Before I give you some background on the night I should explain to you Colleen, Katie, and my adventure getting to Tower Hill Tube station to meet for the tour. We were leaving from Regent campus. It should have been a simple tube ride, take the the Central line from Oxford Circus switch to the District or Circle line at Bank and the get off at Tower Hill. Well as we are stopped at one of the stops on the Central line where we wait for about 8 minutes. The announcer said there was a hold up on the line and never gave us an approximate wait time. After the 8 minutes we decided that we would switch to the Piccadilly line even though it was longer since we didn't know how long we would be waiting. We legitimately step off the tube and they announce that the tube will be departing and the doors shut. Just our luck right. So we still went to the Piccadilly line and we ended up taking 2 more tubes and making our trip at least 15 minutes longer. I guess we really like to ride the tube...
So back to Jack the Ripper. If you do not know the story behind him here is a basic overview. Jack the Ripper was a serial killer in London during 1888. He brutally murdered 5 women who were prostitutes. Each women was found with there throat slit open. The first two women were murdered within a month of each other. The women had appeared to have been raped and sliced open. The third and fourth women were killed on the same night. It is said that the he was interrupted during the first one of the night because she only had her throat slit open. The fourth one also had organs ripped out of her that were dispersed around her body. Each women so far except for the third one had their uterus stolen and the 4th had her kidney stolen. The fifth and final murder was the worst one. Mary Kelly was the name of the final girl. She was in her twenties while all others were in their forties. Mary Kelly was found murdered in her apartment. Her throat was slit open, her organs were hanging around the room. and parts of her skin had been ripped up, torn and pulled over her body. To this day the police do not know who Jack the Ripper actually was. There is a lot of speculation but nothing can be proven. Jack the Ripper got his name from a letter that was sent to a newspaper signed Jack the Ripper. It was later found that one of the paper writers had written the letter to add publicity to the story so the paper would sell more copies.
Our tour guide was great. He was very energetic and entertaining. He gave us a lot of inside detail to the Jack the Ripper case. It would take me way to long to write it all. He tried to scare us every now and then by emphasizing different parts of the story and making them more dramatic. It was really funny when I was in front of him and he tried to scare me because it was "my turn" and I was the only person to not jump. It was slightly a failed effort on his part but we all got a good laugh. My Twice Told Tales class last fall had given me some background to the Jack the Ripper story which I think helped to make the tour more interesting. Over all it was a fun night.
Cheers,
Allie
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| The start of our tour |
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| Original London Boarder |
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| Creative Hair Studio Name |
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