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On this episode of Expedition X...

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Oh, yeah! All right!

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Phil and Jess investigate the legend of a demonic creature

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in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey.

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That lure, the story, everything behind it

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is something out of a nightmare.

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...said to have been terrorizing the region for 300 years.

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All of a sudden, there's a God-awful screech.

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And I just froze. I was scared to death.

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Could it be a predator unknown to modern science?

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That was terrifying.

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What was it?

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I have no idea.

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The mere product of tall tales and paralyzing fear.

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Can all these people be wrong? There's just something out there.

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Or is it something demonic?

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It's over here at the trees.

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We need to get back here. We're all scared.

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Anyway...

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Devil in the forest.

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My name is Josh Gates.

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In my travels, I've experienced strange things that defy logic

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and made me question everything.

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Oh, my God.

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Now, I've put together a team to investigate the stranger side of the unknown.

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Let's go!

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Phil Torres is a scientist who hunts for rational explanations.

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This is a corner from actually found stationery.

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Jessica Chobot's paranormal research has made her a true believer.

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Phil, do you see that?

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I just saw something pretty gross.

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Together, we're searching for answers...

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What is that?

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...to the world's most extraordinary mysteries.

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This is Expedition X.

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Okay, so as we kick off a new case here,

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I want to start by showing you a photo.

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What do you think?

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That is weird.

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And very dead.

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And very gross.

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Correct on all counts.

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Weird, dead, and gross.

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This is referred to as the Montauk monster.

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It's something that washed ashore in Montauk Long Island in 2008.

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And it's what people refer to as a cryptid,

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an unidentified, unknown animal.

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In this case, biologists were able to determine

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that this particular cryptid is in fact the bloated decomposing carcass

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of a raccoon.

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See?

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Science for the win.

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Now we're talking.

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Science for the win.

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Well, today's case might be a little harder for science to figure out,

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and it's actually not far from Long Island.

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It is in fact a cryptid that we're talking about,

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one of the most hotly contested cryptid stories in American history,

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something that people are still having terrifying experiences with

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in the wilds of New Jersey.

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The cast of the Jersey Shore.

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Even scarier, Jess.

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No.

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The Jersey Devil.

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The legend goes that in 1735,

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in a heavily forested area known today as the Pine Barrens of New Jersey,

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a woman named Jane Leeds learns that she is pregnant with her 13th child

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and becomes incensed that her husband is never around to help raise their kids.

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In some versions, mother Leeds is a witch.

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In others, simply a stressed out mom.

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Regardless, in her anger, it is said that she raises her fists to the heavens

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and proclaims,

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let this one be a devil.

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According to the story, mother Leeds gets her wish.

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Although born looking human,

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the child soon develops ghastly demonic features.

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A large horse-like head,

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cloven hooves,

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and huge leathery wings.

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After savagely attacking its siblings,

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the devil disappears into the expansive forest

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and some claim it takes refuge in an abandoned inn deep in the woods.

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As crazy as the legend sounds,

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what is undeniable is the number of eyewitness sightings,

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people who swear they've encountered the monster.

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The most infamous reports occur in January 1909,

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when South Jersey residents find cloven hoof prints in the snow

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that cross fields, fences, rooftops,

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and end in a bloody mess of dead livestock.

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Panic begins to spread as others profess to witness the devil face-to-face,

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inciting mass hysteria in the region.

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Over a century later,

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there are still frequent reports of a grotesque flying creature

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prowling the pines of South Jersey.

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Just a few weeks ago,

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a local woodsman reports a new, shocking encounter.

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Then a local farmer finds cloven hoof prints

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and blood trails crisscrossing his property.

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Another eyewitness describes an animal resembling a kind of winged llama,

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running through the trees and taking flight.

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Skeptics believe the creature may be a large predatory bird

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or a deer afflicted with mage.

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There's even some who believe it's a mutant bat.

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But true believers insist a monster inhabits the barons.

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So, is the Jersey Devil truly an unholy abomination

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or simply a series of misidentified animals

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that spawned a legend that won't die?

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Okay, so, Phil, thoughts?

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Come on. I mean, you lost me a flying llama.

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I can't even begin to tell you how biologically impossible this thing is.

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For something the size of a horse to be flying through the trees,

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it wouldn't need wings bigger than this room.

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Just can't see it happening.

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Not a totally unexpected response from Phil.

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And let's be honest, the origin story of this cryptid is really fantastical, right?

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But we do have all these sightings.

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So, Jess, Jersey Devil, yes or no?

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Llama Jersey Devil? No.

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Jersey Devil, something? Yes.

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I mean, you've got so many compelling reports from people that span centuries.

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People are taking this seriously.

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My instinct here says that this is just a case of misidentification.

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There is this thing called insular gigantism,

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which is when an isolated population of animals, say, on an island, can become giant.

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Like giant tortoises, we've seen Galapagos,

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or there used to be this giant eagle that's now extinct.

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It can happen, but we're talking about New Jersey here, not an island.

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So, I don't know, maybe it could be some weird, bigger population of owls or bats.

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Always with the bats and owls.

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All I'm saying is that people's descriptions of this thing are so unique that there's something there.

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And people have been seeing something for more than 300 years.

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So, I think instead of sitting around talking about it, let's get out there and investigate it.

