Other / Unknown · Gloucester County, New Jersey · 1921
NJ-1921ID case-c1db3b2529Added to map Oct 29, 2026
- Creature
- Other / Unknown
- When
- Oct 1921to the month
- Where
- Gloucester County, New Jerseyto county level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Two Italian fishermen claim to have captured a strange creature with eight flexible arms on the bank of the Delaware River near Gloucester, New Jersey.
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
- Other / Unknown
- Where
- Gloucester County, New Jersey, United States
mapped to county level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- Oct 1921
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 29, 2026
- Case id
- case-c1db3b2529
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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 17 of The evening world (New York, N.Y.), October 10, 1921, (Baseball Final)
Newspaper · 1921-10-10
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.