Comments by "oneoflokis" (@oneoflokis) on "The Mysterious London Attacker Who May Have Inspired Batman | Answers With Joe" video.

  1. 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. 😏
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  2. 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. 😏
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  3.  @chosenone6158  Good thinking ; that he could be avamlire because of the long timespan of the sightings! 🙂👍 (But would a vampire need special boots?)
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  4. I don't know if Spring-Heeled Jack can be considered a mere "urban legend". 😏 Imo, it is a true unsolved mystery. There were loads of letters about him initially to the Lord Mayor of London, no less. Dozens of newspapers, both provincial and London-based, featured articles about him and his "victims". (This was journalism, not "creepypasta".) It was only LATER that the "penny dreadfuls" (basically, early comics) started to feature him. (Incidentally, I think that your "theory" that SHJ inspired, not only Batman, but VARIOUS later superhero characters, holds more water than you may think! 🙂 But then, children's writer Philip Pullman wrote a graphic novel about it in the 1980s.) But your sociology is way OFF. It was NOT illegal, or punishable by prison, to "approach someone outside of your class". Piffle. There were socialists back then too, you know. 😏. AND old-time Chartists, who usually forebade their children from tugging their forelocks to their "betters".
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  5. Sounds good!!🙂👍 (But how do you get the boots off of ol' Springy in the first place?? Or did he just leave them there for people to find?! 🙂)
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  6.  @chosenone6158  Really? So Elder Scrolls are saying SHJ was a vampire??
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  7. Oh but your theory about the sulphur dust is quite clever! 🙂
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  8. 🙄 Maybe it got there via Dr Who's TARDIS?
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  9. Try Googling Tom Slemen. He has written loads of interesting things about Spring Heeled Jack, plus umpteen other spinetingling British mysteries! (Including Jack the Ripper.) The SHJ article on his website should still be up. 🙂
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  10. I don't even know what game that is from! Why don't gamers explain their favourite games?
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