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Let's start by talking to people that are having these current encounters.

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Are they misidentifying something or could there be a real cryptid here?

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I'm in.

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My team drives 100 miles south of New York City to one of the most remote and unpopulated areas on the eastern seaboard.

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Or exit 52 off the Garden State Parkway for you Jerseyites.

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I'm seeing some pine trees, Jess.

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Which means we've made it to the Pine Baron Forest.

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The New Jersey Pine Barons, also known as the Pines, is over a million acres of thick forest

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that stretch over seven counties and make up nearly a quarter of the state's entire landmass.

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The name Pine Barons refers to the area's sandy, acidic, nutrient-starved soil.

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But it still manages to support an impressive 900 different plants and hundreds of unique animals

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This place is amazing.

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Yeah, maybe an ecosystem that can support the Jersey Devil.

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I mean, there's plenty of stuff thriving out here, but home to Jersey Devil? I'm not so sure.

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How is there no actual physical evidence of this thing that people claim is real?

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This is acres and acres and acres of woods that have not been touched.

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But if you're going to live anywhere where you can hide and people would have a tough time to find you, this is it, right here.

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Are there things we don't know about this area? Yes, but I just can't see a giant Jersey Devil

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being able to hide out here without being seen.

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Jess and Phil arrive at a local watering hole to meet with the most recent eyewitness

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who claims to have had a chilling encounter with, well, him.

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Ladies and gentlemen, the Jersey Devil.

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Who knew that the Jersey Devil loves the gym?

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Oh, that guy works out.

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He is swole.

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Well, we found him.

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Let's go home.

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Yeah, we got it.

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Anyway, the team are meeting Bruce Powell.

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Hey, it's Bruce.

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Yes, how you doing?

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A local woodsman who's been hunting in the pine barrens for decades, Bruce claims to have had a terrifying encounter

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with what he believes was the Jersey Devil.

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I had an experience that I can't really explain.

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About three weeks ago, I was up a deer stand, and I was sitting there most of the day and got towards dark.

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And all of a sudden, this god-awful screech.

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I just froze.

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I heard two steps and then one faint step and then that was it.

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There was only two times in my life I've been scared, and that was one time right there.

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And it didn't sound like a deer or anything like that?

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Deer make blowing noises, they'll snort, they make all signals like that.

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What about like cats in the area?

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Like bobcats or anything like that?

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I felt this.

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That's how big it was.

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Did you see any footprints or anything?

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I didn't even bother.

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You just got out of there.

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I got out of there and I never went back.

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So there's something unknown in these woods?

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If there really is a large and mysterious animal living in the pines, we have to track it down.

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And that starts with its last known location.

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And to get there, we're heading down the Molica River, a former trade route that once funneled millions of dollars of cargo into New Jersey.

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To look at it, you never know.

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The schooners came all the way up here from Jamaica with rum.

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This is where they dropped everything off duty free.

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Rum was that important to the people here that they went all the way down to Jamaica to pick it up before coming.

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As a matter of fact, I'm going to take you to one where it was served.

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It's also very close to where I had my experience with the animal made of noise that night.

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This is a spot right here.

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I'm going to anchor up and I'll walk you back in.

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Bruce's hunting stand is located miles into the forest.

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These woods provide habitat for the highly venomous Timberrattle snake, which is considered one of the most dangerous snakes in the northeastern U.S.

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So we need to watch our step.

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All right, follow me up here.

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As we venture deeper into the woods, Bruce points out an important landmark with historic ties to the Jersey Devil.

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I'm going to show you what's left of the Bodine Tavern.

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The last remnants of the foundation are underneath that tree.

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It grew right over top of you see the stone sticking out.

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That's the corner.

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A lot of people congregated around here and there was a lot of Jersey Devil sightings here.

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The Bodine Tavern opened its doors in 1769.

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Not long after, sightings of the creature perched on its roof became so common that in the early 1800s, they began printing images of the Devil on their cider jugs.

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And these sightings weren't just the results of locals pickling themselves in rum.

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Even after the tavern closed, the abandoned structure remained a hotspot for many years.

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From where we're standing, where did you have your experience?

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Right down that path through here, very near an old fire tower that's out there pretty far.

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Awesome. All right, so that's where we got to go.

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That's where you're going.

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Where we're going.

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I'm staying here.

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Be careful walking down here now.

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Bruce has agreed to pick us up in his boat at first light tomorrow morning.

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Our plan is to spend the night in these woods looking for any sign of whatever he encountered.

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I believe the Jersey Devil is not a devil at all, but a misidentified animal.

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And like every flesh and blood creature, it will require specific environmental features to sustain itself.

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If we can find and gain access to the fire tower, Bruce mentioned,

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I might be able to figure out where an animal like this is most likely to call home.

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Look at that.

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You seen that?

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There's a fire tower.

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Well, should we get up there?

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Yeah, I mean, it says no trespassing, but I think we're going to have to trespass on this one.

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We'll just trespass a little bit.

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Make it fast.

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And the door's open, so...

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It's kind of an open invitation right there.

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Oh, it's tall.

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This 10-story fire tower was built by the New Jersey Forest Fire Service

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to help with the early detection of brush fires.

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Wildfires have helped shape the pine barrens for thousands of years.

