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Sharp claws. Glowing red eyes. Giant leathery wings.
For 300 years, New Jersey residents say, the sinister beast has been haunting the state’s sparsely populated Pine Barrens. One tale says the Jersey Devil was the 13th child born to a woman who, in agony, cursed the infant’s birth. The kid sprouted wings and flew up the chimney. (Another tale says the mom had sex with Satan.)
The creature has been accused of eating children, abusing maids, devouring livestock, and attacking a train. Although its existence has never been proven, the devil graces the names of Garden State rollercoasters and an NHL franchise. And who knows what happens on dark nights around Halloween, in the desolate Pine Barrens?
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 | | PHOTOGRAPHS BY ROLAND HILGARTNER | | | Heal thyself: Who knew that chimps come up with treatments for wounds? In images above, we see Thea, a male, immobilizing an insect and lightly crushing it, then applying the mush to a flesh wound, stroking it with his fingertips. He repeats the procedure before cleaning the wound with his fingers. | | | |
| Chili is a good dog! In the remote Arctic, humans really depend on their dogs, which are often the key to mental health. Pictured above in Norway’s far north, Verena Mohaupt greets her dog, Chili. Mohaupt spent three years in the Arctic, managing a research station. More than 90,000 people liked this post on our Instagram by Esther Horvath, who specializes in coverage of the Earth’s extremes.
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 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY NATURE PICTURE LIBRARY, ALAMY | | | The real ‘House of Dragons’: So it’s a cave in Slovenia. And the baby dragons are flourishing—and rule the place. These almost translucent aquatic salamanders “have adaptive features that are nothing short of legendary—even without wings and fire,” Nat Geo reports. (Above, the olm, a sightless salamander that can live to be a hundred years old.) | | | |
Readers, a staggering number of pumpkins end up in landfills. How do you avoid pumpkin waste—compost them, eat the seeds, make a pie or bread? Let us know at sarah.gibbens@natgeo.com — and Happy Halloween!
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