The Story of Jack The Ripper | A Short Documentary | Fascinating Horror

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  • @ericplunder2744
    @ericplunder2744 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2568

    As usual, this creator shows such respect to those who died. Almost all Ripper documentaries and videos casually show the morgue photos of the victims and the body of Mary Kelly brutally murdered in her lodgings. They have become characters in a murder mystery, not living, breathing women trying to survive.

    • @kyliepechler
      @kyliepechler 3 ปีที่แล้ว +200

      Yes, I was surprised he managed to tell the whole story without using that gory photograph of Mary Kelly in her bed, or any of the other particularly sickening details of what Jack did.
      Good on him for respecting the memories of those poor murdered women.

    • @rabbitsonjupiter6824
      @rabbitsonjupiter6824 3 ปีที่แล้ว +118

      I agree Eric, these poor women had no choice but to turn to prostitution; when they had nothing else left to sell, they had only themselves.

    • @Raavenstag
      @Raavenstag 3 ปีที่แล้ว +175

      There is a book called “the five” that actually ‘rehumanises’ the victims by detailing their lives before their infamy as a Jack the Ripper victim - very interesting and worth a read if it’s something you would be interested in

    • @DVOILETTA
      @DVOILETTA 3 ปีที่แล้ว +136

      @@Raavenstag Also this book makes the point none of them were proved to be prostitutes except the last victim. They were just poor women who had fallen on hard times.

    • @rabbitsonjupiter6824
      @rabbitsonjupiter6824 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@Raavenstag Thanks! I've never heard of that book before but I will look it up.

  • @rinoz47
    @rinoz47 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1715

    Imagine trying to hunt a serial killer with no forensics

    • @UmatsuObossa
      @UmatsuObossa 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      @ᴡɪɴᴛᴇʀᴍᴜᴛᴇ _ Serial killers still exist... most often it's someone with a mental disorder distinct from other random killers.

    • @rabbitsonjupiter6824
      @rabbitsonjupiter6824 3 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      @ᴡɪɴᴛᴇʀᴍᴜᴛᴇ _ There is a lot of suspicion that Jack the Ripper was somebody in a senior position/well-connected, also there was supposed to be a Masonic element to the killings (I don't know how true this is though.) He was certainly very bold in the way he carried out his crimes.

    • @chatteyj
      @chatteyj 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      If I was the police back then I would have secretly posted 'watchers' on every street corner to try and catch the suspect.

    • @lucast3006
      @lucast3006 3 ปีที่แล้ว +92

      Imagine being accused of something you didn’t do back in 1888 and not having an alibi.

    • @livstibal3852
      @livstibal3852 3 ปีที่แล้ว +73

      "detective! we found a pool of the killers blood!" "ah.. gross. mop it up.. now, back to my hunch"

  • @sketchyskies8531
    @sketchyskies8531 3 ปีที่แล้ว +94

    Even though I know he's real,it still feels like he's some sort of person you'd describe in a cautionary tale or legend

    • @ZeroFische
      @ZeroFische 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Pon

    • @brianallsopp69
      @brianallsopp69 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      No he was out there ......and boogeyman for Londoners ever since... ( even my mum who was born in 1935 was threatened with him if she didn't go to bed and be good 😇)

  • @sportsnstuff5557
    @sportsnstuff5557 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    You should do the Clapham Rail disaster. Basically, a tech issue caused a train to go straight into the back of another train, and then the train that had accidentally ran the other one veered and was hit by an empty oncoming train. It was an avoidable, tragic accident

  • @waterwater8911
    @waterwater8911 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Thank you for being so respectful to the victims. I've only ever seen people dismiss them as prostitutes, but this is a refreshing change

  • @BD-vh1mt
    @BD-vh1mt 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    So in a way, Jack the Ripper technically helped make White Chapel a better place! Not in the short-run, but in the long-run

  • @maylalyons677
    @maylalyons677 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I hold my breath waiting for a new story every week! Love this channel!

  • @davidsirmons
    @davidsirmons 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    A few years ago, modern forensics and crime investigation techniques looked again into the Ripper murders. The search was an actual documentary about the events and people. What was found is the Ripper himself was a longshoreman from either Ireland or Scotland, I can't remember which, explaining at last the strange periodic nature of his murders. They traced the information all the way back to his name, but I can't remember what it was. Absolutely fascinating documentary, too.

  • @spencerj4640
    @spencerj4640 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    you don’t even know how excited I was when I saw you posted this. need longer vids like this

  • @iamTnastii
    @iamTnastii 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I finally watched all of your videos! I enjoyed every single one of them, even the ones I assumed I wouldn't like. I love your channel, keep it up ❤

  • @debbyseguin7131
    @debbyseguin7131 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I recently came across your channel and I’m HOOKED! I’ve learned so much! I hope you’ll do a segment on the General Slocum boat disaster.

  • @celebritytributes
    @celebritytributes 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Doesn't matter how many times I watch videos on jack the ripper, it never gets old, can't wait to watch this!

  • @thickerconstrictor9037
    @thickerconstrictor9037 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I've known about Jack the ripper since I was a little kid I've heard the name a thousand times I've said the name probably almost a thousand times because every single time I watch Jaws I say it wasn't any propeller it wasn't any coral reef and it wasn't jacked the ripper, it was a shark. And I pretty much know the basic story but I don't think I ever stopped to really read about Jack the ripper I did not know that they never found him or any of that. And I'm kind of pissed off that I found that out because now it's going to bug me forever

  • @RileyWritey
    @RileyWritey 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    You've heard of Jack the Ripper
    Get ready for
    *Jack the Stripper*

    • @maxagnew3391
      @maxagnew3391 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      😅🤣

    • @Chiaomori
      @Chiaomori 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      now you've heard of Jack the Stripper
      get ready for gymnast
      Jack the Flipper

    • @okeydokey3120
      @okeydokey3120 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Don't forget the adventure guy who loves zip lines. Jack the Zipper.

    • @killerman19880385
      @killerman19880385 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      What about that clumsy fellow Jack the Tripper?

