The Parkway Sighting

Location: Atlantic City, NJ Date: July 2nd, 2000

 

My friend and I were driving home from Atlantic City after giving a sizable donation. I had just exited off the Black Horse Turnpike and was on the Garden State Parkway. About 200 yards from where we just got on the parkway, I saw something standing on the right side of the road looking across to the south bound lanes. I noticed that it was not a man although it stood upright. What puzzled me were two large bat like wings protruding from its back. As we got closer, I asked my friend what it was and he had no idea. All of the sudden, it leaped from the ground and started to fly over the marshland to the right of us. We were only driving at about 50 mph so we watched as it flew off towards the ocean.

Although I cannot describe any facial features I did notice its tail which was rather long, its large wing span and also the fact that it had arms and legs. It actually fascinated us more than scared us because of course living in NJ all our lives we heard stories of the Jersey Devil but never thought we'd actually see anything. You can choose to believe me or not, it's totally up to you, all I can say is that I wasn't drunk and I know what I saw was not a giant bird or a deformed human.

 
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