Paranormal Investigator Magazine Issue I | Page 39

The Autumn of Terror
per tour, footsteps were heard from behind the
group, walking quicker and quicker, as they
walked into Mitre Square, as if trying to catch
up with someone. Many people when entering
the square has feelings of nausea, light- headedness, and feelings of dread. There also have
been many sightings of a female phantom laying
in the gutter, and wandering around the square.
The Ripper’s final documented victim was Mary
Kelly; she was murdered on the 9th of November
1888, in Room 13, Millers Court. Unlike all
the other victims, Mary was killed inside,
unfortunately this gave Jack more time with her
and she was horrifically mutilated to the point
that her corpse did not resemble a human form.
She was seen on many occasions the night of
her death with customers and even in the local
pub. But after 3:00 in the morning she was
not seen, or her singing heard from any of her
neighbors. She was discovered by the rent man
Thomas Bowyer about 10:45 am, he knocked
loudly several times on her door, thinking she
was hiding from him, in order to skip paying her
rent, he noticed a broken pane of glass in the
window. He pulled back the curtain to his shock;
he discovered the remains of Mary left on her
bed. He left to get his boss Mr McCarthy, who
immediately informed the police of their discovery.
Not long after the murder, residents often remarked that they had still heard Mary’s singing
coming from Room 13 and could see her face in
the window. Unfortunately Millers Court was demolished in 1928 to make way for Warehouses
and now a car park, due to the industrialization
of London, but her presence is still felt in the
area on many of the Jack the Ripper tours that
still run to this day.
More interestingly the police used a psychic for
the actual man hunt for Jack the Ripper, but
never made the information public until 1895.
A well-known psychic of the era, Robert Lees
claimed to have visions of the killings before
they occurred, and even described details that
only the killer or the police would know.
Initially he was met with scepticism by the po— 35 —