3. Theodore Roosevelt Tried to Kill a Mysterious Flying Beast
In 1885, Theodore Roosevelt apparently almost canceled a trip to go on African Safari because he heard about the legendary Snallygaster in Maryland. He never found the creature, of course, but he looked at the same. While this is not a Jersey Devil sighting, it just goes to show that back in the 1800’s, legends were still so strong, that people would believe these creatures are real, and even the likes of Theodore Roosevelt got excited by the possibility of hunting them down.
Just two weeks before the sighting of the Snallygaster, there were several reports of The Jersey Devil happening in New Jersey. So, was there really a creature terrorizing the public and flying across state lines? Or, was this story spread so much, that it scared people who were a hundred miles away? We’ll never know.