美國的大西洋海岸，孕育了數以百計的幽靈的故事，多年來發生了不尋常的故事。其中一個最奇怪的是，“澤西惡魔”，就是某些人相信是一個神秘的生物，活在現實生活中有血有肉的怪物。它的起源可以追溯到當新澤西州仍是英國的殖民地。

這些都是百年傳說，直到去年，一個八歲的韓國小女孩，偶然間用錄像機照下影片，公諸於世，證實卻有此事。

2008年夏天，瑪麗收全家計劃到聖克魯斯海灘玩水。前一天﹐湯姆買了新的大容量而便宜的camcoder﹐這是從電腦商店FRY'S購得。湯姆將錄影任務交由瑪麗負責。

兩個女孩﹐妹妹瑪麗﹐8歲﹐姐姐Tiffany﹐16歲﹐高中生，太太﹐瑪莎，40歲，懷孕 8個月的身孕，韓國籍﹐湯姆白人男性﹐再婚。他們結婚一年。

瑪麗一路用camcoder，製作她的影片。整個下午﹐他們在聖克魯斯海灘玩得很愉快﹐準備回家了﹐於是﹐湯姆開著自己的旅行車，開上十七公路。然而，這時﹐交通開始堵塞了。

湯姆決定改變路線，繞過一片森林，在此之前，他曾經開車走過這林子路。

女孩中，瑪麗和Tiffany坐在後排座位上。她們開始爭吵，因為瑪麗嘗試拍攝視頻Tiffany的臉。Tiffany不給她拍﹐兩個女孩的聲音越來越大聲。繼父湯姆轉過頭說：

“冷靜﹐女孩們...”

正在那時，車子撞到一個﹐蠻沉的東西。似乎隱約某個黑色的動物(東西)被擊中後逃跑。

湯姆打開前車門，繞到車前﹐檢查他的引擎蓋。車門也沒關上。前保險槓區域有撞過的痕跡。環顧四周，湯姆想看看什麼東西是跑走，他們的狗BOO跑了和追逐那怪物。

湯姆走回車子﹐告訴他懷孕的妻子瑪莎。說：

“讓我找BOO，只是需要兩分鐘﹐你們這兒等我 ...”

他關上了門，走向前方道路，循著BOO剛的小路找了過去。

...

但是，一個小時就過去，女兒瑪莎開始越來越擔心。湯姆沒有回來。

“天越來越暗了﹐我們去找爸爸﹐我看…”森林裡，天黑得快。

於是三人開始出發向到那條路。小瑪麗仍然是錄影，她似乎並不擔心大人的事情。

過約 20分鐘的工作，他們看到一個破舊白色的房子在森林中間。

“讓我們進去看看。”

屋內又藏﹑又空﹑又亂﹐許多醜陋的語言寫在牆上﹐令人失望。瑪麗仍然攝錄 ...

母親瑪莎說：

“你的女孩走進店內，媽咪在外面看看。”

瑪莎得到的房子和搜索外。也許湯姆是這附近這所房子。

房子裡面有3/4間隔間在這所房子。女孩搜索房子﹐也許BOO和父親可能在其中某個房間。

正搜索這﹐突然，幾聲深沉的呼吸聲和步行噪音。

聽起來像一個大動物即將入口的房子，女孩立刻打開門已經遭破爛的存儲間，躲在門後。外的東西踢開大門，走到大廳。瑪麗仍然攝錄...

女孩越來越恐慌，因為他們看到一雙大腳。不是人腳﹐是馬蹄子。正在極度緊張﹑驚慌﹐Tiffany的手機突然響。

“鈴，鈴，鈴...”

大馬蹄怪物轉過頭﹐向儲藏室接近﹐想打開門的儲藏室，他們的母親走了進來﹐拿著手中一根長棍子﹐挺著大肚子﹐奮不顧身，敲打大馬蹄怪物，狗和父親走了進來，幾乎在同一時間﹐加入打擊﹐人多﹐大馬蹄怪物跑了。

然後，4個家人和一個狗BOO躲在屋內。直到下午7:00PM，他們感到飢餓。他們的手機沒有信號，再等下去也不是辦法﹐於是﹐家長們決定要回到自己的車。

跑，跑，跑...小女孩瑪麗仍然攝錄 ...

