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How did a crazed serial attacker in 1830s London become an urban legend, then a fictional anti-hero, then the inspiration for Batman? It's a fascinating mystery that has never been solved. So let's talk about Spring-Heeled Jack, the first urban legend.
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"Luckily life-spans were incredibly short." That one got me.
@tiermacgirl
2 жыл бұрын
Me too!
@francesbernard2445
2 жыл бұрын
Sounds like you maybe are going through a lot right now too. It isn't true that all lives were short back then. People who managed to live past the average age of death often lived much longer. Today it is people who manage to live past the age of 65 who end up living a lot longer. Which is why now that there is a whole lot more of us compared to young people employers need to start considering to hire us and more women in some occupations too so that those of us with less resources to do so can contribute more to the welfare of others too. Otherwise there will be another generation again in which people over the age of 90 are almost all only women. There is no excuse not to anymore with so much more automation and much better applications of mechanical means to get more foot pounds done.
@vasiovasio
2 жыл бұрын
Reincarnation enters the chat!
@phelps88ap
2 жыл бұрын
@@francesbernard2445 I actually meant it made me laugh....
@andrewlichmanov5767
2 жыл бұрын
@@francesbernard2445 I'm... so confused
"luckily, life spans were incredibly short." I can always count on Joe to find the silver lining
@joescott
2 жыл бұрын
"Always look on the bright side of life..." 🎶
@oneoflokis
2 жыл бұрын
Actually, this in itself is a bit of an urban myth. *Infant and childhood mortality threw the statistics off WILDLY* . IF you could make it through your first three years of life, then you had a much better chance of survival. Then if you could make it out of your childhood to adulthood. After that, lifespans were not dissimilar to what they are now. Of course, there was no modern medicine, nor antibiotics: and moving to crowded cities for work, that didn't yet have sewerage systems, caused epidemics. 😏
@oneoflokis
2 жыл бұрын
Actually, this in itself is a bit of an urban myth. *Infant and childhood mortality threw the statistics off WILDLY* . IF you could make it through your first three years of life, then you had a much better chance of survival. Then if you could make it out of your childhood to adulthood. After that, lifespans were not dissimilar to what they are now. Of course, there was no modern medicine, nor antibiotics: and moving to crowded cities for work, that didn't yet have sewerage systems, caused epidemics. 😏
@bestestdev
2 жыл бұрын
Silver lining… you mean like in that line of Mack Weldon underwear? :0
@iamcecilman
2 жыл бұрын
@@joescott especially if it's extra short
Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack jumped over the candlestick.
@tortysoft
2 жыл бұрын
Good point !
@razeezar
2 жыл бұрын
In primary school, we used to extend this rhyme, Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack jumped over the candle stick and burnt his peepee* *=Except that it rhymed
@keithe8449
2 жыл бұрын
@@razeezar In England we say Jack be nimble Jack be quick Jack jumped over The candlestick Jack should have jumped a little higher Goodness gracious Great balls of fire 🔥
@KC-nm7mf
2 жыл бұрын
@@keithe8449 I wonder what it’s like to live in England, it fascinates me
@keithe8449
2 жыл бұрын
@@KC-nm7mf It isn't perfect but still a great country
First time I've heard of Spring-Heeled Jack was from playing Assassin's Creed: Syndicate. It was a side mission and it's one of my favorite missions in the game. The game leans more toward the "Some things are better off left as legends" logic, but it's interesting to think that there was in fact a maniac running around doing all this stuff.
"I could do a whole video on how everything in the Victorian Era wanted to kill you." ...yes, please!
@masstv9052
2 жыл бұрын
There's a BBC video series about that and it's on YT. Called something like deadly victorian homes or something similar
@Xxtayce
2 жыл бұрын
@@masstv9052 I'd prefer a Joe Scott version, tbh. ❤️
@plsdontshoot3614
2 жыл бұрын
WELP
@Lala_Harvz
Жыл бұрын
I for one would absolutely watch that 😊
@Lala_Harvz
Жыл бұрын
There’s also a channel called Weird History, oh and another called Nutty History and they’ve got loads of Victorian Era videos which are really interesting to watch.
