Diary of Jack the Ripper diary about to be exposed

[Glenn Lauritz Andersson]

Well, Bob.
Welcome the world of pseudo-Ripperology.

All the best

[Mike Covell]

Hi Bob, "IKNOW" claimed to know who did it and why, and had sold his story to the Guardian (according to him).

Since no story ever surfaced, and no newspaper ever published his claims I think we can rest assured he "Knowsnothing"

Then we had Philipe Welt claiming he had filmed footage of Mary Kell's ghost in Mitre Square, floating along just like the Walter Sickert painting!

The funny thing is, he made claims that there was little or no wind, yet the tree's in the background could be seen moving!!!

He promised a book regarding this, but I think he is happily charging a small fortune to watch his footage of smoke blowing in the wind!!

[Doctor X]

Wow.

There are two crackpots who claim they film "sea serpents" in the S.F. Bay, and they want to charge people to use the film.

As you can guess . . . they are interesting wave patterns. Megathreads have been devoted to debunking them, but yet they mush on trying to make a wave into $$$.

They want "biological experts" to view the report on the film. Yup. "Biological expert" means, in Crazyspeak, "agrees with us!"

Reminds me of a thread HERE regarding a diary and a watch.

Subjects like this attract Woos like crap attracts flies.

--J.D.

[Dan Norder]

In the second, he seems to plump for Dr Thomas Hewlett (and, no, I've never heard of him either).

Probably some variant spelling or garbled retelling of the Dr. John Hewitt theory. For a brief summary, see Jack the Ripper: A Suspect Guide: Dr. John Hewitt. The dissertation/Ripper Notes article "The Strange Case of Dr. John Hewitt" by Stan Russo explains where the theory came from and why this person was never a legit suspect to begin with.

[caz]

wow, I had heard of this guy before but never read anything!!

I love the fact he has the accolade of being "Scariest bloke in London" funny that, I thought that was something for the likes of "Dave Courtney" or "Bros" anyway, the guy dresses as a wizard and is King of the Lions or summat, so he must be OK!!

Hi Mike,

Two out of three appearing at the WS1888 can't be bad - Dave Courtney on two occasions (but no match for Liza - she could have eaten him for breakfast), and the Pope on many more, usually dressed to kill.

Now Bros would be scary.

Love,

Caz
X

[Mike Covell]

Dave Courtney singing "When will I be famous" that would be a good show, scary? Yes!!
Entertaining? You betcha!!

[Maria]

Mike:

IknowJack is really... I know nothing Mr. Fawlty ! Remember Manuel in Fawlty Towers ? Well that him !

- Maria

[The Grave Maurice]

Probably some variant spelling or garbled retelling of the Dr. John Hewitt theory.

Initially I thought that as well, Dan, but Pope mentions the Hewitt theory in his second "book". Hewlett seems to be a completely different guy. But to get the details, I'd have to re-read it, and I'm not too eager to do that.

[Mike Covell]

Mike:

IknowJack is really... I know nothing Mr. Fawlty ! Remember Manuel in Fawlty Towers ? Well that him !

- Maria

I love Fawlty Towers!!

When the wife was having our first thats all we watched, "There's too much butter on those trays!"

[steje73]

Mike:

IknowJack is really... I know nothing Mr. Fawlty ! Remember Manuel in Fawlty Towers ? Well that him !

- Maria

Who wants to be the first to slap him around the head?

[Dan Norder]

Initially I thought that as well, Dan, but Pope mentions the Hewitt theory in his second "book". Hewlett seems to be a completely different guy.

Well, Hewitt was offered as a suspect based upon the similarity of the sound of the name in a garbled story (and in fact the story itself was probably fabricated -- got to love Ripperology sometimes) so Hewlett was probably an early attempt to find a match. That'd be my guess anyway. But you never know where things come from sometimes.