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Oct 8, 2020 41 min

1: Spring-heeled Jack & Charles Darwin

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In our pilot episode of Penance and Purgatory, Wesley tells us about the series of assaults committed by a "person" named Spring-heeled Jack. Abigail tells us about a hoax that involves Charles Darwin and a female evangelist. *Sorry about the audio, it definitely gets better. Email: [email protected] Follow us on Instagram and Twitter: @Penandpurgatory Darwins notes: https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letters/about-letters Sources: Grundhauser, Eric. “Meet Spring-Heeled Jack, the Leaping Devil That Terrorized Victorian England.” Atlas Obscura, Atlas Obscura, 19 Oct. 2018, www.atlasobscura.com/articles/meet-springheeled-jack-the-leaping-devil-that-terrorized-victorian-england. Lamoureux, Aimee. “Before Jack The Ripper Terrorized London, There Was Spring-Heeled Jack.” All That's Interesting, All That's Interesting, 17 Sept. 2019, allthatsinteresting.com/spring-heeled-jack. Nelson, January. “27 Facts About Spring-Heeled Jack, The Killer Who Could Be A Human Or Could Be A Creature.” Thought Catalog, 3 Sept. 2018, thoughtcatalog.com/january-nelson/2018/08/spring-heeled-jack/. All Things Considered. “The Internet's Cicada: A Mystery Without An Answer.” NPR, NPR, 5 Jan. 2014, www.npr.org/2014/01/05/259959632/the-internets-cicada-a-mystery-without-an-answer. Bassil, Matt. “Cicada 3301: the Coders Still Working on the Internet's Strangest Mystery.” The Face, The Face, 27 May 2020, theface.com/life/cicada-3301-the-codebreakers-still-working-on-the-internets-strangest-mystery. Cicada 3301. “Liber Primus.” Dropbox, www.dropbox.com/sh/lkta4q921vliyuw/AADmZ1YUHXWSjSizlMGZHXVMa?dl=0. “Cicada 3301: The Mysterious Puzzle Of The Internet.” Eyerys, Eyerys, 27 June 2018, www.eyerys.com/articles/timeline/cicada-3301-test. Hare, Kevin, and Pindar Van Arman. Computer Science Principles: the Foundational Concepts of Computer Science for AP Computer Science. 2020th ed., vol. 3, Yellow Dart Publishing, 2020. “Liber Primus.” Uncovering Cicada Wiki, uncovering-cicada.fandom.com/wiki/Liber_Primus.

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