There were many, many sightings and reports of this fellow. I have not made a copy of all of them when I did my research but I since I ended up making a page about him I suppose I shall have to dig those up for you. Give me some time or look somewhere else. Its out there.

Location. London England  Date: February 22 1838  Time: night     18-year old Jane Alsop was in her home on Bearhind Lane in the Bow district, when she heard rapping on the door. Answering the door, a black-cloaked man exclaimed, "I'm a police officer. For God's sake, bring me a light, for we have caught Spring Heeled Jack in the lane." Jane, who lived with her father and two sisters, went to fetch a light for the man. She returned with a candle and as she was handing the light to the man, it shone on his face and she noticed that it was Spring Heeled Jack. He immediately spat a blue and white "gas" into her face. She attempted to run back into the house but he held on tightly to the back of her hair. One of her sisters managed to pull her out of his grasps and drag her back into the house. Spring Heeled Jack continued banging on the door some time before hastily leaving. Jane described him as wearing a large helmet and a sort of tight-fitting costume that felt like oilskin. But the cape was just like the ones worn by the police officers. His hands were as cold as ice and like powerful claws. The most frightening thing about him was his eyes, which shone like balls of fire. Source: Spring Heeled Jack London England See the next story too.

Location. London England  Date: February 23 1838  Time: night   The following day on Turner Street near Commercial Road a strange figure knocked on the resident's door. When a servant boy answered the door, the figure asked to speak to the master of the house, Mr. Ashworth. The boy turned to call Mr. Ashworth when he noticed, out of the corner of his eye, that the visitor was none other than Spring Heeled Jack. With glowing orange eyes and clawed hands, Spring Heeled Jack waved his fist at the boy and leapt over the houses on Commercial Road. The lad noticed that under his cloak, an embroidered letter "W" on his shirt.
Source: Spring Heeled Jack, London England  This is an insane human. He is from a family of circus folk who were billed as varying oddities. He has never been in a hospital for his condition. The gaseous powder he blew on people was a magician's trickery kind of thing. It can be a distraction to those affected. Schizophrenics for instance have tremendous physical and other abilities due to the power some of them wield through belief and will.

Location. Provincetown Cape Cod Massachusetts  Date: Fall 1938  Time: night      Area residents reported a mysterious attacker described as being more than seven-foot tall with fierce looking eyes and pointed ears. He supposedly would breath blue flames into victim's faces and had incredible leaping abilities. One farmer reported that the weird being jumped an eight-foot high fence in one leap. Source: Jerome Clark, The Unexplained Spring-heeled Jack ~ Comes to America. He did not have pointy ears. Fear is the reason for the mistake there. Check the dates from England. This fellow is a family relation of the original Spring-heeled Jack.

Location. O'Donnell Heights, Maryland  Date: Fall 1938   Time: unknown
Residents complained to police that a tall, thin prowler dressed in black was terrorizing them. He eluded capture by police. Witnesses swore that he possessed extraordinary leaping abilities. "He ran and jumped like a gazelle." Another witness who got a good look at his face described it as "horrible." Source: Jerome Clark, Unexplained! The new Spring-heeled jack ~ Both are on East Coast and between New York which is where immigrants would come to first.

Location. Provincetown, Cape Cod, Massachusetts  Date: middle of November 1938  Time: night
Charles Farley's dog cornered a creature in the yard. Farley went out, shotgun in hand, and was confronted by a tall black monster with what looked like long silver ears. Thinking it was some kind of wild animal he shot at it. But it didn't react like any wild animal; the thing just laughed and vaulted over the 8-foot fence and out of Farley's yard. Around the same time a local boy was coming home from the library when a tall black figure jumped out at him from nowhere and "spit blue flames into his face."
Source: Joseph A Citro, Passing Strange. Third sighing of the new Spring-heeled Jack

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