Paranormal Investigator Magazine Issue I | Page 37
The Autumn of Terror
if their souls still remain forever embedded in
the East End of London, trapped by their brutal
deaths.
More recently it has been suggested that one of
Jack the Ripper’s first victims could have been
Martha Tabram, killed on the 7th of August 1888.
I am not going to go into the details of each crime
but suffice to say her murder was remarkably
similar to the others, but with elements of a
fledging kill. Very little is written about whether
her spirit still remains at George Yard Buildings,
it has only been recently that Martha has been
added to Jack’s victims list.
The first documented kill of Jack the Ripper was
Mary Ann Nicholls, who was murdered on the
31st of August 1888. Mary’s body was found in
Bucks Row at 3:40 to 3:45 am by Charles Cross
and Robert Paul, they saw her body, and rushed
to tend to her, they were certain she was still
alive, but barely and rushed off to seek help. In
the meantime PC John Neil 97J stumbled upon
Mary. He summoned help and waited for the
doctor to arrive. Dr. Llewellyn arrived, and pronounced her dead, but only by a few minutes.
From this we can derive that even though many
Ripperologists suggest the women were dead
when the mutilations took place, in this case
poor Mary was not.
It has been reported in the area of where Bucks
Row once stood that the tormented screams of
Mary can still be heard, and a spectral headless
figure been seen, slumped on the ground. Psychics have also reported an eerie atmosphere
and feelings of being shaken and disturbed.
Bucks Row seems to have trapped the misery
of the murder and the sinister persona of Jack
the Ripper.
The second murder occurred just over a week
later on the 8th of September and the victim was
Annie Chapman. Her body was discovered just
before 6 am at 29 Hanbury Street by John Davis, again on his way to work. Unlike Mary, Annie was dead due to the horrific mutilations she
suffered and the vast slash to her throat, which
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