I Want To Believe

Season 2 Episode 5 JERSEY DEVIL: MYTH OR REALITY On this episode of the I Want to Believe podcast we’re going to discuss the Jersey Devil, HEY-OH!!! The story of the Jersey Devil goes back to almost 3 centuries. And since then, it has become a muddled heap of myth, legend, true stories, fake stories with believers and skeptics. (Plug time!) As of RIGHT NOW, you can watch me and Bill Brock’s documentary, Abducted New England on Amazon Prime. And my book Otherworldly Encounters, is available wherever books are sold. Links are below! Ok, how’s about we dive in, eh? The legend goes that in the Pine Barren forests of New Jersey, a woman who went by the moniker, Mother Leeds had given birth to 12 children. In 1735, she found that she was pregnant with her 13th. The Leeds family was poor, her husband a drunk and when they found that she was pregnant again, she cursed the child and said, “Let this one be a devil!” She went into labor a few months after that proclamation, on a reportedly, “dark & stormy nig