Originally posted by Byrd
There really wasn't anything that he did that was totally unexplainable. The "spitting fire" is a common magician's trick and needs just time and space to set up. The "leaping" is something that's easily done with wires and an accomplice (they had stage mechanisms that could do this... in a dark night in the right setting, you could set this thing up and people would swear it was a man jumping to amazing heights ... because they couldn't see the wire.)

But, no, it has nothing in common with chupacabras.

Another clue that the jumping was done by wire is that a) they didn't have the metallurgical technology for this and b) they didn't have stabilizing gryoscopes. I have a friend who owns a pair of "jumper stilts;" basically leg extensions with powerful springs that CAN enable you to jump higher than normal.

He nearly broke his leg and his arm, and it was extremely unreliable on anything except a very smooth surface and in ideal conditions. Even after a month of practice, it was still a fairly dangerous (but fun) toy.

...and he wasn't jumping as high as Jack was reported to.

It would be extremely obvious if he was using wires, for one he would have to hang about in that area for a while setting it all up, and secondly after the leap he would still be attatched to all the wires and therefore wouldnt be able to go very far at all. Thirdly there aren't reports of pully's being set up in the areas where he was sighted

well i lived 6 years in india and i was there when that thing appeared but dont know if you should trust the indian people they have a lot of imagination and preety strange that monkey man just didnt appear anymore.

Dude, SHJ was a real-american (sorry, british) super hero! Bounding around on springs, cape, tight costume, stealing women. Every women wants him and every guy wants to be him!

That's strange, but very interesting..I'm going to try and read more about it.

Dude sounds pretty awesome. I wonder why he didn't just shoot these flames from his mouth and burn people alive? That'd be awesome.

Say, do you think Spring Heeled Jack knows Cotton Eyed Joe?

It seems Spring Heeled Jack didn't actually want to kill anyone. He jumped around and said "BOOGEDY BOOGEDY" a lot but excepting the few women he clawed he never really hurt anyone.
Even in the New Delhi case. The only damage said to be caused by the Monkey Man were bites, scratches and bruises. The deaths were all caused by either mobs setting upon people they thought were the Monkey Man, or people who fell fleeing downstairs.

The springs theory doesn't hold much water, the German paratroopers (prior to WW2) experimented with carriage springs for easy landings. The result being a rash of broken ankles.

There probably was some weird sht going on with SHJ bouncing around.
He was shot at twice (once by sentrys at Aldershot, the other by militia/crowds) and he didn't go down or appear injured.
He keeps appearing through the decades. I think a motorist reported seeing him a whiole back.
Wonder where he is now?

When was the last sighting of Springheel Jack/ The Rooftop Madman and anything like that?

apparently the last reports were about the 1870s in Sheffield when there was reports of the "Park Ghost" and "Peckham Ghost" both of which were described as "Springheel Jacks"

No it was after that. The Rooftop Madman (A person almost exactly the same as Springheel Jack) was seen in Argentina in 2005 and I'm wondering if there have been any more recent reports. Thanks for trying to help anyway though.

I have some cryptozoology books that mentioned him if I remember correctly. Pretty strange if you ask me. I have a vision of a wanker running around in the dark, dressed up like a monkey with claws on springs, and scaring the hell out of people. When was the last reported sighting?

Originally posted by yetifood12
No it was after that. The Rooftop Madman (A person almost exactly the same as Springheel Jack) was seen in Argentina in 2005 and I'm wondering if there have been any more recent reports. Thanks for trying to help anyway though.

Didn't they link the Rooftop Madman to the Mothman? I thought the descriptions were similar?

Originally posted by ZeroDeep
More like Spring Heeled Jackie chan.
Deep

In his cartoon show, he actually fought the Spring Heeled Jack. Super deep.

Originally posted by nastalgik

Originally posted by yetifood12
No it was after that. The Rooftop Madman (A person almost exactly the same as Springheel Jack) was seen in Argentina in 2005 and I'm wondering if there have been any more recent reports. Thanks for trying to help anyway though.

Didn't they link the Rooftop Madman to the Mothman? I thought the descriptions were similar?

It is possible that some people have likened those two beings, but in my opinion, the Rooftop Madman and the Mothman has NOTHING in common, other then their red eyes, which also Springheeled Jack was described as having.

The rooftopp Madman is almost exactly similar to the original Jack, apart from the face not being clearly described.

Yeah I meant that I thought they came up with the rooftop thing to be the Mothman. The monkey man thing looks incredibly freaky. I would kill it if it jumped out of the bushes