A chimeric entity: the head of a horse or goat, leathern bat wings, cloven hooves, and a forked tail, standing about three and a half feet tall. Its scream is consistently described as a metallic shriek unlike any known animal.
The January 1909 flap remains the largest mass-sighting event in the archive — in a single week, thousands of residents across thirty towns reported sightings, unexplained hoofprints crossed rooftops and closed gardens, schools shut, and mill workers refused night shifts.
Modern encounters cluster along Route 72 and the Mullica River drainage. Reports typically involve the scream and hoofprints in inaccessible places; direct visual contact is rare.