healthy or not.  So when I walked out my front door in June and almost stepped on this I had to go fetch the camera!

I knew one neighbour who used to talk about his arguments with the neighbour who "chucked bits of black tar" onto his lawn.  Never ever saw him do this and pointed to some of this "tar"...hedgehog poop.

From the photos you will see there are plenty of acorns this year. So squirrel should be okay though I spied one of the gardens further along has a squirrel feeder in it (YAY! People beginning to get more wildlife friendly around here at last).  It also means the Jay will be back so I need to sort a feeder out for it.

Lola the cat from somewhere (aka: killer bitch queen for the number of mice, at least one juvenile rat and shrews she has killed) helped out by climbing trees I was trying to inspect and cut back.  And she also helped by attempting to tackle my boots.

Below: Lola on patrol.

Black ants.  oh the black ants. They do say the red ones bite.  Right. The black ones really bite in, especially if I put my arm against the oak tree while filling the bird feeder...in fact, the main type of ant I've seen in the garden (front and back) are black ants.  I used to watch them as they herded aphids in the already mentioned cherry tree.

Below: Kingdom of the Ants!!

All the cut branches from a while back are now stored and will probably be used as supports for other plants, etc..

Below: wood pigeons.  At one point these birds and collared doves were almost wiped out in the UK but since the 1970s have come back in numbers.

The collared doves, wood pigeons, magpies, rooks, jackdaws, crows and of course, pigeons, are still flipping around and so are the smaller birds.

So much of the local habitat has been cut back or destroyed and as new people move in and out gardens are turned over, concreted, paving slabbed and shrubs and bushes done away with. It is nice to see people plant more things these days and not realize ~or realize~ it encourages wildlife.  If you dont have the habitat you don't get Eye Hawk Moths breeding.  These two were, uh, "snuggling up" last month on my back wall.

Not great but this photo shows why how they got the name.

There has also been one or two very large moths shoot out from the shade of the barrel planted potatoes.  Too fast for me to see what they were.  Next year I plan a survey.

Below: potatoes in a bin!

 First year after repotting ~my apple tree

Yes, with foxes, cats, hedgehogs and no real soil here, we reverted to the old trick of planting potatoes in an old plastic barrel bin.  I had planned to use the plastic compost bin, however, we have a colony of bumble bees in there so it's their home now!

Next year is also the planting of more vegetables and fruit in barrels because that means no chemicals and we know where it all came from!

Also, the 12" (30cms) tall nightshade plant has...er...grown a bit. Need to move it from the front door where it is suitably identified as toxic in case some idiot plays about with it.

So that's my update. At least it was a sunny day!

The SOHA Project and Bigfoot

I think that my original call was correct.  Please read through as I have added a newer video exposing things at SOHA.

But the question will be should researchers tread through another researcher's survey area?  When it comes to wildlife and if it is on public land then other researchers may want to confirm claims or findings based on published research.  That is usually done by contacting the original field researcher.

If you are looking at not setting up cameras or anything other than walking through an area and noting the flora and fauna well you do not need permission for that unless it is on private property. This is all Wayne and Streufert did.  They simply had a curiosity because of the claims made.

If you are dealing with trampling over the area of a wildlife survey and its cameras etc then out of courtesy you let a research team know but members of the public do this all the time and have no idea a wildlife survey or study is taking place because there are no huge signs announcing that.

In this case, again, Johnson was making wild claims and offered no substantiation or evidence so scientific curiosity steps in.  I was unaware of the head injury Johnson suffered which may well explain certain aspects ~in claims of both ongoing paranormal and UFO activity I have found certain percipients to have suffered head trauma in the past and even forms of epilepsy.

I do have to now call into question Adam Davies' reputation, however.  Based on the area description given by Wayne it has to be concluded that Davies did not do a survey of the area on foot prior to events as described.  This is basic for any naturalist or researcher on a field trip. If the so called None Disclosure Agreement has silenced Davies then it should not because he was on Bureau of Land Management territory.

Personally, I always respected Davies who has done much field work into mystery hominids around the world.

Davies should reveal what he knows or suspects because this whole SOHA Project blunts most serious scientific interest in Sasquatch ~as does the Finding Bigfoot teams inability to identify clear owl calls~ and it slaps down all the work he has done because when I heard the claims I know I thought "What the hell are you doing and saying?!" so what others thought I can only imagine.

The SOHA Project, Adam Davies and Portals

I am sure that anyone with an interest in Sasquatch have heard of the Southern Oregon Habituation Area (SOHA).

