{"id":109045,"date":"2021-01-21T14:16:53","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T14:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=109045"},"modified":"2021-01-21T14:16:53","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T14:16:53","slug":"was-bram-stokers-dracula-based-on-jack-the-ripper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/was-bram-stokers-dracula-based-on-jack-the-ripper\/","title":{"rendered":"Was Bram Stoker&apos;s Dracula based on Jack the Ripper?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Was Bram Stoker&#8217;s Dracula based on Jack the Ripper? Author claims new evidence shows horror writer used Whitechapel slayings suspect Francis Tumblety as source of inspiration<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Andy Struthers, 54, rubbished theories Dracula was based on Vlad the Impaler<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>He now believes Dracula to be based on convicted criminal Francis Tumblety\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Tumblety was known to have been in the Whitechapel area during the killings\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Count Dracula was inspired by one of the suspects believed to be Jack the Ripper, an author has claimed in a new book.<\/p>\n<p>Andy Struthers, 54, rubbishes conventional theories that Bram Stoker&#8217;s vampire was based on feared Romanian ruler Vlad the Impaler and has spent 10 years researching the character&#8217;s genesis.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Early research concluded it could be an Anglican priest from Devon named Sabine Baring-Gould.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But he now believes Dracula to be based on convicted criminal\u00a0Francis Tumblety, who some historians believe to be Jack the Ripper.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2021\/01\/21\/13\/38306098-9171965-Francis_Tumblety_was_known_to_have_been_in_the_Whitechapel_area_-a-10_1611236005921.jpg\" height=\"458\" width=\"306\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2021\/01\/21\/13\/38307686-9171965-image-m-9_1611236002755.jpg\" height=\"458\" width=\"306\"><\/p>\n<p>Francis\u00a0Tumblety (left) was known to have been in the Whitechapel area during the notorious spree of killings in 1888, nine years before Dracula was published. Right: Gary Oldman starring as Dracula in 1992<\/p>\n<h3>Why is Francis Tumblety a Jack the Ripper suspect?\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p>Authors\u00a0Paul Gainey and Stewart Evans suggested Francis Tumblety could be Jack the Ripper.<\/p>\n<p>In their book,\u00a0The Lodger &#8211; The Arrest and Escape of Jack the Ripper, they point to a letter written by a senior police officer naming Tumblety 25 years after the murders.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Inspector John Littlechild, who was head of Special Branch at Scotland Yard, wrote to the author and journalist George R. Sims identifying Tumblety as &#8216;a very likely&#8217; suspect.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Gainey and Mr Evans said: &#8216;Littlechild, one of the most highly ranked detectives at Scotland Yard at the time of the murders in 1888, stated that this man was &#8220;amongst the suspects&#8221; for the Whitechapel murders.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Tumblety was known to have been in the Whitechapel area during the notorious spree of killings in 1888, nine years before Stoker&#8217;s Gothic novel was published.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mr Struthers, from Newton-le-Willows, Merseyside, said: &#8216;In 1972 there was a book called In Search of Dracula, it was all to do with Vlad the Impaler.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I knew right away that the two people weren&#8217;t the same, and I&#8217;ve made it my life&#8217;s work to find out who the inspiration for Dracula was.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;What I&#8217;ve found during my ten years of research is that Dracula was based on Jack the Ripper, specifically the prime suspect &#8211; Francis Tumblety.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tumblety was born in Ireland to parents James and Margaret Tumuelty &#8211; whose name was spelled differently on their tombstones &#8211; alongside 10 brothers and sisters, and he immigrated to New York.<\/p>\n<p>He returned to London on many occasions and historical researchers Stewart Evans and Paul Gainey found evidence to point to him being the killer.<\/p>\n<p>They found that Tumblety had lived for a time at a boarding house in Whitechapel during the murderous rampage of Jack the Ripper.<\/p>\n<p>He was arrested on November 7, 1888, for unrelated crimes, and while released on bail Tumblety fled to France under a false name, before returning to the US.<\/p>\n<p>Although it was never proven that Tumblety was Jack the Ripper, Mr Struther believes he has found enough evidence to confidently claim he was the real-life inspiration behind Dracula.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2021\/01\/21\/13\/38306096-9171965-image-m-4_1611234922344.jpg\" height=\"723\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Andy Struthers, 54, (right) pictured with\u00a0John Eastwood, whose great-grandfather Frederick Alkin was the first man to play Dracula<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8216;It&#8217;s in Bram Stoker&#8217;s research papers, people haven&#8217;t looked at the papers in the right way so it&#8217;s never been seen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It even says the word &#8216;ripper&#8217; in his papers, researchers have read the word as &#8216;suckers&#8217; before.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I&#8217;ve put the claim to the Stoker estate &#8211; they have said they will look into it with an open mind.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Dracula is a true story. I know it sounds wild, but it&#8217;s based on the story of Jack the Ripper &#8211; as soon as you know that bit of information, it all makes sense.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>He has made the claims in his new book,\u00a0Dracula Incarnate: Unearthing the Definitive Dracula.