[Greg]

That is really interesting. I’ve never heard of this before. This is very similar to the occurrences following the success and overwhelming controversy around Robert Louis Stevenson’s infamous novella, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde. The book came out causing people to be genuinely afraid of society in general and going out at night. And then shortly after, the Jack the Ripper murders started to occur only a couple of years after the book was published while the very first play version emerged where many people believed the man playing Hyde was indeed Jack the Ripper or even the devil because of his very effective and genuinely real performance. If some info can be found about it somewhere, I’m sure one can find the parallels.