邊嚇邊跑，頭也不敢回﹐他們終於到了他們的旅行車。瑪麗手中的攝像機意外掉落在地上。沒有時間去接。所有人立馬鑽進汽車，老爸發動﹑逃命。

回到家﹐他們報告警察發生的事。

“那麼你們的影片在那裡？”警察問道。
“瑪麗丟失在叢林中。”姐姐Tiffany答。
“好吧，讓我們去找回來。”

第二天警察立刻出發，很快的﹐他們找到了它。

他們把攝像機請警察局專家檢查並放映影磁帶。

他們看到了Jersey魔鬼。7尺高﹐頭上長著鹿角﹐...有蹄子﹐似乎是變成人種的動物。 

2008 summer, Mary receive an assigned from her stepfather, Tom to vide tape their trip to the trip to Santa Cruz beach. Tom bought new less expansive digital camcoder that was bought from the computer shop the day before.

Mary an 8 year old girl, Tiffany 16 year old high school girl, elder sister, Martha, 40, pregnant, Korean and Tom a Caucasian male. They married one year and have an 8-month pregnant.

Mary practices the camcoder on everything and play back to make sure it works. They have a good time on the Santa Cruz beach that afternoon. Then, Tom drove their station wagon, on the pacific 17^t high way. However, the traffic starts to jam up.

Tom decides to change route to bypass the traffic that is a forest way, he drove on that before.

Girls, Mary and Tiffany sit on the back seats. They fight and talking, since Mary tries to shoot the video on Tiffany’s face. Two daughters raise their voice. Stepfather Tom turn his head and said:

“Calm down girls…”

Just about at that time, the car hit some heavy thing. A black thing was hit and ran away.

Tom opens the door and exam the hood. The car door did not shut behind. The hood have some mark on the front bumper area. Just about to look around to find what is the thing he hid, their dog Boo ran away and chase after the thing. Seams something just ran away.

Tom came bank and told to his pregnant wife Martha. Said:

“Let me look for Boo, it will just take two minutes…”

He shut the door behind and went toward the path, which Boo just ran away.

…. But one hour had past, Martha daughters start getting worry. Tom did not come back.

“Let’s go find your daddy. It is getting dark” In the forest, sky seams to get dark fast.

3 of them start to move to that same path. The little one, Mary is a still video taping seam that she does not worry at all. After about 20 minutes working, they saw a white abundant house in the forest.

“Let’s take a look inside.”

Disappoint, nothing found inside the house. In fact, many ugly languages were written on the wall. Mary still videotaping…

Mother Martha said:

“You girls step inside, mammy look around outside. Martha gets out the house and search outside. Maybe Tom is somewhere around this house.

There seams to have 3-4 rooms in this house. Girls wonder and search the house for Boo and their dad. Suddenly it is a deep breathing sound and some walking noise.

Sound like a big thing is coming to the entrance of the house, girls immediately open the wrecked door of a storage room and hide behind the door. The thing kicks the outer entrance door and coming to the living area. Mary still videotaping

Girls getting more scare, because they saw the foot of the thing. It is big, the food is not for human, and it is for the horse. Very quite and scare, Tiffany’s cell phone suddenly ring.

“Ring, ring, ring…”

Dam. The thing turns his head toward the storage room and approaching. Just about to open the door of the storage room, their mother came in with a long stick and strike the thing, dog and father came in almost at the same time. They all struck the thing. Thing ran away.

Then, 4 members and one dog family stay in the house. Until 7:00 PM, they get hungry. Their cell phone has no signal in the forest. Parent then decide to get back to their car.

