The Jersey Devil is a South Jersey legend story that has been passed on from generation to generation. The story is a women by the last name Leeds. As we have a Jimmie leads rd in Galloway township. The women was having her 13th child and said this one was going to be the devil. Legend has once the baby was born it started going crazy and grew wings and ended up flying up through the chimney. There have been multiple sightings of the jersey devil over last couple 100 years. Even though there is no hard evidence many south jerseyans believe the Jersey devil is roaming the pine lands.
Hello Jason,
ReplyDeleteAs a resident of New Jersey, I barely heard of the Jersey Devil growing up. After reading your post and the lectures from class, I became interested in this topic. I loved how you mentioned the backstory and how the Jersey Devil came to be. Great post!