I will include a link here to statements by Adam Davies, who I have a lot of respect for, regarding what happened to him on a particular night. To be honest I thought that he was joking. When I sent a link to a friend who has no interest in Sasquatch I jokingly added "explain this!" to it. The reply I got was "holographs".

Now, looking at what Davies and his companion described I realised that, as there had been no actual physical contact between the witnesses and 'guardians', yes, what was reported could be achieved by a man made  light show.  But then I thought "That would cost a LOT of cash" so I followed links my friend sent. It was nowhere as expensive as I thought.  And if the expected remuneration from such a hoax seemed high enough....

Here Adam Davies and John Carlson discuss what happened the day after but seem far more intimidated in stance or, perhaps, not intimidated as much as being careful to report what they saw exactly-did they suspect something?  Certainly, their accounts and what Johnson claims vary a lot.

And here on Binnall of America:

http://binnallofamerica.com/boaa100415.html

You then get this -read the comments with this as it all starts sounding like low level tech hoaxing. "Matthew Johnson's account of what happened and his descriptions of events is vastly different than those of Adam Davies and John Carlson."

Now it seems Johnson expects anyone visiting the area to pay hommage to him. This is a rather greasy video and watching this finally convinced me that this SOHA project is not legitimate.  In forty years I have met many people with odd claims.  Con-man? Deluded but genuine? I know which one I'm going for.  The attitude and body language is clear.

Let's see the "mind blowing" evidence to be presented next April. Personally, I don't care. I think this is a big hoax and people should just back away quickly.  Of course, Johnson has that cult following that will never believe anything negative.

You will see this following in the You Tube comments sections as well as online.  But you also get totally out-of-hand abuse and name calling on what you might think were respectable sites. Read the next bit then check the site's comments.

People still wonder why I work alone?

In January 2016 Bigfoot Evidence posted this:http://bigfootevidence.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/debate-rages-on-between-warring-bigfoot.html

Debate Rages On Between Warring Bigfoot Factions

image via bigfootlunchclub,com

The following is a guest post from bigfoot blogger Daniel Dover:

Drama in the bigfoot world went bump in the paranormal night when the Bluff Creek Project outed and video taped the location of Dr. Matthew Johnson’s SOHA site where mystical sasquatches inhabit and inter-dimensional portals open and close. Dr. J, as he calls himself, fired a volley back with his own video, calling Streufert an a-hole over and over, even after expressing some piety, saying, “I forgive you.” So, reminiscent of times of old when parties selected their weapons of choice, e.g. dueling pistols, they’ve opted to duel with opposing videos.

It was late December 2015 when the Bluff Creek Project produced a video outing the location of Dr. Johnson’s habituation site called SOHA (Southern Oregon Habituation Area). The Bluff Creek Project subsequently took down the video but here is the write-up they made accompanying the youtube video.

“So for a while now we have been looking for Dr J’s Southern Oregon Habituation Area so we could visit it and debunk his supernatural claims. Last week Mitchell Wilson found a match on Google Earth with the blurry screenshot he posted a couple years ago. 

Steven Streufert and I visited the site on Monday and confirmed it. We were respectful and didn’t leave anything behind. It was late so we only hung out for a few minutes. At this time we won’t reveal the location but after going there we now know that this is probably the last place a Sasquatch would be. It’s right next to houses and is only a 20 minute leisurely 4×4 trip from the highway. We investigated Adam Davies portal as well and we are sure we have that figured out. There is a house 3/4 mile away with flood lights on it that point up the ridge. You can see it when you look low through the trees. 

We could have chosen to mess with Johnson or hoax him to embarrass him but we thought we should just announce it here. Steve will be constructing a blog on it soon. 

We do have intentions of doing a night investigation up there sometime but we will not be secretive about it or play any dirty tricks.”

DR JOHNSON’S RESPONSE 

In response Dr. Johnson produced a video to chastise Steve Streufert for his invasive trampling of the land of SOHA.

Here’s a transcript of some of what Dr. Johnson said on his New Year’s Day video. He is addressing Steve Streufert at the Bluff Creek Project with these remarks. (11:15 – 14:00)

“You found SOHA, yea, it’s good for you; it’s your’s. See what you don’t known is for the last couple of months of my being up there, the SOHA squatches have kinda been shutting down the area kinda giving me a message that its time to move on to the new location. You don’t know that but I’m telling you now. They weren’t taking the food, they pushed trees down over the road that I had to remove. I think that actually happened after the first time your scout went up there. That’s when I found the trees. . . .