    • @kyliepechler
      @kyliepechler 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      As a young child in the 70's, I remember my mother shopping at a supermarket called "Jack the Slasher".
      It's logo had an unnervingly smiling, happy man with a pirates cutlass in his hand.
      Using a similar form of a famous murder's name, to promotes "cheaper" groceries....ahh the 70's, lol.

  • @markwebster5749
    @markwebster5749 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    R.I.P Mary,Annie,Elizabeth,Catherine and Mary Jane 🕊️

  • @WeddingVegetables
    @WeddingVegetables 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I remember when I was a kid in the 80s and we went holidaying in England. As part of that we visited the London Dungeons where they had a section that was a replica of 19th century Whitechapel. 12 year old me thought it was incredibly exciting with the buildings, the cool temperature in the dungeons, some fake mist and the recorded voice of a newspaper boy crying his "Extra extra! Read all about it!". I wonder if it's still there?

  • @robertlock5501
    @robertlock5501 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Aaron Kosminski (born Aron Mordke Kozmiński; 11 September 1865 - 24 March 1919) was a Polish barber and hairdresser, and suspect in the Jack the Ripper case.
    Kosminski was a Polish Jew who emigrated from Congress Poland to England in the 1880s. He worked as a hairdresser in Whitechapel in the East End of London, where a series of murders ascribed to an unidentified figure nicknamed "Jack the Ripper" were committed in 1888. From 1891, Kosminski was institutionalised after he threatened a woman with a knife. He was first held at Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum, and then transferred to the Leavesden Asylum.
    On 7 September 2014, Dr. Jari Louhelainen, an expert in historic DNA analysis, announced that he had been commissioned by British author Russell Edwards[37] to study a shawl said to have been found with victim Catherine Eddowes and that he had extracted mitochondrial DNA that matches female line descendants of Eddowes, and mitochondrial DNA that matches female line descendants of Kosminski's sister from the shawl.[38] Louhelainen stated that: "The first strand of DNA showed a 99.2 percent match, as the analysis instrument could not determine the sequence of the missing 0.8 percent fragment of DNA. On testing the second strand, we achieved a perfect 100 percent match."[39]
    In his book Naming Jack The Ripper, Edwards names Kosminski as Jack the Ripper. Edwards was inspired to try to solve the case after the release of From Hell, the 2001 Johnny Depp film about the Whitechapel murders.[40] He bought the shawl at auction and commissioned Louhelainen, with Dr. David Miller assisting, to analyse it for forensic DNA evidence.[40] Edwards states that Kosminski was on a list of police suspects but there was never enough evidence to bring him to trial at the time. Kosminski died at the age of 53 of gangrene of the leg in a London mental hospital in 1919.[41] He said that the DNA samples proved that Kosminski was "definitely, categorically and absolutely" the person responsible for the Whitechapel murders committed by Jack the Ripper. "I've got the only piece of forensic evidence in the whole history of the case," he told The Independent.[38] He continued, "I've spent 14 years working on it, and we have definitively solved the mystery of who Jack the Ripper was. Only non-believers that want to perpetuate the myth will doubt. This is it now-we have unmasked him".[40]
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Kosminski

  • @gilbertthehamster
    @gilbertthehamster 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This channel is a lockdown hero.

  • @Liz-cmc313
    @Liz-cmc313 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Always look forward to seeing new videos. Well done and to the point.

  • @MrSecurity.
    @MrSecurity. ปีที่แล้ว +1

    That's funny even back in the 1800s news companies were making things up to fill times slots / columns

  • @chevboy2
    @chevboy2 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    “Vintage Fake News” perfectly said

  • @brianbanks703
    @brianbanks703 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very good point about the sensation-seekers and their absurdities even committed today. One even wrote a book claiming a poet did it who couldn't in fact tolerate the sight of blood near him !!!!

  • @grantjohnston5817
    @grantjohnston5817 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    See ..A study in Terror with John Neville as Sherlock Holmes....Excellent!

  • @Despond
    @Despond 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Imagine people walking those streets with any possible clue to think how it is is now and think how that will be the same for people living now.

  • @_-444_-
    @_-444_- 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    So thankful for this fire channel

  • @chants_22
    @chants_22 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    One of the suspects William Gull, is buried opposite a pub that my dad used to own. I visited it one night and the gravestone was oddly written.

  • @kittyvicious6960
    @kittyvicious6960 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The nerd in me goes to Black Butler xD Madam Red

  • @Louisa.Bowman23
    @Louisa.Bowman23 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    To think I had stop watching your vid about serial killer Ed Gein and yet I was able to watch all of this one.

  • @texastea5686
    @texastea5686 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I've been a voracious reader since forever....I'm 44 now but I still remember the first book I read about Jack when I was in 6th grade or so (kinda morbid for an 11 year old) it was titled "The Complete Jack the Ripper"

  • @makedragonagegreatagain3148
    @makedragonagegreatagain3148 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    It's crazy how a murderer from 1888 is still the most well known killer in the world. Despite over one hundred years passing, the growing ease of access in terms of information, and countless murders trying to kill for fame.

  • @Admiral_Jezza
    @Admiral_Jezza 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    >East London
    >Safe

  • @EuriEuropa
    @EuriEuropa 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Omg I'm so happy I found this channel

  • @lorrasites6962
    @lorrasites6962 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    One of my favorite channels.

  • @SarcasticShinyZoroark
    @SarcasticShinyZoroark 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    A 23 minute video from you? Time to make myself comfortable!

  • @mjallen1308
    @mjallen1308 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    17:15 “I’d like to take a minute.... just sit right there
    I'll tell you how I became the prince of a town called Bel-Air”

  • @alphiren5337
    @alphiren5337 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Could you do a video about the Ozone Nightclub fire? It seems like such an interesting topic

  • @jacobhouse1521
    @jacobhouse1521 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I hope you do more True Crime videos like this in the near future like for example Ted Bundy (The Lady Killer), Dennis Rader (B.T.K), Albert DeSalvo (The Boston Stranger), John Wayne Gacy (The Killer Clown), Robert Black (Smelly Bobby Tulip), Peter Sutcliffe (The Yorkshire Ripper), Jeffrey Dahmer (The Milwaukee Cannibal), Dean Corll (Candyman), Richard Ramirez (The Night Stalker) & finally Joseph James DeAngelo (The Golden State Killer).