Run, run, run… The little girl Mary still videotaping…

Very scary, they reach their station wagon. Mary accidentally dropped her camcorder onto the ground. No time to pick up. Every get into the car, start and drove the car away.

They call the policeman and describe the story.

“Where is video?” Policeman asked.

“Mary lost in the bush.” elder sister Tiffany replied.

“Ok, let’s go find it. “

Policemen immediate go back to the location of the path of the thing next day. Luckily they found it.

They bring the camcorder back and ask their expert exam the tape. They saw the Jercy Devil” in the tape.

據傳說，利茲簡太太來自一個貧窮的家庭誰微漲一松貧瘠的存在，澤西，一個堅固的地方，廣袤的森林，沙質土壤和補丁的沼澤。在1735年，利茲夫人發現她懷上了她的第13屆的孩子。她抱怨她的朋友和親戚的“魔鬼可以採取下一個”，他做到了。當嬰兒出生時，他是怪物！他立即上了一個怪誕的外觀，成長到超過20英尺長，有爬行動物的身體，馬的頭，蝙蝠翅膀長，分叉的尾巴。他痛打對利茲回家了一下，然後消失了煙囪。這種動物，或“澤西惡魔”，因為他被稱為，開始困擾著松樹貧瘠。

新澤西州的松樹貧瘠

隨著故事的傳播，甚至成年男子拒絕去冒險在夜間進行。有人說，大的野獸帶走狗，鵝，貓，小牲畜，甚至偶爾的兒童。孩子們從來沒有見過他，但動物的遺體被經常發現。也有人說是魔鬼幹奶牛的奶就由他們的呼吸，並殺死魚在溪流，威脅到整個地區的生活狀況。

在1740年，受驚的居民懇求部長驅走當地的生物和故事會指出，過去 100年驅魔，但魔鬼回到松樹貧瘠至少在本世紀前兩次已經結束。據傳說，英雄的海軍準將斯蒂芬迪凱特鋼鐵廠參觀了漢諾威1800年在貧瘠之地測試工廠的砲彈。有一天在靶場，他注意到一個奇怪的生物翼狀的開銷。瞄準，他發射的怪物，雖然有人說他的射門擊中它，魔鬼繼續其路徑。

一個目擊地圖澤西惡魔

（迷迭香埃倫吉利）

 第二目擊發生在數年後，這一次的魔鬼看到另一個尊重的見證。約瑟夫波拿巴，前西班牙國王和兄弟的拿破崙，租用了一個鄉間別墅附近邊城 1816年至1839年。他看到了新澤西魔鬼，而在打獵一天松貧瘠。

1840年，作為部長警告說，魔鬼回來了，帶來了該地區的恐怖再次。它搶走的羊，筆和掠奪外徘徊的孩子誰在日落之後。人們都在南新澤西的門上鎖，掛燈籠門前的台階上，希望保持這種生物了。

這些故事不斷被告知和傳說的魔鬼回顧整個 1800年，儘管實際觀察的動物很少。然後，在1909年，新澤西魔鬼再次回來的人發現上千種的怪物或看到他的足跡。它變得如此糟糕，學校關閉，人們不肯到外面去。

一個名叫詹姆斯薩克維爾警察發現了怪物，而他打了一個晚上走。他沿著一條黑暗的小巷經過時，翅膀的生物跳上了街上，讓出一個可怕的尖叫聲。薩克維爾解僱了他的左輪手槍，但它在傳播的野獸翅膀，消失在空氣中。

儘管在目擊，野獸一直被認為一個地區的傳說，直到1909年離奇皮瓣，持懷疑態度，即使是最正宗的研究人員承認包含元素的解釋。許多人看到了生物月份一月，包括電子戰部長，郵政局長布里斯托爾，賓夕法尼亞州，它只是在新澤西州的邊界。他說，他醒來在早上2:00左右，聽到一個“怪異，幾乎超自然”發出聲音的方向的特拉華河。他看著窗外，看到的是看起來是一個“大鶴”，這是對角和發射一飛好奇的光芒。這種生物有很長的脖子被推力向前飛行，薄薄的翅膀，長和短的後腿在前面。這種動物讓出一個發牢騷的組合和一個哨子，然後消失在黑暗中。