So, anyway, I was getting this message, “Time to move on.” I’m moving on to a new location. Ha ha not going to tell you obviously. But to be honest I don’t know where it is yet either. But what I do know is I’ve been in the field for 15 years when the needle in the hay stack found me above the Oregon Caves 15-years-ago. And I’m confident of this one thing, in all 3 research areas, 4 if you count WAHA right here, I never found them, they found me. And I’m confident that moving on the squatches are going to lead me to my next research area. . . . I trust them. They will guide me and lead me to find the new area.”

Now please watch this (begins about 12 mins in)

A Reminder: The Halt Perspective

 The very much anticipated book, The Halt Perspective, moves away from the Rendlesham Forest fantasy to facts.  I can hear blood vessels popping from here.

Product details Paperback: 788 pages Publisher: Haunted skies Publishing (9 Aug. 2016) Language: English ISBN-10: 0957494491 ISBN-13: 978-0957494497 Product Dimensions: 18.9 x 4 x 24.6 cm all books can be ordered here http://www.hauntedskies.co.uk/

Haunted Skies ~The Books

I have been investigating and researching  UFOs, amongst other things, since I was a teenager and got involved with UFO groups in 1974.  I have, therefore a LOT of publications and books from the late 1940s onward.

I own a complete set of the original Haunted Skies ~all 11 volumes and I can tell you without any bias that they are the best books looking at UFOs and UFO history I have ever seen.  The photographs and research, not to mention the interviews carried out by the authors, make these books a must for anyone seriously interested in the subject. If you can find copies.

I have not seen these volumes, however, I have been privvy to glimpses and I do know that now that Hanson and Holloway are in overall charge these are going to be even better.

As soon as ordering details are available I'll post them

Re~introduce Lynx To UK?

photo https://org.elon.edu/ncwildcat/nc-eurasianlynx/funfacts.html


Yes, the man UK reporters dubbed "The Big Cat detective" (seriously) ~me~ has had phone calls asking for my opinion on re~introducing lynx to the UK?

There are millions of wild rabbits, rats, mice, etc., not to mention millions of deer from various species in the UK.  Ample food.  Leave the cats alone and they will create a balance that is really needed in UK fauna and flora.

Healthy cats do not attack people ~especially the lynx.

And, after 40 years or so years (1977~2010 as a UK police forces exotic wildlife advisor) which has included historical document research, I can tell you that lynx have been living and even breeding in the wild in the UK on and off since at least the 1800s (1800 was the historical cut off point for record research).  There are plaster casts of paw~prints, hair samples, DNA and many eye witness accounts and these accounts come from people who think they are reporting a puma ~tell them it was a lynx and you get blank looks and "a what??"

Farmers are covered by insurance if a dog kills sheep or lambs and if lynx are re~introduced then there has to be an official killed livestock compensation scheme for the rare cases where a lynx might kill something.  But it needs to be provable that a lynx was involved.

The lynx also require full legal protection.
http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/12519/0

Lets see how this goes.

And the lynx is not a big cat!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/science-environment-40628037/will-wildcat-lynx-be-reintroduced-to-the-uk

Unless You Have An Inquisitive Mind Willing To Learn Without Sensationalism...Do Not Read!

I just finished reading two "phenomena" books. I was familiar with some of the cases as they were old and there are many easily available reference sources for them.

But the amount of sensationalism ~a witness who wrote that at the time they felt something had lightly tugged on their coat sleeve is now described as "being attacked by a potential demonic spirit!"  Apparently "This went on for several minutes before the terrified witness ran out of the house".  In fact, the witness had stated he was curious as to what might have, possibly, touched his sleeve "but we continued to talk and slowly walked into the next room"

Slight difference?

Yet these containers of lies, half truths and distortions sell. Because they are sensationalist.

Perhaps that is where I went wrong?

The Golden Years of Investigation and Research Are Over. The Bunko Boys Now Rule

1978/79 RAF Manston, Kent.
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Is it just me or does anyone else feel nostalgic occasionally and sit back and think "I enjoyed the Cold War.  It was fun"?

Me then?

Look at me...look at that shirt collar!!  So young. Nose still not quite "lumped out" yet. And hair. Ahem. You know what I miss about the 1970s-1990s?  The chasing and climbing.  There was a lot of chasing odd lights across fields, over rooves and while seated as a passenger in a car that just avoided colliding with a bus. Even up the highest rock conveyer belt in Europe.

