Jersey Devil.
so Somebodyisfromhere.com can't tell you why but he got into looking into the jersey devil tonight and decided the story hasnt been told right. first of all there are only like 4 pages of books on amazon. half are hockey. half are re-imagining for the modern era. and the other half ( just channelled yogi berra there) are crappy spooky halloween short stories.
Somebodyisfromhere.com thinks it needs to be done Jon Krakauer style. or if you will, like an early Deadwood style, or you know ,a rounding up of wyatt earp's posse type thing. Put all of that together with the paranoia that goes along with not being in the modern era (not having phones, tv, internet. a new less explored area/continent). Anyway here's Wiki:
January 1909, however, saw the most frenetic period of Devil sightings ever recorded. Thousands of people claimed to witness the Jersey Devil during the week of January 16–23. Newspapers nationwide followed the story and published eyewitness reports.
- 16th (Saturday) – The creature was sighted flying over Woodbury.
- 17th (Sunday) – In Bristol, Pennsylvania, several people saw the creature and tracks were found in the snow the following day.
- 18th (Monday) – Burlington was covered in strange tracks that seemed to defy logic; some were found in several other towns.
- 19th (Tuesday) – Nelson Evans and his wife, of Gloucester, allegedly saw the creature outside their window at 2:30 AM .
- Evans gave a descriptive account as follows: "It was about eight feet and a half high, with a head like a collie dog and a face like a horse. It had a long neck, wings about two feet long, and its back legs were like those of a crane, and it had horse's hooves. It walked on its back legs and held up two short front legs with paws on them. It didn't use the front legs at all while we were watching. My wife and I were scared, I tell you, but I managed to open the window and say, 'Shoo!' and it turned around, barked at me, and flew away."
- Two Gloucester hunters tracked the creature's perplexing trail for twenty miles. The trail appeared to "jump" fences and squeeze under eight-inch gaps. Similar trails were reported in several other towns.
- 20th (Wednesday) – In Haddonfield and Collingswood, posses were formed to find the devil. They supposedly watched the creature fly toward Moorestown, where it was later seen by at least two more people.
- 21st (Thursday) – The creature attacked a trolley car in Haddon Heights, but was chased off. Trolley cars in several other towns began to maintain armed guards, and several poultry farmers found their chickens dead. The devil was reported to collide with an electric rail in Clayton, but was not killed. A telegraph worker near Atlantic City claimed to have shot the devil, only to watch it limp into the woods. The creature apparently was not fazed as it continued the rampage through Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and West Collingswood, New Jersey (where it was supposedly hosed by the local fire department). The devil seemed poised to attack nearby people, who defensively threw any available objects at it. The creature suddenly flew away -- and reemerged in Camden to injure a dog, ripping a chunk of flesh from its cheek before the dog's owner drove it away. This was the first reported devil attack on a living creature.
- 22nd (Friday) – Last day of sightings. Many towns were panic stricken, with many businesses and schools closed in fear.
