Jersey Devil · West Orange, New Jersey · 1924
NJ-1924ID case-f6e6b2d843Added to map Oct 29, 2026
- Creature
- Jersey Devil
- When
- Sep 18, 1924to the day
- Where
- West Orange, New Jerseyto town level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
George Merck reports that the Jersey devil or a similar creature killed nine sheep at his farm in Llewellyn Park.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Jersey Devil
- Where
- West Orange, Essex County, New Jersey, 07052, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Sep 18, 1924
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 29, 2026
- Case id
- case-f6e6b2d843
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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 6 of The Washington times (Washington [D.C.]), September 20, 1924
Newspaper · 1924-09-20
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
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.