Who Was Jack The Ripper?
Ghost, Monster, or Madman
Jack The Ripper wasn’t a ghost, but he was certainly a monster.
Who he really was, and why he did what he did has been subject to all sorts of explanations from the psychiatric to the supernatural to the downright occult.
History names the unidentified serial killer who slaughtered women in the Whitechapel area in the East End of London between 1888 and 1891: ‘Jack The Ripper.’
There are other murders that may have been carried out by the same man, but only five are undoubtedly the work of the Ripper.
Five killings are laid at the door of one man. They call these five victims ‘the canonical five.’
Mary Ann Nichols
Nichols, aged 43, was the first victim and she was murdered on Friday, August 31, 1888.
Her estranged husband alleged she was a prostitute at the time and the police noted her drunken ‘antics’. She was known to be an alcoholic and thief. At the time of her death, she was in living in a common lodging-house locally.
Her body was found at 03:40 in Buck’s Row, Whitechapel, London. That street is now Durward Street, a narrow road that has been rebuilt since the Ripper’s time and is a mix of social housing and industrial units. The area…