Monsters. All sizes. All types.  The weird stuff.  That's the difference today.  About 99.9% of what you see on TV shows and read in books is fake.  Made up or simply ignoring the actual facts to continue a 'mystery'.  People wanting to self promote and earn big money from TV and books rather than seriously investigate and research a case.

We lost our way. No one really cares about finding any real evidence of possible alien landings, of unidenbtified sea creatures or any mystery creature.  Why should they?  It's all better on the TV in the comfort of your living room.  You don't have to go out in the cold and wet or hot sun.  Just sit there snacking, belch or fart and say "Course it's real -I saw it on TV. There!"

Ivan T. Sanderson, Donald E. Keyhoe, Roy Mackal -any number of other pioneers of investigation into the unexplained and strange- would despair today. They travelled jungles, swamps, mountains, down rivers, across seas and more to get to locations and investigate.

And what do we have today?

The internet.  Everything at our finger-tips.  "Hey, Terry -have you heard about this?" or "Hey, Terry -there was a sighting of something weird...."  No. Thousands of you out there reading this blog and nothing. But I'm betting a lot of you do check out all the fake Bigfoot, monster, UFO, ghost and other excretia on You Tube?

Have we really seen the end of true investigation and research?  Are we really in the age where it's better to watch You Tube fakery and TV fakery -and read and listen what the flim-flam men write and say and buy their books?  Pay them to fake, distort and out-rightly lie to us?

I do not want to contribute material that helps that. I've given up.  Material gets stolen from this blog -original research- and gets distorted by alleged 'cryptozoologists' and 'ufologists' for their own means -and to make money.

I post.  No one even thinks to respond.  So I guess it's pointless posting because none of this stuff is sensationalist or interesting enough?

I have books full of cases YOU have never even heard of.  

But its not sensationalist therefore, it seems, interesting.

So be it.

But just in case...

 One for those interested in Wildlife -or cryptozoology!

  

 Terry Hooper
The Red Paper: Canids
Paperback, 
A4 (21 x 30cms)
202 Pages

£20.00

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Photographs, illustrations and maps

By the 1700s the British fox was on the verge of extinction and about to follow the bear and wolf having been hunted for sport for centuries.  
The answer was to import thousands of foxes per year for sport. But foxes kept dying out so jackals were tried. Some were caught, some escaped. Even wolves and coyote were released for hunting and "country folk" were very far from "happy" -some even threatening local hunts -one intending to release a wolf for a hunt- with legal and other consequences. 

The summation of over 40 years research by the noted naturalist and former UK police forces exotic wildlife consultant reveals the damnable lie of "pest control" hunting but also reveals the cruelty the animals were subject to and how private menageries as well as travelling shows. Private menageries, or single exotic "pets" as well as travelling shows helped provide the British and Irish countryside with some incredible events such as the 1905 "vampiric" sheep killer of Badminton, the mystery hounds of Cavan and Coyotes of Epping Forest.

The Girt Dog of Ennerdale is also dealt with in detail -was it a tiger? A Tasmania Thylacine? This book gives the exact facts and details for the first time. Up-dated 2013 edition includes a section on sarcoptic mange in foxes and treatment plus a list of wildlife sanctuaries and rescue centres in the UK.

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Some Things Strange & Sinister (2013 -up-dated)

A4 Format
B&W
Paperback
358 pages
Heavily illustrated
£20.00
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After more than 40 years as an investigator and more than fifty as a naturalist,the author has opened some of the many files he has accumulated dealing with such things as..  

The Terrifying Events At The Lamb Inn, The Ghosts Of All Saints Church, Dead Aquatic Creatures of Canvey Island, captured bigfoot like creatures in India -all exclusively presented for the first time and with new added research previously unseen.  

PLUS a vastly expanded section on Spring-heeled Jack!  Photographs, maps, line drawings and up-dated to make 358 pages looking at Things truly Strange and Sinister.  

Cryptozoologist,Ghost Hunter,Ufologist or Fortean:this book has something for everyone -including the just plain inquisitive!   

