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The Jersey Devil, Myth or Fact???

  Author: 938  Category:(Mysterious) Created:(10/13/1999 5:39:00 PM)
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If you ever get the opportunity to witness first hand a New Jersey Fall day, with the leaves changing from green to bright reds, yellows and oranges, you are truely blessed. I love the Fall, and usually take drives out to see the spectacular sight. My favorite place to visit is South Jersey. There's a section of New Jersey called the Pineland, a wooded area which is predominately pines and sandy earth. This area is infamous for its own legend the Jersey Devil. The story dates back to the late 1800s, a poor woman with 12 children lived in a barren section of the Pinelands. She was nine months pregnant, and about to give birth to number 13. Since there were no doctors around, a midwife was called in. It was late at night and the woman was having a terrible time with the birth. In her fit of pain, she yelled out to the devil "curse this child for all his pain". At that moment, she gave birth to a hideous monster, the child had a head shaped like a horse, long and elongated, with a portruding nose. Instead of arms, there were two nob like stumps with flaps of skin drooping down, resembling wings. The legs were shaped like legs from a horse and there were no toes. The creature had a tail, a long tail. The creature let out a non-human howl and flew up the chimmeny. And hasn't been sighted again. But the howlling still exist to this day. As I was stopping on the side of the road to take in the beauty, the sun was just about at dusk. It was a quiet evening, and not a soul was around. I closed my eyes and took in my surroundings, I heard a sound, a sound I have never heard in my life, a deep growling howl. It sounded nothing like a human, but again nothing like a canine. A howl that I wouldn't know exactly what animal class to place it in. Goosebumps appeared on my arm, it didn't sound very close but it wasn't too far from me. I felt a presence that something else was there with me, watching me from afar. I slowly got back into my car and locked the doors, and vowed never to drive alone in these parts.

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Date: 10/14/1999 5:48:00 AM  From Authorid: 1036    How could anything live that long??? I believe you about hearing the sound, but what it was who knows??
Date: 10/14/1999 10:16:00 AM  From Authorid: 177    THIS TOOK PLACE IN NEW JOISY!!!???...But seriously...I've read about the Jersey Devil before and regardless of how much of it can be taken literally as truth, and how much of it is legend, it's a fine story.  
Date: 10/14/1999 1:10:00 PM  From Authorid: 870    I dont know that much about the Jersy Devil but what you could have heard might havew been a Bigfoot or somthing like that I believe that the bigfoot is a inter-demensional creature so who's to say that there aren't diffrent kinds of them. Was there any strange smell or anything like that? that you can remember I would really like to hear more about this Jersy Devil  
Date: 10/14/1999 1:11:00 PM  From Authorid: 177    Our world a strange place, indeed would be, if no monsters there did dwell.TC  
Date: 10/14/1999 1:16:00 PM    No matter what it is Jersey Devil, Bigfoot, Loch Ness Kill all of them for proof!!!!!!!!!
Date: 10/14/1999 1:25:00 PM  From Authorid: 177    Greetings to a fellow inter-dimensionalist --#4! Looks like you've been reading the same books as me. I think it is a more "metaphysically correct" solution to the questions surrounding " sightings of bizarre anomalies".  
Date: 10/14/1999 1:33:00 PM  From Authorid: 177    A great book on this type of phenomena is John Keel's THE MOTHMAN PROPHESIES.  
Date: 10/14/1999 4:17:00 PM    short sentences. needed much more description for feel of this experience.
Date: 10/15/1999 11:00:00 AM  From Authorid: 1055    There are many species that scientists haven't
classified yet. What you heard might be one of
them. It might be a bunch of teenagers. And it
really might be the Jersy Devil. Who is to say.
If it is the Jersy Devil, it could easily be kept
alive by the devil himself.
  
Date: 10/15/1999 1:02:00 PM  From Authorid: 830    that growling you heard was a dog.probably a german shepard.. dallas  
Date: 10/15/1999 1:03:00 PM  From Authorid: 830    i mean coyote  
Date: 10/16/1999 10:13:00 AM  From Authorid: 1091    I likes your story but I thought the Jersey Devil was some playful little fable about a little elf that went around in Basketball players' locker rooms spraying their shaving cream and sticking toilet paper all over their basketball Jersies! LOL
Date: 10/17/1999 8:24:00 PM    Don't you think that because of horror media images, it may have possibly been a dog growling and because you have seen sooooo many horror movies, imagined it was the Jersey Devil? This imagined creature from the alleged growl then transformed itself in your vivid imagination as a belief.
