Is Jersey Devil Real – Fact Or Fiction On National Geographic Monster Project
Is the Jersey Devil real? Is the monster a fact or just a fiction? National Geographic will unravel the mystery in the TV episode called “The Monster Project.”
The search for these modern-day cryptic icons begins in New Jersey, where the Jersey Devil isn’t just a hockey mascot, but a winged monster with the head of a horse and the torso of a man! After hearing several eyewitness accounts, the team takes the investigation one step further and enlists the help of a psychic medium.
The Monster Project: Jersey Devil
Saturday, October 26, at 8 p.m. ET/PT
Synopsis
Judah Friedlander goes on a mission to investigate a creature rumored to have the torso of a man, head of a horse, wings of a bat, feet of a goat and a serpentine tail. Judah and his team of cryptozoologists talk to multiple witnesses who claim they’ve seen the giant winged monster firsthand in the Pine Barrens, N.J. Reports include the creature raiding chicken coops, terrorizing farms, destroying crops, killing animals and even attempting to steal children. A variety of locals such as Jake, who has hunted in the Pine Barrens forest for 22 years, and Kathy, the owner of the Paranormal Museum, weigh in on what they think the mysterious creature is. Judah also consults a physic medium who attempts to get answers by communicating with the Jersey Devil’s dead mother. Is it a dinosaur? A bird?
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Reported encounters
There have been many sightings and occurrences allegedly involving the Jersey Devil.
According to legend, while visiting the Hanover Mill Works to inspect his cannonballs being forged, Commodore Stephen Decatur sighted a flying creature flapping its wings and fired a cannonball directly upon it to no effect.
Joseph Bonaparte, eldest brother of Emperor Napoleon, is also said to have witnessed the Jersey Devil while hunting on his Bordentown estate around 1820. In 1840, the devil was blamed for several livestock killings. Similar attacks were reported in 1841, accompanied by tracks and screams.
Claims of a corpse matching the Leeds Devil’s description arose in Greenwich in December 1925. A local farmer shot an unidentified animal as it attempted to steal his chickens. Afterward, he claimed that none of 100 people he showed it to could identify it. On July 27, 1937 an unknown animal “with red eyes” seen by residents of Downingtown, Pennsylvania was compared to the Jersey Devil by a reporter for the Pennsylvania Bulletin. In 1951, a group of Gibbstown, New Jersey boys claimed to have seen a ‘monster’ matching the Devil’s description. and claims of a corpse matching the Jersey Devil’s description arose in 1957. In 1960, tracks and noises heard near Mays Landing were claimed to be from the Jersey Devil. During the same year the merchants around Camden offered a $10,000 reward for the capture of the Jersey Devil, even offering to build a private zoo to house the creature if captured.