Down the rabbit hole
Jersey Devil · Swedesboro, New Jersey · 1927
1 document · 1 independent account · 1 cited source we haven't found yet
1 document tells this story. It traces back to 1 independent account. 1 cited source we haven't found yet.
The route
- One encounter the reported sighting this case is about
- 1 document that tell it, as we collected them
- 1 independent account behind those documents
- 1 cited source named in the documents: 1 not found yet
Copies are not confirmations: thirty papers printing one story is still one account.
Each shape is one document; open it to go to where we found it. The same graph as a list is below.
Why these records are connected
- Why these documents are one case. The case matcher joined them because:
- New Britain herald & Bigfoot vs. The Jersey Devil: their quoted passages are nearly identical; they describe the same details; same place; same year
Every document, as a list
- Account 1 1 document
- Earliest found New Britain Herald (New Britain, Conn.) Newspaper · Aug 4, 1927
Image 2 of New Britain herald (New Britain, Conn.), August 4, 1927 - cited, not yet found Woodbury Daily Times, Aug 10, 1927 (Newspaper) · named in Reddit post, Feb 24, 2025 search for it ↗
- Earliest found New Britain Herald (New Britain, Conn.) Newspaper · Aug 4, 1927
How to read this
- Time runs left to right by publication date. Very long empty stretches are cut short (the axis shows how many years were skipped); undated documents sit in their own column.
- One row per independent account. A reprint, re-upload or cross-post carries the same text, so it stays in its account's row and never counts as a second witness.
- Earliest found (ringed) is the earliest document we hold for that account. It is not proof of the first telling: an earlier one may exist that we haven't collected.
- Arrows run from a document to a source it names. A dashed shape is a source a document cites that we haven't found yet; its link searches a public archive for it, and a hit there is a lead, not a confirmation.
About the numbers
- Only documents we've collected are counted; retellings elsewhere on the web aren't counted yet.
- Documents are matched by shared text and by the sources they name, by plain rules with no model in the loop. A match can be wrong; tell us.
Where next
- Back to the case
its summary, sources and discussion - Back to the map
opened on this case - Flap: Swedesboro, New Jersey, Aug–Sep 1927
6 reports close together in Aug–Sep 1927 - Jersey Devil · Burlington, New Jersey · 1909
Another trail, same creature: 14 documents · 1 independent account - Dogman · Lamar, Colorado · 1910
The next-deepest trail: 23 documents · 1 independent account
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