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For those of you who don’t know, Jack the Ripper was a serial killer who terrorized
the Whitechapel district of London in 1888.
He brutally murdered and mutilated at least five prostitutes and his identity was never
discovered.
He had a very particular way of murdering his victims and he was never caught.
So of course, there are a lot of conspiracy theories surrounding Jack the ripper and his
murderous rampage through London.
So, here are the top 10 scary Jack The Ripper Urban Legends.
Let’s start this list off in at number 10 with Mary Ann Nichols.
She was one of the Whitechapel murder victims who was viciously murdered by the infamous
Jack the Ripper.
Her throat was slashed twice from left to right and her abdomen was mutilated with one
deep jagged wound.
She also had many incisions across her abdomen and a ton of other deep stab wounds.
Since her brutal murder, it has been said that her spirit has been haunting the Whitechapel
area and people have been hearing strange ghostly noises of Jack killing Mary Ann Nichols.
People have also said that they can see her spirit glowing at the site of her murder and
horses and dogs will refuse to go near that location.
Lewis Carroll was actually the murderer and this slices into number 9.
This is the author of Alice’s adventures in Wonderland, which to me sounds like a very
unlikely suspect.
However, there are a bunch of urban legends that point to him.
Apparently, people believe that he killed a bunch of women and left clues about the
murders in his children’s stories.
There are a bunch of ripperologists who have studied his writings and they were able to
unscramble a bunch of passages from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and from a bunch
of his other works that make you wonder, did he kill all of these women?
The last four murders were just cover ups and this brings us into number 8.
Mary Jane Kelly was believed to be the final victim of Jack The Ripper but according to
an urban legend, the first four murders were just an elaborate attempt to cover up the
real reason why Mary Jane Kelly was murdered.
It is believed that her husband was the infamous serial killer and his motive for killing his
wife was because he was so angry that his wife turned to prostitution shortly after
they got married.
So he killed four other prostitutes to make it look like a pattern and then he killed
his wife so that the police wouldn’t suspect him of committing the crime.
Next, in at number 7, The murders were part of a black magic ritual.
According to an urban legend, it is believed that Jack the ripper was apart of a cult who
indulged in a very violent form of Satanic worship.
Apparently, his true motive was to kill four prostitutes in order to become the cult leader.
In this black magic ritual, certain organs had to be removed from the murdered prostitutes
and they had to be killed at pre-arranged sites that resemble a satanic symbol.
The organs that were commonly removed were the heart, kidneys, genitalia and the womb
which of course, were also commonly removed during black magic rituals during this time
period.
The American Jack the Ripper cuts his way into number 6.
There is a lot of speculation that Americans were also the victim of Jack the Ripper.
So, three years before the first Jack the Ripper murder happened in England, a serial
killer dubbed the servant girl annihilator brutally murdered 8 people in Austin, Texas.
Similar to Jack the Ripper, the servant girl annihilator has never been identified and
there are so many theories about his identity.
All of the women were killed indoors while asleep in their beds and some of them were
dragged outside and mutilated in the same way as jack the ripper victims.
Because of all this evidence, there is an urban legend that suggests that Jack the ripper
was actually the servant girl annihilator and he roamed the streets of Texas, brutally
murdering eight people before heading off to England to do the same.
Elizabeth Stride makes an appearance in at number 5.
She is another victim of Jack the Ripper but she wasn’t as brutally murdered as the others.
The only body mutilation that she had was a slashed throat, so it is believed that Jack
the Ripper was most likely interrupted during his murder and he was unable to chop up her
body like his other victims.
The local urban legend surrounding her murder says that if you go to Dutfields Yard on Berner
Street, you can supposedly hear ghostly and eerie screams of a woman struggling and crying
for help.
Let’s travel to Mitre Square in at number 4.
This cobblestoned area is the site where one of London’s most infamous crimes occurred.
At the south-west corner of Mitre Square, the mutilated body of Catherine Eddowes was
discovered at this location at 1:45am on September 30th, 1888.
Catherine Eddowes was Jack the Rippers fourth victim.
She was found lying on her back in a pool of blood with her clothes over her waist.
Her throat was slashed, her intestines were taken out and placed over her right shoulder
and she had a lot of other brutal cuts all over her body.
Well the local legend states that on the anniversary of her death, people have reported seeing
her ghost figure lying where her corpse was discovered.
In at number 3 we are going to talk about The second victim.
Annie Chapman was viciously murdered by Jack the Ripper on September 8, 1888.
Her throat had been slashed, she was disembowelled with her intestines thrown out of her abdomen
and part of her uterus was missing.
So basically, she was chopped up and her body was severely sliced and hacked.
Her disfigured body was found in the backyard of the Truman Brewery and when this brewery
was still in business after her murder, it was reported that on the anniversary of her
murder, you can see her ghost standing in the exact spot where she was viciously sliced
up to death.
Mary Kelly makes it onto this list in at number 2.
It is believed that she is the last and final victim of Jack the Ripper.
She was about 25 years old at the time of her vicious murder.
Her body was found lying naked on a bed in an apartment.
Her whole abdomen and thighs were removed, her chest was cut off and her arms had several
jagged wounds.
Her face was hacked up so badly that you couldn’t even recognize her and her neck was cut so
deep, that you could even see her bones.
An urban legend states that after her murder, anyone who lives in that apartment will see
a bloody handprint on the wall.
Even if you attempt to clean it or paint over it, the bloody handprint will reappear shortly
after.
Some people even claim that they have seen her ghost wearing all black and she has been
haunting the building on the very same night of her murder.
Finally, at the top of this creepy list, in at number 1 is Westminster Bridge Jack the
Ripper sighting.
Legend has it that if you stand on the Westminster Bridge on December 31st and look east as midnight
approaches, you might see the ghost of Jack the Ripper.
And as Big Ben chimes in the new year, you will see a shadowy figure creeping down the
wall and into the Thames river.
This legend began to circulate because back in 1888 it is believed that Jack the Ripper
killed himself by diving into the river at this very spot and now every year since, his
spirit is forced to repeat this over and over again as a
form
of punishment.
Well
there you guys
have it…