Piney

But, um, uh, Bill has seen, you know, these people that are like feral people.

You know how they have in Appalachia? They have feral-esque people here in the Pine Barrens that we call Pineys, and they got off grid, off civilization, you know, totally just live in, live in the woods and eat what they can, but they lose their minds because they think lore says that the Jersey Devil has possessed their mind.

So I don't know if the Jersey Devil and that Piney were, like, collaborating or talking, communicating with each other, but it, it gave me enough, uh, scare to...

I, I'm pretty sure I shit, shit my pants, dude.

And when I, I, I saw it, it, it just paralyzed me in fear.

And then the point when I couldn't do anything for five or so minutes, I mean, it was staring.

I felt like it was staring directly into my soul and just forcing me to try, trying to get me, I guess you could say, convert me into one of these Pineys.

But I, I, I snapped out and shot at it twice.

It is predominantly sand in the soil, so it makes it very difficult for anything to grow.

It's also very watery, and in fact, people that live there were dubbed Pineys, and they were kind of looked down on by society, [laughs] which is a great way to set up the, the staging for the Jersey Devil.

What's amazing about this story to me is first of all it is actually one of the oldest US cryptids.

It predates the country itself, and the amount that people don't agree on when it comes to the Jersey Devil is just utterly bananas.