Other / Unknown · Monmouth County, New Jersey · 1881
NJ-1881ID case-55d1f0e9dbAdded to map Oct 6, 2026
- Creature
- Other / Unknown
- When
- Dec 1881to the month
- Where
- Monmouth County, New Jerseyto county level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witnesses in Green Bank, N.J. report a strange beast that appears to be part bear and part fish, which emits terrifying cries and is shot at by locals.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other / Unknown
- Where
- Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States
mapped to county level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- Dec 1881
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 6, 2026
- Case id
- case-55d1f0e9db
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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 The Republican (Oakland, Md.), December 3, 1881
Newspaper · 1881-12-03
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
Further reading
- The Jersey Devil, James F. McCloy and Ray Miller Jr. (1976)
The New Jersey Pine Barrens legend and its 1909 flap.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Phantom of the Pines: More Tales of the Jersey Devil, James F. McCloy and Ray Miller Jr. (1998)
Borrow on Internet Archive - 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
Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.