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Whitechapel, London. The famous or perhaps, infamous site where Jack the Ripper killed many of his victims is possibly haunted. I havent found anything on the web but i was in London approx. 8 months ago and heard people talking about ghostly apparitions around the victims sites. Does anyone know anything about this?

Not really but I can imagine there is probably some psychic energy there..I would think it would be more of a residual haunting than anything else if any.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-o9tj-xH1qU&feature=channel

I would watch or look up on the travel channel their paranormal investigation show . I thinhk its called hauntings. It was on thurrsday night at 10pm est

is whitechapel still in existance? i thought the district was destroyed during ww2 and rebuilt without even the same streets....but ofcoarse i could be mistaken.
~W~

True, it did take quite a hit. Nevertheless, I believe there are tours of these murder sites still taking place ..we'd hope to the actual locations. My question would be this:

Given the history of the district these crimes occurred in, is it necessarily logical to connect apparitions ..even those seen in the area.. to The Ripper, or is it just more satisfying to the imagination? Do we believe no one else was knifed or died of starvation in those very same streets and alleyways at the time?

It seems like a feeble leap to me, even if you believe in specters of this sort.

The White Chapel Distict still exists.... but not in the aspect of the Ripper's time.....

WW2 and modern times have revamped the areas or the murders and the other important locations.

Most of the area is now a Warehouse/Business district....

But "Ripper Tours" can still take you to all the locations and reveal the hidden histories that Architecture tries to hide.

as for Ghosts or any paranormal activity....

I'm not aware of any evidence towards that.....

But....

with the brutality of the murders, and the emotional trauma that was projected....

I wouldn't be surprised if something paranormal was left behind.

TAPS did an investigation in London during one season and went on a tour of the area.Grant got so freaked out during the tour he about got sick.The streets have different names but the "ghosts" still linger.

yes it was pretty much destroyed in ww2... but the things ive found so far dont point to any paranormal activity

I would believe this to be true, it is said that victims tend to haunt areas especially horrific deaths such as these were

I've seen paranormal investigators in those ares on programs with finding little or no evidence, but then again that doesn't mean it isn't happening.

I did'nt know that Whitechapel has hauntings, but I know that the house that the 5th victim was murdered is now a modern parking lot, the old church is still to this day around the corner from the parking lot.

I heard that the ghost of Annie Chapman haunts the spot where she was murdered.

She was found dead in the backyard by a lodger going to work at 6am in the morning with her throat cut. Her intestines were tossed over her shoulder with her uterus missing, and a leather apron was dumped next to her body.

There was a man arrested, who's nick name was leather apron, I think he was Polish. He had previous records of violence towards women in the past, but he denied the murders, and the police had no evidence to prove that he was the murderer, so they released him.

The murderer might of knew leather apron, and dumped a leather apron next to her body to frame him, so leather apron becomes the suspect or it could have been a coincidence, because surgeons and butchers used leather aprons, and how butchers are there in East London?

Anyways her ghost has supposed of been sighted in the morning of the aniversary of her death every year on the spot where she was murdered, bless her soul.

nothing has been proved, yet we would assume that ghosts of tormented souls would still be roaming the streets of what they knew. yet feelings of others could not explain presence or not.

I'd be surprised if Whitechapel isn't haunted. It was a very iffy part of London, there were hundreds of murders and horrible deaths there over the years. The ripper wasn't responsible for that many in the scheme of things.

Also saw the TAPS episode Darkwolfman spoke of, as well as a BBC documentary some time ago that listed the possibility of residual hauntings in the areas of the murders, but many murders have been commited in the area since the Ripper killings, so there is no certainty of who's who, and who's lurking about. Residual hauntings are described as a kind of space continuum imprint left over from the scene of a particularly horrific death-sort of a recording embedded in the fabric of time and space.

I see that many people have mentioned sites/shows where you can see the things you were interested in knowing. As a side story, one of the main suspects (I knew the name once, but can't for the life of me remember it now) is laid here, local to me, at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery. That site is supposedly haunted.

I'm laughing because of where I used to live.

I was in a similar area where the local folks talked up that kind of thing to the visitors to generate longer hotel stays and more business on the tours.

Think what you like.

Above post smacks it right on the head; tourism is the name of the show. How many hotels, bars, and estates are alledged to be haunted, offer tours, souvenirs, etc? And why would any self-respecting ghost want to linger eternally over the site of their demise?

The paranormal is a subject I am, like many others, interested in, but the facts are constantly opinionated and, in my humble opinion, over exaggerated. People are eager to believe in anything that helps them to momentarily escape themselves and their boring worlds.
Ghosts, UFO's, Big Foots, weird creatures...Certainly people are seeing SOMETHING, but, is it possible they're seeing nothing extraordinary, but rather ordinary, under extraordinary circumstances?

With all the trauma that area of London has endured, I don't see how it isn't haunted in some form.

Even though it was destroyed I would think that it wouldnt matter as the "ghosts" are still drawn to that location whether it was destroyed or not.

or some part of the soul remains after the rest moves on?

most ghosts seem either mindless, or partially insane...makes me wonder if there is a reason for that. they also seem very weak. they dont seem to be able to manifest often, and when they do, dont seem able to do much.
is it possible that they fear the living for some reason?
~W~

yeah but is TAPS really a credible source?

I personally believe Ripper planned to torture people even after death. In one african myth i heard if someone was killed and you removed a reproductive organ they couldnt move to the after life until they redeemed themselves

Most places are in fact not haunted, I cant say for sure of Whitechapel but in a vast majority of cases, real haunted places are closed off. I know this for fact. Alot of places just say its haunted and put up a tour for money to come in. Who doesn't want to come see a haunted place.

There are a few places I know of that are closed off due to haunting and it isnt advertised as haunted, they simply have a bunch of closed off, private property signs, ect... Many were closed off because they couldn't prove it wasn't haunted or someone was playing a prank.