Investigation Date:      26 November 2010

This was a great chance to go on the Jack the Ripper tour, right in the heart of Whitechapel, London. Normally there are around 30 to 40 people taking part, but this was exclusive to SouthWest London Paranormal. 
Jack the Ripper, a well known unidentifed serial killer.  All of the 5 victims which are pertained to him were killed between August 1888 to November 1888.  All of these killngs were in or around the Whitechapel district of London.  This is where we humbly went on our tour of his killings.

The team was met by Jenny, our tour guide for the night, outside Aldgate East Underground station.  The temperature that night was touching 0 (zero) degrees and the bitter chillness of the night was painstakingly clear as we walked the streets of this area.  Our quest for adventure and knowledge was surpassed by Jenny's enthusiasm and passion.

We walked the streets, heard the graffic details and saw the photographs of that era on 3 of the murdered victims:
*     Mary Ann Nichols     - body discovered in Buck's Row  (now Durward Street)
*     Annie Chapman        - body discovered in Hanbury Street, Spitalfields
*     Mary Jane Kelly       - body discovered in her room just of Dorset Street, Spitalfields 

It was so enthralling that after two hours of covering the places of these three victims, we had run out of time and were unable to travel on to the remaining two victims.  It was past midnight and the last tube home had to be caught.  We have all vowed to return again soon to finish this wonderous and intriguing tour.

Within our group we had three medium's.  We did not take any investigating equipment with us, and with the blessing of Jenny, our three medium's embarked upon this journey to express their thoughts and interpretation of the events of these unfortunate victims.

A big thank you goes out to Mac for organising this private tour for us.  And to Jenny our tour guide, who made it a very special night indeed.

Please read below the account of each medium.  These  reports are independent and written by the medium's with no collaboration between them.  Each report was submitted separately and then pasted on to this website without knowledge of what the other's had written.

JIM'S REPORT

My first feelings of the night came outside a restaurant which was once a pub, this is where the first victim was known to have visited.  The first thing I picked up on was the feeling of someone standing back watching us, through the eyes of someone else.  It was as though I wanted someone to hear my side of the story.

It was then that Jenny pointed in the direction which I had that feeling.  This was where Jack the Ripper's first victum Mary Nichols was discovered.  I felt that Jack the Ripper's first victum was an accident,  having got into a argument, he killed her, but he enjoyed it.

I believe Jack the Ripper was not only known to his victims, but well know to the people of the area.  I was picking up a man who did not have much of an education, acted stupid at times, but was cleverer than people thought.

I felt that Jack the Ripper, was as they say, a Jack of all trades.  He picked up many different sills and in all sorts of areas, the meat market being one.  He would not have stood out in a crowd and thought himself a bit of a ladies' man, but would not have been able to hold down a steady relationship, hence the need for prostitutes.

When we arrived at the area where Annie Chapman was found, I was drawn to a building opposite.  Jenny said this had been a church at the time of the murders, but I had a feeling it was more connected then we know.  There was a feeling of someone watching from this area and looking over to the building where Annie had been found.  I also felt that some evidence had been altered in some way.

On our way, we stopped outside the Six Bells pub, another place where one of the victims had been known to frequent.  I suddenly felt as though I had, had some teeth removed.  It was the feeling you receive after a visit to the dentist.  Kevin (one of the other mediums) told me he had the same feelings.  I asked Jenny, who said it could be to do with the match girls.  Back in those times women and children made matches, sulphur was added to the tip which became the head of the match, this was reknowned to give them mouth cancer, which in turn caused them to lose their teeth.

We then went to where Mary Jane Kelly had been found.  The only Jack the Ripper victim who had her own room in which she took her clients back to.  We were told she met an aristocratic looking gentleman in a bowler hat;  they talked and ended up back at her place.  Some hours later she was discovered.  Jack the Ripper was blamed for this murder, but I don't believe this to be true.

The gentleman was nothing more than just a client.  The killer was someone much closer, someone who loved her, and wanted her to stop what she was doing, but on the other hand knowing she needed the money.  He watched her throughout the night and it became too much for him, and when the client left he returned.  He lost his temper and got into a fight with her, breaking her neck.  Not knowing what to do, he then decided to try and make it look like Jack the Ripper had killed her, this covered up her broken neck and other distinguishing marks resulting from a good beating.

That, I am sorry to say was all we had time for, so we never managed to visit the sites of the other two victims.

Who was Jack the Ripper?  I guess we will never know for sure, I can say he was connected to the meat market, but did not work there full time.  He was well known, and there is a feeling that people covered for him.  I believe from what I have been told tonight that there was a big cover up about the murders.  It was not a member of royalty, but a common man who either put fear into people, or paid for silence.

KEVIN'S REPORT

The first murder (prior to Mary Ann Nichols)  that was not generally linked to Jack the Ripper was actually committed by the same man who did most of the other notorious murders associated with Jack the Ripper.  This is what started his ease at killing prostitutes.  It was an argument that resulted from not paying, or overcharging.  I feel that he wanted to pay, backstreet prices for a room service.

I also feel that he was a worker in the slaughterhouse, the first impression I got was when Jenny (our tour guide) mentioned the red herring apron that was found near the body of Annie Chapman.  It wasn't a red herring at all.  Not that particular one, but it was a clue.  It would also explain his very rough cutting and diagonal techniques.  Annie Chapman saw her own "gut" spill in front of her, hence that is why she died a few feet from the door.  She tried to make it away and to safety.

He was known and a local in the area.  All the girls knew him.

The chapel played a large part across the road from where Annie Chapman was found and where people felt ill.  I think he repented there and went there to atone for his sins thinking that he would be forgiven.  I personally didn't feel right standing outside the chapel and it made me feel ill.

