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Belief

A menacing helmeted and cloaked figure leaps above a low wall, with tiny red eyes and a pale flame at his mouth; a stylised interpretation of claimed Spring-Heeled Jack lore, combining reported appearance with legendary leaping rather than reconstructing a verified event

The Leaping Terror of London

A cloaked stranger attacked Jane Alsop in 1838, deepening a mystery of blue flames, monstrous leaps and an aristocrat accused of being Spring-Heeled Jack.

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A stylised dried Enjuin-type ningyo with small pointed teeth, both hands raised beside its face and a curled fish body in a shadowed storage box; an editorial interpretation of a manufactured artefact, with sculpted rib-like folds rather than an exposed human skeleton

Case file 037The Unexplained

Mystery of the Enjuin Mermaid

A Japanese temple’s mermaid mummy was said to have been caught in the eighteenth century, until scientific tests exposed the secret behind its uncanny body.

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Belief

The Leaping Terror of London

Mystery of the Enjuin Mermaid

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