Spooky Isles lists One Eyed Jack among the paranormal tales of Manor Park, in the London Borough of Newham. The figure is a local bogeyman, an urban myth rather than a ghost.
He is described as having only one eye, and as living with a giant, scruffy dog in properties that are supposedly empty. According to the tale he sets the dog on innocent people in order to take their eyes for himself.
The entry does not say when the story was current, who tells it, or whether it is linked to a real person, and nothing further was found. It reads like a children's warning story of the kind told to keep children away from derelict buildings. It is included as a folklore record, with the settlement of Manor Park as the pin because the story names no street.
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