  • @corebore100
    @corebore100 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Even in 1888, people were getting trolled.

  • @davidca96
    @davidca96 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    "its comeduh ol' fly (beep) for the mic, Jack the Rippa" -Parental Advisory 1993

  • @adventures385
    @adventures385 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Your new content is like verbal cocaine !! Welcome back✌🏼

  • @stevepatterson1025
    @stevepatterson1025 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Robert Mann was the ripper, the coroner's assistant.

  • @pantherplatform
    @pantherplatform 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I like Danny Huston's performance as the butcher in American horror story. He was also pretty brutal in magic city...

  • @CassassinCatto
    @CassassinCatto 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I had the workplace 'Village Idiot' swaggering about shouting "Jack The Ripper was a member of the Royal Family!" last week - and a response from a co-worker of "WE DON'T CARE, SHADDAP!"
    But this story held more interest for me, a simple bunch of facts based on real evidence rather than a conspiracy theory or an excessive dose of Serial Killer fan-wank. Thank you for all your effort and like the Elisa Lam mystery treating the victims and their deaths with respect rather than lurid speculation. Enjoy your mystery games ♥

  • @yodasber54
    @yodasber54 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    You should do one on Elizabeth Short, A.K.A the Black Dahlia

  • @Vika-kz9sq
    @Vika-kz9sq 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    The fact that even these days murder of prostitutes never is taken seriously as if they aren't people with human rights at all.

  • @DisasterthonTrueHorror
    @DisasterthonTrueHorror 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    🔥🔥

  • @aaronbryant7615
    @aaronbryant7615 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2585

    This channel is one of the greatest things I've stumbled upon

    • @cadillacdeville5828
      @cadillacdeville5828 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      He's great, check out Strange Land, Trace Evidence, Mr. Ballen, Criminally Listed, Deadbug( he is NOT for the faint of heart) 😁

    • @MagicalMedic
      @MagicalMedic 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Welcome to the crew. 😁

    • @nicholaslewis862
      @nicholaslewis862 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      His performance is sober, sincere, and articulate. It's shot up to one of my absolute favourite channels on TH-cam. He's an order of magnitude beyond any other documentary channels.

    • @nicholaslewis862
      @nicholaslewis862 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@ianclose123 I watched one of his videos, but I don't think his personality suits the material at all. He makes quips every other sentence, it's really distracting. I'll stick to fascinating, but thanks for the recommendation nevertheless.

    • @Pottan23
      @Pottan23 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      If you watch videos of other youtubers you'll find tgat he skimps on detsils and sometimes get things entirely wrong.
      But generally his videos are better made than others, bitesize, just not as factual

  • @aria5614
    @aria5614 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1036

    Thank you for being so kind to the victims. Most people just call them prostitutes and move on. I didn't know they had plaques were you could visit the body.

    • @mollymcdade4031
      @mollymcdade4031 3 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      There have been so many women who have been just labelled by how they died. Acknowledging them as people isn’t something you see every day!

    • @politecat4236
      @politecat4236 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      For those interested in the lives of the victims There's an excellent 2019 (social history) non fiction book called "The Five" by Hallie Rubenhold that tells the story of each of the Ripper victims

    • @MrFailTrailer
      @MrFailTrailer 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@politecat4236 Wouldn't really recommend the book, too many factual mistakes and strange theories, which is why it was also heavily criticized by other experts in this field. For example she claims the victims were not known as prostitutes, even though close friends/people living with them and even family members literally said they were prostitutes (which is all left out in the book). There are better books and ofc many websites if you want to read about the victims

    • @Krystalmyth
      @Krystalmyth 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@MrFailTrailer :/

    • @user-ym5uu7fr9e
      @user-ym5uu7fr9e 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      sex workers tend 2 be targeted as victims for violent crimes & they continue 2 be disrespected after theyve passed its so disgusting

  • @lukasnoecker9873
    @lukasnoecker9873 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1601

    This channel has a special way of telling stories without romanticizing what happens. A lot of channels really struggle to respect the dead and tell a glorified version of true events. That doesn’t happen here, and I love that.

    • @lukasnoecker9873
      @lukasnoecker9873 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      @Nik Kingman do you mean you support taking creative liberties for storytelling at the expense of respecting the dead or are you acknowledging that the way TH-cam works means that his style of storytelling is the reason his channel isn’t as large as others?

    • @giftedfox4748
      @giftedfox4748 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@lukasnoecker9873 Different people like to hear a story in many different ways. The rustic story telling this YT uses is great with the music of choice and evidence he finds, but other people may find it a bit dull. I normally like each video that uncovers something someone may have left out or found to be too unimportant to include, the storytelling ability is a plus but not a must for me.

    • @lukasnoecker9873
      @lukasnoecker9873 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@giftedfox4748 I respect that. Stories told like that tend to feel personal, as if you know a secret that most others don’t and you yourself are an important witness to what is happening. I myself prefer his style, where the viewer is simply learning about what happened and viewing the changes it made in society to provide for a safer life for everyone. It makes everything feel as if there is a story and a reason behind everything, and each video is explaining it by showing when we failed in the past.

    • @SpookyPandaGirl
      @SpookyPandaGirl 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I agree, or they are this new trend of make up channels discussing true crime while glamming up which I find distasteful

    • @globalwarmhugs7741
      @globalwarmhugs7741 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      There are a very few excellent ones out there, and this is a gem even amongst those. I love That Chapter, The Crime Reel, Dark Curiosities, Forgotten Lives, and Obsolete Oddity. (..in case you needed more of them. 😁😁)

  • @Hank..
    @Hank.. 3 ปีที่แล้ว +852

    "When they couldn't find any actual news, it was common practice to simply make something up"
    I guess some things never change lol

    • @megadethmofo2001
      @megadethmofo2001 3 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      And 100 years later....CNN is born!

    • @Fez4277
      @Fez4277 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Wellsaid Mate!

    • @janettamcgee8124
      @janettamcgee8124 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      My thoughts exactly.

