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.
@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 RUclips works means that his style of storytelling is the reason his channel isn’t as large as others?
@@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.
@@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.
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. 😁😁)
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.
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.
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
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
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
@@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.
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.
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
@@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
His performance is sober, sincere, and articulate. It's shot up to one of my absolute favourite channels on RUclips. He's an order of magnitude beyond any other documentary channels.
@@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.
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
@@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
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.
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.
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 🤦🏻♂️
@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.
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.
'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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
@@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... :)
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.
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.
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.
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".
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 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.
@@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
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.
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!
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 !
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.
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.
I really appreciate how respectful you are when talking about the victims in stories like this. It's nice that you add in a good bit of detail about their lives, they should be remembered too.
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.
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 😇)
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.
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.
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
"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.
@@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.
This channel and orator takes horrific stories and tells them with respect. I haven't completely looked at any Jack the Ripper documentaries because they all seem to sensationalize the story and your channel proves over and over again that stories can be told respectfully. I ended this documentary knowing and caring more about the victims than thinking about Jack. Well done! 👏👏👏
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.
You get those rare gems of RUclipsrs 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 😊
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.
I think this is the first sponsorship ad that actually wasn't irritating or just tolerable. It actually intrigued me as a possible gift for someone as a result of your calm and well-explained description of the service. You've done what I thought was impossible Mr. Horror.
I love how you're branching out to not only historical accidents, but to the horror genre as well. I ALWAYS look foward to Tuesdays, so when I realized I had left my phone at my parents house last night, I really did panic!!!
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.
@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.
@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 RUclips.
@@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.
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 :)
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!
One of the best and most credible theories I’ve heard so far is that one of the witnesses discovering a body was actually the killer himself. Police and a separate witness arrived on the scene within minutes of the murder; the body “still warm and un-bloodied, she appeared to be asleep or drunk.” The witness’s name was either false or misreported as it seems no matching person could be found in the records, and there was even an error reported in tribunal transcripts regarding that incident.
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.
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
@@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.
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/
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!
Thank you for presenting these topics in a serious and respectful manner. It's very refreshing to hear the stories without all the senationalization. You got yourself a new subscriber!
As a person who’s been a true crime junkie for more than 40 years I have seen and read tons of things about Jack the Ripper, but this is the very first I have heard of the Vigilance Committee. Excellent job (on all your videos actually).
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! :)
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"
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.
@@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."
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.
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.
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 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.
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).
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.
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!
I went to a Jack The Ripper tour when I was on holiday with my family in London. We visited the place where Mary Kelly was brutally murdered. It was haunting and creepy
Idk if the creator reads their comments, but if so, thank you for creating these. Sometimes I struggle getting started with my day, and something about the tone and mood of your videos helps me get moving. Excellent content and an even better presentation of it. You are very much appreciated in my life!
Fantastic work as per usual, FH! Even though this story has been done to death here on horror youtube, your in depth investigation, delivery and editing makes it seem like you're hearing about it for the first time. Keep it up man!
I’ve been an armchair Ripperphile for many years, including touring the White chapel area in 2005 with my wife. It may be a much better area now, but there is I feeling in the air all around to this day that the neighborhood knows and will not forget what it is most famous for. An excellent investigation into the case is a book by Patricia Cornwell called Portrait of a Killer. It does not solve the case (Anymore than any other claim of solution does), but it does give a compelling argument as to who the killer was.
I LOVED this story!! As many others before me, I became very interested in this case. It intrigues me that, after all this time, the name “Jack the Ripper” is still know by many. How on earth can the murderer have gone unidentified for so long? It is a case that has stymied police and the public since the 1880’s and it looks like it will remain an unsolved mystery forever. This is a great “episode” my friend! Always great dialogue and a well-written script! Well done!
I believe Jack wasn’t a local, but was traveling. 1. It lasted 4 months. Yes...the person could have died...but then 2... 2. The vicious nature of the first canonical killing, and the confidence of the display, says this wasn’t his first time at the rodeo. Look at killings with a similar M.O. in other parts of the world which occurred before and after the 4 month span, taking into account the travel time between each location and I believe that will show who the killer was...
@@karennewsome2736 I agree,l was on 3rd shift and always listened to coast to coast am and I think it was about 10 years ago,they had a guest on the show and his name was Jeff Mudgett,he claimed his great,great grandfather who's name was "Herman Webster Mudgett" was actually H.H.Holmes,he wrote a book called "BLOODSTAINS" from reading this book l agree with jeff because of the details Herman Mudgett gave in his diary about his murder victims,and his trip to London as well,it appears H.H.Holmes was able to escape his hanging after he was caught in the late 1800,s and moved his horror show to San Francisco,l haven't read anything else on H.H.Holmes other than that one book,so I'm not sure if this is the one you might be referring to.
