This devilish creature has a deformed head and body of a horse, goat horns on it's head and bat wings on it's back. It lived in the woodlands in New Jersey, occasionally flying over he landscape to terrorize the locals.
It is said that he would sometimes burst out of chimneys or through fire to attack animals and people.
Sightings of the Jersey Devil have been said to be an omen for upcomming disasters for example shipwrecks or storms, prior to the American Civil War, sightings were reported.
A popular version of the creation of this beast is that he was the 13th child of a mother who didn't want anymore children, so she wished her 13th child to be a demon.