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The last time I read about him he didn't have wings and didn't fly, just kind of jumped over houses and 20 foot high walls.
River_Styx said:The last time I read about him he didn't have wings and didn't fly, just kind of jumped over houses and 20 foot high walls.
the Jersey Devil, Brentford Griffin, Big Birds, ancient harpies etc, there seems to be a cycle to many of these legends and yet they all remain too bizarre to almost except, yet clearly something has happened, whether in the form of them being tulpas projected by the mind, or real inhabitants of some other place we do not know about. Any theories ?
Oh and the whole spitting blue fire thing, or was it green? And thinking it through more his M.O. was more, knock on the door of a house and try to rape the woman who answered or attack the man. But don't quote me on that last part.mrchopper said:thats exactly what i read, springheeled jack was a man who could jump over buildings when being chased etc. and the mothman is a totally different phenomana.
NIEL do you have any online literature, we can take a butchers at?
From what I remember reading SHJ's attacks seemed to be more sexually motivated than MM.Evilsprout said:Well, to summise James Whitehead suggested that Monkey Man is a new form of SHJ, and I agreed stating the similarities between SHJ and MM:
1. Both entities make escapes by making prodigious leaps
2. Both attack and leave flesh wounds with metal claws
3. Both are attributed with the ability to change into animals (this is only really mentioned in the very early SHJ reports)
4. Both are said to have glowing eyes
5. Both are tall (though this varies in the MM sightings... in some cases "he's" only around 4ft)
6. The description of both varies considerably, but both are said to either wear armour and a bizarre helmet, or dress in white (this being a main part of the Everton/Sheffield/Bradford cases)
7. Both inspire angry vigilante mobs!
There's a thought, Superman, perhaps even`Bizzaro Superman,' finally cracks and becomes the time-travelling, flasher, slasher perv,' Spring Heeled Jack!Perhaps even the acrobatic Superman, with his tight costume and tights with pants worn outside is an intermediary role model in the evolution of the Spring Heeled Jack phenomenon."
People are fleeing Indian villages to escape a man who allegedly plucks flesh from his victims with long claws.
Around 50 villages in the Ghazipur district of Uttar Pradesh are in fear of the so-called monster man who is reported to have attacked 36 people.
One of the man's victims claims to have seen red and green lights coming from his body before he struck.
He is also rumoured to have long hair, blood-shot eyes and claws like a tiger.
...Director general of Police RK Pandit has launched an investigation into the alleged attacks by the man, known as Mooh Nochva.
...Sify reports his victims have included a woman called Pikkhi who had flesh ripped off her face, neck and arms, and student Jai Prakash Paswan whose face and arms were badly scratched.
DanHigginbottom said:Pray silence please for the most impossibly unhelpful comment ever posted; (ahem) a couple of years ago, this got discussed in the FT letters page. As I recall, someone mentioned a book on the subject...and that's all I can remember. Sorry about that but if I can find the issue in question, I'll post the details.
Apparently, there was also a role playing game (!) based around the disappearances. I don't know much about 'em, but it was HP Lovecraft related; possibly some connection to the stories of sacrificial cults? It does seem a bit 'Call of Cthullhu'.
JerryB said:Hope that sheds a little light on the subject. Personally, I think the disappearances of the girls are probably linked to a sex-related crime of some sorts. Charles Wagner's death is more obscure. I think the disappearances were also mentioned in a 'Call of Cthulhu' RPG sourcebook called 'Cthulhu By Gaslight'.