目擊繼續。1月19日，1909年，埃文斯先生和夫人納爾遜被喚醒清晨由聲音的大型動物在屋頂上的棚。他們描述為：“約三個半英尺高，具有面像牧羊犬，頭部像馬一樣的。它有一個長長的脖子，翅膀大約兩英尺長，它的後腿就像那些起重機和它馬的蹄子。它走它的後腿，並舉行了兩個短的前腿與爪子在他們身上。“

一天下午在同一周，一個太太津海，白正採取脫衣服時，她發現她行一個奇怪的動物蜷縮在角落裡，她的院子。她尖叫和暈倒，她的丈夫從後門衝出去找到他的妻子在地上，附近的惡魔“，噴出的火焰”。她追趕著一個怪物，它一躍晾衣繩道具，在圍欄和消失。

不久之後，該生物襲擊了。這一次，它攻擊狗屬於夫人瑪麗 Sorbinski在南卡姆登。當她聽到她的寵物的叫聲在黑暗中，她衝外，開車離開魔鬼用掃帚。這種動物逃離，但在此之前撕裂一大塊的肉從狗。受傷的女士帶著她的寵物 Sorbinski內，並立即報了警。

到時候，巡警趕到，一群人超過 100人聚集在家裡了。人群也見證了刺耳的尖叫聲，突然從附近爆發。警務人員的佩槍倒在陰影籠罩夜空反對，但是魔鬼再次逃脫。

目擊者的魔鬼充滿了報紙，以及照片和報導偶腳印已被發現場，伍茲和停車場。費城動物園提供1萬美元的獎勵捕獲的魔鬼，但沒有人響應。

然後，當它突然來了，魔鬼又消失了。

這種動物沒有再回來，直到1927年。一個出租車司機換輪胎一天晚上，前往塞勒姆。他剛剛結束時，他的車開始劇烈地顫抖。他抬起頭，看到一個巨大的，翅膀的數字敲打屋頂上他的車。司機，讓他的傑克和爆胎後，跳上汽車，迅速開車走了。他匯報了遇到的塞勒姆警察。

在1930年8月，採摘漿果在利茲點和邁斯蘭丁報告看到了魔鬼，衝出領域和吞噬藍莓和越橘。據報導，兩個星期後再次向北方，然後它消失了。

在1951年11月，一組兒童據稱受魔鬼圍困在迪波爾會所，吉布斯敦。這種動物界離開，不傷害任何人，但報導稱，這是發現了幾十個證人，終於消失了。

目擊繼續在這裡和那裡多年，並再次達到高峰，然後在1960年，恐怖的呼喊恐嚇一群人近梅斯蘭丁。國家官員試圖平息緊張居民，但沒有解釋可以發現的奇怪的聲音。警察標誌和海報到處釘指出澤西惡魔是個騙局，但好奇者湧入該地區的反正。哈利亨特，亨特兄弟誰擁有馬戲團，提供10萬美元的用於捕獲的野獸，希望將它添加到他的雜耍景點。不用說，怪物從未圈套。

最近瞄準的怪物，據說已在1993年時，護林員名為 John歐文駕駛沿馬利卡河新澤西州南部。他吃驚地發現在他前面的道路阻斷澤西惡魔。他形容它是大約六英尺高，有角，褪色的黑毛。這會不會是報告的新澤西魔鬼 - 或別的動物共？歐文表示，他和生物盯著對方的，幾分鐘前的怪物終於轉身跑進了森林。

今天，只有少數人，個別的目擊澤西惡魔。它好像鋪了道路，電燈，現代慣例來在該地區的過程中兩個半世紀以來推動了怪物到目前為止，它已經躲藏起來徹底消失了。是缺乏證據的怪物的存在，在這些現代化的時代導致很多人認為魔鬼是沒有什麼比創造新澤西州的民間傳說。但真的嗎？

