Further Reading For Horrors of the UK
The History Of Torture Through The Ages by George Ryley Scott
The Life and Ideas of the Marquis de Sade by Geoffrey Gorer
Nuremberg Diary by G. M. Gilbert
Heinrich Himmler by Peter Longerich
Kiss of the whip by Edwin J. Henri
Sexual Anomalies and Perversions by Magnus Hirschfeld
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Slippity slap! It’s an episode dedicated to the horrific urban legends of the United Kingdom. This episode focuses much too generally on the legend of Spring Heeled Jack, an utterly bizarre legend from 1800’s London about a man with a devilish appearance who terrorized locals with tricks, fire, and all-out assault before escaping by leaping away over walls and fences without so much as a single problem.
Also on deck is the story of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, The Moors Murderers, a truly horrific serial murder pair on par with the horrors visited upon England by Fred and Rose West. This awful pair kidnapped, tortured, raped, and murdered 5 children in the UK in the 1960’s. This pair deserves and will one day inevitably get their own full-length episode. Until then, we have to settle with this much too brief rundown on what is a truly terrible series of crimes.
Rounding out the episode is a series of strange legends from the trenches in France of World War 1. The Great War left a profoundly black mark on Europe as the constant shelling from German Artillery and the horrific up-close violence of trench to trench warfare burned the hell on earth chaos and inhumanity into the very souls of the men who fought. Naturally, the stress of constant battles and shelling and the ubiquitous specter of death led fragile minds to witness things beyond their understanding and spread word of mouth horrors about the things they saw on the battlefield that sometimes defied description.
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