In the video game Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, there’s an item called the “Boots of Springheel Jak [sic]” that boosts your “acrobatics” skill, letting you jump higher and fall a long distance without getting hurt. :)
@thephoenixgod5177
2 жыл бұрын
That’s awesome I love when games do that
@chosenone6158
2 жыл бұрын
Yes , also to get them you have to kill the owner of the boots who is an ancient aristocrat vampire who probably preys on the citizens of imperial city .
@jeremymiller9582
2 жыл бұрын
@@chosenone6158 lol. It’s been a minute since I played; that’s hilarious!
@jasonwest3618
2 жыл бұрын
Funny enough i was just about to say this myself!!
@jasonwest3618
2 жыл бұрын
The mission you get them in is by far the best mission in the game as well. Its a shame you have to break them though when you complete it
My great grandmother lived like this: As a child they used a horse drawn wagon to buy food at the local market and sometimes drove it the next big city - like every 2 month or so. There were no automobiles. She lived on to see people walking on the moon at the end of her life. Just image what she thought would be possible in one more lifetime... but no, we now just play candy crush on small miracle machines we put in our pockets.
The Marquess of Waterford sounds like the original Florida Man
@kateofone
2 жыл бұрын
I think I saw him once
"I could do a whole video about how..." Well, we're waiting.
@lutello3012
2 жыл бұрын
There's a BBC series about that. (Hidden Killers of theVictorian Home) etc
@ShamblerDK
2 жыл бұрын
@@lutello3012 Sure, but I think most people here would like the condensed information you get with Joe :-)
@Pysslis
2 жыл бұрын
@@lutello3012 the entire series is available on the KZread channel Absolute history.
@treelym
2 жыл бұрын
The BBC series is pretty concise.
@Marc83Aus
2 жыл бұрын
@@Pysslis That channel is highly reccomended.
That one girl that got stabbed 19 times in the into SURVIVED by the way
@zagreus1249
2 жыл бұрын
Wow
@JohnSmith_1331
2 жыл бұрын
And one of the girls who stabbed her just got her release papers last week.
@Mythrell
2 жыл бұрын
It's just a prank bro.. oh wait.
@AB-vn2jc
2 жыл бұрын
Holy shit what a champion, that’s fantastic
@agoogleuser1188
2 жыл бұрын
Yo that makes me feel so much better
10:28 can we talk about this drawings of human faces? That's some seriously crazy good portraits someone made there, just with a fine liner.
Flash of Morrissey at 6.48 in reference to “ panic on the streets of London “.a lyric on Panic by The Smiths . On Morrissey’s 1994 album Vauxhall And I he sings a song called Spring Heeled Jim, supposedly based on Spring Heeled Jack .
@michaelblaine6494
2 жыл бұрын
👏I was looking down here to see if anyone else caught that
@candydandy2694
2 жыл бұрын
@@michaelblaine6494 same!
The first MIB movie started with Will Smith chasing Spring Heeled Jack 😂
@jessearnold4620
2 жыл бұрын
😂🤣
@joescott
2 жыл бұрын
Mind blown
@ssuresh237
2 жыл бұрын
🤣🤣🤣
@anthonycromwell4292
2 жыл бұрын
Must of casted chris rock to play jack too
@enigmaticbeing666
Жыл бұрын
@@anthonycromwell4292 keep my wife's name out yo fucking mouth!!!
What I have learned today: Don't name your child Jack if you live in London
@BertGrink
2 жыл бұрын
Also, if you meet a friend named Jack on an aeroplane, do NOT call out "Hi Jack!"
@FuriousImp
2 жыл бұрын
@@BertGrink nice
@headcrab4090
2 жыл бұрын
Jack London. He actually traveled to London to live among the homeless. «The People of the Abyss», (1903).
