Rambling about Eyeless Jack.
It's been a long time since I read the story itself, so there are details I've forgotten, mostly headcanons i guess.
Perhaps, after Jack's death, it was his soul that became the man-eating monster, while his physical body remained as a corpse in the sacrifice area. At some point, someone must have noticed that he was missing, perhaps a family member, perhaps his teachers. I feel that he was someone with few or no friends. Personally, I like to believe that it was his roommate, who called Jack's mother from the number he had written down in his address book, and she was the one who reported him missing.
After finding the corpse, without eyes, with a grimace of pain and perhaps somewhat decomposed, his mother or someone else would have been called to identify the body. Jack would have been one of those people with little family:a mother, a deceased or absent father, and an older brother, nothing more. His mother had him when she was already quite old, very old, and he is about 18 years younger than his brother. She died some time after Jack, and his brother wouldn't bother to visit the graves, so Jack brings flowers to his mother's and himself grave when he remembers. Both graves look abandoned, they are dirty and broken, and the names are illegible, but somehow they always have flowers.