ContentsForeword by Travis L. WhitehurstIntroduction        

de occultis non judicat ecclesia                                                                            The Bristol Rocking Horse        The Terrifying Events At The Lamb Inn        The Coonian Ghost        The Ghosts Of All Saints Church        His Luminous Chamber        The Late Reverend Dr. Blomberg        And More Ghost Stories        The Thomas B. Cumpston Case        The Chupacabra        The Strange Case Of The Gotherington Gargoyle        What’s Tall,Hairy And Vanishes?        Mystery Beasts Of Ireland        The Creature Of The Dump        The Strange Creature Of Repton Woods        The Bizarre Legends,Crimes And Truth About Spring Heeled Jack        The Black Beast Of Darmstadt        The Nameless Thing Of Berkley Square        The Terrifying Case Of The U.S. Naval Transport        The Case Of The Ghost Lear Jet        Ghost Planes,Crashes And Dead Aquatic Creatures        The Mitchison Loch Ness Monster Video        From The Deep Below To The Air Above –USOs        Aerial Encounters Over Austria        A Crashed UFO In 1790?        Angel Hair        Quimper-Corentin:Where “Thunder Fell”        Strange Aliens From Space        The Llandrillo ‘Saucer’ And Other Crash Retrievals        Transient Lunar Phenomena,Alien Structures And Moon Vegetation        Whiddon Down-Saint-Jean-du-Guard:Impossible Correlations?        The Venezuelan HorrorA Final Word.

Alleged piece of crashed UFO from Berwyn Mountains, Wales.

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 Some More Things Strange & Sinister 

Terry Hooper-Scharf
Paperback,
A4
327 Pages Heavily illustrated
£20.00
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Follow-up to Some Things Strange & Sinister. For those interested in Ufology, cryptozoology, hominology, unusual natural history, ghosts and mysteries in general. The secret history of gorillas in the UK -before they were officially  'discovered'. 

The history of  the Wild men of Europe, the UK and US: something that in the 1800s become very "pop culture"  Very pop culture and totally forgotten today! Hominology. Sasquatch and Bigfoot -is there evidence for their existence?  

No sitting on the fence here -the Patterson-Gimlin film is looked at as well as other evidence.  The Author's conclusions? 

You might be surprised. Giant snakes. Amazons. The Giant serpent of Carthage. The Girt Dog of Ennerdale -another big cult 'creature' amongst paranormal and cryptozoological circles. The Beast of Gevaudan -what was it and were there really descendents of the creature in the 19th century -one of which was actually brought to London?   Believe it or not more than one incident of historical crocodiles cases in the UK.  In fact, far more than even the Author had thought . And, after more than a century of claims by 'researchers' that it no longer exists: The Silent City of Alaska and the near legendary 'lost' photograph taken of it.
 This and much more. Updated with extra pages and photographs.

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Pursuing The Strange And Weird -A Naturalist's Viewpoint (2014 up-date)

Terry Hooper-Scharf
Paperback,
A4
249 Pages
£20.00 
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UP DATE -From Dead Aquatic (Humanoid) Creatures, the giant squid and yet undiscovered sea creatures; submarine and ships crews encountering true leviathans.

There is a fully expanded section which also refers to the so-called ‘Ningen’ sightings and video footage.Extinct animals at sea that have been re-discovered. The subject of Sasquatch and other mystery Hominids around the world is dealt with including a look at the “Sasquatch-killer”, Justin Smeja.

Dr. Bryan Sykes and his DNA test results for TVs The Bigfoot Files as well as the controversial Erickson Project and Dr. Melba Ketchum’s Even more controversial Sasquatch DNA test results.

Also included are two early French UFO entity cases that still baffle. Ghosts, strange creatures and the Star-Child hoax. All dealt with by the naturalist and pursuer of the strange and weird

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  The Bizarre Legends, Crimes And Truth About Spring Heeled Jack (2014

  

Terry Hooper-Scharf
Paperback, 
53 Pages  
Dimensions (centimetres) 20.98 wide x 29.69 tall  (A4)
fully illustrated and referenced
£10.00
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The terror and mystery created by “Jack The Ripper” has been the subject of countless books, magazine articles as well as movies and TV documentaries. Ask anyone if they have ever heard of Jack The Ripper and it is doubtful anyone would respond with a “no idea.”  

By that same token, ask people who “Spring-heeled Jack” was and you would be lucky to find anyone who had ever heard of him.  
Spring-heeled Jack was the subject (loosely) of a film The Curse of the Wraydons (1946) and Dominic Keating also appeared as Spring Heeled Jack in the 2010 film Sherlock Holmes by The Asylum film company. The character has also featured in both American and British comic books and a number of books, for both children and adults.  

But the fact that the Springald held the country –not just London– in a grip of terror much longer that the Ripper did is all but forgotten except for some half-truths and fanciful theories.  

Now be prepared to read the full story of Spring Heeled Jack