Jersey Devil

[AndyParker856nj]

http://xfinitytv.comcast.net/tv/Des...The-Yeren/videos?skipTo=71&cmpid=FCST_hero_tv

This is such a crock! Since when is alcohol legal in Wharton?And what are those civil war reenactors reinacting?A civil war battle in Wharton is news to me!Dirt bikes?Wow! I thought they were illegal too?I guess in hot pursuit of the devil anything goes?
Al

Anyone know where that museum is located?? The one in the video.

 

[woodjin]

Anyone know where that museum is located?? The one in the video.

I believe this is it. I haven't seen this episode in a while but I recall thinking they were at this museum. I haven't been there.
http://www.theparanormalmuseumnj.com/MUSEUM/Exhibits.html

 

[dogg57]

Even more

http://www.newsworks.org/index.php?option=com_flexicontent&view=items&id=29062:28rjdevil

 

[dogg57]

Neat info
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXhP5sSOMPY

 

[geezerfinneran]

Back a few years ago , I wrote a bit of something about the Jersey Devil...

http://genefinneran.typepad.com/finneran_lane/2007/09/jersey-devil.html

(Link posted to save space here.)

 

[ericsanjuan]

I recently hit Amazon to replace my water-damaged copy of McCloy and Miller's amazing The Jersey Devil], and was saddened to see that the publisher has replaced the classic red cover with a cartoonish monstrosity.

Compare:

No sir, I do not like the new cover.

I've probably read this book four or five times. I used to check it out of the elementary school library in Lakehurst. It was probably this book more than anything else that first sparked an interest in New Jersey lore.

I want my red cover back!

Okay, it's not really that big a deal. Just feels like my memories are being tampered with is all.

 

[geezerfinneran]

This is indeed tragic !!

I liked the red cover too !!

 

[dogg57]

I see this on Facebook,At Nixons

Have you seen the Jersey Devil? We have been contacted by a cable network doing a story on the Jersey Devil. If you’re willing to go on camera and tell your story email us at JerseyDevil@NixonsGeneralStore.com

and also at Piney Power

I have been contacted by a producer of a major cable TV station that is doing a documentary about the distinct possibility that The Jersey Devil is a real creature and not sensationalism. She wants to talk to anyone who has had a REAL experience with the Jersey Devil. If this is you, please private message me and I'll give you her name and phone number. Thanks!

 

[dogg57]

Here another View on old haunts,
Legendary Pine Barrens: New Tales from Old Haunts

In this collection of “new tales from old haunts,” Paul Evans Pedersen Jr. delivers a literary feast for Pine Barrens enthusiasts and emerges as southern New Jersey’s most exciting new storyteller in decades. There’s something here for everyone—from offbeat explanations of natural phenomena, to unconventional takes on popular legends, to strange doings in mysterious towns and taverns. Throughout, you’ll be entertained by a rogue’s gallery of weird and colorful characters.Make no mistake about it: These are not your traditional Pine Barrens legends. Pedersen’s 21 stories and three songs are inspired by South Jersey’s rich folklore and his love for the Pines, but only his remarkable imagination could have produced a work as fresh and original as The Legendary Pine Barrens.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/131698710/Legendary-Pine-Barrens-New-Tales-from-Old-Haunts

 

[woodjin]

I was in smithville yesterday and saw a t shirt that said "the jersey devil is my homeboy". there ought to be a law prohibiting such tastelessness.

 

[gipsie]

 

[Spung-Man]

I am saddened by the erosion of the folklore tradition. Storytelling was a valued part of growing up in the Pinelands, a sort of poor man's Disney. The Jersey Devil was very much a part of our culture. My grandmother came to live with us when I was young. She was called Horsey Baba; Baba for "babushka" (grandmother) and "Horsey" for her draft horse, a Percheron that was used by the Yebernetsky side back in a central Pennsylvania coal mine. She could not read or write, but had a rich oral tradition. It was my role to become the family storyteller. We also had a number of colorful live-in farmhands, with names like Peck, Mayo, and Steamboat Willie (and wife Verna). Neighbors (Waterbelly, Kingfish) and schoolmates (Link - as in missing, Frick, Wee) were equally quirky, with stories of their own.

To save a few of them in their original context, I was asked by Atlantic County Parks to present on this art-form on Friday, October 16, 2013. It's been over a decade since these stories were last told in public, although they are standard fare around the backyard campfire. Enough with non-diastrophic thermokarst involutions...

Spung-Man

Stories of the Jersey Devil and Beyond​

Local natural historian Mark Demitroff grew up on a western Atlantic County poultry farm. There he enjoyed hearing tales told by neighbors, farmhands, and family members about odd happenings in the piney woods and dense swamps behind Milmay. Mark will spin a few yarns about ghosts, demons, and darksome fathomless pools with sinister qualities. Several traditional stories were passed down from the speaker’s Ukrainian heritage. Folklore, once an everyday form of entertainment, has lost its former importance but fortunately is not quite forgotten in the Pinelands National Reserve. ​

 

[pinelandpaddler]

Enough with non-diastrophic thermokarst involutions...

 

[geezerfinneran]

Did someone say................................................................................................................................thermokarst involutions ???

OMG !!

I'm all excited again !!!

 

[geezerfinneran]

Phew !

Thankfully, nobody brought up floundered ironstone, or (Pant -Pant !!) cryoturbing. or (Moan !!) ....slumping !!!!

My chastity can only cover so much.....

 

[Spung-Man]

Folks, fear not.

You are witnessing a brief bout of “periglacial fever.” Something like this hasn’t occurred here since Peter Wolfe’s 1953 paper Periglacial frost-thaw basins in New Jersey. This isn’t that wimpy glacial/proglacial/paraglacial stuff from Upstate New York. It's the hard stuff. Yes, I mean permafrost.​

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There, I've said it, in public. Happy now?​

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I will attempt to capture the essence of our most wicked creature who lurks amidst these forgotten cold-climate, nonglacial landforms, the famed Jersey Devil. Knowledge of the cryospheric realm is requisite if we are to feel the intimate “sense of place” in which locals view these wetland features.​

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Check out the illustration of Satan’s laird (a spung) opposite page 179 in Beck’s (1945) Jersey Genesis: The Story of the Mullica River.​

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“Where stunted pines of burned-over forest are revealed in darksome pools, the Jersey Devil lurks.”​

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You have been warned...​

 

[noboat]

Folks, fear not.

You are witnessing a brief bout of “periglacial fever.” Something like this hasn’t occurred here since Peter Wolfe’s 1953 paper Periglacial frost-thaw basins in New Jersey. This isn’t that wimpy glacial/proglacial/paraglacial stuff from Upstate New York. It's the hard stuff. Yes, I mean permafrost.​

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There, I've said it, in public. Happy now?​

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I will attempt to capture the essence of our most wicked creature who lurks amidst these forgotten cold-climate, nonglacial landforms, the famed Jersey Devil. Knowledge of the cryospheric realm is requisite if we are to feel the intimate “sense of place” in which locals view these wetland features.​

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Check out the illustration of Satan’s laird (a spung) opposite page 179 in Beck’s (1945) Jersey Genesis: The Story of the Mullica River.​

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“Where stunted pines of burned-over forest are revealed in darksome pools, the Jersey Devil lurks.”​

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You have been warned...​

I'm not scared!!!

 

[geezerfinneran]

This made me angry !!

How would you like it if some (P-tui !) Human published photos of your backyard ??

I SHALL REPAY !!

(Bwa-ha-ha, etc.)

 

[Spung-Man]

A thousand pardons.

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[geezerfinneran]

Offering was satisfactory.

Washcloth was quite tasty.