@jamesbailey9007
2 жыл бұрын
Jack the ripper and stripper and spring heeled all lived in London
@imshaymaybe
2 жыл бұрын
*insert Jack Manifold joke*
Waukesha is pronounced wah-keh-shaw, not wah-keh-shuh. The "kesha" part of the name is not pronounced like the artist, the "a" at the end makes an awe sound, like in awesome.
if you haven’t, *please* do a video on the 1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak! How john snow (not that one) used maps and surveys and statistics to discover the infected water was the source of the disease. He narrowed down the spread to a contaminated water pump and stopped the cholera epidemic in Victorian London! It’s a super interesting story, and the push back from parliament was wild. I think you’d tell it great!!!
@rustomkanishka
5 ай бұрын
You do know something, Dr John Snow.
I remember reading about him in a horrible histories book and being terrified!
@kayfrenly5460
2 жыл бұрын
If I remember correctly, this was likely a bunch of rich heirs. They were known to go out and beat the hell of plebs and assault women for fun. They had little gangs. There was some evidence that pointed to one in particular. Mystery solved. (I haven't watched enough of the video to know if he mentioned this lol)
@joescott
2 жыл бұрын
I found a book of Penny Dreadfuls for this video and then didn't get a chance to read it before making this. :)
@gorongamer7212
2 жыл бұрын
@@joescott thanks for the reply! I love your channel! I actually searched my book shelf a little but couldn't find anything. I believe it was either "horrible histories - vile Victorians" or "villainous Victorians"
@danielfurmage4381
2 жыл бұрын
I read about Spring Heeled Jack as a little kid in the Readers Digest - Book of Strange Stories/Amazing Facts at my Nan's house when I was growing up, freaked me out and stuck in my head every since!
@chewsgum1163
2 жыл бұрын
@@kayfrenly5460 but i wonder how they could jump a 9 ft walls, and leap over walls
Spring-Heeled Jack legit sounds like he could be a Bloodborne Boss
@jjcoola998
2 жыл бұрын
I knew I wasn't the only one getting bloodborne vibes
@A_Salted_Fishe
2 жыл бұрын
There's a vampire in TES 4 named Springheel Jak
@bloodaonadeline8346
2 жыл бұрын
@@A_Salted_Fishe you can get his boots somewhere in game as well.
@crackedemerald4930
2 жыл бұрын
There isn't enough blood though
@sweatysam6264
2 жыл бұрын
Father Gausston anyone.
As someone who lives very close to Waukesha, WI it's pronounced. WA-Ka-SHAW. Been dying for the last few minutes 😂😂
@kernowboy137
2 жыл бұрын
And while we’re about it Teignmouth in Devon is pronounced “tin-mouth”
@Oceans711
Жыл бұрын
glad to see i wasn't the first wisconsinite to catch this
“Slippity slap, and away I go!” - Spring Heeled Jack
"I could do a whole video on how everything in the Victorian era wanted to kill you." I think there are entire KZread channels dedicated to that. And more than one podcast.
@ThrottleKitty
2 жыл бұрын
I remember watching a rather long video on how stairs were so thin and close back then that they killed people constantly. Another about how the most popular fabric at that point caught on fire so easily old people would just burn to death in a matter of minutes from dropping a cigarette. The later is likely responsible for myths of "Spontaneous combustion"
@LG123ABC
2 жыл бұрын
@@ThrottleKitty They also put arsenic in their wallpaper.
@lyreparadox
2 жыл бұрын
@@LG123ABC Certain green fabric dyes were made with arsenic too.
@joescott
2 жыл бұрын
And they're super interesting.
@ThrottleKitty
2 жыл бұрын
@@joescott I would love to see you do a video on spontaneous combustion and how it was likely caused by a weird adoration of making clothes out of shockingly flammable materials.
Wow... I feel like I never get to do this I think I might mess it up *clears throat* FIRST!
@joescott
2 жыл бұрын
I always believed in you.
@coltonmaas
2 жыл бұрын
mmmmk, I see how it is, lol*
@richardcollier1912
Жыл бұрын
One blighter claimed FIST! on another channel here on KZread. The responses were predictable.
Texans and Wisconsin city names. Always fun. I needed the smile. Thanks!
Great video, and loved the blink-and-you'll-miss-it Smiths reference, which is doubly relevant as Morrissey has a song called Spring Heeled Jack.