Yes, a lot of people believe him to have been H.H Holmes due him, allegedly, in West End at the time of the Ripper murders. I don’t doubt that, maybe, he could’ve traveled often to West End, even London, which is how he’d know the streets, but him being local doesn’t make sense as to why he’d stop so suddenly unless he died, and his murders were too brutal in my opinion to have been his first time. H.H Holmes was into medicine, which could indicate the nature of the killings.
I've now made it through all of your videos and they were all fascinating as stated! I absolutely love the music, it perfectly sets the haunting tone for the content and reminds me a bit of a old school dubstep tune. Also the factual nature and respect of your presenting gives the videos a professional quality. Keep up the good work!
Hi Mr Fantastic Horror, just like to say after watching your videos for nearly a year, pound for pounds, they're probably the best content on RUclips. Death is always interesting, but you do you're research, and you're delivery is superb. And the music is just perfect, really adds to the atmosphere. You create the videos in such a way that they are respectful and are a very good tribute to those who lost their lives which I really appreciate. I think the Stardust tragedy in Dublin in '81 would be a good one for you to do, given its 40th anniversary this year and no modern times doc's done about it. Don't know anyone personally affected by it but again your vids are an informative tribute Thanks for your good work and I look forward to the next one.
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?
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).
Jack almost certainly had an earlier victim, a young boy. His identity may or may not still be a mystery; a carefully-researched work called "They All Love Jack" fingers Christopher Maybrick, brother of suspect James Maybrick. He was a popular actor, and was in all the right places in all the right times.
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.
My second episode to watch...I'm hooked! Have watched other videos of Jack the Ripper but I really enjoyed this version. Excuse me while I binge watch your videos for a while! Still in Texas
I used to love to read up on and watch series on Jack the Ripper when I was younger. I've always been into true crime and it's perhaps for this reason I love your channel so much. For some reason I found the tale of the Ripper so interesting and this video gave me nostalgia of the excitement and curiosity I had when I would watch this stuff as a kid. Thanks Fascinating Horror, yet another great video :)
I've been interested in JTR since 1975. This episode is one of the gentlest retellings of the story I've ever seen/heard. Thank you refraining from showing us lurid photos. In fact, one of the things I appreciate most about this channel, is that the presenter is calm and respectful at all times, and the gross factor is is very, very low. Thank you for this channel in general and this episode in particular.
Good video! As you state, this is such a complex case. I can’t begin to guess how many books have been written, theories put forth, etc. I’ve always been fascinated by Jack, and you did a good job in summarising his crimes.
As usual the creators of "Fascinating Horror" cover the details & show immense respect for the victims. Always interesting, informative, tasteful, & fascinating. Thank you
Yours is the ONLY channel I have watched all the videos on. Thank you so much for your wonderful, well researched and respectful content. I absolutely love you channel and would 100% buy merch or become a patron of. ❤️
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.
@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 RUclips works means that his style of storytelling is the reason his channel isn’t as large as others?
@@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.
@@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.
I agree, or they are this new trend of make up channels discussing true crime while glamming up which I find distasteful
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. 😁😁)
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.
He didn't talk about the ripper because he knows nothing about him. Never caught.
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.
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
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
@@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.
@@Raavenstag Thanks! I've never heard of that book before but I will look it up.
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.
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!
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
@@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
@@MrFailTrailer :/
sex workers tend 2 be targeted as victims for violent crimes & they continue 2 be disrespected after theyve passed its so disgusting
This channel is one of the greatest things I've stumbled upon
He's great, check out Strange Land, Trace Evidence, Mr. Ballen, Criminally Listed, Deadbug( he is NOT for the faint of heart) 😁
Welcome to the crew. 😁
His performance is sober, sincere, and articulate. It's shot up to one of my absolute favourite channels on RUclips. He's an order of magnitude beyond any other documentary channels.
@@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.
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
"When they couldn't find any actual news, it was common practice to simply make something up"
I guess some things never change lol
And 100 years later....CNN is born!
Wellsaid Mate!
My thoughts exactly.
That's how the US and Spain got into a war.
@@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
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.
I think so too. The era favoured him and allowed him to go unnoticed.
I agree. The limits of crime investigation procedures at the time allowed him to get away with it.
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.
Obviously
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 🤦🏻♂️
Imagine trying to hunt a serial killer with no forensics
@ᴡɪɴᴛᴇʀᴍᴜᴛᴇ _ Serial killers still exist... most often it's someone with a mental disorder distinct from other random killers.
