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The Jersey Devil Panic

Sightings of the Jersey devil have been sporadic at best ever since. In 1966 a city councilman in Trenton claimed he'd seen the devil, which made the whole damn thing official. By Friday, schools were closed and factories shut down because the men refused to leave their families to go to work. Even a local fire department got in on the game when they sprayed what they assumed to be the Jersey devil with a fire hose until whatever it was ran away screaming.

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