Don't worry---people believe a lot of things that aren't tangible, such as God, Satan, Santa Claus...
Date: 10/18/1999 9:55:00 AM  From Authorid: 1055    God is tangible.  
Date: 3/4/2000 12:13:00 PM    I know that the Jersey Devil is a Fact for i have came in close encounters with him. Five years from today i came face to face with that horrible beast you know as the Jersey Devil. I was walking throught the Pine Barrens that night while i heard noises in the brush. I did'nt think anything of it for i have been threw there many times and have heard te deer and animals running through those parts. Then all of the sudden a giant, hideous creature runs out from the brush and starts chasing me I kept running and running and running at least for a mile and slowly i ran out of strength to move on. i was caught this evil monster had had me and there was nothing left for me to do.And thats why if you see me today walking along threw the woods you will see that I came in contact with something for across my face is the slit that the Jersey Devil left me with.
Date: 3/13/2000 9:11:00 AM    I have been chased by many things in my life. I thought these things to be monsters at the moment it happened, but they were just geese. Many birds act the same way when something gets to clost to the nest. The Jersy Devil has been considered to look like large bird, And I think that it is. Sand Hill Cranes lived in the area of Southern Jersey and are about 4' high and have n 80" wingspand. They keep to themselves, but if someone were to get to close to them they would chase the person like goose would. The crane has many features that would cause it to look like the jersey devil's decription to a certain degree. A large bird defending itself could look like the Jersey Devil.
Date: 4/19/2000 10:04:00 AM    You can't believe everything you read, even if it does sound like it is realistic.
Date: 4/19/2000 10:04:00 AM    You can't believe everything you read, even if it does sound like it is realistic.
Date: 5/24/2000 1:59:00 PM  From Authorid: 8830    I lived in New Jersey. Thanks for the info. DQ  
Date: 5/25/2000 12:10:00 AM  From Authorid: 8090    I was born in New Jersey and never heard about the Jersey Devil. I saw a movie about it though.
I think it's just a legend. Dumblonde
  
Date: 5/27/2000 6:10:00 PM    I go to the pinelands for a feild trip every year!
Because i live in New Jersey! Its a prettyb place and i heard lots of legends.
~Danielle~
Date: 6/7/2000 11:57:00 PM    What you didn't tell everyone....are the fact's...what about all the disapearences in the pine barron's? what about all the blood in the snow, with no bodies to be found...and when they did find some bodies, how do u explain the jagged tear park's left on the body? what about the missing body parts?
Date: 6/27/2000 11:30:00 AM    no coments
Date: 7/20/2000 9:45:00 AM    I am a fan of all myths and legends , and I hope to one make them to true by discovering the jersy devil if it lets me . They call the Wolf. I live in ohio thank you
Date: 8/31/2000 8:17:00 PM    that sounds weird i never heard of the jersy devil till 2 weeks ago on a trail ride in californa talking about the blair witch movie i was told that it was based on the jersy devil but was changed to bliar witch i was born in jersy and never herd of the jersy devil and the girl said that jd is right out side newwork is it true
Date: 9/23/2000 9:11:00 AM    the blair witch was influenced by a movie called the last broadcast, about the jersey devil in the documentary style. it was made before blair witch and is better.
Date: 9/23/2000 1:01:00 PM    I live in England and realy want to see the Jersey Devil.
Date: 10/7/2000 11:33:00 AM    That was a pretty good story. I live in southern
Jersey and it looks they way you discribed it. My
aunt lives right around the house of the Jersey
Devil and one night she saw a figure rush past the
house and the creature made a weird sound, similair
to the one you discribed. He is real because I
have seen him numerous times.