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These fires can create large clearings which give rise to edible plants which attract herbivores,

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making the edge of those clearings ideal for predators to hunt for prey.

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Oh, we are high.

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I wish these heights didn't make me throw up.

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This would be fantastic.

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That's why I'm above you, so you don't puke on me.

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Based on folklore, the Jersey Devil is a carnivore,

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which makes this vantage point perfect for scouting this neck of the woods.

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Jess.

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What?

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You can stop at the base of this stairs.

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The floor feels a little unstable for two up here.

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Yeah, that's fine.

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All right. Wow.

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It is an amazing view.

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Oh, yeah.

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I mean, it is just green pine trees all the way in every direction to the horizon.

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We got our work cut out for us, Jess.

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Based on reports, there's a good chance that the so-called Jersey Devil

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lives somewhere between the Bodine Tavern and this tower.

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But finding him in this, that's a needle in a haystack.

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You see anything worthwhile?

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No Jersey Devil yet.

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Hang on. I think I'm seeing something over here.

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Yeah, what?

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It looks like there's some sort of, I don't know, clearing or sinkhole or maybe even a cave.

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Where should I be looking?

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If the sun is 12 o'clock, look at around 10.30.

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Okay, no, I think I see it.

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From your perspective, does it look like a place where a creature would live?

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Yeah, I mean, in an area that is completely uniform with pine trees, anything that...

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What the f*** was that?

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Jess and Phil are investigating recent sightings of the Jersey Devil,

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the legendary monster whose story has been synonymous with New Jersey's pine barons for 285 years.

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Where did you have your experience?

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Right down that path, very near an old fire tower.

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So that's where we gotta go?

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That's where you're going.

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It looks like there's some sort of, I don't know, clearing or sinkhole or maybe even a cave.

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Does it look like a place where a creature would live?

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Yeah, I mean, anything that...

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What the f*** was that?

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Jess, you heard that, yeah?

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Yeah, I did. What was it?

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I have no idea.

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As it's getting sundown, a lot of birds start to call when they go to roost for the night, so...

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That didn't sound like a bird.

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There's about 300 species that could be found here, Jess, so...

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Do any of those 300 species of bird growl?

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I actually have no clue.

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It sounded like it came from near that area. Am I crazy?

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If a large flesh and blood creature made that sound, there has to be evidence of it.

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Tracks, hair, feathers, scat, something.

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And based on our eyewitnesses' sighting, the clearing we saw from the fire tower could be prime habitat.

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You see anything down that way?

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I don't see anything.

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Wait, wait, wait.

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Wow.

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Oh, check this out.

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Are you kidding me?

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Look at the size of this thing.

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Is this some sort of building?

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Yeah.

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I mean, it just keeps going. Look, there's another wall.

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You know what?

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This is probably the best structure for shelter of the round.

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It's been around for hundreds of years.

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Yeah.

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So I could definitely see the wildlife around here using this.

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That's essentially like a sanctuary or a base.

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Alright, I think we should set up here.

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We got great visibility of the sky, and that's perfect for the low-light camera.

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So if the Jersey Devil flies over, we'll catch it.

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And we've got the ruins. That's a pretty high point.

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Yeah.

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Maybe he'll perch over there.

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Yeah. Good visibility of the tree on it.

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I think I'm going to go all around the periphery.

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I have to throw my imaging cameras.

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I'll shine it up in the trees.

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I get a heat signature of an animal running around up there or flying around up there.

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Maybe it will give us a clue as to what it is that people are seeing when they think it's the Jersey Devil.

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I also have the fox pearl.

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I can send out some calls and see if we can draw something in.

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That's good. Yeah, we just got to remember though, whatever people are seeing out here,

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just get on the heck out of there. We've got to be extra careful.

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Well, yeah, we're going to Jersey Devil.

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Of course, I'm going to be careful.

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I don't want to get my head ripped off.

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Alright. Good luck here.

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Oh, yeah.

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I'm heading out.

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You got your walkie?

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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I'm using a specialized low light camera capable of magnifying low levels of ambient light.

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Anything that streaks across the sky or lands near this structure,

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even if I can't see it with my own eyes, this camera will image it.

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Alright.

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I'm going to take out the thermal imager.

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This thermal imager can identify heat sources in complete darkness by measuring the heat

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radiating off an object or living thing.

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Where are you at, Devil?

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Do you hear that?

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There's something up here.

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Come on.

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What was it?

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Oh, look at that.

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I just saw some bats flying by.

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To see it fly across the night sky with the thermal is amazing because it's really hard to see with just a flashlight.

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But this thing, they are lighting up amazing.

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Okay. I've got the night vision camera set up.

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And I'm ready to send out some calls with the FoxPro.

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Alright. What are you going to send out first?

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Let me try and see.

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Doing the rodent call brings anything in.

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Alright. Go for it. I'm ready.

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I'll let you know if I hear from here.

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Okay.

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The FoxPro is an incredibly loud, high definition speaker capable of reproducing a thousand different animal calls.

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With a range of about 10 miles, this thing is like ringing the dinner bell.

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Come on.

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You seen anything?

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No, nothing yet.

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I'm speaking. We do a white tail deer distress call.

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Let's see if that brings anything in.

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Alright. I'll get my eyes on this guy here.

