Jersey Devil · Wilmington, Delaware · 1909
DE-1909ID case-188bfa661bFallback locationAdded to map Oct 8, 2026
- Creature
- Jersey Devil
- When
- Jan 23, 1909to the day
- Where
- Wilmington, Delawarefallback location
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Supposed tracks of the Jersey Devil were seen near No. p* street, described as having a peculiar feature where they are crossed somewhat like the palm of a human hand.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Jersey Devil
- Where
- Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware, United States
mapped to town level · from the newspaper's printing town, not where it was seen
Fallback location (drawn hollow on the map): this is the newspaper's printing town, not where it was seen. - When
- Jan 23, 1909
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 8, 2026
- Case id
- case-188bfa661b
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Source trail (1)
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 1 of Evening journal (Wilmington, Del.), January 23, 1909
Newspaper · 1909-01-23
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
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)
Borrow on Internet Archive
Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.