    • @DRYeisleysCreations
      @DRYeisleysCreations 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That's how the US and Spain got into a war.

    • @Styxswimmer
      @Styxswimmer 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      @@megadethmofo2001 the horrible irony is that in the 90s when CNN was first created, it truly was factually based and fair reporting. Then somewhere in the 2000s, they gave into sensationalism, and then eventually click bait, and now CNN is pure garbage. Didn't start out that way though. So sad

  • @cirruscloud5198
    @cirruscloud5198 3 ปีที่แล้ว +682

    When I visited London, I went on a Jack the Ripper walking tour. I've always had an interest in the macabre and read some of the Jack the Ripper theory books.
    This was hands down one of the best tours I've ever been on, because the guide didn't focus on the Ripper. He focused on the victims. He talked about who each victim was, the life she lived, we walked all around where she lived and places she frequented. It taught me so much, and it was a really refreshing approach. Because these were working women trying hard to sustain themselves in extreme poverty.
    I also learned that they all were seen at the same boardinghouse right before they were killed, and I had a drink at the pub where Mary Kelly was last seen. It really humanized them.

    • @r.m.5548
      @r.m.5548 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      He didn't talk about the ripper because he knows nothing about him. Never caught.

    • @politecat4236
      @politecat4236 3 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      For those interested in the lives of the victims There's an excellent 2019 (social history) non fiction book called "The Five" by Hallie Rubenhold that tells the story of each of the Ripper victims.

    • @CrimsonAlice
      @CrimsonAlice 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I did one of those too! My guide was very informative on victims too, although he did theorize jack as a person who fit in with the whitechapel crowd, or as a cheap dr say, instead of the more um...political royal theories

    • @cirruscloud5198
      @cirruscloud5198 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@CrimsonAlice I do tend to agree with the more mundane or "boring" theories as generally they're more likely. My guide did point out that all of the women murdered had either stayed at/been kicked out of/visited a boardinghouse in White Chapel the day of their murders. I hadn't previously heard that tidbit before.

    • @dfuher968
      @dfuher968 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Its always refreshing to hear more about the victims. My biggest frustration with all the Ripper theory books and "documentaries" is, that instead of following provable facts to whereever they lead, theyve always already made up their minds, who the Ripper is, and then procede to ignore all known facts going against it, cherrypick what facts they can fit into their "unmasking the Ripper!" declaration, hypothesize the rest sometimes to the point of the ridiculous and present it all as facts. It honestly feels a lot like, this is just a cash cow for them, and the victims do not matter, only "proving" their suspect as the Ripper by any means.
      The only exception was a Swedish journalist, I unfortunately cant remember his name, who spent his spare time for over 25 years researching the Ripper and his victims, both the canonical 5 and the lesser known likelys and possibles. He had no preconceived notions, no suspect, he just followed the stories, dug out the facts, that could be proven and came to a highly likely suspect that way. I saw a documentary, where he met a retired Met DCI and went throught it all (including going to the crime scenes and investigating the lives of the victims) with him to test his conclusions, and I have to say, that is the most plausible theory, I have ever seen or read about, and the only 1 reached by correct investigatory means. Unfortunately after all these years it will remain a theory, as there is no longer any means for definite proof.

  • @grapeshot
    @grapeshot 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1102

    I've always thought that Jack the Ripper just got lucky him living at a time when CSI was all but nonexistent. I mean back then you couldn't even tell animal blood from human blood.

    • @thembelihlengcobo3744
      @thembelihlengcobo3744 3 ปีที่แล้ว +141

      I think so too. The era favoured him and allowed him to go unnoticed.

    • @j.peters1222
      @j.peters1222 3 ปีที่แล้ว +73

      I agree. The limits of crime investigation procedures at the time allowed him to get away with it.

    • @RaxiazRedux
      @RaxiazRedux 3 ปีที่แล้ว +78

      agreed as well... With what we have today, I have little doubt in my mind this murderer would have been caught... But alas, that was not the case.
      May all victims rest in peace.

    • @elpistolero9394
      @elpistolero9394 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Obviously

    • @ahighlyobnoxiousadult
      @ahighlyobnoxiousadult 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      It's horrible how 3 of U described the same situation in 3 different ways...clearly U haven't heard this story before otherwise U wouldn't be so stupid 🤦🏻‍♂️

  • @NotProven16
    @NotProven16 3 ปีที่แล้ว +360

    Could you cover the Cairngorm Plateau Disaster? It occured in the Cairngorm mountains in Scotland in 1971. Essentially it was this school trip that due to some very poor planning, resulted in the deaths of 5 teenagers and 1 teacher. One part i always think about is how most of the parents of the victims didn't even know where their children were going. Imagine your child goes on a school trip and then never comes back, horrifying.

    • @strangenrare8663
      @strangenrare8663 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Ooooh... I've never heard of this but I'm intrigued! I vote for this one too! :)

    • @giftedfox4748
      @giftedfox4748 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      He may not see this but he does include his email in the description in every video to send horror stories like these for him to research on and make a video on.

    • @strangenrare8663
      @strangenrare8663 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@giftedfox4748 Awesome--a Pro Tip! :)
      I always wonder that kind of stuff but never think to look it up. Never occurred to me to look in the dam 'description,' and I MAKE youtube videos! And when I upload them I always REALLY hope people read the descriptions so they know what the hell i'm doing.
      So me not checking the description first is preposterous... :)

    • @JC-rs3nh
      @JC-rs3nh 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Thank you for making that video possible 🙏🏾

    • @juliaalexander5788
      @juliaalexander5788 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I think he did make a video on it, so your comment was seen!

  • @PapiDoesIt
    @PapiDoesIt 3 ปีที่แล้ว +572

    My theory on why the killings stopped is simple: Jack the Ripper died or moved on. Modern technology would have caught him in no time, but back then policing was in its infancy, and the victims were poor and estranged from their families. So sad.

    • @spencerfrankclayton4348
      @spencerfrankclayton4348 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      Maybe he killed himself afterwards like some killers and they never found his body.

    • @vulpesinculta3238
      @vulpesinculta3238 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      'Jack the Ripper' was Aaron Kosminski, and the murders ended when he was put into full-time care, first by his family, then in a workhouse and finally in a mental asylum, where he would remain for the rest of his life.