@nvan6638
Жыл бұрын
I did a half-blink and had to go back to see what it was. Glad someone else caught it too.
@ascanbe
5 ай бұрын
Not to be an annoyance on behalf of middling details, but Morrissey's song is called "Spring Heeled Jim", not Jack. My work here is done.
Cool... the first I ever heard of "Springheeled Jack" was in a Stephen King short story about a serial killer on a small Maine college campus- and I kinda looked into the original, but this was so much more detailed than what I could find- Thanks, Joe! 😁👍🍿💙💚💛🧡❤
@Euroflounder
2 жыл бұрын
A Stephen King story about a serial killer in Maine? Now I've heard everything.
@albertjackinson
2 жыл бұрын
I remember that! I actually wrote a part II to it for a class assignment (we had read short stories and then were tasked with continuing them/providing a different perspective narratively). The short version is the two main characters are now old guys, they hire a detective, and the serial killer is finally put in jail after 40+ years with the detective's help. I might improve on it a bit just for fun; it's quite short.
@CantonDem13
2 жыл бұрын
"Strawberry Spring" is excellent. That's where I first heard of Spring-Heeled Jack, too.
@thatfunkyduck
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks, Jack!
@myronstringer2596
2 жыл бұрын
It
I feel like you’re firing on all cylinders with this one. The script seems *quite* polished!
@SP_3333
2 жыл бұрын
🙂
@megann2546
2 жыл бұрын
Agree!
@innouniversedoineedthis
2 жыл бұрын
I wonder who wrote it🤔
@cianj.duggan2904
2 жыл бұрын
Absolutely! Joe just keeps getting better!!!
@joescott
2 жыл бұрын
Awe, thanks! It's an interesting story for sure.
Enjoyed this quite a bit! thanks!
Glad I found your channel. Really interesting stuff!
If you think about it, we're in another Victorian era... I'm barely middle-aged at 42, but today's world bears so very little resemblance to that of my childhood in the 80s.
@peanutbutter6720
2 жыл бұрын
That’s just how the world works, think about how life looked 40 years before you were born, they were in WW2. Life has developed very fast since the Industrial revolution.
@MoejiiOsmanTV
2 жыл бұрын
The big difference tho is before the Victorian Era people were still using horse and carriage and still barbaric and then all of a sudden all this technology sprung up like cars, mass production etc. Ude have to get flying cars to be equivalent to a new industrial revolution
@andie_pants
2 жыл бұрын
@@MoejiiOsmanTV "still barbaric" Don't make the mistake of thinking we're somehow a more advanced race of humans than the previous generations. I think you'd be shocked how similar we are. Just look at the graffiti they found on the walls of an inn in Pompeii... people lamented missing their family during their travels and others boasted about screwing the barmaid.
@nosuchthing8
2 жыл бұрын
True
@stephaniebaker6001
2 жыл бұрын
Nope, you ARE past middle age. Sorry! (I'm 54, so I'm screwed. 😁)
Nice discussion. Though I would quibble with your postulation of the fast rise of technology in 1800s England leading to the extreme class division of the Victorian era. Class division has existed in England for over 1000 years. What we probably witnessed was the extremes of England's class divisions brought together in proximity making obvious how extreme the divisions always were. Take the living conditions of a few million poor people from the country and put them right next to the living conditions of the top 10,000 or so wealthiest people and the contrast looks pretty stark.
@alalalala57
2 жыл бұрын
Not really. Poor peasants and kings used to have much closer living standards before the Industrial Revolution. Only difference was power, who was serving whom sort of thing. But the creation of urban, industrial cities that lacked the amenities of the countryside plummeted the living standards for those who can't afford to keep it up (heck, the rich also suffered from the pollution and crap urban planning but they had good homes and could afford to import good food from that same countryside). Hence, creating a huge divide.
@masstv9052
2 жыл бұрын
@@alalalala57 So all the poor people, fuedal peasants, and those especially when revolts over food prices or shortages and such broke out, weren't starving, lived almost similar to kings?