@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.
If I was the police back then I would have secretly posted 'watchers' on every street corner to try and catch the suspect.
Imagine being accused of something you didn’t do back in 1888 and not having an alibi.
"detective! we found a pool of the killers blood!" "ah.. gross. mop it up.. now, back to my hunch"
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.
Maybe he killed himself afterwards like some killers and they never found his body.
'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.
@@vulpesinculta3238 source?
@@vulpesinculta3238 That is a *theory.* It has yet to be proven.
Modern technology took a lifetime to catch the original Nightstalker.
This author demonstrates immeasurable respect to the sad plight of each of the victims.
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.
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.
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.
That’s the work of a surgeon not a butcher
Thank you, I will definitely avoid that
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
@The Automaton Collective
What could that guy have done that makes this guy looks like “nothing”? I’m genuinely curious
"No luck catching them killers then" "Just the one killer actually"
The greater good..
i understood that reference
a great big bushy beard!
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.
@@edvaca8419 "The greater good!"
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.
Ooooh... I've never heard of this but I'm intrigued! I vote for this one too! :)
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.
@@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... :)
Thank you for making that video possible 🙏🏾
I think he did make a video on it, so your comment was seen!
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.
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.
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.
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".
@@przemysawzanko6700 You are probably right. Still, it's messed up. Humanity can be so cruel sometimes.
Narcissists who want attention. There's many people like that out there
Even in the 19th century, fake news was already a problem...
It’s good to see nothing has changed as far as newspapers go, if no factual story then make one up.
Remember fake news rakes in money
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".
Joseph De lacroix Remember, people brainwashed to consider the entire free press “fake news” can be molded to believe anything. Authoritarianism 101.
@@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.
@@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
Would you consider a video about the radium girls? If anyone could handle the subject without sensationalism, it's you.
Hope you’ve seen the video he did 🧪🕰
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Thank you for talking about the victims. So many serial killer stories focus solely on the killer, and their victims are just a footnote.
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.
You're not going back to normal mate
@@Metallislayer1 🌀👄🌀 gum gum 🥸
I've been on the Jack the Ripper walk and it creeped me out.🥺
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!
Back to normal yet?
I feel at home hearing the intro music haha
Glass Pond always triggering my curiosity and anxiety
It would help if he had a new story
ikr me too
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.
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 !
Really?
@@GeorgeFreeman55 Ok, should have clarified, the first channel that mentioned them that wasn't some drawn out multi hour ordeal.
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.
@@elsieroy5609 Emma Smith, I would agree. Martha Tabram though is a possibility.
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.
I love how The Vigilante Committee banded together and were really putting an effort into finding Jack
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
Same here.
This channel and JCS Criminal Psychology always put out quality videos every time without fail.
Who’s the other four?😁 I’m looking for new channels. Since you like this channel, I’d imagine you have good taste
Me too
I really appreciate how respectful you are when talking about the victims in stories like this. It's nice that you add in a good bit of detail about their lives, they should be remembered too.
Yes.there.is respect here.the sketches and photos with this documentary are great.very clear and easy to follow.i love the old newspapers.
Always the best source of information about terrible events, always respectful and truthful. Keep going!!
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.
Thank you so much for the Dignity and kindness you've shown the people whose lives were stolen by this serial killer.
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
Pon
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 😇)
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.
Happy fascinating horror Tuesday everybody🙌
Fits the channel perfectly, it's fascinating that his identity is still not uncovered
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.
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
Poor Mary Jane Kelly, she just wanted to have a nice life but instead, she was murdered in the most horrible way possible.
"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.
I don't think anyone back then besides the rich/royalty had a 'nice' life
@@reedman0780 I mean at least she’d have been alive
@@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.
death or cake?
This channel and orator takes horrific stories and tells them with respect. I haven't completely looked at any Jack the Ripper documentaries because they all seem to sensationalize the story and your channel proves over and over again that stories can be told respectfully. I ended this documentary knowing and caring more about the victims than thinking about Jack. Well done! 👏👏👏
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.
You get those rare gems of RUclipsrs 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 😊
Oh yeah!!!
he could live in a country where it is PM and he may just finished a days work.
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.
I think this is the first sponsorship ad that actually wasn't irritating or just tolerable. It actually intrigued me as a possible gift for someone as a result of your calm and well-explained description of the service. You've done what I thought was impossible Mr. Horror.
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
I love how you're branching out to not only historical accidents, but to the horror genre as well. I ALWAYS look foward to Tuesdays, so when I realized I had left my phone at my parents house last night, I really did panic!!!
