Spring Heeled Jack A Vampire?

Spring Heeled Jack was a leaping, bounding supermansystem instead of their blood veins making their heart
with claimed recorded sightings as early as 1837 indeteriorate from lack of use. They can handle trauma
Southwest London. He has been described as wearingthat may kill a normal human and their strength
a kind of helmet and a tight fitting white costume likeincreases to about three times what the turned
an oilskin. It's said he can breath blue and white flameshuman's strength originally was. Their DNA is also
and has hands like great claws. His hands are said toaltered to fight off the the wear that usually affects
be "as cold of that as a corpse". Confirmed sightingshuman DNA giving them longer life expectancy.
of him occurred in 1838 by a young woman namedSo is Spring Heeled Jack a vampire?
Jane Alsop on a London backstreet and persisted forHe possesses some of the characteristics known to
more than 60 years in the London area until aroundvampires. Increased strength can account for his ability
1904.to leap large fences and to the tops of buildings with
Jack has been reported as being able to jump fromno effort. His tight fitting costume may, in fact, be the
cobblestones to rooftop and back with ease. In 1877skin discoloration of becoming a vampire. Some
he was shot at with no apparent affect by angrysightings at night would also account for some
townspeople. The description of Spring Heeled Jackconfusion if he was wearing some sort of suit or if the
rarely changed over the years until his last officialskin color was incorrectly mistaken for something
recorded sighting. Other sights of Jack appeared inworn over it. Jack's resistance to being fired upon also
Liverpool, Sheffield, all over England to the Midlandssupports the reworking of the vampire nervous
and Scotland. There are recent recorded sightings ofsystem to survive and be unaffected by things
him as late at 1953 in Houston, Texas to 1986 on theconventionally deadly to humans. The cold touch of
Welch border.Jack's hand is easily figured by the lower body
With Jack clear in your mind, it's time to slightly changetemperature (60 degrees) of a vampire.
the modern perception of what a vampire is and howThe stories of him breathing flames has no parallel to
it should look. The FVZA website gives us detailsany known paranormal entity and sources never cite
about vampires that more resemble the being in thevampires as having that ability, however, if Jack was a
movie Nosferatu than recent modern interpretations.vampire use of some tricks would not be unknown to
The FVZA, or Federal Vampire & Zombiehim having been a human prior. He is not known to
Agency (1868-1975), was "responsible for controllinghave killed, but it's likely police forces during this time
the nation's vampire and zombie populations whileperiod may not have known what to make of a Spring
overseeing research into the undead." OfficiallyHeeled Jack crime scene if they found one. The best
created in 1838 by President Ulysses S. Grant it wentexamples of what a modern vampire killing would look
undercover shortly after, but was eventually disbandedlike actually appear in the Jack the Ripper cases in
due to a controlled vampire and zombie population.London only a year or so after the last accepted
They studied the virus that causes one to become asighting of him in London. Their sightings and accounts
vampire and how it affects a human turning. What'soverlap in interesting areas while happening in the
interesting is not only what is the same to our modernsame location, if in seemingly different parts of town.
lore but also what's different.The modern vampire lore may need to be reworked
The FVZA informs us that vampires have pale yellowas our understanding of DNA and viruses increases.
skin, eventually showing veins. Their ligaments andWith a more open-minded society the Spring Heeled
tendons thicken to support a stronger bone structureJack incidents may have been and open and shut
as well giving them extraordinary strength andcase to his nature, though no one succeeded in
quickness. Blood is also pumped through their skeletalcapturing him.