The Device is in the Brain in Totowa
Have you guys ever heard of the house on Union Blvd. in Totowa with the weirdo signs in the window? There used to be these crudely hand-lettered, poster-sized signs filling every window in the house...
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The Double Trouble Mystery Spot
We’ve received quite a few letters about an unusual area in Double Trouble State Park, on the border of Berkeley and Lacey Townships in Ocean County, where all of the trees had apparently been pushed...
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The Garfield Rock Carvings
Petroglyphs, or rock carvings have never been fully documented in New Jersey, despite many surveys of Indian villages and shelters over the years. Located along the Passaic River, below the...
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“Big Red Eye”
Like Bigfoot, Big Red Eye sightings of the northwest corner of the state describe a large bipedal creature covered with long hair from head to toe. But what witnesses in Sussex County who have seen...
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Bigfoot and the “Big Hairy Man”
Reports of encounters with the legendary creature known as Bigfoot, Sasquatch and the Abdominal Snowman are common in the Pacific Northwest, as well as rural areas in Illinois, Ohio and Pennsylvania....
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A Very Weird NJ Christmas!
Holiday Horrors in Kendall Park Check out New Road in South Brunswick between Rt. 27 and Rt.1. You already know about the Rocking Horse House at New and Sturgis Rd, but if you pass it going towards...
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Shades of Death Road
MANY LEGENDS ARE ASSOCIATED WITH SHADES OF DEATH ROAD, which winds alongside Jenny Jump State Forest up to Allamuchy in Warren County. One of the more famous street names in New Jersey roadside...
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Pennhurst Asylum: The Shame of Pennsylvania
The History and Horror of Pennhurst Asylum By Matt Lake, Rusty Tagliareni and Mark Moran Back in the mid 1960s, fledgling TV reporter Bill Baldini ran a five-episode exposé of Pennhurst State School...
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Wheeler Antabanez on the Bridge Blast Beat
Wheeler Antabanez on the Bridge Blast Beat (via NJ News Commons) By DEBBIE GALANT Wheeler Antabanez is probably best known for penning an entire issue of Weird NJ, “Nightshade on the Passaic,” in July...
View ArticleThe Route 22 Mini-Tour of Concretia
Weird New Jersey from Brian Johnston on Vimeo. Take a little road trip with Mark and Mark as we travel along Route 22 to see some of the sights, like Edison concrete houses, Eldorado Gardens, the...
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Snake Hill’s Asylum, Potter’s Field & Field Station: Dinosaurs
Standing out amongst the marshes of the Secaucus Meadowlands, rising 150 feet above the vast flatlands, is the massive rocky form of Snake Hill. Surrounding the Hill is a prison, a train station, the...
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The Mystery of the Giant Floating Head
No one has yet claimed ownership of a giant head found last week floating in the Hudson River, but we may have scooped the major news outlets on its possible origin. If you aren’t familiar with the...
View ArticleIndex of Abandoned Places in Weird NJ
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View ArticleIndex of Personalized Properties in Weird NJ
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View ArticleIndex of Roadside Oddities in Weird NJ
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View ArticleIndex of Haunted Places in Weird NJ
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View ArticleIndex of Graves in Weird NJ
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View ArticleIndex of Local Heroes and Villains in Weird NJ
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The Matawan Man-eater: The Real New Jersey “Jaws” of 1916
Nearly 60 years before Peter Benchley’s novel “Jaws,” a real man-eater lurked the waters of the New Jersey coast. It was July 1, 1916, and in Beach Haven the tourist season was in full swing. The...
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Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital
Greystone Becomes “Gravestone” Currently the State plans to demolish the historic main building at the closed Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital. Officials recently made the decision after receiving...
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