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That's a terrifying noise she's been coming out.

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We can only guess how to curate a menu for the so-called Jersey Devil.

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While a rodent call might draw on predatory birds, this wounded deer call could attract something bigger that you don't want to tangle with in the dark.

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Like a 400 pound black bear.

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Jess, the forest just got super quiet around here.

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Yeah, I noticed. It's quite over here too.

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That tells me something is either here or something could be here this way.

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Oh.

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Jess, I just had something flying overhead.

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You okay? I'm looking. I thought I heard something.

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What the heck was that?

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I'm not sure.

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Oh, sh**!

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Oh, sh**!

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That was Jess. Come on.

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So what happened?

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Something f*****g flew right over me.

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What the heck?

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I'm going to check the thermal camera. Maybe it's still here.

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You seen anything?

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Nothing.

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Whatever flew above Jess's head seems to be gone now.

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It kind of sounded like it went back here.

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Isn't this where you have a little light camera?

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Okay, I'll put it over here.

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Let's try to review this footage.

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Okay.

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Let's try to come scrub into this area.

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Yeah. See it right there. Check that out.

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There. Did you see it?

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Wow.

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Right there. That was like a wing.

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I have to go back with the time.

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That's a wing.

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It does look like a wing.

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If there are mosquitoes flying around you,

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bats are known to fly right by you to pick those up.

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It was definitely large. Larger than a bat.

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Whatever just scared you,

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that could be the thing that people are calling the Jersey Devil.

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We have something on tape,

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so I think we should just keep this thing on.

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Do a few more calls. Just see what happens.

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For the next hour, we continue sending out more virtual calls.

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But things stay quiet.

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The footage we managed to capture is a frustrating near miss

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of whatever the hell flew over my head.

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And whatever it was, I'm certain it was no bat.

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Because while I couldn't see it,

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I could definitely tell it was something extremely large.

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I'm just so pissed that it didn't just land on the top of that ledge

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so that we could get a picture of it.

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I don't think it's going to be that easy, Jess.

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At the end of a long night, I'm certain of two things.

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One, something scared the crap out of Jess.

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And two, there are bats all over these woods.

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I recorded some of them on my thermal camera.

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I have to believe that is what Jess encountered out here.

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Though she's convinced it was much larger than any bat native to this area.

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So as a new day dawns, we meet up with Bruce,

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who takes us back to civilization so we can each scare up some new leads.

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Alright, back to the marina we go.

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Bruce claimed to have heard a monstrous call in the woods.

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And based on last night,

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Jess believes there could be a large winged cryptid that inhabits the pines.

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After hitting the phones all day,

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Jess has managed to track down another eyewitness

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that believes she actually saw the Jersey Devil with her own two eyes.

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Meanwhile, Phil heads to the New Jersey Wildlife Conservation

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and Education Center to follow up on his theory

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that the legendary Jersey Devil is nothing more than some kind of misidentified bat.

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Hey, you must be Phil.

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Yes, judging by all the bats I'm seeing here, I'm guessing I'm in the right place.

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You're in the right place, you're in the bat cave.

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Joe DeAngeli, the director and curator of the center,

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has been studying bats for over 25 years

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and is one of the foremost experts on native bat species in the pine barrens.

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I am here in New Jersey actually looking into the Jersey Devil.

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Anybody in New Jersey has to be familiar with the Jersey Devil,

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especially if you work with bats.

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Yeah, and when people say that there's like a 10-foot horse-headed Jersey Devil flying around?

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No, there's no bats that are that big obviously.

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But, you know, everything and anything could be over-exaggerated,

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especially with bats,

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because they're one of the animals that you love or you're afraid of.

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So, the Jersey Devil, that lure, the story, everything behind it,

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it's mysterious enough and then add in the bat factor, of course.

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Yeah.

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It's almost something out of a nightmare.

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The legend of the devil that inhabits these pine barrens

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has inspired fear in this region for centuries.

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And scientists have found that fear itself can distort our perceptions.

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In 2016, researchers discovered that people with a fear of spiders,

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in this case tarantulas, actually estimated that they were three times larger than they really were.

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So, if a person sees a large bat flying overhead in the pine barrens,

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it's possible that a fearful response could actually transform that same bat into a giant winged monster.

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Now, speaking of bats, do you have anything that's large enough

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that could be mistaken for the Jersey Devil?

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I think we might have something you'd like to see.

479
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Okay.

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While Phil hangs with the batman,

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I'm speaking with eyewitness Megan Zalinka,

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who just days ago had what she says was a face-to-face encounter with the Jersey Devil.

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And whatever she saw, it could be the same large creature

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that swooped past me in the woods the other night.

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So, tell me what happened.

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My mom was driving and I was in the passenger seat.

487
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You were going home and I kind of like glanced up and

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crouching on the eaves of the house was like something huge looking directly at me.

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And then we passed it.

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I glanced behind and yelled at my mom to turn around,

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but by then it was already gone.

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What gave you the idea that this thing was so big?

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They had a chimney on the roof,

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was probably twice the size of the chimney.

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Back at the Batcave, I'm having a close encounter of my own.

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So these, Phil,

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whoa, are our big, big bats.

498
00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:04,000
Yeah, that is huge.

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These are the flying foxes.