如果它僅僅是一個神話，那麼我們怎麼解釋出沒的動物和證人的證詞像商人從可靠的人，警官，甚至公共官員？他們不容易解僱的傳聞或酗酒的結果。請問新澤西魔鬼是真正的，畢竟？如果是的話，它仍然在那裡，在偏遠地區的松樹貧瘠 - 只是等待被發現？

 ~ 二月 ~

 The historic states along America’s Atlantic Seaboard have given birth to hundreds of ghostly tales and unusual stories over the years. One of the strangest is undoubtedly that of the Jersey Devil, a creature that is believed by some to be a mythical creature and by others, a real-life monster of flesh and blood. Its origins date back to when New Jersey was still a British colony.

According to the legend, Mrs. Jane Leeds came from a poor family who eked out an existence in the Pine Barrens of Jersey, a rugged place with vast forests, sandy soil and patches of swamp. In 1735, Mrs. Leeds discovered that she was pregnant with her 13th child. She complained to her friends and relatives that the “Devil can take the next one”, and he did. When the baby was born, he was monster! He immediately took on a grotesque appearance and grew to more than 20 feet long, with a reptilian body, a horse’s head, bat wings and a long, forked tail. He thrashed about the Leeds home for a bit and then vanished up the chimney. The creature, or the “Jersey Devil” as he was dubbed, began haunting the Pine Barrens.

The New Jersey Pine Barrens

As the story spread, even grown men declined to venture out at night. It was said that the beast carried off large dogs, geese, cats, small livestock and even occasional children. The children were never seen again, but the animal remains were often found. The Devil was also said to dry up the milk of cows by breathing on them and to kill off the fish in the streams, threatening the livelihood of the entire region.

In 1740, the frightened residents begged a local minister to exorcize the creature and the stories stated that the exorcism would last 100 years, however the Devil returned to the Pine Barrens on at least two occasions before the century was over. Legend has it that naval hero Commodore Stephen Decatur visited the Hanover Iron Works in the Barrens in 1800 to test the plant’s cannonballs. One day on the firing range, he noticed a strange creature winging overhead. Taking aim, he fired at the monster and while some say that his shot struck it, the Devil continued on its path.

A Map of Jersey Devil Sightings

(Rosemary Ellen Guiley)

 The second sighting took place a few years later and this time the Devil was seen by another respected witness. Joseph Bonaparte, the former king of Spain and the brother of Napoleon, leased a country house near Bordertown from 1816 to 1839. He reported seeing the Jersey Devil while hunting game one day in the Pine Barrens.

In 1840, as the minister warned, the Devil returned and brought terror to the region once again. It snatched sheep from their pens and preyed on children who lingered outside after sunset. People all across South Jersey locked their doors and hung a lantern on the doorstep, hoping to keep the creature away.

The stories continued to be told and the lore of the Devil was recalled throughout the 1800’s, although actual sightings of the creature were few. Then, in 1909, the Jersey Devil returned again and literally thousands of people spotted the monster or saw his footprints. It became so bad that schools closed and people refused to go outside.

A police officer named James Sackville spotted the monster while walking his beat one night. He was passing along a dark alley when a winged creature hopped into the street and let out a horrific scream. Sackville fired his revolver at the beast but it spread its wings and vanished into the air.

 In spite of the sightings, the beast was always considered a regional legend until the bizarre flap in 1909, which even the most skeptical researchers admit contains authentic elements of the unexplained. Many people saw the creature during the month of January, including E.W. Minster, the postmaster of Bristol, Pennsylvania, which is just over the New Jersey border. He stated that he awoke around 2:00 in the morning and heard an “eerie, almost supernatural” sound coming from the direction of the Delaware River. He looked out the window and saw what looked to be a “large crane” that was flying diagonally and emitting a curious glow. The creature had a long neck that was thrust forward in flight, thin wings, long back legs and shorter ones in the front. The creature let out a combination of a squawk and a whistle and then disappeared into the darkness.