Date: 10/24/2000 7:43:00 PM    hey i have just seen a show on this devil and im very interested im 18 yrs of age and in the show this girl did come close to this thing and i want to know what happend and if there are any pictures of this creature or is it just hear say - romeobla428
Date: 10/24/2000 8:02:00 PM    If you have read the bible it says that there are demons on Earth and in my beliefs as a christian I believe that this is one of them
Date: 10/25/2000 10:35:00 AM    I SAW THIS SHOW ON T.V. ABOUT THE DEVIL.FROM WHAT I SAW THERE IS SOMETHING THERE.6 TEENAGERS AND THE A MAN WHOM IS A DECENDENT OF THIS CREATURE AS SHE GAVE BIRTH THE MOTHER SAID IF THIS CHILD IS DEFORMED LET THE DEVIL HAVE HIM. THE TEAM LEADER FOR THIS EXPICDITION WAS A YOUNG LADY NAMED LAURA. SHE HAS VIDEO TAPE OF WHAT THEY ALL SAW THAT NIGHT.FROM THE CAMREA MANS VIEW YOU COULD SEE EYES LOOKING AT THEM.SOUNDS OF A WOLF GROWLING AT THEM.THEN CHARGED THEM.BEFORE THEY GOT THERE THEY FOUND THE REMAINS OF WHAT LOOKED LIKE DEER BONES. THIS MAN WHOM IS DISTANT RELATIVE OF THIS CREATURE ALSO THE TEAM WHERE THIS CREATURE WAS BORN THE HOUSE IS ROTTED AWAY BUT THE FOUNDATION AND THE CHIMNEYARE STILL INTACT THEY SAID THIS CREATURE HAS BEENTHERE FOR 250 YEARS SO IF YOU GO THERE.JUST REMEMBER IT KNOWS THE LAND. YOU CAN HAVE A MAP BUT IT IS VERY SMART.EXECELLENT NIGHT VISION.JUST BE OUT BEFORE NIGHT FALL.YOU CAN SEE MORE OF THIS SHOW ON FOX FAMILY CHANNEL.
Date: 10/25/2000 1:05:00 PM    I believe every word that was said
Date: 10/25/2000 1:09:00 PM    this is one very interesting story on the Jersy Devil. Unfortunetly I would have to see it to believe it.
Date: 10/25/2000 1:11:00 PM    I saaw the TV show too.
Date: 10/25/2000 4:51:00 PM    The network could have set that up for the show. That chick was all big and bad to go out there now she doesn't wan to talk... ;(
Date: 10/25/2000 9:37:00 PM    You people forget one thing, the T.V. show was on the FOX network. I live in NE Penn. and have been to the barrens many times(about 40) with out incident.
P.S. There are people who live deep in the barrens and they are strange enough!
Date: 10/28/2000 8:43:00 AM    I completely beleive you for My friends and I believe strongly that we saw it at a sleep over.
Date: 10/28/2000 8:50:00 AM    I am friends with the last believer and this sleep over was at my house. This monster trew a trash can (that was at least 10 feet away from my house) and cracked my basement window.
Date: 11/16/2000 1:37:00 PM    I think the jersey devil is so real.
Date: 11/16/2000 1:41:00 PM    I think the jersey devil is so real.I saw moves on the jersey devil.from jonathan shirk
Date: 11/16/2000 1:47:00 PM    Perhaps the Pine Barens are well populated with AMANITA MUSCARIAS. Know what I mean? *AMRAK*
Date: 11/19/2000 10:40:00 AM    I personaly liked the story I enjoyed it.
Date: 11/30/2000 4:01:00 PM    I totally belive this story and I hope to have a experiance snd i'm going there to do so.
Date: 12/7/2000 7:16:00 PM    Im sorry but i think the Jersy Devil is the biggest crock ive ever heard, for all we know it could of been some pshyco pretending to be Batman, thats might of been what people have seen, newayz I wont believe in stuff like this till I see it. I mean i dont think there is any possibility of a man with wings and horns, but i do like the story
Date: 12/30/2000 5:33:00 PM    Short, yet suspenseful
Date: 12/31/2000 7:38:00 AM    Do you know if it could have been some sort of animal? I think I will research the animals in the Pineland area. I will definitly tell you if I fund anything.
Date: 1/2/2001 5:08:00 AM    I have a keen interest in the Jersey Devil, and I am always wanting to learn more about it! If you have any information on the legend, please e-mail me, whether the info may be fact or fiction. I'll decide that for myself! My name is Sarah and my e-mail is sarah_smiles_2003@hotmail.com
Date: 1/5/2001 8:09:00 AM    Great story! I belive it
Date: 1/6/2001 9:38:00 AM    HOW CAN PEOPLE BELIVE IN THAT!!!! IT IS JUST LIKE THE LOCH NESS MONSTER. THEY THINK THEY SEE IT. I DONT KNOW ABOUT YOU BUT I DONT BELIVE INTILL I SEE IT. AND GOD IS NOT A MIYTH. BESIDES HOW CAN THE JERSY DEVIL LIVE THAT LONG? ITS IN POSSIBLE.