500
00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:09,000
These are some of the biggest bats in the world.

501
00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:12,000
Wow.

502
00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:14,000
You can really see when they extend that front arm

503
00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:16,000
how giant they would be when they're in flight.

504
00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:18,000
This is definitely mega of the megabat family.

505
00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:19,000
Yeah, okay.

506
00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:21,000
Now we're talking.

507
00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:25,000
Okay, you're okay. You're okay.

508
00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:28,000
Wow, beautiful.

509
00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:30,000
Huge animal.

510
00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:32,000
Yeah, I said you're beautiful.

511
00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:34,000
And that face, that's not what you expect from a bat.

512
00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:38,000
No, most people would not think of a bat as cute or cuddly.

513
00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:42,000
Yeah, and you can imagine if people in the 1700s here in New Jersey,

514
00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:44,000
like if they saw this flying around,

515
00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:46,000
they would just think it's a devil.

516
00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:48,000
Yeah, I mean, their Latin name, monstrosis,

517
00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:52,000
basically signifies that this is something monstrous.

518
00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:53,000
Wow.

519
00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:58,000
While the flying fox is living proof that bats definitely come in size extra large,

520
00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:00,000
there's just one problem.

521
00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:02,000
This is a warm climate species

522
00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:05,000
and simply not able to survive the harsh winters here.

523
00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:09,000
So this sanctuary is the only place in New Jersey where you'll find them.

524
00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:13,000
Sorry, flying fox, but you are not the Jersey Devil.

525
00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:19,000
Is there any possibility that we could still be looking at some unusual bat

526
00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:21,000
that's a little bit bigger than people are used to here

527
00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:24,000
that could explain the sightings of today?

528
00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:34,000
My team is investigating the Jersey Devil,

529
00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:38,000
and Phil is going batty over a new winged suspect.

530
00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:41,000
If they saw this flying around, they would just think it's a devil.

531
00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:45,000
Is there any possibility that we could still be looking at some unusual bat

532
00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:47,000
that's a little bit bigger than people are used to here

533
00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:50,000
that could explain the sightings of today?

534
00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:52,000
Sure. I mean, anything is possible.

535
00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:54,000
They're very resilient animals.

536
00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:57,000
They can find ways of finding different types of food.

537
00:29:57,000 --> 00:29:59,000
They are excellent at adapting.

538
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:05,000
Is it possible that some kind of large, unidentified, or mutant bat species

539
00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:10,000
has managed to adapt and has yet to be discovered in the vast pine barrens?

540
00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:13,000
The eyewitness that Jess has been interviewing is convinced

541
00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:16,000
what she saw was more like a bat out of hell.

542
00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:19,000
So that winged monster you saw.

543
00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:22,000
Were you able to glean any details from it at all of what it looked like?

544
00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:25,000
Its eyes were red and glowing.

545
00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:27,000
You could see the wings.

546
00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:31,000
They were like a bat because I didn't see any feathers or anything like that.

547
00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:33,000
And then the wings were pointed at the top.

548
00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:38,000
You know how like a gargoyle sits like with its arms in front of its legs

549
00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:41,000
when it sits on top of like the cathedral?

550
00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:43,000
It kind of reminded me of that.

551
00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:45,000
Were you freaking out?

552
00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:48,000
I was. I feel like it could really tear you apart.

553
00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:51,000
And this area that you were driving through, is it a suburban area?

554
00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:53,000
Is it nearby any woods?

555
00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:56,000
It's right like in the middle of the pine lands.

556
00:30:56,000 --> 00:31:00,000
Okay, so it could have taken off and gone anywhere and be hidden right away.

557
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:01,000
Yeah.

558
00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:02,000
Interesting.

559
00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:06,000
According to Megan, the large creature she saw had the wings of a bat.

560
00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:10,000
So I can see why people like Phil might jump on the bat wagon.

561
00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:13,000
But the fact is bats don't have glowing red eyes

562
00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:17,000
and as far as we know, in this state, they don't even come close to the size

563
00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:19,000
of the creature she witnessed.

564
00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:22,000
So Phil and I meet back up and we're at a crossroads.

565
00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:25,000
We're hoping Josh can point us in the right direction.

566
00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:27,000
Jess and Phil, how are you?

567
00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:29,000
Good. How are you?

568
00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:31,000
I'm great. How's the investigation?

569
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:32,000
It's been pretty crazy.

570
00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:36,000
I actually had a possible encounter with the Jersey Devil.

571
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:37,000
Wait, what?

572
00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:39,000
Yeah, we were out by these ruins.

573
00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:41,000
I was sending out these deer distress calls

574
00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:44,000
and right then something swooped down past my face.

575
00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:46,000
Ah! Oh, sh**!

576
00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:48,000
Did you get a good look at it?

577
00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:52,000
No, but I do think we got something worth checking out on camera.

578
00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:53,000
Phil, what do you make of this?

579
00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:56,000
Just absolutely encountered something.

580
00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:59,000
I just don't know quite what it was.

581
00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:02,000
Now, my theory based upon what we've seen out here

582
00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:05,000
is that if the Jersey Devil could be a bat,

583
00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:08,000
maybe there's some kind of non-native species or migrant species

584
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:10,000
that goes up in New Jersey every once in a while

585
00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:13,000
and kind of throws people off and swoops Jess's head.

