Jersey Devil · Burlington, New Jersey · 1909
- Creature
- Jersey Devil
- When
- Oct 20, 1909to the day
- Where
- Burlington, New Jerseyto town level
- Reports
- 14 documents1 independent
The account
Witnesses report finding the carcass of a strange animal with hoofprints and kangaroo-like tail in the woods near Klnkora, which they claim explains puzzling hoofprints left in the snow last winter.
Trace the source trail → every document, in time order, and how they connect
We map claims, not creatures: this is what the sources say, not proof. How a case is built
Details
- Creature
- Jersey Devil
- Where
- Burlington, Burlington County, New Jersey, 08016, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Oct 20, 1909
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (14 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 8, 2026
- Case id
- case-9a7421bdc1
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Source trail (7)
Down the rabbit hole → 14 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 1 of The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram (Richmond, Ind.), October 20, 1909
Newspaper · 1909-10-20
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Image 7 of The Fargo forum and daily republican (Fargo, N.D.), October 21, 1909
Newspaper · 1909-10-21 - Image 11 of Daily press (Newport News, Va.), October 31, 1909
Newspaper · 1909-10-31
Show 4 more sources
- Image 2 of The Chickasha daily express (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]), November 1, 1909
Newspaper · 1909-11-01 - Image 3 of Aberdeen herald (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.), November 4, 1909
Newspaper · 1909-11-04 - Image 2 of The citizen (Honesdale, Pa.), November 10, 1909
Newspaper · 1909-11-10 - Image 9 of The Emmett index (Emmett, Idaho), December 16, 1909
Newspaper · 1909-12-16
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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