@frankbieser
2 жыл бұрын
@@WinstonSmithGPT The industrialists were just the upper tier of the new middle class. They all still longed to be aristocrats who held the political power. And yes, the kings of old had lower living standards than their 19th century offspring, but they still lived far better than the peasant class (kings and their court lived longer, had access to better quality food, materials, etc). And they certainly didn't toil for their meals (or be preyed upon by the ruling class).
@michaelkeefer5674
2 жыл бұрын
Kind of like the top 1% in America today, verses the lower 99%.
@frankbieser
2 жыл бұрын
@@michaelkeefer5674 If you squint real hard and blur your vision, sure. The social mobility of today is often overlooked. Back then, the top 1% stayed the top 1%, that is no longer true. The top 1% churns, just as all the other percentages do.
Yes! I was waiting for you to cover him! Spring-heeled Jack usually gets forgotten
Perfect video to watch at 11pm on a Monday night whilst about to go to sleep.
@debralucas2224
2 жыл бұрын
Just turned midnight here in Australia :) bless Joe for putting this up now!
@IsabelandSam
2 жыл бұрын
This was my morning wake up and get ready video. Always start your week with Joe :))
@jordanwood5992
2 жыл бұрын
It's only 3.15pm in uk
@jordanwood5992
2 жыл бұрын
It's only 3.15pm in uk
The way he pronounced Waukesha lmao
@Kvantum
2 жыл бұрын
Wau-keh-shaw, not wah-kesha
@kainwi
2 жыл бұрын
I thought it was Wauk-eh-shaw. How do you say - Milwaukee? How about Wisconsin?
@SUPER_ZOMBIE
2 жыл бұрын
@@kainwi "Mil waa key"
@NUFIGHTER
2 жыл бұрын
Isn't it spelled Wauke$ha?
@___LC___
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you my fellow Sconnies!!!
Loved the video, and really LOVED the advert at the end!
WOW.. that transition into Mack Weldon sold me
"Causing panic..." *Brendon Urie photo pops up* It got me good haha
@bruceflee3117
2 жыл бұрын
Is that who it is, I thought it looked like him but wasn't sure
@squelchstuff
2 жыл бұрын
"Panic on the streets of London" is a lyric from a song called Panic by The Smiths. The picture is of Morrissey, the lead singer. I'd never heard of Brendon Urie before now, and seemed to come to US prominence after The Smiths/Morrissey found fame. The resemblance is however remarkable, perhaps even fashioned after Morrissey?
Joe, this was an absolutely delightful episode and I enjoyed every minute of it. As always, thank you for the great work! 😊
@joescott
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much!
@Wetnapkin69
2 жыл бұрын
@@joescott you are truly my favorite person to watch on yt your tangent cams and you random jokes are what makes you a better and more diverse educator on yt i love your video they make my day :) ive been subed since last February and i havnt stopped watching since :)
I remember reading of spring healed jack as a kid from a book my dad had, loved that story, it was very interesting to me and kind of freaked me out, loved the morrisey refference.
Stories about Spring Heel Jack were going around Liverpool when I was growing up in the 1950's. Interesting to hear the research. Cheers.
He influenced Bob Kane 0%. Bill Finger on the other hand...
@johncloois3301
2 жыл бұрын
They got off on the wrong foot.
@rogerkeeling9869
2 жыл бұрын
@ben esterberg Bill Finger is now co-credited with creation of Batman, per legal agreements (just watch the credits on the most recent Batman films) ... but there's substantial evidence that Finger in reality did more than Kane in creating the character at the start.
@countofdownable
2 жыл бұрын
Most of the ideas around Batman were from Bill Finger. Bob Kane did sod all.
@Jaegerborn
2 жыл бұрын
THANK YOU. I was just about to comment something of this sort. Bob Kane was a thief.
There’s an old Readers Digest compilation book called “Strange Stories, Amazing Facts” that contains an article about Spring-heeled Jack, and a ton of other interesting tidbits.
@debbiehenri345
2 жыл бұрын
I used to have that book when I was a kid. Used to love reading that.
@Antony_Jenner
2 жыл бұрын
I just left a comment and cited that very book too, loved that book.
