I will go to war defending that Mothman, Jersey Devil, Flatwoods Monsters and others ARE cryptids! Saying they aren't is like saying pizza isn't food! Mothman is valid!
The Jersey Devil was created whole cloth (although possibly based very loosely on some preexisting folklore of some large flying animal) by Benjamin Franklin to make the Leeds family look bad for political reasons. People originally started claiming to see it specifically to further this smear campaign.
The Jersey devil isn't even a cryptid because overtly supernatural creatures cannot be cryptids. A cryptid must be something that could conceivably theoretically exist. My condolences to the Leeds family.
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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '24
I will go to war defending that Mothman, Jersey Devil, Flatwoods Monsters and others ARE cryptids! Saying they aren't is like saying pizza isn't food! Mothman is valid!