Jack the Ripper isn't horror, it's reality you spack
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.
Or the tragic Granville train disaster in Sydney, Australia in 1977, 83 perished in that one.
@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.
@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 RUclips.
Australia isn't real
@Nik Kingman I hope I never live in ur building
Honestly, this is the best episode so far. I thought it was like 7 minutes but it’s 22, I was zoned in so much I didn’t notice
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.
Because you should get a hearing test. He said stables. I get it, his enunciation is a bit less precise than one would like...
@@TymP321 calm down bro... i heard that too, but of course context clues helped me figure it out
🤣🤣🤣
@@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.
@@TymP321 🤡
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 :)
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!
same. i wish there were more
@@bellakatherman1477 I agree! It can be hard to wait a week but it’s worth it!
The next time you post, please do not use words that you do not understand.
22 mins?? We’re spoiled by you! ❤️ thank you
One of the best and most credible theories I’ve heard so far is that one of the witnesses discovering a body was actually the killer himself.
Police and a separate witness arrived on the scene within minutes of the murder; the body “still warm and un-bloodied, she appeared to be asleep or drunk.”
The witness’s name was either false or misreported as it seems no matching person could be found in the records, and there was even an error reported in tribunal transcripts regarding that incident.
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.
Okey dokey🙄
How so?
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
People always say the past was better, happier, but i think it's always someone's job to make us miserable.
You don't often find historians saying the past was better or happier.
@@stevenschnepp576 well true, but i mean average people, they're always obsessed with two decades ago
@@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.
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/
Havent you thought about opening a patreon page? Your content is just so well made
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!
Thank you for presenting these topics in a serious and respectful manner. It's very refreshing to hear the stories without all the senationalization. You got yourself a new subscriber!
As a person who’s been a true crime junkie for more than 40 years I have seen and read tons of things about Jack the Ripper, but this is the very first I have heard of the Vigilance Committee. Excellent job (on all your videos actually).
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! :)
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"
There’s literally a term police use called no human involved when a Jane dies. Fucking sickening and shameful
@@josephdelacroix9798 agreed 100%
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.
@@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."
@Vincit OmniaVeritas dude what? There's literal facts and statistics on that
You know this episode gets real when Glass Pool isn't playing in the middle of the video 😳
It's the unsolved mysteries that tend to linger in the public mind.
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.
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.
Honestly this killer is extremely interesting to read about.
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.
Why government? This was still the era private charity. As mentioned in the video, following the publicity, charity was more abundant.
@@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.
@@kaseys43
World history is not your strong point I take it
@@FP194 okay, instead of being mean why don’t you just respectfully tell me the part that you disagree with?
Thanks for making it short!
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).
Jill The Ripper? Interesting 🤔
I always fancied the removal of organs would help with the surgeon theory.
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.
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!
@@brianallsopp69 yeah, right lol
Truth is that we will never know his identity.
But I love how you tell your stories.
Love from Zimbabwe
It was obviously the on scene doctor...
"Oh hey guys heard there was a murder" 🤔
H. H. Holmes.
The 80’s has always been a dark era.
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The 20s and 80s always seem to be cursed.
I have to push i have to struggle!
EIGHTIES I'm living in the EIGHTIES!
I went to a Jack The Ripper tour when I was on holiday with my family in London. We visited the place where Mary Kelly was brutally murdered. It was haunting and creepy
Idk if the creator reads their comments, but if so, thank you for creating these. Sometimes I struggle getting started with my day, and something about the tone and mood of your videos helps me get moving. Excellent content and an even better presentation of it. You are very much appreciated in my life!
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
This channel is one of the best things that has ever happened to me.
Fantastic work as per usual, FH! Even though this story has been done to death here on horror youtube, your in depth investigation, delivery and editing makes it seem like you're hearing about it for the first time. Keep it up man!
I love this channel, telling history so succinct.
I’ve been an armchair Ripperphile for many years, including touring the White chapel area in 2005 with my wife. It may be a much better area now, but there is I feeling in the air all around to this day that the neighborhood knows and will not forget what it is most famous for.
An excellent investigation into the case is a book by Patricia Cornwell called Portrait of a Killer. It does not solve the case (Anymore than any other claim of solution does), but it does give a compelling argument as to who the killer was.
I LOVED this story!! As many others before me, I became very interested in this case. It intrigues me that, after all this time, the name “Jack the Ripper” is still know by many. How on earth can the murderer have gone unidentified for so long?
It is a case that has stymied police and the public since the 1880’s and it looks like it will remain an unsolved mystery forever.
This is a great “episode” my friend! Always great dialogue and a well-written script! Well done!
