15 Fantastic Mythical Beasts From Around the World (and Where To Find Them)
New Jersey folk lore holds that Mother Leeds was none too happy when she found out she was pregnant for the 13th time. She cursed the child, and when it was born on a dark and stormy night in 1735, it morphed from a beautiful bouncing baby into a bizarre animal with a goat’s head, a bat’s wings, and a forked tail. The Jersey Devil was born. Dozens of people — including Napoleon Bonaparte’s older brother, who briefly served as the King of Spain before his exile to an estate in Bordentown, New Jersey — have claimed to have spotted this monster haunting the woodlands of South Jersey. The state’s hockey team is named after the cryptid.