Sightings continued. On January 19, 1909, Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Evans were awakened in the early morning by the sound of a large animal on the roof of their shed. They described it as: “about three and a half feet high, with a face like a collie and a head like a horse. It had a long neck, wings about two feet long and its back legs were like those of a crane and it had horse’s hooves. It walked on its back legs and held up two short front legs with paws on them.”

One afternoon of that same week, a Mrs. J.H, White was taking clothes off her line when she noticed a strange creature huddled in the corner of her yard. She screamed and fainted and her husband rushed out the back door to find his wife on the ground and the Devil close by, “spurting flames”. She chased the monster with a clothesline prop and it leapt over the fence and vanished.

A short time later, the creature struck again. This time, it attacked a dog belonging to Mrs. Mary Sorbinski in south Camden. When she heard the cry of her pet in the darkness, she dashed outside and drove the Devil away with a broom. The creature fled, but not before tearing a chunk of flesh from the dog. Mrs. Sorbinski carried her wounded pet inside and immediately called the police.

By the time that patrolmen arrived, a crowd of more than 100 people were gathered at the house. The crowd was witness to the piercing screams that suddenly erupted from nearby. The police officers emptied their revolvers at the shadow that loomed against the night sky, but the Devil escaped once again.

Eyewitness accounts of the Devil filled the newspapers, as well as photos and reports of cloven footprints that had been found in yards, woods and parking lots. The Philadelphia Zoo offered a $10,000 reward for the capture of the Devil, but there were no takers.

Then, as suddenly as it had come, the Devil vanished again.

The creature did not return again until 1927. A cab driver was changing a tire one night while headed for Salem. He had just finished when his car began shaking violently. He looked up to see a gigantic, winged figure pounding on the roof of his car. The driver, leaving his jack and flat tire behind, jumped into the car and quickly drove away. He reported the encounter to the Salem police.

In August 1930, berry pickers at Leeds Point and Mays Landing reported seeing the Devil, crashing through the fields and devouring blueberries and cranberries. It was reported again two weeks later to the north and then it disappeared again.

In November 1951, a group of children were allegedly cornered by the Devil at the Duport Clubhouse in Gibbstown. The creature bounded away without hurting anyone but reports claimed that it was spotted by dozens of witnesses before finally vanishing again.

Sightings continued here and there for years and then peaked once more in 1960 when bloodcurdling cries terrorized a group of people near Mays Landing. State officials tried to calm the nervous residents but no explanation could be found for the weird sounds. Policemen nailed signs and posters everywhere stating that the Jersey Devil was a hoax, but curiosity-seekers flooded into the area anyway. Harry Hunt, who owned the Hunt Brothers Circus, offered $100,000 for the capture of the beast, hoping to add it to his sideshow attractions. Needless to say, the monster was never snared.

The most recent sighting of the creature was said to have been in 1993 when a forest ranger named John Irwin was driving along the Mullica River in southern New Jersey. He was startled to find the road ahead of him blocked by the Jersey Devil. He described it as being about six-feet tall with horns and matted black fur. Could this have been the reported Jersey Devil - or some other creature altogether? Irwin stated that he and the creature stared at one another for several minutes before the monster finally turned and ran into the forest.

Today, there are only a few, isolated sightings of the Jersey Devil. It seems as though the paved roads, electric lights and modern conventions that have come to the region over the course of two and a half centuries have driven the monster so far into hiding that it has vanished altogether. The lack of proof of the monster’s existence in these modern times leads many to believe the Devil was nothing more than a creation of New Jersey folklore. But was it really?

If it was merely a myth, then how do we explain the sightings of the creature and the witness accounts from reliable persons like businessmen, police officers and even public officials? They are not easy to dismiss as hearsay or the result of heavy drinking. Could the Jersey Devil have been real after all? And if so, is it still out there in the remote regions of the Pine Barrens - just waiting to be found?