The Jersey Devil was a local legend in the Pine Barrens area of New Jersey for over 250 years but during a week in January of 1909 dozens, some say 100s, of sightings cause it to be a national sensation. They say it is a kangaroo-like creature with the head of a goat, leathery bat-like wings, horns, small arms with clawed hands, cloven hooves and a forked tail. And it makes a “blood-curdling scream”. Was it Mother Leeds’s thirteenth child and what did Benjamin Franklin have to do with it?

Show notes and links:

• The Jersey Devil: The Real Story (csicop.org)
• Jersey Devil – Wikipedia (wikipedia.org)
• The Devil Walks Among Us: The Myth of The Jersey Devil (ancient-origins.net)
• Impossible Animal of Story & Legend (livescience.com)
• The Jersey Devil (strangemag.com)
• Strange Creatures : (The Creatures of Cryptozoology) by Dino Brancato | NOOK Book (eBook) (barnesandnoble.com)
• The Jersey Devil by James F. McCloy, Ray Miller Jr |, Paperback (barnesandnoble.com)
• The Jersey Devil (The American Folklife Center, Library of Congress) (loc.gov)
• Leeds descendant debunks legend of the Jersey Devil | News (shorenewstoday.com)

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