Incident #992217
Salem, Salem Cty, New Jersey
about 1927
Account
Edward Jones said a taxi driver told of a creature that stood upright like a man but was covered with hair shaking his car violently back and forth just as he finished changing a tire in the woods near Salem late at night. Jones and Bill Reed, both from Salem, went to the scene but found only the tire and jack the taxi driver had left when he fled. (This account is in a book about the Jersey Devil, but is the only one that describes a sasquatch-type creature.)
When
- Year
- about 1927
- Time of Day
- night
- Duration
- brief
Where
- State / province
- New Jersey
- County
- Salem Cty
- Nearest Town
- Salem
- Latitude
- 3934
- Longitude
- 7527
What was seen
- Individuals
- one, no description
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- road
- Near or/at
- occupied machine
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- 1
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
Setting
- Terrain
- woods
Source
- Source
- The Jersey Devil, by James F.McCloy and Ray Miller Jr., quoting Edward R. Jones quoting an unnamed taxi driver.
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Posture
- erect
- Movement
- playing
- Aggressive To
- car
- Arms Used
- for shaking
- Object Handled
- vehicle
- Reaction
- approached
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- in carýoutside on foot
- Closest horizontal distance
- close
- Action on sighting
- fled