Jersey Devil · Swedesboro, New Jersey · 1927
NJ-1927ID case-a5fda1f77dAdded to map Oct 29, 2026
- Creature
- Jersey Devil
- When
- Aug 4, 1927to the day
- Where
- Swedesboro, New Jerseyto town level
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
Huckleberry pickers in Swedesboro report seeing a feathered quadruped about the size of a fox with a cry half bark and half hoot.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
We map claims, not creatures: this is what the sources say, not proof. How a case is built
Details
- Creature
- Jersey Devil
- Where
- Swedesboro, Gloucester County, New Jersey, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Aug 4, 1927
- 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 29, 2026
- Case id
- case-a5fda1f77d
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Source trail (2)
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 2 of New Britain herald (New Britain, Conn.), August 4, 1927
Newspaper · 1927-08-04
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Bigfoot vs. The Jersey Devil
Reddit · 2025-02-24
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.