Down the rabbit hole
Jersey Devil · Woodbury Heights, New Jersey · 1929
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:
- Evening star & The Washington times: a person reviewed them and joined them
Every document, as a list
- Account 1 1 document
- Earliest found The Washington Times (Washington [D.C.]) Newspaper · Dec 20, 1929
Image 5 of The Washington times (Washington [D.C.]), December 20, 1929 - cited, not yet found New York Times (Newspaper) · named in Evening Star (Washington, D.C.), Dec 22, 1929 search for it ↗
- Earliest found The Washington Times (Washington [D.C.]) Newspaper · Dec 20, 1929
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 - 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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