@robertpaton9716
2 жыл бұрын
yeah that book was great - heaps of scary stuff in it
Enjoyed this one! Tnx Joe.
Thanks for another interesting video!
I once owned the boots of spring heel jack. They saved me from a really long fall.
@booglerized
2 жыл бұрын
Never forget
@AlexB_yolo
2 жыл бұрын
Oh, so you’re that guy!
@ronmani9476
2 жыл бұрын
came in handy in quake deathmatches... no more taking damage doing rocket jumps
@persaunna
2 жыл бұрын
Me too!!
15:52 It’s important to include Bill Finger as well, since it was his Batman design and not Kane’s that was used!
@peanutbutter6720
2 жыл бұрын
It’s unfortunate he doesn’t get as much recognition as he deserves.
@Eyembooks
Жыл бұрын
Batman wouldn’t exist as we know him if it wasn’t for Bill Finger. I wonder if he might have been aware of Spring hill Jack
That was fun Joe and a smooth transition at the end. 👍
Thanks a lot Joe, very interesting..
_"...if you've seen that show Glee, I mean that's kind of understandable."_ 😊😊😊
Fun Fact Part Duh. The Duke of Wellington was nicknamed "The Iron Duke" not because of his military prowess, but because of his political resolve, and the fact that he put up iron shutters on his house to keep out the peasants after he became PM. The last bit was popularised by Punch magazine and other satirical publications.
Great vid. Looking forward to some more mysteries based in dear old Blighty. Cheers.
Non-Wisconsin residents can never pronounce Wisconsin cities correctly. Love it.
@joshl16
2 жыл бұрын
Lol wau-ke$ha
@benjabin6729
2 жыл бұрын
Wisconsin is the UK of USA
@winklerchr
2 жыл бұрын
@@benjabin6729 New England has those same stupid city names, so, no.
@benjabin6729
2 жыл бұрын
@@winklerchr yeah but I've heard how you guys pronounce those same city names. They're your city's pronounce them however you like but just know it sounds nothing like the original
“Jackulated action” Well played Joe….welll playeddddd
@joescott
2 жыл бұрын
I believe it was "jack-related action". ... Yeah that's not any better.
@teteeheeted
2 жыл бұрын
@@joescott well that clears up a confusion, but I do have to agree, jack-related action is only slightly better than jackulated action
FUN FACT: In the mid 1800's, working class Londoners had a shorter life expectancy than slaves
@eyes5226
2 жыл бұрын
how fun
@alalalala57
2 жыл бұрын
@@eyes5226 The Industrial Revolution sucked balls for ordinary people lol.
@lilnervous
2 жыл бұрын
@@eyes5226 my reaction exactly haha 😅
@brucebaxter6923
2 жыл бұрын
So, you have made it to puberty already before you become a slave, but you are working class from birth, yep that makes sense with so much infant death
@colmhauser9532
2 жыл бұрын
Is that Lord Lucan?
How have I never heard of this? It’s so crazy and amazing!
I never get tired of your videos
Cool. I always wondered if Spring Heeled Jack was inspiration for Batman.
@erricro3198
2 жыл бұрын
I had no idea... I never thought about Jack being the inspiration for Batman. The Mo' Yo' Kno'
@flashkraft
2 жыл бұрын
Almost like a cross between Batman and the Joker.
@hollow8730
2 жыл бұрын
To the spring boots “bamananana”
Just one note for anyone watching, it's now accepted that Bill Finger is the one who came up with the majority of Batman as we know him. Building off a Bob Kane's name and idea (although his original Batman pitch is very different - look it up). So if anyone was inspired by Spring Heeled Jack it probably would have been him, and it's easy to see the similarities.
That ad transition was top quality notch my dude! Splendid.
Not me realizing this probably inspired the Jumping Jack episode in Murdoch Mysteries... Amazing.
The Dark Jack trilogy. LOL Also never say hi to a Jack in an airplane.
@soidontthinkicanthinkofago4162
2 жыл бұрын
Why
@rayt2548
2 жыл бұрын
Good one!
