Many of these sightings are very similar to reports of the Jersey Devil.

* Jersey Devil

The Jersey Devil, the inspiration for the team's name.

On June 30, 1982, the team was renamed the New Jersey Devils, after the legend of the Jersey Devil, an ominous cryptozoological creature supposed to inhabit the Pine Barrens of South Jersey.

Some of the more popular cryptids include Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, living Dinosaurs, Mothman, rods or skyfish, the Jersey Devil, Unicorn and werewolves.

The Jersey Devil is a legendary creature or cryptid said to inhabit the Pine Barrens of Southern New Jersey, United States.

The Jersey Devil has worked its way into the pop culture of the area, even lending its name to New Jersey's team in the National Hockey League.

There are many possible origins of the Jersey Devil legend.

This identification may have gained credence from the fact that Deborah Leeds ' husband, Japhet Leeds, named twelve children in the will he wrote in 1736, which is compatible with the legend of the Jersey Devil being the thirteenth child born by Mother Leeds.

Deborah and Japhet Leeds also lived in the Leeds Point section of what is now Atlantic County, New Jersey, which is the area commonly said to be the location of the Jersey Devil story.

There have been many sightings and occurrences allegedly involving the Jersey Devil.

Joseph Bonaparte, eldest brother of Emperor Napoleon, is also said to have witnessed the Jersey Devil while hunting on his Bordentown estate around 1820.

On July 27, 1937 an unknown animal " with red eyes " seen by residents of Downingtown, Pennsylvania was compared to the Jersey Devil by a reporter for the Pennsylvania Bulletin.

and claims of a corpse matching the Jersey Devil's description arose in 1957, In 1960 tracks and noises heard near Mays Landing were claimed to be from the Jersey Devil.

During the same year the merchants around Camden offered a $ 10, 000 reward for the capture of the Jersey Devil, even offering to build a private zoo to house the creature if captured.

During the week of January 16 through 23, 1909, newspapers of the time published hundreds of claimed encounters with the Jersey Devil from all over the state.

Other reports initially concerned unidentified footprints in the snow, but soon sightings of creatures resembling the Jersey Devil were being reported throughout South Jersey and as far away as Delaware.

A new waterfront site for the bureau is now being built at Atlantic City, New Jersey, to provide the most modern marine testing facilities as a further tool to keep the sport safe.

He said Mitchell is against the centralization of government in Washington but looks to the Kennedy Administration for aid to meet New Jersey school and transportation crises.

The gift is being presented by `` heirs and descendants of the Rutherford family of New Jersey, whose famous estate, `` Tranquility '', was located near the Duncan Phyfe workshop at Andover, N. J..

In New Jersey, for example, the Administrative Office of the Court has promulgated a form of notice of appeal for use by appellants, though using this exact form is not mandatory and the failure to use it is not a jurisdictional defect provided that all pertinent information is set forth in whatever form of notice of appeal is used.

* 1758 – The first American Indian Reservation is established, at Indian Mills, New Jersey.

* 1882 – The Standard Oil of New Jersey is established.

That is larger by than the combined areas of Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and Virginia.

One of the last remaining Sunday closing laws in the United States that covers selling electronics, clothing and furniture is found in Bergen County, New Jersey.

Bell Laboratories ( also known as Bell Labs and formerly known as AT & T Bell Laboratories and Bell Telephone Laboratories ) is the research and development subsidiary of the French-owned Alcatel-Lucent in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey.

De Palma, whose background is Italian Roman Catholic, was born in Newark, New Jersey, the son of Vivienne ( née Muti ) and Anthony Federico De Palma, an orthopedic surgeon.

The Battery Park City Ferry Terminal is at the foot of Vesey Street opposite the New York Mercantile Exchange and provides ferry transportation to various points in New Jersey.

The game played between teams from Rutgers University and Princeton University, which was called the College of New Jersey at the time, took place on November 6, 1869 at College Field, which is now the site of the College Avenue Gymnasium at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

The United States has a federal system in which a person is a citizen of their specific state of residence, such as New Jersey or California, as well as a citizen of the United States.

Today the term " Collegiate Shag " is most often used in reference to a kind of double shag ( see explanation below ) that is believed to have originated in New York or New Jersey during the 1930s.

It is bordered to the south and west by Maryland, to the northeast by New Jersey, and to the north by Pennsylvania.

Delaware is bounded to the north by Pennsylvania ; to the east by the Delaware River, Delaware Bay, New Jersey and the Atlantic Ocean ; and to the west and south by Maryland.

Installed capacity is growing by 40 % per year led by increases in Germany, Japan, California and New Jersey.

Ellis Island is located in Jersey City, New Jersey and is situated in the Upper New York Bay east of Liberty State Park and north of Liberty Island.

* In the novel All the Rage by F. Paul Wilson, the fourth of his Repairman Jack novels, a rogue rakosh ( a bipedal shark-demon, first introduced in Wilson's novel The Tomb ) disappears into the New Jersey Pine Barrens, assuming the identity of the ( previously only legendary, it is implied ) Jersey Devil.

* Jersey Devil, also known as the Leeds Devil, legendary creature said to inhabit southern New Jersey, USA

DeLuise also voiced the legendary character of Charles Dickens ' Fagin in the Walt Disney film Oliver & Company and made voice guest appearances on several animated TV series. The handprints of Dom DeLuise in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

This swashbuckling adventure was based on the legendary tale of the Medieval hero, Robin Hood, and was the first production to present many of the elements of the legend that became familiar to movie audiences in later versions, although an earlier treatment had been filmed a decade before in Fort Lee, New Jersey.

The Scream Zone logo bears a resemblance to " Tillie ", the grinning face that adorned the outside of the Palace Amusements in Asbury Park, New Jersey, which is a nod to legendary Steeplechase Park owner Harry George Tilyou.

During his career he defeated such legendary figures as Jersey Joe Walcott, Jimmy Bivins, and Floyd Patterson.

In Canada, Robitaille appeared alongside New Jersey Devils goaltender Martin Brodeur in a Delissio frozen pizza commercial, where the two watch footage of Luc's many goals against the legendary goalie while sharing a pizza.

He was born in Montclair, New Jersey the son of legendary golf course designer Robert Trent Jones and the younger brother of golf course designer Robert Trent Jones, Jr. His wife Susan was the executive assistant to photographer Edgar de Evia in the 1970s.

In 2009, UCLA scheduled a special " Throwback Jersey " day in honor of Heisman Trophy Winner Gary Beban for the UCLA-Washington homecoming game at the Rose Bowl, where the team dressed in the resplendid powder blue and white shoulder stripe jerseys with pure gold helmets ( no decals ) of UCLA's storied days of Beban's great ' 65 -' 66-67 seasons, uniforms first devised by the legendary coach Red Sanders for his national power teams of the 50's, including the 1954 National Championship team.

It may also be called the Jersey Sound due to the close connection many of its artists and producers have with New Jersey such as the legendary Shep Pettibone and Tony Humphries at Zanzibar in Newark, NJ.

The legendary nightclub that helped launch the careers of Southside Johnny, Jon Bon Jovi, and others – The Stone Pony in Asbury Park, New Jersey – was founded in February 1974, nine months before Linda Ronstadt's major breakthrough album Heart Like A Wheel was released.