The From Hell letter was a letter sent with half of a preserved human kidney to George Lusk, the chairman of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee, in October 1888.
  • 83 points ProfessorOfPancakes

    "From hell

    Mr Lusk, Sor I send you half the Kidne I took from one women prasarved it for you tother piece I fried and ate it was very nise. I may send you the bloody knif that took it out if you only wate a whil longer signed

    Catch me when you can Mishter Lusk"

    Well, there goes the theory that Jack the Ripper was highly educated

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    53 points bruceadelia

    eh. You can analyze it in a lot of ways. For example, how did he misspell Knife but still get the silent K? Could be trying to come off as stupid. Or it’s not the ripper at all

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    4 points ProjectStunning9209

    I read it in the voice of a drunk Sean Connery .

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    18 points Crepuscular_Animal

    there goes the theory that Jack yhe Ripper was highly educated

    Could be an educated person pretending. Could be a pranker who wasn't the Ripper at all.

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    6 points donttrustthellamas

    I like to think people don't just get their hands on human kidneys for pranks

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    11 points Crepuscular_Animal

    A Victorian medical student could do that, I think.

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    6 points donttrustthellamas

    Very true. The Victorian version of "it's just a prank, bro'

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    2 points SlipHelpful6181

    Not kidneys with matching sizes and rare conditions

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    5 points Dawnawaken92

    I dunno you can still know how to burter livestock and be good at it. Without knowing how to read. But that's just my 2 cents

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    14 points ProfessorOfPancakes

    The "highly educated" claim refers to people thinking he was a physician. Nobody in Victorian England would consider a butcher to be educated, regardless of the skill required to do the job

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    6 points donttrustthellamas

    It reads like someone pretending to only be able to spell phonetically.

    tother

    And based on that, they tried to imply a Yorkshire accent.

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    2 points Uhmitsme123

    Borat voice “very nise!”

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  • 11 points Puzzleheaded_Egg3404

    etrange

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    6 points snowymelon594

    etrange

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    6 points CorkFoot

    etrange

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