Wow! You got everything on point! You guys really do your research. And it’s entertaining to boot. Bravo 👏
I'm from Northamptonshire and didn't know about this. Very interesting! Also loved your pronunciation of Northamptonshire 😄 Love watching these videos while I'm working from home.
We all love you too Joe. Keep doing what you're doing!
I love content like this, and this video was so well done! Great Job!
These videos are so interesting. Scientific but with a touch of “out there”. Thank you!
I am absolutely fascinated by the story of Spring-Heeled Jack. I first read about him in a weird book I found at the thrift store (which also featured stories such as an autistic teenager who levitated, a witch who predicted the world would end in 2061, and a ghost that Telly Savalas met once). Idk why but SHJ is an amazing historical character/concept and I wonder if a movie will ever be made about Jack. I was going to write a screenplay about him myself. Maybe I still will lol.
I already knew all about spring Hill Jack but his videos are just so interesting to watch
It was a tree climbing velociraptor coming trough a anomaly from cretacic period , you didn't watch primeval TV series?
@tomev2008
2 жыл бұрын
You just took me back in time
@2beans1cream
2 жыл бұрын
Holy shit
@judealdred5237
2 жыл бұрын
I remember Primeval! good times
@joescott
2 жыл бұрын
I don't but I'm gonna go find that sh!t now.
@oneoflokis
2 жыл бұрын
🙄 Maybe it got there via Dr Who's TARDIS?
I really appreciated this video. It was super entertaining and very informative. I always thought Spring-Heeled Jack was just a fictional character from the Penny Dreadfuls( Precursor to comic books.) But according to these accounts he was in fact a real person. I find all of it super fascinating.
i always been obsessed with s h jack and thought the cloven hoof night were the same,thanks for this great info,as an artist and writer of short batman storys ,you have just inspired something great and i promise to send u a copy first my friend x
informative video. Thanks
Though I like your science vids, I'm really happy to see you dipping back into oddball stories like this! Thanks
Dude that segue to the Mack Weldon commercial was gold.
@mroch5836
2 жыл бұрын
I have to agree, and Joe's runway skills are top notch.
Excellent. And the first I'd heard of the Batman connection which is pretty spot on.
mad to hear the tiny town of aldershot (neighbouring town to where I grew up) in a Joe Scott video!!
That is amazing that that guy survived having his leg blown off with a cannon, especially back then. It always kind of seems like people who are horrible and cause the most suffering, live the longest. In a perfect world that cannon should have been his undoing.
Could this be the origin of the old yarn in which "Jack" is a hero, using his agility to escape some predicament? The story goes that a serial writer of Victorian "penny dreadfuls" penned an extreme cliff-hanger for the hero. There are several versions: he is chained to a chair in a cellar that's being flooded and the water is rising up to his throat; he is tied to stake, being circled by hungry lions, in the path of a huge river of lava from an erupting volcano. You get the idea. But the writer is then hit by a car - and the publisher is desperate: no one can come up with a believable solution! At the last moment, the original writer walks in (having made a remarkable recovery). He calmly sits down at his typewriter and writes: *"With one bound, Jack was free."*
@sendmorerum8241
2 жыл бұрын
Publisher: >facepalm Superheroes are easy to write 🤣
@Think_Inc
2 жыл бұрын
This comment was a big cliffhanger, until it turned into the worst kinda prank.
@itarry4
2 жыл бұрын
I believe that was based on Jack shepherd Theif of pre Victorian London look him up. Jack Rackham has a good video on him on here.
That transition to the promo was spot on. Well done.
Great video! I love these videos! Where have you been all my you tube life joe?
Throwing poop out of my window is something I regret I missed out on. I was born in the wrong era for sure. Also slavery and widespread poverty... good times... *sigh*
@whythelongface64
2 жыл бұрын
Oh you're still in the correct generation. You just need to move to one of the poor countries, which are still the norm not the exception. :)))
@fajaradi1223
2 жыл бұрын
I'd wrap it on a McD paper bag before threw it out of the window.
@coltonmaas
2 жыл бұрын
I hope your being sarcastic about the slavery eh
@___LC___
2 жыл бұрын
Just buy your own house.
@___LC___
2 жыл бұрын
The past was the worst!
