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Legend has it a fearsome beast roams the Pine Barrens, a beast with a horned head and goat hooves.
Its screams are enough to make one’s blood run cold. It’s said to attack unsuspecting campers.
It is the Jersey Devil, and like other cryptids, it’s almost extinct in the public’s imagination.
A cryptid is a creature of folklore, a legend that lives in dark and scary places.
The Jersey Devil is said to have been Mother Leeds’ 13th child. When the child was born, Mother Leeds is said to have cried, “Let the devil take this one!” and so he did.
The baby then transformed into the beast known as the Jersey Devil, cursed to terrorize unsuspecting New Jerseyans forever.
But “forever” is getting shorter and shorter. Our cryptids are endangered.
Belief in the Jersey Devil has plummeted as urba
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