The Ghost of.....

[Rubyretro]

well, we're certainly not lacking limestone in Provence: the Pope's Palace is built of it. It's right next to the Rhone. The Camargue isn't lacking water either...infact I should think Arles must be built of limestone from the quarries at Les Baux, and that's on the edge of the Camargue....no ghosts though.

[Mayerling]

Druitt did not jump off Westminster Bridge - he drowned further downriver.

Jeff

[tnb]

Druitt did not jump off Westminster Bridge - he drowned further downriver.

Jeff

To be fair there is an 'urban myth' that 'Jack the Ripper' (clearly as Druitt) jumped off a bridge in central London, although it is usually stated to be Blackfriar's Bridge, rather than Westminster.

Where it comes from - being palpably false - I have never been able to figure out, although I reckon we might be looking at a 'chinese whispers' style tale coming from the ticket from Blackheath found in his pocket, and also perhaps the proximity of his chambers.

I have always felt that this myth was probably the 'inspiration' (debatable that there was any) behind 'Terror at London Bridge', which of course gave us a third bridge.

[Mayerling]

Maybe it is the ghost of the unfortunate John Openshaw, killed by the crewmembers of the barque Lone Star in 1887 after he went with his frightening problem to 221 B Baker Street in THE ADVENTURE OF THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS.

Jeff

[tnb]

Maybe it is the ghost of the unfortunate John Openshaw, killed by the crewmembers of the barque Lone Star in 1887 after he went with his frightening problem to 221 B Baker Street in THE ADVENTURE OF THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS.

Jeff

Thinking about it, I prefer that version Jeff!

[Uncle Jack]

Hi Addy,
I don't expect anyone to believe me at all but I do think that I have some sort of psychic ability (not on the scale of getting names and such like some) and I went on a walk around three of the five C5 sites (Nichols, Stride and Eddowes) and "felt" who I took to be JTR at the Nichols and Eddowes sites but not at Stride's. I definately felt that he was all around the murder sites and Whitechapel in general but at Henriques Street it was, pardon the pun, dead. I deffo got the impression he did not commit the Stride murder. The man who I took to be the Ripper continually masked himself.

[Robert]

I have an open mind about ghosts, which is more than the bloody ghosts have about me. The buggers don't believe in me at all. Never contacted me once. Not a dicky bird.

[Addy]

Hi Adam,

That must be eerie indeed. And interesting. Do you know of anyone else with this sort of experience?

Greetings,

Addy

[corey123]

Hello Adam,

Re-stride, do you think you got this feeling because perhaps JTR was ashamed of his failure there? Could he, if this were true, hide the fact from you?

[Beowulf]

Hi all,

I've read that Millers Court was believed to be hunted when MJK's house was still standing. And during some Ripper walks it is suggested that Mitre Square is hunted too.

It is claimed for a lot of murder sites that they are hunted (take Tower Green for one). Personally I believe it is people's imagination because they know what happened at those places and when you are out there at night it is an eerie thought I imagine if you remember what happened there all those years ago. No offence to people who do believe in ghosts by the way!

Greetings,

Addy

I don't know if I am allowed to put this in here, and I apologise for my discretion if I am not but I saw this on the web a while back and have wondered if the area had changed so much this was possible to have occurred at all.

http://crazyhorsesghost.hubpages.com/hub/Haunted-London

The Ghost Of Mary Jane Kelly

"I and my family lived in a apartment in White Chapel that actually contained the room of Mary Jane Kelly in fact the same room where Jack the Ripper murdered her November 9th 1888. The room that used to be her Apartment at the time of the Ripper Murders was downstairs in our apartment.

It is interesting to note that we had three cats in the Apartment in 1996 but all three cats refused to enter the room that was at one time the room of Mary Jane Kelly. We also from time to time would see the shape of a lady in the room that had been Mary Jane Kelly's that looked exactly like her.

On the stairs that led down into the room that had been the apartment of Mary Jane Kelly we would see a dark shape on the stairs in front of you that would appear suddenly out of no where and vanish just as quickly. Those stairs were not added until 1918 which was many years after the death of Mary Jane Kelly.