586
00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:15,000
I would like to disagree.

587
00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:18,000
This thing that flew over me felt huge.

588
00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:22,000
Not like just one tiny little bat swinging on by.

589
00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:24,000
It was significant.

590
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:27,000
Phil, last time I checked, there are no huge,

591
00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:30,000
monster sized bats in New Jersey, right?

592
00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:32,000
I gotta say that is correct,

593
00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:35,000
but nature has been surprising us all the time.

594
00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:37,000
I mean, sure. Could be anything.

595
00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:40,000
I'm a mutant bat for all we know, but let's say you are right.

596
00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:42,000
Let me see if I can wrangle some tech for you guys

597
00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:44,000
to send out there to help you

598
00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:46,000
in identifying the species that are out there.

599
00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:47,000
Great. Sounds good.

600
00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:49,000
Well, good luck out there.

601
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:51,000
And remember, if something swoops down to attack you,

602
00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:52,000
just keep filming.

603
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:54,000
We'll do. We're on it.

604
00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:59,000
As a biologist, I know that every big animal needs three things to survive.

605
00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:01,000
Shelter, food, and water.

606
00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:04,000
Shelter and food are everywhere you look,

607
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:08,000
but a water source that reaches the deep interior of the Pine Barrens,

608
00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:10,000
that can only be the Mullica River.

609
00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:13,000
Our plan is to navigate to its most remote area

610
00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:17,000
where we'll deploy some very cool new tech we got from Josh.

611
00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:20,000
And in Jersey, there's only one way to travel on the water.

612
00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:22,000
Cue the drum and bass.

613
00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:28,000
All right.

614
00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:32,000
These babies came with a coupon for a free spray tan and a slice of pizza.

615
00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:35,000
Now this is how you get around the Pine Barrens.

616
00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:44,000
Let's go here.

617
00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:46,000
Through that little wood thing?

618
00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:47,000
Yeah.

619
00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:49,000
Todd's going down. I don't know if we can make it through this.

620
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:50,000
It's going slow.

621
00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:51,000
All right.

622
00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:55,000
These jet skis aren't just for the Jim Tan laundry crowd.

623
00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:58,000
Their flat bottom hulls make them the only viable way

624
00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:01,000
to travel deep into the shallow inlets that we need to get through.

625
00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:04,000
Hey, here's a good spot.

626
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:06,000
I like it.

627
00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:09,000
After an hour of navigating a maze of small tributaries,

628
00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:12,000
we find the ideal spot to set up camp.

629
00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:20,000
Okay.

630
00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:24,000
Well, if my hypothesis is correct,

631
00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:27,000
and the Jersey Devil is actually some sort of bat,

632
00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:31,000
I'm trying to do everything I can to attract it to us.

633
00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:32,000
Okay.

634
00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:34,000
So, here's the plan.

635
00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:37,000
Large bats essentially eat one of two things,

636
00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:39,000
one of them being insects.

637
00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:42,000
So, we got this really bright light shining over the stream.

638
00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:44,000
It's already bringing in tons of bugs.

639
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:47,000
My hope is that the bats will see their food source

640
00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:50,000
and come in, get a meal, and we'll be able to spot them.

641
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:51,000
Okay.

642
00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:56,000
The other thing that large bats like to eat is fruit.

643
00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:59,000
When I lived in the Amazon, we would have big bushels of bananas

644
00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:01,000
hanging by our base, and every single morning,

645
00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:04,000
there'd be big chunks taken out of it by bats.

646
00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:07,000
So, I'm going to hang this up in a tree,

647
00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:09,000
and, you know, who knows, maybe it'll bring in something.

648
00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:10,000
Okay.

649
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:13,000
And this is where Josh's tech comes in.

650
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:17,000
This is a echolocation high-frequency sound sensor.

651
00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:20,000
I can plug this thing directly into my phone,

652
00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:23,000
and when it listens, it can not only detect bats,

653
00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:27,000
but it can also tell me what species is flying overhead.

654
00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:28,000
Okay.

655
00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:29,000
That actually is really cool.

656
00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:30,000
Right.

657
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:31,000
It's like my favorite toy ever.

658
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:32,000
That's a good one.

659
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:35,000
And I'll be listening tonight, too, with the parabolic mic.

660
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:39,000
Because I've used this in the jungle to record bird calls,

661
00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:40,000
frog calls, that sort of thing.

662
00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:41,000
This thing's empowered.

663
00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:43,000
Have you used one of these before?

664
00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:44,000
Yeah.

665
00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:46,000
For what?

666
00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:47,000
Bigfoot.

667
00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:48,000
Of course you have.

668
00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:49,000
I heard him, too.

669
00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:50,000
Of course you did.

670
00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:55,000
Well, I'll tell you what, between the high-tech and the low-tech,

671
00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:56,000
we've got to get some tonight.

672
00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:57,000
Yeah.

673
00:35:57,000 --> 00:35:58,000
All right.

674
00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:00,000
If anything happens, walkie-me.

675
00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:06,000
All right.

676
00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:08,000
Let's listen to some bats.

677
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:22,000
Oh, look at that.

678
00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:23,000
Check that out.

