History Main / TheJerseyDevil

* One appeared in ''ComicBook/HoaxHunters''. It didn't originate the myth (having been born in the mid 1960s) -- apparently one is simply born every few generations. Unlike a lot of depictions he's very large and muscular, with roughly human proportions. And [[spoiler:he's actually friendly and playful, not at all hostile or dangerous.]]
* In ''ComicBook/{{Kaijumax}}'', one of the {{Kaiju}} inmates is the Creature from Devil's Creek, who clearly based on the Devil. For the record, his father is Satan himself.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Jersey Devil|1997}}'', the main character is a horned, winged and costumed humanoid off to stop MadScientist Doctor Knarf. It was about as InNameOnly as you can get.

No, not [[NationalHockeyLeague the hockey team]] (although the team ''is'' named after the creature.)

* The "Sandpoint Devil" in ''TableTopGames/{{Pathfinder}}'' is an obvious ShoutOut.
* The Final Wasteland environment from SentinelsOfTheMultiverse has, among many other cryptids, a "New Jersey Devil."

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* The ''ComicBook/HackSlash'' and ''ComicBook/LivingCorpse'' crossover (titled ''The Legend of the Jersey Devil'') reveals that the creature is harmless, and puts up a fierce façade to scare off intruders who might encounter its psychotic mother. Unfortunately, Cassie and Vlad learn this only after killing it and pissing off Mother Leeds.

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* ''{{Downtown}}'' had an episode where Alex, Jen, Chaka and Mecca get lost in the Pine Barrens while driving around looking for backroad garage sales and swap meets, and freak eachother out by telling urban legends, one of which is the Jersey Devil. The episode then switches to the legend about the Cropseys, an inbred CannibalClan that allegedly live in the area, which of course is where the car breaks down. At the end of the episode, after getting help from the REAL Cropseys, who arent cannibals, just people who prefer living in relative isolation, the characters drive off... only for the actual Jersey Devil to suddenly slam into the windshield. Cue credits.

* In ''ComicBook/{{Kaijumax}}'', one of the inmates is clearly based on the Devil, albeit scaled up to {{Kaiju}} size.

* 1976's ''The Jersey Devil''.

No, not [[NationalHockeyLeague the hockey team]] (though, the team ''is'' named after the creature.)

-->-- '''BruceSpringsteen''', "A Night With the Jersey Devil"

** "Why is it called that? Well, it breathes fire. That's new." -- Haka

Out world theirs, [[DontGoInTheWoods this world]] mine."''

->''Ram's head, forked tail, clove hoof, love's my trail\\

Out world theirs, [[DontGoInTheWoods this world]] mine''

* In ''Series/TheXFiles'' episode ''The Jersey Devil'', the Devils are discovered to be type of primitive humans, speculated to be the missing link. A male and female are killed, but the end of the episode reveals they had a young child.

* in ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuestTheRealAdventures'' episode "The Spectre of the Pine Barrows", the Jersey Devil is embroiled in a centuries-long feud between descendants of Redcoats and Minutemen over the original manuscript of the Declaration of Independence.

* In {{Syfy}}'s ''Carny'', a dingy little carnival acquires a captive Jersey Devil as a sideshow attraction. When it inevitably escapes, mayhem ensues.

* Robert Dunbar's ''The Pines'' and ''The Shore'', which present the theory that Jersey Devils are created by a [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent lycanthropy]]-like disorder.

* In the ''RepairmanJack'' novel ''All the Rage'', a humanoid monster called a rakosh retreats into the Pine Barrens, with the narration stating that if there isn't a real Jersey Devil, there is now.

* The characters of the StephaniePlum spinoff book ''Plum Spooky'' believe the Jersey Devil is after them when they get lost in the woods.

* Various paranormal investigation shows, such as ''Paranormal State, Scariest Places on Earth, Monster Quest'' and ''DestinationTruth'', have had episodes focusing on the Jersey Devil.
* The guys on ''CakeBoss'' once made a Jersey Devil cake. It was pretty awesome.

* "A Night with the Jersey Devil" by BruceSpringsteen.

* Stats and background for the Jersey Devil appeared in ''[[{{GURPS}} GURPS Monsters]]''.

* A series of backwoods maulings in the ''{{Series/Supernatural}}'' episode ''How to Win Friends And Influence Monsters'' are suspected to be the work of the Jersey Devil, though it turns out a man, driven insane by the Leviathans' latest scheme involving drugged food, is responsible.

* One appears in the first ''Perhapanauts'' annual.

* Jersey Devils, described as "a flying monster with a horse's head and a bat's body", appear as enemies who attack by swooping or breathing fire in Argila Swamp in ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaOrderOfEcclesia''.

* The Jersey Devil appears in NewVindicators, during an adventure of the Illuminati. He is a long-lived Nephilim, but a particularly twisted one, spawn of the father of monsters, Leviathan.

* ''The Barrens'', another HorribleCampingTrip example, though it's left ambiguous as to whether or not there really is a monster.

* In ''[[{{Fables}} Jack of Fables]]'', the Jersey Devil is an inmate of the Golden Boughs Retirement Community.

* In ''VideoGame/JerseyDevil'', the main character is a horned, winged and costumed humanoid off to stop MadScientist Doctor Knarf. It was about as InNameOnly as you can get.