{"id":658,"date":"2023-02-04T16:45:11","date_gmt":"2023-02-04T16:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/the-forgotten-monster-that-terrified-georgian-london-bbc-reel\/"},"modified":"2023-02-04T16:45:11","modified_gmt":"2023-02-04T16:45:11","slug":"the-forgotten-monster-that-terrified-georgian-london-bbc-reel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/the-forgotten-monster-that-terrified-georgian-london-bbc-reel\/","title":{"rendered":"The forgotten &#39;monster&#39; that terrified Georgian London \u2013 BBC REEL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/D7Q4V6eJKw0?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>A century before Jack the Ripper, a long-forgotten fiend haunted the streets of London. He became known as the &#8216;London Monster&#8217; and his modus operandi was to stalk well-to-do Georgian ladies.<\/p>\n<p>Hysteria gripped the city; sightings of a long-limbed \u2018monster\u2019 were reported on many a dimly-lit street corner. With the police seemingly outsmarted at every turn, it created one of the earliest examples of what would later become known as a \u2018moral panic\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Video by Jono Namara<br \/>\nExecutive Producers: Dan John &#038; Paul I. Harris<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to BBC Reel: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/bbcreel?sub_confirmation=1 <\/p>\n<p>More videos: https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/reel<\/p>\n<p>#bbc #bbcreel #bbcnews<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=D7Q4V6eJKw0\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A century before Jack the Ripper, a long-forgotten fiend haunted the streets of London. He became known as the &#8216;London Monster&#8217; and his modus operandi was to stalk well-to-do Georgian ladies. Hysteria gripped the city; sightings of a long-limbed \u2018monster\u2019 were reported on many a dimly-lit street corner. With the police seemingly outsmarted at every [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[15,17,16,18,19],"class_list":["post-658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psychology","tag-bbc","tag-bbcnews","tag-bbcreel","tag-factual","tag-features","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}