Most countries and cultures have their own version of a bogeyman and the UK is no exception – many of them given the epithet of ‘Jack’. 

The one they called Spring Heeled Jack, which emerged at the dawn of the Victorian era is by far the strangest... 

This episode was written by Diane Hope and produced by Richard MacLean Smith

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