Jersey Devil · West Orange, New Jersey · 1926
NJ-1926ID case-6fa744d79eAdded to map Oct 8, 2026
- Creature
- Jersey Devil
- When
- Aug 1926to the month
- Where
- West Orange, New Jerseyto town level
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
The Camden Daily Courier reports that the 'Jersey Devil' terrorizing West Orange has had a litter of nine pups, described by residents as having dog heads and heavier bodies.
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Details
- Creature
- Jersey Devil
- Where
- West Orange, Essex County, New Jersey, 07052, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Aug 1926
- 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 8, 2026
- Case id
- case-6fa744d79e
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Source trail (1)
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- Image 1 of The monitor-register (Woodstown, Salem Co., N.J.), August 26, 1926
Newspaper · 1926-08-26
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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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