    • @bmha_shota3523
      @bmha_shota3523 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@vulpesinculta3238 source?

    • @spencerfrankclayton4348
      @spencerfrankclayton4348 3 ปีที่แล้ว +108

      @@vulpesinculta3238 That is a *theory.* It has yet to be proven.

    • @119Agent
      @119Agent 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Modern technology took a lifetime to catch the original Nightstalker.

  • @jac6255
    @jac6255 3 ปีที่แล้ว +478

    "No luck catching them killers then" "Just the one killer actually"

    • @edvaca8419
      @edvaca8419 3 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      The greater good..

    • @firaiferrie
      @firaiferrie 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      i understood that reference

    • @H3ath3rHaz3
      @H3ath3rHaz3 3 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      a great big bushy beard!

    • @kyliepechler
      @kyliepechler 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I thought I recognized that from that great movie. I just thought I'd better wait and see if others picked it up as well, just in case I was mistaken, lol.

    • @nopewmopan
      @nopewmopan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@edvaca8419 "The greater good!"

  • @thelaughingrat
    @thelaughingrat 3 ปีที่แล้ว +222

    Would you consider a video about the radium girls? If anyone could handle the subject without sensationalism, it's you.

    • @booognish
      @booognish 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Hope you’ve seen the video he did 🧪🕰

    • @sazger
      @sazger 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      th-cam.com/video/nM4Y_OwsLCs/w-d-xo.html

  • @talabackland8127
    @talabackland8127 3 ปีที่แล้ว +348

    I feel at home hearing the intro music haha

    • @FlameC64
      @FlameC64 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Glass Pond always triggering my curiosity and anxiety

    • @ahighlyobnoxiousadult
      @ahighlyobnoxiousadult 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      It would help if he had a new story

    • @ChristelVinot
      @ChristelVinot 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ikr me too

    • @happyfacefries
      @happyfacefries 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It's like of comforting in a way? For me. I always consider the theme music to Law and Order to be my childhood lullaby so this could do the same.

  • @LaMira1995
    @LaMira1995 3 ปีที่แล้ว +195

    I always wonder what is wrong with the people that send fake evidence to the authorities during such cases. Not only does it make the police's work so much harder so that more people will be killed or harmed until the murderer is found, but also it is so blatantly disrespectful towards the victims that I feel sick just thinking about it.

    • @indiedee
      @indiedee 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      I imagine some higher class persons didn't half mind the murdering of "less desirable" persons in poverty. Any type of slowing down of the process would guarantee more deaths.

    • @przemysawzanko6700
      @przemysawzanko6700 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      The simple truth is they just don't care. They don't think of victims as human beings, just some random dead prostitutes nobody cares about. And so they do it "for fun".

    • @LaMira1995
      @LaMira1995 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@przemysawzanko6700 You are probably right. Still, it's messed up. Humanity can be so cruel sometimes.

    • @Walamonga1313
      @Walamonga1313 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Narcissists who want attention. There's many people like that out there

    • @InventorZahran
      @InventorZahran 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Even in the 19th century, fake news was already a problem...

  • @nikischneiter1384
    @nikischneiter1384 3 ปีที่แล้ว +232

    This author demonstrates immeasurable respect to the sad plight of each of the victims.

  • @RagerQueen
    @RagerQueen 3 ปีที่แล้ว +267

    I'm going to give a warning here: if you are sensitive to gore be careful when looking up the Jack the Ripper wikipedia. His last victim, Mary Jane Kelly, wasn't just "missing a heart". Every organ of hers was removed and placed on the desk next to her bed. Her face was slashed so many times that it lost all features and looked like something out of Silent Hill. There's a photo that was taken of her included in the Wikipedia page, the way they found her. I really can't stress how horrific that picture is.

    • @Salien1999
      @Salien1999 3 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      Yup, was scrolling through while playing this video in the background and now kinda want to puke. I can tolerate most gore, but that picture really is beyond gruesome. It's a wonder why it's not behind a prompt or something.

    • @laughingsnake1989
      @laughingsnake1989 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      That’s the work of a surgeon not a butcher

    • @anniemarie4120
      @anniemarie4120 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Thank you, I will definitely avoid that

    • @muhammadirfanataulawal7630
      @muhammadirfanataulawal7630 3 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      The more I'm reading the details about her condition, the more I'm convinced that the suspect was indeed a surgeon, or at least someone with adequate medical knowledge, especially with anatomy

    • @greenguyinpfp6565
      @greenguyinpfp6565 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @The Automaton Collective
      What could that guy have done that makes this guy looks like “nothing”? I’m genuinely curious

  • @annegiorgio5602
    @annegiorgio5602 3 ปีที่แล้ว +297

    It’s good to see nothing has changed as far as newspapers go, if no factual story then make one up.

    • @josephdelacroix9798
      @josephdelacroix9798 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Remember fake news rakes in money

    • @stykytte
      @stykytte 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Even if there is a factual story they embellish and alter it to their own ends, either to push the writers own ideological beliefs or just to appear to be more exclusive and "informative".

    • @StamfordBridge
      @StamfordBridge 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Joseph De lacroix Remember, people brainwashed to consider the entire free press “fake news” can be molded to believe anything. Authoritarianism 101.

    • @stevenschnepp576
      @stevenschnepp576 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@StamfordBridge Likewise, someone who unquestioningly believes the free press, even when it's been demonstrated time and again to be dishonest as any politician or used car salesman, brainwashes himself.
      How convenient it is that the free press tends to publish stories that favor increasing the power of the central government at the expense of the free citizen. Entirely coincidental, I'm sure.

    • @HHTwice
      @HHTwice 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@StamfordBridge lol so when video proof comes out proving that news sources such as CNN are corrupt to the bone and want nothing more than ratings while pushing political agendas and spreading lies, thats authoritarianism? You sound like the brainwashed one

  • @timeladyshayde
    @timeladyshayde 3 ปีที่แล้ว +170

    When life goes back to normal, I highly recommend London Walks' Jack The Ripper walking tour around Whitechapel, especially the ones led by Donald Rumbelow. They are fantastic.

