A police officer named Mike from Galloway Township, New Jersey, told a strange story that happened to him in October 2016.
“It looks like a scary tale. I don't know if you have ever heard of the Jersey Devil?”According to Mike, he had never encountered him, but he remembered about him when he was called to the scene with a 23-year-old policeman in early October, around midnight. a car accident on Route 9, which intermittently intersects Garden State Parkway and loops around Atlantic City.
Arriving at the scene, the police saw a Nissan Altima standing in the middle of the road with significant dents on the front fender. The driver, who was in complete bewilderment, said that he was driving with his wife from Atlantic City and when he suddenly felt a strong blow, he thought he had hit a deer. However, the police immediately determined that the outward signs of damage to the car did not resemble a collision with a deer.
“If a deer is hit by a car, the whole front of the car is usually splattered with blood, and there may be minor dents on the front fender. But it looked like it hit the pole straight,”Mike said they looked around, but never found the deer.
“As soon as we moved a little to the side, I had a premonition that someone was looking at us. As a police officer, my sixth sense worked, and I realized that we were not alone. I swear I heard some grunting sounds."
There was another oddity in this case. The car was heading north on Highway 9, but after the collision it turned completely south. Nissan was loaded onto an approaching tow truck, and the next day Mike and the duty officer again went to the scene of the accident and searched everything around before sunset.
“We couldn't find anything. We checked two sides of the road, all the way to the edge of the forest, and at the edge of the forest we found huge three-toed footprints that looked like the tracks of an ostrich. I thought, “They are too big. These are not deer tracks. And these are not human tracks,”indeed, there can be no ostriches in South Jersey. And only on the way back did the officers remember about the Jersey Devil. “We've never seen him. But then who did this guy bump into?"
It was clear to the officers that this was not a deer, but something very large, and during the impact it was already on the road. The driver was driving in his own lane at a speed of about 50 km / h. In addition, there is no lighting on this section of the road, which runs through the countryside. Then who did the driver crash into to wrinkle the car so much?
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“If it was a deer, we would have found it on the side of the road, which is why we returned the next day. Trees grow along the road, and the deer could not fly far. But we didn’t find anything other than these huge ostrich tracks,”Mike said that although there have been no more cases since that night in October, he continues to search for information on the Jersey Devil.
Voronina Svetlana