Between April 1888 and February 1891 a series of horrific murders took place in the Whitechapel district of London. Eleven women were murdered in total, many horribly mutilated. Their killer (or at least the killer of the first five) none other than the infamous Jack the Ripper. Jack was then as he is now a near legendary figure – an un-catchable, demonic figure, stalking the fog filled alleys of Olde London Town in search of victims. Theories about the Ripper’s motives and identity still abound, but some seem rather more fantastic, or far-fetched than others. Here then are a few of the most unusual theories put forward about just who Jack the Ripper may really have been.