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The popular legend of the Jersey Devil or Leeds Devil is dated variously, and attached to various place names such as "The Pines" [5] Pine Barrens, [6] and Leeds Point. [7] The devil's mother is sometimes called a woman named Leeds, or "Mother Leeds" of Burlington, [7] but other names such as the Shourds [8] have been forwarded.
The Jersey Devil is a common element of folklore in the southern New Jersey and Philadelphia areas. Due to the number of alleged sightings, many believe the Devil to be an actual animal or phenomenon similar to Bigfoot and the Yeti. Believers sometimes cite the widespread sightings by crowds of people during the "phenomenal week of 1909" as ...
The Pine Barrens is also the setting for the 2012 feature The Barrens, starring Stephen Moyer, and involving a story of the Jersey Devil. The New Jersey Pine Barrens is the setting of Aurelio Voltaire's 2013 horror novel Call of the Jersey Devil. [45]
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The Blue Hole is located in the Pinelands of Monroe Township, Gloucester County, New Jersey and Winslow Township, Camden County, New Jersey. It is a clear blue body of water situated in the middle of a dense forest, with many similar such lakes in its immediate vicinity. The water has warm and cold spots, averaging 58 to 60 degrees Fahrenheit.
Piney is a historically derogatory exonym for the inhabitants of the New Jersey Pine Barrens, but it is now also sometimes used as an endonym by them, humorously or otherwise. The Pine Barrens have sandy, acidic soil considered unsuitable for traditional farming by early settlers, who called the land "barren". The area is forested mainly with ...
Pine barrens, pine plains, sand plains, or pineland areas occur throughout the U.S. from Florida to Maine (see Atlantic coastal pine barrens) as well as the Midwest, West, and Canada and parts of Eurasia. Perhaps the most well known pine-barrens area to North Americans is the New Jersey Pine Barrens. Pine barrens are generally pine forests in ...
Leeds Point (also known as Leeds) is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) [6] located within Galloway Township, Atlantic County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. [7] It is situated on the end of a promontory raised about 30-50 ft above the salt marsh on the south side of Great Bay . [ 8 ]