The Mary Jane Kelly murder was not Jack the Ripper, but committed by George the onlooker, who wanted her or wanted to stay with her.  Seeing her with the higher class gentleman as a client made him angry.  This gentleman was purely a client and not the suspect at all.  Because of this, it made him attack her and with the heightened press of Jack the Ripper, he then made it look like a continuation of the other killings that had taken place.  But, it just wasn't the same person.

She was too young, didn't look like the others who all looked similar.  And Mary Jane Kelly was not left visible and put on show, which Jack the Ripper had done with all his other victims.  I think the reason for the other four murders was that, these women were his "type".  His mother was a prostitute that had abandoned him to continue a life of prostitution - which he didn't like.  She was in her 40's when she left, these victims reminded him of his mother.

The one thing that struck me all night long was, the police had a clue, and they had a better idea than they knew on who Jack the Ripper was.

The two other murders prior to Mary Jane Kelly was the time that Jack the Ripper was heard by other people and almost got caught, which is why he stopped.  He didn't commit any more after that night.  He was getting too close to being captured.

There was bakeries and forgeries within the letters sent to police and mail.  He never signed anything as Jack.  He didn't like the name, although he enjoyed the notoriety and fame.  I feel he was Jewish and not satanic or dark as people thought.  At the time of these murders in 1888 he would have been in his late 30's.  "Jack" was born in the winter of 1859 and died around the turn of the century.

He was a bastart child to a prostitute.

I feel he left the area soon after the double murder night.  He carried out the same work in a slaughterhouse in another part of London.

The strange thing was, there was nothing interactive on the walk we did, only time slips and replays, which I found a little strange although I do feel, at the right times activiity will be there.

TRACIE'S REPORT

I have been drawn to Whitechapel and the surrounding area since I was a kid, but had never been there to date.  My feelings long before visiting the place was that a horse and cart were involved, and not a horse and carriage like the ones seen in so many of the Ripper films.  The owner of the horse and cart had always had a "father-figurish" feel about him, he was either the father of one of the friends of the girls, or possibly the other girls felt comfortable enough with him to view him in that way.  A "kind" man, but the well known/father type feeling about him has always been very prevalent, and the cart itself being tied to butchering somehow.  I hadn't realised until our tour there'd been two slaughterhouses close by, but it was like hitting the nail on the head for me when I found out.

The other feeling I'd had over time was of a girl making whatever items she could to sell.  If one thing didn't work, she'd think of something else to try to make, all hand-made items, before ever going down the route of prostitution.  Jenny (our tour guide) confirmed that evening that one of the victims would sit knitting things to sell as well a making matches and other items.

One of the funny things that I'd had since getting off the train at Aldgate East, was a $ (dollar) sign flashing in front of my eyes, yet I didn't have an American feeling with it, and then later at one point, a line of rabbits!  I could not fathom what this was about at all and wondered if the rabbit image was trying to say that most of the area was "at it" during that time - until later in the evening when Jenny mentioned one of the roads use to be called Buck's Row.  That made me laugh and shows how "them up there are usually right", it's me down here and my own interpretation of what I'm getting that can go a bit skewiff ! :)

As a child, I remember asking my Mum what Jack the Ripper did.  Her response was short; he murdered prostitutes and took some of their body parts.  I grew up believing they were killed first before the parts were removed.

So it came as quite a shock to me, to pick up strongly on one of the women in particular, the feeling of utter horror and shock.  The feeling of drowning in my own blood while watching my own insides come into view of my very own eyes.  This left me feeling horrendously, physically sick and it took everything I had to not throw up in the kerb and it took a good five minutes after leaving the street for the gagging to subside.

It was also around this spot that I first heard "Sams" and "Mr Sams", which came across as some kind of nickname.  Be it for a person or a building, but I had that name quite frequently thereafter during the rest of the walkabout and that there was also a Jewish connection somehow.

It was at this point that I had to catch up with Jenny to ask if it rang any bells with her.  It was the only the name itself and also feelings I was getting attached to it, as opposed to images or anything else, but it wasn't going away.  Jenny pointed out that there was a strong Jewish connection at the time and the "Samuels" was a pretty common name around that time, so a person or place having the nickname "Sams/Mr Sams" could certainly have made sense, as would the Jewish connection I'd been feeling.

Later on we stopped outside some gates of what looked like an old cemetery and as can often happen with me, I started to pick up on something physically and acting certain things out without even realising I'm doing it at first.  It was an odd glance by one of the group that made me realise that I had been scratching continously at my right arm, between my fingers, the side of my face, but my arm more than anywhere.  I was scratching the whole time we were there.  So again, hearing Jenny later come out with the nickname "Itchy Park" explained that one for me and the itching thankfully stopped.

The last most "irritating" thing I got was on a road almost opposite, (I wish I'd taken note of the street names, but I had been focusing more on what I was picking up at the time) was my head feeling funny from temple to temple.  Like something "tight" running across it.  This later grew to a feeling of my head swimming and I could feel my face screwing up with the feeling of just wanting to brush the whole feeling away from my head.  On reflection it was quite heavily drunken looking behaviour, very irritable.  One minute there was a feminine feeling, the next a male, and I could not distinguish at that point whether the tight and "wanting it off" hat, and the drunkenness were two separate pick ups, or one and the same.

We didn't get to finish the tour due to last trains needing to be caught, but it is certainly an area I want to go back to, to confirm things for my own piece of mind more than anything, but an incredible evening overall.

Thanks to everyone involved and to Jenny in particular whose own knowledge of the area and her ability to immediately relate to questions asked and feelings confirmed were astounding.