    • @Metallislayer1
      @Metallislayer1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      You're not going back to normal mate

    • @o.m.b.demolitionenterprise5398
      @o.m.b.demolitionenterprise5398 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Metallislayer1 🌀👄🌀 gum gum 🥸

    • @Mrs_Sugar_Min
      @Mrs_Sugar_Min 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I've been on the Jack the Ripper walk and it creeped me out.🥺

    • @supershinystar5515
      @supershinystar5515 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I went on that walking tour and was expecting some horror spook tour thing. However it was very informative and really humanized the victims instead of just glossing over them for the sake of the mystery. It didn't glorify anything, it just told the facts. Thoroughly enjoyed that tour!

    • @mph1ish
      @mph1ish ปีที่แล้ว

      Back to normal yet?

  • @mimib8032
    @mimib8032 3 ปีที่แล้ว +73

    Whoa, this is honestly the first channel I have heard even mention Emma Smith and Martha Tabram as possible prior victims outside of the canonical five.
    Well done !

    • @GeorgeFreeman55
      @GeorgeFreeman55 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Really?

    • @mimib8032
      @mimib8032 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@GeorgeFreeman55 Ok, should have clarified, the first channel that mentioned them that wasn't some drawn out multi hour ordeal.

    • @elsieroy5609
      @elsieroy5609 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      No one else mentions them because the pathology of those two crimes only fits Saucy Jack if you twist it into a pretzel and squint sideways at it. Proximity doesn't count in that day and age because of the horrendous living conditions and sky high crime rate.

    • @mimib8032
      @mimib8032 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@elsieroy5609 Emma Smith, I would agree. Martha Tabram though is a possibility.

  • @coastermom7027
    @coastermom7027 3 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    Happy fascinating horror Tuesday everybody🙌

  • @razorridgeback4516
    @razorridgeback4516 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Some presenters have a voice that you can't stand. This gentleman does not. Just the right amount of accent and good grammar to boot. Thank you for posting these videos.

  • @inkakoutna7155
    @inkakoutna7155 3 ปีที่แล้ว +151

    This is one of like 5 YT creators that I KNOW I can give thumbs up even before the video starts because it's gonna be excellent

    • @kyliepechler
      @kyliepechler 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Same here.

    • @kindasorta123
      @kindasorta123 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      This channel and JCS Criminal Psychology always put out quality videos every time without fail.

    • @troyarrington5492
      @troyarrington5492 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Who’s the other four?😁 I’m looking for new channels. Since you like this channel, I’d imagine you have good taste

    • @hans983
      @hans983 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Me too

  • @benmontero36
    @benmontero36 3 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    I know this is a more mainstream/well-known topic, but I would love to hear you talk about the Chernobyl events. I think your style would do it much justice & put a new perspective on it :)

  • @linhmyto4144
    @linhmyto4144 3 ปีที่แล้ว +106

    Can you do a video on the Sunshine rail disaster on 20th on April 1908, in Melbourne, Australia. This one is a local incident where 40 people died. There is a commemorative sign of all the people that died on the platform which what got me interested.

    • @kyliepechler
      @kyliepechler 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Or the tragic Granville train disaster in Sydney, Australia in 1977, 83 perished in that one.

    • @kyliepechler
      @kyliepechler 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @Nik Kingman This channel is called "Fascinating Horror".
      The reason/details of WHY any of the tragedies that this channel has covered happened, is the interesting part that people watch it for. It doesn't matter where any of the covered tragedies have occurred.

    • @aewtx
      @aewtx 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @Nik Kingman Haha, you trying to sound all cool and everything and you just come off sounding like an idiot. "Literally no one lives in Australia." Haha. Perhaps you should read a dictionary instead of trying to come across as cool on TH-cam.

    • @leotoad7991
      @leotoad7991 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Australia isn't real

    • @pumpkin.x
      @pumpkin.x 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Nik Kingman I hope I never live in ur building

  • @darul2652
    @darul2652 3 ปีที่แล้ว +194

    Poor Mary Jane Kelly, she just wanted to have a nice life but instead, she was murdered in the most horrible way possible.

    • @reedman0780
      @reedman0780 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      "nice life" you're not getting any "nice life" anytime soon with the amount of poverty at the time. Most likely she'll grow up old but still wouldnt be enough to be considered living "normally". They were all poor people, all were forced to prostitution because of their situations. You're not gonna get a nice life out of that even after years.

    • @fabianweber6937
      @fabianweber6937 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      I don't think anyone back then besides the rich/royalty had a 'nice' life

    • @mollymcdade4031
      @mollymcdade4031 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@reedman0780 I mean at least she’d have been alive

    • @reedman0780
      @reedman0780 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@mollymcdade4031 alive? You mean barely living? She would have died anytime because of the situation at the time. She probably would have died at least not tortured. Because murders are in the open, she could have been raped and killed instead of outright dying.

    • @bluegenes2273
      @bluegenes2273 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      death or cake?

  • @raphaelcalado4335
    @raphaelcalado4335 3 ปีที่แล้ว +59

    Always the best source of information about terrible events, always respectful and truthful. Keep going!!

  • @jakeswitzer1522
    @jakeswitzer1522 3 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    Why did I hear “in front of a gated entrance to a staples” @ 1:48 😂
    Get you ink cartridges and pens but watch out for Jack the Ripper.

    • @TymP321
      @TymP321 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Because you should get a hearing test. He said stables. I get it, his enunciation is a bit less precise than one would like...

    • @jonatgan8546
      @jonatgan8546 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@TymP321 calm down bro... i heard that too, but of course context clues helped me figure it out

    • @katietaylor8314
      @katietaylor8314 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      🤣🤣🤣

    • @jakeswitzer1522
      @jakeswitzer1522 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@TymP321 Yeesh, I didn’t mean any harm. I just misheard him and thought it was kind of funny. I have no problems understanding what he’s saying overall and I love this channel. I just misheard a single word and it made me laugh.