<\/p>\n<h3>Who WAS Jack the Ripper? Main suspects behind grisly murders that haunted Whitechapel in Victorian London\u00a0\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p>Jack the Ripper is thought to have killed at least five young women in Whitechapel, East London, between September and November 1888, but was never caught.<\/p>\n<p>Numerous individuals have been accused of being the serial killer.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, police suspected the Ripper must have been a butcher, due to the way his victims were killed and the fact they were discovered near to the dockyards, where meat was brought into the city.<\/p>\n<p>There are several alleged links between the killer and royals. First is Sir William Gull, the royal physician. Many have accused him of helping get rid of the alleged prostitutes&#8217; bodies, while others claim he was the Ripper himself.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/newpix\/2018\/09\/16\/13\/000615D500000C1D-6173193-A_page_from_the_Illustrated_Police_News_page_covering_the_the_mu-m-14_1537099908464.jpg\" height=\"871\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>A page from the Illustrated Police News page covering the murders of Jack the Ripper<\/p>\n<p>A book has named Queen Victoria&#8217;s surgeon Sir John Williams as the infamous killer. He had a surgery in Whitechapel at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Another theory links the murders with Queen Victoria&#8217;s grandson, Prince Albert Victor, the Duke of Clarence.<\/p>\n<p>At one point, cotton merchant James Maybrick was the number one suspect, following the publication of some of his diary which appeared to suggest he was the killer.<\/p>\n<p>Some believe the diary to be a forgery, although no one has been able to suggest who forged it.<\/p>\n<p>Another suspect is Francis Tumblety, a convicted criminal in the area at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Tumblety was born in Ireland to parents James and Margaret Tumuelty &#8211; whose name was spelled differently on their tombstones &#8211; alongside 10 brothers and sisters, and he immigrated to New York.<\/p>\n<p>He returned to London on many occasions and historical researchers Stewart Evans and Paul Gainey found evidence to point to him being the killer.<\/p>\n<p>They found that Tumblety had lived for a time at a boarding house in Whitechapel during the murderous rampage of Jack the Ripper.<\/p>\n<p>He was arrested on November 7, 1888, for unrelated crimes, and while released on bail Tumblety fled to France under a false name, before returning to the US.<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Other suspects include Montague John Druitt, a Dorset-born barrister. He killed himself in the Thames seven weeks after the last murder.<\/p>\n<p>George Chapman, otherwise known as Severyn K\u0142osowski, is also a suspect after he poisoned three of his wives and was hanged in 1903.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2017\/08\/07\/12\/0002F29400000258-4767434-image-a-47_1502104406541.jpg\" height=\"476\" width=\"586\"><\/p>\n<p>Jack the Ripper is thought to have killed at least five young women in Whitechapel, East London, between September and November 1888<\/p>\n<p>Another suspected by police was Aaron Kosminski. He was admitted to Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum and died there.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Thomas Neill Cream poisoned four London prostitutes with strychnine and was hanged in 1892.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the more bizarre links include Lewis Carroll, author of the Alice in Wonderland books, who taught at Christ Church until 1881 &#8211; which was at the forefront of the Ripper murder scenery.<\/p>\n<p>Winston Churchill&#8217;s father &#8211; Lord Randolph Churchill &#8211; has also been named as a potential suspect.<\/p>\n<p>Crime writer Patricia Cornwell believes she has &#8216;cracked&#8217; the case by unearthing evidence that confirms Walter Sickert, an influential artist, as the prime suspect. Her theories have not been generally accepted.<\/p>\n<p>Author William J Perring raised the possibility that Jack the Ripper might actually be &#8216;Julia&#8217; &#8211; a Salvation Army soldier.<\/p>\n<p>In The Seduction Of Mary Kelly, his novel about the life and times of the final victim, he suggests Jack the Ripper was in fact a woman.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/newpix\/2018\/09\/16\/13\/504034CB00000578-6173193-image-a-21_1537100238784.jpg\" height=\"476\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Police discovering the body of one of Jack the Ripper&#8217;s victims, probably Catherine Eddowes<\/p>\n<p>In February 2019, it was suggested that\u00a0Jack the Ripper may have been a sinister Dutch sailor who murdered two ex-wives in his homeland and bludgeoned to death two other women in Belgium.<\/p>\n<p>Crime historian Dr Jan Bondeson has named Hendrik de Jong as a prime suspect for the most notorious set of unsolved murders in history.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of the Whitechapel murders, de Jong is believed to have worked as a steward on board a ship which made frequent trips from Rotterdam to London, providing him with the perfect means of getting out of the country after his heinous crimes.<\/p>\n<p>He later murdered two of his ex-wives in his native Netherlands in 1893 and bludgeoned to death two women above a pub before attempting to set their bodies on fire in Belgium in 1898.<\/p>\n<p><span>The victims:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Mary Ann Nichols was disembowled on Buck&#8217;s Row.<\/p>\n<p>Annie Chapman&#8217;s uterus was removed at 29 Hanbury St.<\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth Stride&#8217;s throat was cut at Duffield&#8217;s Yard, Berner St.<\/p>\n<p>Catherine Eddowes&#8217;s uterus and kidney were removed and her cheeks torn on Mitre Square.<\/p>\n<p>Mary Jane Kelly was completely mutilated and her heart was removed at 13 Miller&#8217;s Court.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9171965\/Was-Bram-Stokers-Dracula-based-Jack-Ripper.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was Bram Stoker&#8217;s Dracula based on Jack<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":109044,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23056],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Was Bram Stoker&amp;apos;s Dracula based on Jack the Ripper? 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