I grew up in southern NJ. When I was little, if you stayed out after dark, the elders would tell you to get indoors or the Jersey Devil would get you. Awhile ago, I heard that a State Trooper says he saw it.

We all love to believe in town legends. I’m a lifelong Jersey resident. I love this shit. We go out to the pine barons every summer to swim. There’s a beautiful man made lake out there. The blue hole. The water it’s tropical looking.

I lived less than a half a mile from the Jersey Devil house for 12 years and heard those ungodly screams all the time. They were foxes. A fox screams to communicate with other foxes. It's called a vixen scream.

I have seen this episode many times and it never gets old. 👍👍

Cool stories love legends and myths regardless if they are real or not they're interesting

As a Jersey boy born and raised, you know never to want to encounter the Jersey Devil and you DON’T EVER touch the Devil’s Tree.

In a small town in Mexico called Sabinas. There was always a tale about a big bird that had fallen from the sky with shinny skin. It was put in a box and locked away for years. It was in the 1940s. In 2015 the mayor had the box opened and it was a military weather ballon. Lol

I heard two accounts of eye witness of the Devil. I'd be pleased to share.

This could be the very reason why they don't want to make pot legal😮😮😮😮😮

There's a huge horned owl. The scream could have been a screech and they mentioned that it hopped. Owls do that.

The Jersey Devil? I compromised. I ate grilled cheese off the rattiatuh (radiator.)

Really cool shots of popular places

This is crazy love it!

First time seen this story .. it’s funny how we call out bs or crazy people but when you unexpectedly experience crazy unbelievable things like this 😮I’ve learned you just can’t make people believe till it happens to them like it did too me 🤷🏻‍♀️.. what I captured in a picture wow no explanation not the devil but a beautiful 😇 .. no orbs or shadows but a full body well defined silhouette 🤷🏻‍♀️ I know I know I was that person who laughed and called it bs …till don’t know why me but it did indeed happen to me ..

It's a giant carnivorous hammerhead bat, presumably prehistoric species that never died out.

friggin purdy lol

Pt. Pleasant ,WV has the Mothman! NJ has the Jersey Devil ! Anything is possible! 🤔🤔🤔

I remember I was in the woods in New Jersey driving along the dirt road on my motorcycle then I'll send the only thing I can get on my radio was Nickelback , then I saw in on the road.

It is not bull. Far from it. You spend a night there. I did. I had a loaded gun, and I was still scared of that thing.

Ive seen it from about 60ft away..

As a Jersey kid in the early 70s we were shown a black and white movie in school. It was called Mother Leeds' 13th Child, made probably in the early 60s, and it scared the living shit out of us. I was terrified of it growing up. As an adult I got a copy of the book Weird NJ. I read the section on the Jersey Devil and about sightings in the late 80s, and how police actually shot at it in 1909. That just made it worse.

My uncle and I saw the Jersey Devil in 1979. I had a summer job with my uncle when I was a sophomore at Pemberton Township High School. We were driving thru the Pine Barrens about 1 AM. It flew out of the trees right in front of us!! Uncle Dave almost wrecked trying to avoid the dang thing!!! I just about peed my pants!!

A guy called “The Explained Universe” literally stole this entire video but replaced the thumbnail with a picture of the goat man, he didn’t change a single thing

Some of the stories don’t match at all, and the song mother Leeds or what ever it is just ridiculous, but it is a fun legend

Has anyone went to or remember back in the later to middle 80’s going to turkey swamp park for a jersey devil hunt at night. I was a young child at that time my family went on this hunt we also got cool blk jersey devil shirts lol

Dude wit the classes I’m the library looking place, yeah okay it was ozzy Osborne coming out. I mean there is a nj devil.