    • @denniscowe3289
      @denniscowe3289 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@TymP321 🤡

  • @evelynwilson1566
    @evelynwilson1566 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    I once read that police in Victorian London had to walk up to -30 miles on every shift. They had very little protection - just batons and whistles. As you say, they were dealing with an area that was very difficult to police. It's hard to see how, without modern forensics, they could find the killer, unless he was caught in the act. At least something good came out of these poor women's terrible deaths, in the improvements to living conditions in the area.

    • @michaeldevaney5728
      @michaeldevaney5728 ปีที่แล้ว

      I truly believe police didn't want to catch Jack the ripper prostitutes were seen as menace to society by police I truly believe police didn't want them on the streets

  • @brianbommarito3376
    @brianbommarito3376 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    The police would’ve caught him if they had backtracked and looked at the guy who found the first canon victim of Mary Nichols. The man’s story is highly suspicious. He found the body less than 15 minutes after the time of death while walking on his way to work, but was late. He supposedly mistook her for a tarpaulin. He was late to work, yet took enough time to hunt for a tarpaulin (he was a meat-cart driver). He also took the time to flag another workman down to have a look at the woman but refused to touch her or else do anything to help her. For all he knew, she could’ve been drunk, passed out on the sidewalk. But still he hesitated at a crucial moment. It makes me think he knew more than he pretended to. There’s a lot more to his story, but in my opinion the evidence against him being innocent is very tangible. He had opportunity in spades. My guess is that he was caught in the act and bluffed his way out by pretending he’d just found her.

  • @pauldrummond225
    @pauldrummond225 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    A very respectful narration of the Ripper murders because the women were struggling to survive in what was then a pretty brutal society and the working classes were treated terrible. These women were as much a victim of the Victorian era as they were of the Ripper himself and this video has pointed out that they were human beings and not objects and credit to you for this.

  • @sadiemeyers6758
    @sadiemeyers6758 3 ปีที่แล้ว +74

    The way you present cases always is so respectful and really reminds people that these are human beings who died. I enjoyed hearing about some of the funerals/burials. That info is ignored by others.

  • @becca53444
    @becca53444 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Imagine if one of the vigilantes trying to catch Jack the Ripper was actually him. Plot twist

    • @oliverc432
      @oliverc432 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Highly likely I reckon. What better way to stay in the loop than to be in the loop yourself. Keep your enemies close and all that

  • @ExcalibursEdge
    @ExcalibursEdge 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    I wonder if Jack finally "got his" when he ran into an armed and ready opponent. Then, with friends, the body could easily have been disposed of, and he never attacked again. Just a thought.

    • @tylerrobbins9614
      @tylerrobbins9614 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Since his victims were impoverished women just trying to get by, it's difficult to imagine that a potential victim got the best of him. Serial killers are also usually experienced with killing by the end of their reign and are usually opportunistic, so they would've more likely to be stopped by making mistakes in covering up their crimes or passing away.

  • @rdarkstorm8414
    @rdarkstorm8414 3 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    The worst part of the story of Jack the Ripper is that the way deaths of sex workers were treated then is the way they're treated now. The "less dead". If you ever wanna feel real bad, just take a look into cases that are still very much unsolved because the victims were among the "less dead"

    • @josephdelacroix9798
      @josephdelacroix9798 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      There’s literally a term police use called no human involved when a Jane dies. Fucking sickening and shameful

    • @rdarkstorm8414
      @rdarkstorm8414 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@josephdelacroix9798 agreed 100%

    • @FlorSilvestre12
      @FlorSilvestre12 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      What I always think of too is the people who survive attacks like these and can't seek help without outing themselves as "criminals" as well. Sex workers, undocumented immigrants, drug users, all living in a really frightening area outside of the promised protection of the law.

    • @adrielsebastian5216
      @adrielsebastian5216 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@josephdelacroix9798 it's like they're saying, "oh they lived dangerously, it's just normal for them to die like that. And we're not going to waste resources to look into their deaths because it's their fault for mingling with dangerous people."

    • @rdarkstorm8414
      @rdarkstorm8414 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Vincit OmniaVeritas dude what? There's literal facts and statistics on that

  • @KwazyKats
    @KwazyKats 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    I love how The Vigilante Committee banded together and were really putting an effort into finding Jack

  • @theoldblood3804
    @theoldblood3804 3 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    It was obviously the on scene doctor...
    "Oh hey guys heard there was a murder" 🤔

    • @Dan-nt2yb
      @Dan-nt2yb 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      H. H. Holmes.

  • @smilesfordays
    @smilesfordays 3 ปีที่แล้ว +70

    This is strange, but, as much as this is horrible for the victims... he really did bring to light the appalling conditions single women lived in at the time... as terrible as it is, it did a lot for the women who worked there.

  • @tommyortega7796
    @tommyortega7796 3 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    Havent you thought about opening a patreon page? Your content is just so well made

    • @emmasnana234
      @emmasnana234 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      He has a patreon page but there’s nothing on it at the moment which I think is why he isn’t making it known yet. He would be swamped with complaints! However, I am completely happy to help in any way to just be able to continue to watch his videos, so I joined up!

  • @sirpibble
    @sirpibble 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    What's neat is 6 months after the killings stopped, similar killings started happening in New York city
    Could it be that the police in london were getting close and he got spooked and left town?

  • @Zipzap1313
    @Zipzap1313 3 ปีที่แล้ว +101

    You get those rare gems of TH-camrs who when they post you actually go, "Yay!" At 6am and skip sleep just to watch~💕
    Love your work, just remember to take care of yourself too 😊

    • @jaybomb8371
      @jaybomb8371 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Oh yeah!!!

    • @gangstashots3298
      @gangstashots3298 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      he could live in a country where it is PM and he may just finished a days work.

  • @haileelogan2031
    @haileelogan2031 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    22 mins?? We’re spoiled by you! ❤️ thank you

  • @Julie-sw8xv
    @Julie-sw8xv 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Extra long episode...I don't think he understands that I could listen to an hour-long episode with no problem. I was devastated to find that I had watched all of his videos. I need more good sir! :)

  • @ethhics
    @ethhics 3 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    Fits the channel perfectly, it's fascinating that his identity is still not uncovered

  • @bentramer682
    @bentramer682 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    People always say the past was better, happier, but i think it's always someone's job to make us miserable.

