The Bonaparte and the Devil,Joseph Bonaparte was the brother of the famed French general and Emperor

The Bonaparte and the Devil,Joseph Bonaparte was the brother of the famed French general and Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, and under Bonaparte’s rule was made King of Spain.  When Napoleon was defeated Joseph was forced into exile.  In 1817 he moved to the United States, settling down in a large and lavish estate near Bordentown, New Jersey.  One of his favorite past times was hunting, which he did often in the New Jersey backwoods.  On one hunting excursion, Joseph had a most strange encounter, as retold by folklorist S.E. Schlosser,“One snowy afternoon, the ex-King of Spain was hunting alone in the woods near his house when he spotted some strange tracks on the ground. They looked like the tracks of a two-footed donkey. Bonaparte noticed that one foot was slightly larger than the other. The tracks ended abruptly as if the creature had flown away. He stared at the tracks for a long moment, trying to figure out what the strange animal might be. At that moment, Bonaparte heard a strange hissing noise. Turning, he found himself face to face with a large winged creature with a horse-like head and bird-like legs. Astonished and frightened, he froze and stared at the beast, forgetting that he was carrying a rifle. For a moment, neither of them moved. Then the creature hissed at him, beat its wings, and flew away. When he reported the incident to a friend later that day, Bonaparte was told that he had just seen the famous Jersey Devil, who had haunted the Pine Barrens ever since he was born to Mother Leeds one dark and stormy night in 1735.”After his incident with the Jersey Devil, Joseph continued to keep an eye out for the creature, even organization hunts to track down the monster.  However Joseph never had an encounter with the Jersey Devil again. When the political situation in Europe had calmed down enough, he moved to Italy were he lived until his death in 1844. -- source link

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