"Interacting with anybody could be a social minefield" sounds like today
@juliaf_
2 жыл бұрын
*cough* Twitter
@sasssquatch1467
2 жыл бұрын
Are you assuming my gender?
@memesfromdeepspace1075
2 жыл бұрын
Even when you not directly
@albertjackinson
2 жыл бұрын
@@Quickcat21MK How did you talk about that here?
@albertjackinson
2 жыл бұрын
Yes, but also social interaction can be quite pleasant.
Hahaha I love the little flash of Brendon Urie representing the word "panic"
6:48 Nicely timed little subliminal morrisey there.
For the UK. Love your channel, love your work, love you dude. Now DON’T ever do the accent again, please 🤣
@josmith2031
2 жыл бұрын
🤣🤣bad wasn’t it
@kanedaku
2 жыл бұрын
💯
Living in Victorian housing is still a part of living memory, especially in the north of England. When i grew up the toilet was still outside in a terraced house etc.. etc.. My parents grew having to get there washing done at the local wash house.
All right! ONOTHER bad ass video from Joe Scott.
I’d like to see you do a video about the concept of Future Shock. Amazing videos, Joe!
In early 2001, there's was a rumour scattered around in India about a monkey with same attributes you just described and coincidentally newspaper called it "spring heel jack/monkey" or something like that. People were horrified of sleeping in open places because of that. That rumour lasted for almost a year. I wonder if they named it after him. I was just a kid back then and I remember sitting in a group of teenagers and kids, talking about it at night after dinner in our locality. Edit : after watching this, did some Google search, and look what I found mysteriousuniverse.org/2016/04/spring-heeled-jack-and-the-monkey-man-parallels-between-panics/ For some reference - www.theguardian.com/world/2001/may/18/lukeharding
Just in time for my wake n bake bowl, thanks 😤😙💨
Spring-heeled Jack was also quite a dope Drum & Bass project from the 90's.
Great video, thanks.xxx
Sounds like something straight out of dishonoured. Corvo had his chaos run 😂
@Splatterbrain7
2 жыл бұрын
I think Spring Heeled Jack has been stated to be part of the inspiration for corvo. Might even be a reference or two in the game. Good to see dishonored hasn’t been forgotten.
@chanahasnomana
2 жыл бұрын
@@Splatterbrain7 indeed friend. I recently played 1 and 2 again, so they were fresh on my memory.
"You could not approach someone... who was in a higher station than you... you could go to jail for that." Do you have a source of that claim? Yes, class structures were pretty rigid, and there was a minefield of etiquette. And I could well believe that if a member of the aristocracy considered someone of the lower orders to have behaved impertinently, then that person might get roughed up by the nob's servants. But I've read a fair amount of British history and historical fiction, and never come across a claim that there any legal (rather than social) restrictions on interaction between the classes.
I just *knew* when I read the video title that it was going to be about Spring-Heeled Jack! By the way, that's one of the most awesome segues to the sponsorship spot I've ever witnessed.
Nice Travelin Jack reference! Played a festival with them in 2015. Great band and Flö is a killer tattoo artist.
The only thing I know about Springheel Jack is that his boots increase my acrobatics skill
@jonalesch
2 жыл бұрын
Boots of striding and springing?
why the hell are there comments from 2 days ago when this video was released 16 seconds ago
@thatisuday
2 жыл бұрын
TENET
@amenallaharfaoui
2 жыл бұрын
Right! WTF
@stevanusgeraldopakpahan4582
2 жыл бұрын
Channel members are a thing y'know
@Endrw
2 жыл бұрын
@@stevanusgeraldopakpahan4582 oh shit that explains a lot
Excellent essay on a fascinating subject. Minor point from a pedant - the picture of a writer called Burrage you used is the son of the author of 'The Terror of London'. Both Alfred Burrages were writers. Alfred Sherrington Burrage died in 1906. Alfred McLelland Burrage (1889-1956) served in the First World War and wrote a lot of good ghost/horror stories but sfaik nothing about Spring-Heeled Jack.
That segue was on point!
I liked the Smiths reference snuck in there