Date: 1/6/2001 9:46:00 AM    THE JERSY DEVIL IS JUST A MYTH LIKE THE OTHER STUFF LIKE BIGFOOT THERE IS NO PRUFF.
Date: 1/7/2001 3:03:00 PM    my friend told me about the story she saw on tv about the jersy devil and told me to look it up on the computer for her. I strongly belive in spirits and stuff like that. I guess i´ve been watching to much unsolved mysteries. I will go check it out some time. THANKS FOR THE INFO!!!!!!
Date: 1/9/2001 12:47:00 PM  From Authorid: 24176    i think there should be more info.
Date: 1/10/2001 5:00:00 PM    i belive in the jersy devil because i seen a show on fox family called "worlds scariest places" or sumthing like that but they had 6 people in the area where the jersy devil was supposed to be. first they found bones of animals all over the ground in the one area.then they walk down a dirt lane and they heard a strange growl and its nothing like a dog or anything of that nature. so they walked down the road a bit and they pointed there flashlights in front of them and seen a pair of red eyes the eyes seemed to get closer and closer after that something started caseing them they got away but one of the girls never talk about what she saw that day because of fear
Date: 1/11/2001 1:03:00 PM    you need to put more on the jersey devil so i can have more information thank you
Date: 1/14/2001 10:46:00 AM    why do people have this instinct to search out what they can't explaine? If the Jersey devil is real why go kill your self trying to find it.
Date: 1/14/2001 10:55:00 AM  From Authorid: 15621    A mountain lion perhaps?  
Date: 1/18/2001 5:49:00 PM    I Truley Belive what you ARe saying is True and I Dont think It is Fake! I dont No I think It Just Changed My Life just something In Side is telling Me Its true !!!
Date: 1/19/2001 12:05:00 PM    I feel this is a good STORY. I do believe in the myths of the culture of one's self. I have a story that would give you chills up your very spine. To see what I see, to hear what I hear, is just likepulling out a gun on yourself. email me at goober_71@hotmail.com to hear these stories..thank you!
Date: 2/8/2001 8:06:00 PM    my father in law is from southern new jersey he would ride dirt bikes on some trails in and around the pinelands.one night he stayed a little later than usual it was getting dark ,he wrecked and was starting to get back on his bike when he looked over his shoulder he saw the jersey devil looking at him .he told me it was around 5 or 6 feet tall with a kinda short tail it barely touched the ground and he had wings on his back .he rode off and never has been back since.he would not let his kids outside after dark for a couple of months.that was in the mid 70s.he told me that was when alot of hype was around about the jersey devil.he said he has not heard of anything in the papers reguarding the jersey devil since the early 80s.he heard in 81 or 82 the jersey devil was killed by the people that live in the barrens .i don't know what to believe?
Date: 2/12/2001 8:45:00 AM    yeah i ve heard a lot of stories like it & i sure believe it
ashwyn .s .warrier
india
Date: 2/16/2001 8:01:00 PM    i think that the jersey devil is a cemical dna, that was created next to a cemical factory.i live in new jersey, like 10 miles away from the pinebarrens,and one day wen i was 5 years old i saw something flyng in the the trees, but i tough it was a bird or something, but sudenly it startet to howl realy loud, i got scarded and stared to run to my dad, because he was standing right there in th car, we went camping and we were about to go. then my sister went to make a biography on the jersey devil, and she said it was darck at night and she went out to smoke a cigaret, and sudenly saw something scratchin in a tree, but she tough it was a bear, but she saw a long tail,large wings, and a head with big horns, she went runing to get her camera but it left, and minutes later she herd a laoud howling, and she taped it, and wen i herd it, it was the same noise i herd 19 years back in the pinebarrens.
Date: 12/9/2001 4:28:00 PM  From Authorid: 16376    I don't know whether to believe in it or not....  
Date: 7/10/2002 2:14:00 AM  From Authorid: 35160    i always wondered what the jersey devil was, i dont know if it is real or not, but u just never know. 8^) huggs shay  
Date: 8/10/2002 11:45:00 AM  From Authorid: 61550    I think that the New Jersey Devil is as you or me!

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