679
00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:25,000
Even though I've not seen any bats flying by,

680
00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:26,000
this thing is detecting them.

681
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:27,000
There.

682
00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:28,000
It just happened again.

683
00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:30,000
This says little brown bat.

684
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:32,000
So there's some bats flying around.

685
00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:36,000
Okay.

686
00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:37,000
This looks like a good place to start.

687
00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:41,000
This parabolic microphone can detect even the faintest of sounds

688
00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:43,000
up to 500 feet away.

689
00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:48,000
I am hearing so much stuff on this thing.

690
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:55,000
Huh.

691
00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:59,000
It's detecting a bat, but it's saying no matches found.

692
00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:02,000
See, look at that.

693
00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:05,000
That means it can't ID what had just hurt.

694
00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:07,000
It could just be an anomaly.

695
00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:10,000
Or there could be something weird flying around here.

696
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:12,000
Oh, just happened again.

697
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:14,000
I better get a camera set up on this tree line.

698
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:17,000
These anomalous readings only strengthen my theory.

699
00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:18,000
I'm not sure what I'm doing.

700
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:20,000
I'm just trying to figure out what I'm doing.

701
00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:23,000
These anomalous readings only strengthen my theory

702
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:25,000
that a large unidentified bat species

703
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:28,000
could be responsible for Jersey Devil sightings.

704
00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:31,000
So I'm deploying the same special low light camera

705
00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:32,000
that we used the other night.

706
00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:35,000
Hopefully this time we'll get a complete picture of the creature

707
00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:39,000
that has been terrorizing this land for over 300 years

708
00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:42,000
and put this legend to rest once and for all.

709
00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:43,000
And recording.

710
00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:45,000
See if you've got anything.

711
00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:53,000
What was that?

712
00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:55,000
I heard some rustling through the trees.

713
00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:57,000
Something that sounded like flapping,

714
00:37:57,000 --> 00:37:59,000
like something taking off.

715
00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:08,000
Let me see if I can get a closer look at what made that sound.

716
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:12,000
Camera call.

717
00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:13,000
Yeah.

718
00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:23,000
Let's go.

719
00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:34,000
Cryptozoological creatures have always captured our imaginations

720
00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:38,000
and will pay harder and money for the chance to get a look at them.

721
00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:39,000
And throughout history,

722
00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:41,000
Huxters and Shoman have taken note

723
00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:42,000
such as P.T. Barnum,

724
00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:46,000
the legendary promoter and founder of the Barnum and Bailey Circus,

725
00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:48,000
the world-famous spectacle dubbed

726
00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:54,080
famous spectacle dubbed the Greatest Show on Earth. In the 1840s, Barnum drew crowds with the

727
00:38:54,080 --> 00:39:00,320
promise of catching a glimpse of a real-life mermaid, one of his most elaborate hoaxes. Sure,

728
00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:05,600
it was really just the upper body of a monkey sewed to the tail of a fish, but hey, the Fiji

729
00:39:05,600 --> 00:39:12,400
mermaid helped put Barnum on the map. Then, in 1911, another group in Philadelphia wanted to cash in

730
00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:17,760
on a famous creature that was causing local hysteria, the Jersey Devil. Maybe you've heard of it.

731
00:39:17,760 --> 00:39:23,120
They painted green stripes on a kangaroo and slapped some fake wings on its back,

732
00:39:23,120 --> 00:39:28,480
quite the cooked-up curiosity. As to the creature that inspired it, well, that's the real mystery.

733
00:39:36,480 --> 00:39:39,360
Phil, I got it. It's over here in the trees.

734
00:39:43,280 --> 00:39:44,880
Okay, so I'm looking at you with...

735
00:39:48,720 --> 00:39:53,280
Turn off your light. Turn off your light. What? Turn off your light.

736
00:39:56,080 --> 00:39:59,920
I don't want to scare it off. What if you hear something swooping

737
00:39:59,920 --> 00:40:03,360
landing these branches and just kind of rumbling around a little bit?

738
00:40:03,360 --> 00:40:07,040
No, close to something. It's pretty close. You've got to sneak up.

739
00:40:13,360 --> 00:40:14,880
Oh, ****.

740
00:40:18,080 --> 00:40:20,880
Okay, we were close. Okay.

741
00:40:30,720 --> 00:40:36,880
What was that? There was something right here.

742
00:40:36,880 --> 00:40:40,000
Oh, ****.

743
00:40:47,120 --> 00:40:51,840
Did you see anything? I'm not seeing anything. Yeah, I'm not hearing anything either.

744
00:40:51,840 --> 00:40:56,480
Just just a one-time. I'm not going to tell you. Could have been an owl, because owls essentially

745
00:40:56,480 --> 00:41:02,560
fly silently. So you really wouldn't have picked that up. I'm just so mad we didn't get visual on it.

746
00:41:03,120 --> 00:41:08,000
Because if you see eyes shine, that can tell you so much about it. It's a mammal, it's a bird,

747
00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:11,760
it's a pack, all those things. All right, so what do you want to do?

748
00:41:11,760 --> 00:41:17,120
Now that there's rain, I feel like that's going to make it really hard for you to pick out the

749
00:41:17,120 --> 00:41:21,440
singular sound. Yeah, it's kind of all just like white noise at this point, just hitting all the

750
00:41:21,440 --> 00:41:28,160
raindrops. Yeah, so whatever was here, we've probably spooked enough that it's not going to come

751
00:41:28,160 --> 00:41:33,840
back. I don't think we're going to get a second chance to get close to it, but **** you're close.