The cats we had in the apartment there in 1996 would go to the top step leading down into the former room of Mary Jean Kelly but they would go no further. The older mother cat would go to the top of the stairs and hiss at something down those stairs. But she would not go down those stairs.

At first when we moved into the apartment we had the downstairs room as a guest bedroom but who ever slept there would feel something jump on the bed with them and nothing would be there or something would jerk the covers off you while you lay there. Eventually we just turned it into a storage room. It was not until we had lived there two years until we learned the truth about the downstairs room and the Jack the Ripper murder that occurred there. "

[Robert]

Beowulf, this is impossible, unless the writer was living in the ghost of the room (as well as the room of the ghost)

http://forum.casebook.org/showthread.php?t=1755

[Beowulf]

Beowulf, this is impossible, unless the writer was living in the ghost of the room (as well as the room of the ghost)

http://forum.casebook.org/showthread.php?t=1755

Omg, that's pretty funny. I've wondered about that story for a long time.

Pretty interesting photos, though!

[DanaeChantel]

I don't know if I am allowed to put this in here, and I apologise for my discretion if I am not but I saw this on the web a while back and have wondered if the area had changed so much this was possible to have occurred at all.

http://crazyhorsesghost.hubpages.com/hub/Haunted-London

The Ghost Of Mary Jane Kelly

"I and my family lived in a apartment in White Chapel that actually contained the room of Mary Jane Kelly in fact the same room where Jack the Ripper murdered her November 9th 1888. The room that used to be her Apartment at the time of the Ripper Murders was downstairs in our apartment.

It is interesting to note that we had three cats in the Apartment in 1996 but all three cats refused to enter the room that was at one time the room of Mary Jane Kelly. We also from time to time would see the shape of a lady in the room that had been Mary Jane Kelly's that looked exactly like her.

On the stairs that led down into the room that had been the apartment of Mary Jane Kelly we would see a dark shape on the stairs in front of you that would appear suddenly out of no where and vanish just as quickly. Those stairs were not added until 1918 which was many years after the death of Mary Jane Kelly.

The cats we had in the apartment there in 1996 would go to the top step leading down into the former room of Mary Jean Kelly but they would go no further. The older mother cat would go to the top of the stairs and hiss at something down those stairs. But she would not go down those stairs.

At first when we moved into the apartment we had the downstairs room as a guest bedroom but who ever slept there would feel something jump on the bed with them and nothing would be there or something would jerk the covers off you while you lay there. Eventually we just turned it into a storage room. It was not until we had lived there two years until we learned the truth about the downstairs room and the Jack the Ripper murder that occurred there. "

First off, I find this rather confusing. The apartments where MJK resided, known as Millers Court, were torn down in the 1920's, so how could this person be living in the former apartment of MJK? A warehouse stands there now and not an apartment or apartment buildings. I would imagine that this story is false. No, as a matter of fact, it is absolutely false and impossible. The entire area was demolished in 1928.

[Beowulf]

First off, I find this rather confusing. The apartments where MJK resided, known as Millers Court, were torn down in the 1920's, so how could this person be living in the former apartment of MJK? A warehouse stands there now and not an apartment or apartment buildings. I would imagine that this story is false. No, as a matter of fact, it is absolutely false and impossible. The entire area was demolished in 1928.

Yes. I was surprised to find that out, and I had read that post over 2 years ago and for all this time imagined MJK floating around in that apt, wondering and wishing I could go there.

Then I saw those pictures of the demolition and then saw a picture of the area now and suddenly her ghost went pop!

The guy has to know it.

[Beowulf]

The entire area was demolished in 1928.

Is there any information on what happened from 1888 to 1928 in Miller's Court, though?

Did they rent it after this hideous murder took place?

That would be the time a ghostly manifestation could've occurred there. Just the idea of those dark shadowy streets and that archway leading into the court after such a thing creates such an image.

There is where the origin of the Jack the Ripper walks must've started. Surely people began to go to all those locations, even at the time of his activities. Absolutely intriguing with a little touch of danger, as he still lurked about.

Who would move into a place after that? Although I can readily believe someone would, with all the necessity for lodging in Whitechapel, and the need to continue to collect a sum for a place by the owner.