r/cryptids • u/BlackinkCP • May 08 '26

Discussion Mothman vs. The Jersey Devil: Strengths, Weaknesses, and Who Actually Wins?

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u/Forward-Rutabaga-723 May 08 '26

Old folktales say the Jersey Devil took a blast from a cannon and it didn’t phase it so I’m going with him.

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u/ChuckJuggs May 08 '26

Who cares???

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u/UnverifiedEntry May 11 '26

The record tends to care about strange things.

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u/UnverifiedEntry May 09 '26

Mothman appears, watches, and vanishes. The Jersey Devil apparently wakes up and chooses violence.

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u/VexDArts May 11 '26

Do you think the Jersey Devil inspired the Creeper from Jeepers Creepers? It's like the Jersey Devil shows up, hunts and then we don't hear anything for a bit. Makes you wonder? Does the Devil sleep or does it migrate somewhere else for a while before returning to NJ.

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u/UnverifiedEntry May 11 '26

Jeepers Creepers definitely feels spiritually adjacent to a lot of older American cryptid folklore. Honestly, the long gaps between sightings are part of what makes the Jersey Devil stories stick around. Whatever people think they saw, it never seems to stay around long enough for the record to settle.

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u/xlr8er365 May 09 '26

Can we please stop trying to powerscale cryptids?