752
00:41:35,600 --> 00:41:41,040
I feel like we just almost snuck up on this thing. Yeah, damn.

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I can't say for certain what Jess heard in the trees, but what I do know is that my sensor

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detected some kind of bat flying around, but it wasn't able to identify it. Huh, could be something

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weird flying around here. So does that add weight to my theory that the Jersey Devil is some kind

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of mysterious bat species that's come to inhabit these woods? And if so, what is it and how did

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it get here? We found historian and Jersey Devil expert Tom Hanson, who has not only studied the

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legend for over a decade, but also believes he knows what the Jersey Devil really is. And it

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might help explain the strange readings I was getting on the bat detector. History books actually

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show that there was a mother leads who had 13 children and her husband was Daniel Leeds, who

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this is all focused around. He was a Quaker, but he didn't get along with the Quakers because he

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published the American Almanac, which had some risqué things in there that the Quakers didn't like.

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So they told him to stop. Turns out Daniel Leeds refused. Then in 1728, the Leeds changed the cover

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of the Almanac to include the Leeds family crest that incorporates a strange creature with bat wings

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that are eerily similar to descriptions of the Jersey Devil. So he puts these bats that look

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like devils and that was a shot of the Quakers and then Ben Franklin comes along. Wait, Benjamin

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Franklin. The Benjamin Franklin, your founding father from Philadelphia, he was a Quaker.

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And he begins to say that the Leeds family isn't trusting because they're in league with the devil.

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So it seemed like there were just rumors around this town that the Leeds family was devil worshiping

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with a bat on the family crest. You combine those things. Is that the formula to make a Jersey

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Devil? Absolutely. However, can all these people be wrong? Wherever there's a little smoke, there's

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a fire. There's just something out there. What is it? I think the Jersey Devil was what we call the

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the Hammerhead bat. I'm not familiar with the bat. I gotta see this. When we pull up pictures of the

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Hammerheaded bat, look at that face. It is so bizarre looking. Oh my god. The similarities are

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striking to the descriptions of the Jersey Devil. Huge wings, huge bulbous head looks kind of like

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a horse's head. It's about this high. Cut up. No. Absolutely not. If I saw that in a tree, I'd be like,

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what the f***? The Hammerheaded bat is one of the largest bats in the world with a wingspan of

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over three feet. Males have elongated horse-like heads that some have described as the spitting

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image of a devil. They're nocturnal feeders and produce extremely loud and terrifying calls.

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But like other large megabat species, they are not native to the United States. The problem is,

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these are bats from Africa. Right. So how do they get here? So what they did was,

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when all the sailing vessels from the 16, 17, 18 hundreds were bringing things over,

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they were coming up the Mullerka River, they would unload their goods and the bats would be inside

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the ships. Oh. So the bats would stow away. Wow. And then the bats would get loose in our area

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and they would fly up and down looking for food. Now can you imagine a bat with three-foot wings

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flying overhead with a moon behind it? In New Jersey. Uh-huh. That would probably look like a

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devil to you. Absolutely. Wow. We've used the historic Mullerka River ourselves to gain access

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to the remote part of the Pine Barrens where both Jess and a recent eyewitness had a strange

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encounter with a large unidentified creature. That waterway was a bustling trade route with

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ships packed with cargo from all over the world. And it's possible that may have included a strange

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winged creature from Africa that just so happens to look strikingly similar to eyewitness descriptions

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of the Jersey Devil. What do you think about the evidence we got? New Jersey surprised me. I mean,

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we got a weird reading on the bat detector. You heard weird noises. We've seen stuff kind of flying

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by camera. All of that points to something unusual flying around here. And I think it is entirely

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plausible that the hammerheaded bat can be the Jersey Devil. It holds up to science. It holds

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up to history. And it matches the description so well. I agree with you. I really like that theory.

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Something's out here scaring people. Yeah. I mean, scared us too. The monsters that lurk in the

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darkest corners of our minds often manifest themselves in the real world. 300 years ago,

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a rumor was spread to demonize an entire family tree. Combined that with the possibility of an

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undeniably strange winged creature hitching a ride from an exotic corner of the world,

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well, perhaps the team's suspicions are correct. See it right there. Check that out.

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Did the mysterious wing they captured on camera in the heart of the forest

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truly belong to a giant African bat? It does look like a wing. And was it the same

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unidentified creature that Phil's tech detected in the dead of night? Could be something weird

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flying around here. This bold new theory lines up with descriptions of the monster. And it is

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entirely possible that these bats may have provided a powerful basis for the story of the devil.

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But when it comes to the modern sightings, it isn't entirely case closed. Just like the flying fox,

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the hammerheaded bat would be unable to survive the winter here. As Dr. Ian Malcolm from Jurassic

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Park once noted though, life finds a way. Could these bats have somehow adapted to the climate?

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Or is there something else here? As long as people report terrifying encounters in the pine

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barrens, the legend of the Jersey Devil will continue to take flight. For more information

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on Expedition X, head to Discovery.com slash Expedition X.