    • @stevenschnepp576
      @stevenschnepp576 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      You don't often find historians saying the past was better or happier.

    • @bentramer682
      @bentramer682 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@stevenschnepp576 well true, but i mean average people, they're always obsessed with two decades ago

    • @jaypee9575
      @jaypee9575 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@bentramer682 There's a world of difference between the relatively rich middle class of two decades ago and the poverty stricken masses of London over a century ago.

  • @katzsparkly8324
    @katzsparkly8324 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Patricia Cromwell, while an author, is also an actual forensic investigator. She wrote a book about the case of Jack the Ripper, drawing her own conclusions. She did however, actually spend quite a time in England exploring the limited information available. She had unprecedented access to the remaining clues and evidence. Just thought others might also be interested. It is a fascinating case.

  • @goldiloks08
    @goldiloks08 3 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    My favorite theory on Jack the Ripper is based around them being a midwife. A random person walking around covered in blood? Weird. Noticeable. Cause for concern. A midwife walking around at all hours of the day and night covered in blood? Completely understandable and normal (for that time).

    • @brianallsopp69
      @brianallsopp69 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Jill The Ripper? Interesting 🤔

    • @StrazdasLT
      @StrazdasLT 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I always fancied the removal of organs would help with the surgeon theory.

    • @davidcox3076
      @davidcox3076 ปีที่แล้ว

      That always seemed to make sense. It would have been hard for the murderer to slip away completely unnoticed. Someone normally in blood-stained work clothes might have been able to accomplish it.

    • @Trev-jz6yw
      @Trev-jz6yw ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Ya but but at that time of night it was dark out and the most streets didn’t have lights so even if you saw someone walking across the st or even next to you it would be pretty hard to notice blood all over their clothes unless their clothes were white or a lighter color!

    • @alienvomitsex
      @alienvomitsex ปีที่แล้ว

      @@brianallsopp69 yeah, right lol

  • @annvictor9627
    @annvictor9627 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    It's the unsolved mysteries that tend to linger in the public mind.

  • @insiderperson18279
    @insiderperson18279 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    You know this episode gets real when Glass Pool isn't playing in the middle of the video 😳

  • @nataliestewart1669
    @nataliestewart1669 3 ปีที่แล้ว +68

    Literally click on every video as soon as you post they are of such high quality! You have a gift for conveying these stories of fascinating horror in such a captivating way I can’t stop watching!

    • @bellakatherman1477
      @bellakatherman1477 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      same. i wish there were more

    • @kathkat0055
      @kathkat0055 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@bellakatherman1477 I agree! It can be hard to wait a week but it’s worth it!

    • @princeofcupspoc9073
      @princeofcupspoc9073 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      The next time you post, please do not use words that you do not understand.

  • @evilchaosboy
    @evilchaosboy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    hi. Your images and descriptions of "White Chapel" were exceptional. You painted a very detailed picture (for me anyways) of the area being almost maze-like, crowded and very dark in nature. You took a very well known tale and still managed to put your own "stamp" on it. Well done!! \m/

  • @kaseys43
    @kaseys43 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    i feel so bad for these women. it’s such a dangerous path that they were forced to go down because no one was helping them. they had to help themselves. if anything this should have been a huge wake up call to the government that people needed help. so sad.

    • @PrezVeto
      @PrezVeto 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Why government? This was still the era private charity. As mentioned in the video, following the publicity, charity was more abundant.

    • @kaseys43
      @kaseys43 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@PrezVeto because as a government, it’s their job to protect the people they govern. it’s pathetic that public charity even had to step in. if the people in your nation have to resort to prostitution in order to keep themselves afloat, the government is at fault. especially in a well off country such as britain.

    • @FP194
      @FP194 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@kaseys43
      World history is not your strong point I take it

    • @kaseys43
      @kaseys43 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@FP194 okay, instead of being mean why don’t you just respectfully tell me the part that you disagree with?

  • @WierdSpookyDude
    @WierdSpookyDude 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I think I found a GOLD MINE when I stumbled upon this channel. What a great story teller this narrator is! He lets each story unfold as though the reader/ viewer was part of the actual events. As a result, I can't get enough! And even though the stories often involve death and destruction --- the macabre details and grizzly outcomes for the unfortunate victims are fascinating --- and I find myself addicted to the whole experience. Perhaps the author should consider writing a book or two, such are his mastery of story telling.

  • @lulusue99
    @lulusue99 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    It’s been over 100yrs but I feel like there’s bound to be a way to find more about what happened with what we have now. If the letters were preserved, could they take DNA & see if there’s any descendants?

  • @skinny6399
    @skinny6399 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I wasn’t even mad about the promotion at the end, usually youtubers promote things loud and beg you to buy things but you were so subtle about it and calm, definitely going to check them out.

  • @taylahschrader520
    @taylahschrader520 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    For anyone genuinely interesting in discovering the real lives of the Canonical Five, there is an amazing audiobook/book called "The Five" by Hallie Rubenhold.
    Rubenhold does a fascinating and respectful deep dive into the lives of Mary Ann Nicols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes and Mary Jane Kelly. She doesn't fetishize their deaths or see them as "just prostitutes", rather, she uncovers the lives they lived as whole people from birth until their eventual encounter with their killer, and you really get a sense of the tragedy that befell Victorian women who either weren't lucky enough to be born above working-class or had bad luck lead them into a life of poverty (for example, Mary Ann Nichols was forced out of her home by a cheating husband and Annie Chapman was a recovering alcoholic who was abandoned by a family who considered her morally corrupt).

  • @Knuckle_Sandwich_Hand_Wraps
    @Knuckle_Sandwich_Hand_Wraps 3 ปีที่แล้ว +73

    The 80’s has always been a dark era.

    • @YeahNo
      @YeahNo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      th-cam.com/video/dQw4w9WgXcQ/w-d-xo.html

    • @pinkdiamond1847
      @pinkdiamond1847 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      The 20s and 80s always seem to be cursed.

    • @bentramer682
      @bentramer682 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I have to push i have to struggle!
      EIGHTIES I'm living in the EIGHTIES!