This channel is so good and I have really enjoyed the content since stumbling on it when I was looking for information about The Halifax Explosion. :D
you don’t even know how excited I was when I saw you posted this. need longer vids like this
I believe Jack wasn’t a local, but was traveling.
1. It lasted 4 months. Yes...the person could have died...but then 2...
2. The vicious nature of the first canonical killing, and the confidence of the display, says this wasn’t his first time at the rodeo.
Look at killings with a similar M.O. in other parts of the world which occurred before and after the 4 month span, taking into account the travel time between each location and I believe that will show who the killer was...
@@karennewsome2736 I agree,l was on 3rd shift and always listened to coast to coast am and I think it was about 10 years ago,they had a guest on the show and his name was Jeff Mudgett,he claimed his great,great grandfather who's name was "Herman Webster Mudgett" was actually H.H.Holmes,he wrote a book called "BLOODSTAINS" from reading this book l agree with jeff because of the details Herman Mudgett gave in his diary about his murder victims,and his trip to London as well,it appears H.H.Holmes was able to escape his hanging after he was caught in the late 1800,s and moved his horror show to San Francisco,l haven't read anything else on H.H.Holmes other than that one book,so I'm not sure if this is the one you might be referring to.
@@karennewsome2736 wow,thanks Karen,l didn't know a documentary was made about him,l will definitely check it out👍
you were born a hundred years late mate. A detective as yourself would have caught Jack before he reached puberty
Yes, a lot of people believe him to have been H.H Holmes due him, allegedly, in West End at the time of the Ripper murders.
I don’t doubt that, maybe, he could’ve traveled often to West End, even London, which is how he’d know the streets, but him being local doesn’t make sense as to why he’d stop so suddenly unless he died, and his murders were too brutal in my opinion to have been his first time.
H.H Holmes was into medicine, which could indicate the nature of the killings.
I've now made it through all of your videos and they were all fascinating as stated! I absolutely love the music, it perfectly sets the haunting tone for the content and reminds me a bit of a old school dubstep tune. Also the factual nature and respect of your presenting gives the videos a professional quality. Keep up the good work!
Hi Mr Fantastic Horror, just like to say after watching your videos for nearly a year, pound for pounds, they're probably the best content on RUclips. Death is always interesting, but you do you're research, and you're delivery is superb. And the music is just perfect, really adds to the atmosphere. You create the videos in such a way that they are respectful and are a very good tribute to those who lost their lives which I really appreciate. I think the Stardust tragedy in Dublin in '81 would be a good one for you to do, given its 40th anniversary this year and no modern times doc's done about it. Don't know anyone personally affected by it but again your vids are an informative tribute Thanks for your good work and I look forward to the next one.
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?
Made up
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).
Jack almost certainly had an earlier victim, a young boy. His identity may or may not still be a mystery; a carefully-researched work called "They All Love Jack" fingers Christopher Maybrick, brother of suspect James Maybrick. He was a popular actor, and was in all the right places in all the right times.
I hold my breath waiting for a new story every week! Love this channel!
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.
Hey Fascinating Horror. Good to see another upload!
Really liking the longer videos you are producing, look forward to the next one!
Fantastic channel. You made even this old topic seem fresh.
My second episode to watch...I'm hooked! Have watched other videos of Jack the Ripper but I really enjoyed this version. Excuse me while I binge watch your videos for a while! Still in Texas
You’re one of my favorite youtube channels! I love the way you present your content and that I learn something new every time. Many thanks!
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I used to love to read up on and watch series on Jack the Ripper when I was younger. I've always been into true crime and it's perhaps for this reason I love your channel so much. For some reason I found the tale of the Ripper so interesting and this video gave me nostalgia of the excitement and curiosity I had when I would watch this stuff as a kid. Thanks Fascinating Horror, yet another great video :)
Imagine if one of the vigilantes trying to catch Jack the Ripper was actually him. Plot twist
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
I've been interested in JTR since 1975. This episode is one of the gentlest retellings of the story I've ever seen/heard. Thank you refraining from showing us lurid photos. In fact, one of the things I appreciate most about this channel, is that the presenter is calm and respectful at all times, and the gross factor is is very, very low. Thank you for this channel in general and this episode in particular.
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Good video! As you state, this is such a complex case. I can’t begin to guess how many books have been written, theories put forth, etc. I’ve always been fascinated by Jack, and you did a good job in summarising his crimes.
As usual the creators of "Fascinating Horror" cover the details & show immense respect for the victims. Always interesting, informative, tasteful, & fascinating. Thank you
Love these stories. Thank you for providing history in a unique (and terrifying) way.
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