Jersey Devil · Burlington County, New Jersey · 1893
NJ-1893ID case-089211dd7dAdded to map Oct 6, 2026
- Creature
- Jersey Devil
- When
- Jan 1893to the month
- Where
- Burlington County, New Jerseyto county level
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
A railroad engineer reports that a winged creature with an owl-like head and fiery eyes swooped down to the cab window of a moving train in South Jersey.
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Details
- Creature
- Jersey Devil
- Where
- Burlington County, New Jersey, United States
mapped to county level · from the report's own words - When
- Jan 1893
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (2 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 6, 2026
- Case id
- case-089211dd7d
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Source trail (2)
Down the rabbit hole → 2 documents, and how they connect
Every link goes to where we found the account. The earliest we found is marked; it is the earliest found, not necessarily the original.
- Image 18 of The sun (New York [N.Y.]), January 22, 1893
Newspaper · 1893-01-22
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Image 3 of The morning news (Savannah, Ga.), February 3, 1893
Newspaper · 1893-02-03
Further reading
- On the Track of Unknown Animals, Bernard Heuvelmans (1959)
The founding work of cryptozoology.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Cryptozoology A to Z, Loren Coleman and Jerome Clark (1999)
Encyclopedia of reported creatures.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Abominable Science!, Daniel Loxton and Donald Prothero (2013)
Skeptical history of the Yeti, Nessie and others.
Borrow on Internet Archive - In Search of Prehistoric Survivors, Karl Shuker (1995)
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