The Story Of The Jersey Devil

The Jersey Devil

Story

Accodring to legend, an evil old witch named Mrs.Shrounds lived in leeds Point, NJ. She made a wish that if she ever had another child, she wanted it to be a devil. Her next child was born misshapen and deformed. It had hooves instead of feet, a houses head, a forked tail and dragon-like creature. She called it the Jersey Devil and kept it locked up in her house, so the curious couldn’t see it. One stormy night, the child flapped it’s arms, and they turned into wings. It escaped out the chimney and was never seen by the old witch again.

In the early 19^th century, commodore Stephen Decatur,a naval hero, was testing cannon balls on the firing range when he saw a strange creature flying across the sky. He fired and hit the creature but it kept right on flying across the field. Joseph Bonaparte, former king of spain and brother of Napoleon, saw the Jersey Devil when he was hunting. Many sheep and chickens were killed by a creature with a piercing scream and strange tracks. The Jersey Devil was sighted by George Saaorsy, a prominent business man, at the NJ/NY border. This was the last reported sighting before the turn of the century.