Hey my brothers car broke down out in the pine barrens in the early 80s and NO TOW TRUCK would come out there . Car still sitting there till this day im sure . 😆

Menantico Ponds in the Pine Barrens. There was a cult that worshipped by the water. In 1970 people who went camping there heard this cult. There was sing-song chanting and pounding drums. However speculation that thèse drums were in fact oil barrels. People made claims to witnessing this cult ...by hiding and watching them. This was in 1970 . People in the Vineland high school were making claims that they witnessed a large group of people dressed in robes and wearing masks. There was talk of the "One Hundred Year Ritual " and how it took place in 1871 and that it was to take place again in 1971. In 1971 Mike Newell asked his 2 friends to tie and bound him and push him into the water.. He said he had to die violently so that he could return as a captain to rule over 40 leagues of demons. After his body submerged...his 2 friends were arrested and admitted right away to the killing. After arresting his 2 friends Charles Pangburn of the Millville police had confiscated evidence that he refused to reveal at the inquest. The ìnquest into widespread cultic activity in the area. Somewhere he had information or an idea that a large group of people had wrapped chains around Newell and dumped him overboard, ( so to speak), instead of an isolated incident involving 3 boys. He began interrogating members of a church in Vineland. In years to come my first wife (RIP). would get involved with this group and suffer ritual abuse. The situations i experienced with her were brutal. She had been abused by a bunch of sadisticc bravados. The use of human sacrifice is older than recorded history and the use of such a sacrifice for cause to gain power can be found in the Bog Burials in Northern Ireland. There is also much on the subject in the J.G. Fraziers classic The Golden Bough. The difficulty in the Michael Newell case is that his sacrifice is directly tied into Christian Satanism ( in his belief) that his self sacrifice would engender the protection/aid of Christian demons. His reference of 40 leagues is a Judeo-Christian concept to be found in Colin De Plancey + others...derived from medieval theologians where demons had hierarchies and legions or leagues.....

"They say that everytime you see the Jersey Devil, a war is coming." That tells me very little. There's always a war.

The jersey deevil is just a guy who ownes a rabid kangaroo and can't get it to come in late at night..like a cat..it loves to get out..late at knight

The way she describes it along with the human tendency to exaggerate makes me believe we’re dealing with a 6-8 foot tall creature with massive wings, the capability to cause minor lacerations at BEST, a massive wingspan of probably close to 12 feet, this thing would be an incredible find for science

"Someday in the late fall listen carefully when you hear the wind coming off the ocean through the pines. It almost seems someone is trying to tell us something, possibly someone's name. ***In his best spooky voice ***Old mother Leeds, old mother Leeds." It would be a challenge to take him seriously as a professor after seeing that clip. Any guesses on what he teaches?

Oftentimes people say "why would they all make it up, they have nothing to gain." Well here you go. Idk why they do it but unless it's a demon trying to deceive people or something, you're dealing with people telling lies to a camera. The stranger phenomenon is that people will sit there and make up stories of shooting at monster horses and putting dirt in jars under their beds to protect themselves from bizarre creatures.

I live here. Born and raised 63 years. I'm still afraid 😨 🌲🚣‍♀️🌲🌲 something is giving me chills.

I'm a believer.. I get it if you think I'm crazy. That's fine.. but it's real. Had my own encounter. That's why I chose to live across the country.

We used to party with the Jersey Devil all the time at Batsto Village...he sure liked to drink and smoke around d the campfire, Sure do miss the old days

Ahhh the bird's told on him.....there are bird's that live there....

I'VE HEARD OF THIS BUT NEVER SAW IT ☦️🪖🐾🌎

39 minutes in says she thinks it has no one to go to and is lost. Girl! I will bring beef jerky and candy. Maybe it just wants to talk and have a snack.

8:32 - Congratulations on ruining the entire documentary.

The Pine Barrens is 1700 hundred square miles which covers seven counties. That's pretty large

U know people say they want to see the monster but they moment the actually get to see it they are terrified wishing to god it was a legend

Well if he was seen at seaside he might have went dwn to colliers mills Jackson nj

32:25 Could not hear how quiet it was because the music was too damn loud.

What road is it on? I want to go there.😮 I don’t know if I believe everyone but it sounds real.

I believe that lady with the glasses she’s not lying nor is the other guy wit the van.

