"Dear Boss: A Fortean Investigation of Jack the Ripper" explores the culture of madness and paranoia that seized Whitechapel in the autumn of 1888. It is a murder mystery and a romantic horror story for three actors and thirty puppets, which tells of an imagined investigation of the Ripper Murders by the American chronicler of the Unexplained, Charles Fort?a famous researcher of such phenomena as spontaneous combustion, raining fish and frogs, ghosts and flying saucers?and his assistant, The Elephant Man.