Lemme guess, it was blessed with the same superpower that Bigfeetses have...the ability to make all cameras take blurry pics.

foxes,owls,coyotes scream

It's a Jersey thing you wouldn't undah-stand

"In New Jersey there lurks a strange monster" Yeah, a resident of New Jersey. Have you seen their table manners? Fucking terrifying.

Can’t you smell it’s cheap cologne?

Jersey devil fallen rebellious Angel

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Biggest issue is one of the main "stars" refers to it as the "New Jersey Devil". It's the "Jersey Devil", as if you live here, the word "New" is never part of the language. Its always "Jersey"

Believe none of what you hear and only half of what you see.

If it were a devil or a demon it would have attacked.

The residents of leeds County need to stop eating those funny mushrooms

It's interesting that a tow truck driver, who is also a town mayor, who has probably been called to clean up fatal accidents as well as nonfatal wrecks and breakdowns, drives his truck while being interviewed not wearing a seat belt. Another politician and the "rules for thee, but not for me!" complex. As for the Jersey Devil, I find it the most unbelievable cryptid: what creature evolves to have hooves for feet, but claws on his forelimbs or arms, or for that matter wings but supposed to land with hooves? Throw in bioluminescent eyes on a creature who doesn't live in the deep sea but lives on the surface and flies. It's based on the christian fairytale of Satan clearly.

That’s goofy.

I wonder how many of these types of stories are dismissed or labeled fake. Imagine they were all legitimate but we are all so skeptical 🤔

What is the name of the 13th child? Perhaps what is happening is that he is in a kind of limbo: he was ultimately possessed by Lucifer as a pre-born child. It is not unusual for shapeshifting to occur in the demonic realm so this explains the change from a normal blonde hair boy with blue eyes. Perhaps what people see is his soul - most people who die and have unresolved issues from their life remain in between heaven and hell until proper prayers are offered for the repose of their souls. If what they say is true about his family, birth, and subsequent life, then he needs deliverance and redemption; it wasn't his fault that his mom cursed his existence and cast him into the satanic realm by her anger.

Witches don't pray to God. Why would anyone want their child to be a "Devil"? The people from the area can't even get the lore correct. Lol. Horses don't have paws.

it was the jeepers creepers monster lol

My grandma had 14 kids. 7 boys and 7 girls. None of them was a devil.

I would just like to say that I live within 15 miles of these people and I apologize.Because they are saying some of the dumbest s***I've ever heard in my life and it's embarrassing

got to be true and believable! look at all the conflicting physical descriptions it has had over the years... at one point in the 1920s it was 'snake like' the Jersey Devil started off as someone city folk who never saw a moose before. mistook the antlers as 'bat like wings, a head like a horse, and walked up right' moose are big. moose move very very swiftly through very dense undergrowth. at times a moose (especially in snowy conditions) looks like its flying. the world is Majikal enough. you don't need to make up stuff by misinterpreting natural things. let me know all your alien/ghost/fairy stories the first time you find a methane gas cloud with a flashlight at night.... and besure to tell me you heard bigfoot when you hear bobcats yelling at each other....

Easy to tell: a demon! What the heck else could it be??

Mass hysteria

Hahahahahaha😂😂😂😂

All legends or myths are rooted in truth. Just like Noah’s Flood.

As a Southerner, all I can say is, if the Devil had a earthly home in the United States it would be in New Jersey.......Or more likely, Washington DC. 🤠

I think a group of Christian✝️ preachers should go to New Jersey together and try to exercise it out of this world and commandant it to go to the feet of Jesus and let him deal with it while doing it all in the name and Authority of Jesus Christ✝️ this is what should be done in order to get rid of it once and for all!

I call BS on this story, especially the birth story if "truth" be known. However, you have to admit it is a fun legend.

The old lady is lying. Watch her eyes close when she said " I could have been dead!" That's not something you blink while saying if true.

If you don't believe Stfu stop watching 😊

Wow. What a bunch of hogwash for a story.

I believe in Bigfoot but this story sounds like some Scooby Doo shit.

Fake nothing out there

this shit is funny. ngl