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Martians Attack NJ on Halloween Eve!
‘Twas the night before Halloween, mischief night, in 1938 that a young Orson Welles’ now infamous radio broadcast of War of the Worlds caused widespread panic. An adaptation of H. G. Wells’s 1898...
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The Hookerman Spook Lights of the Flanders Tracks
The scene is set: A moonless night, leafless branches swaying in the chilly November breeze. Through the mist ahead you see something: a dim white ball of light. It appears for a second, then...
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The Painted Rock on Route 539
New Jersey’s Most Painted Rock I can’t remember exactly when I first saw the Painted Rock on Route 539. It was probably when my family and I started driving to Atlantic City instead of taking those...
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Christmas Weirdness in Clifton
One of our favorite Christmas House designers is a Clifton dentist named Dr. Wayne Gangi. Dr. Gangi moved to his Clifton home in 1999. It took him a year to renovate it to make it suitable for an...
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Santa’s Devilish Little Helper, the Belznickel
There’s no greater hero in a child’s mind than that jolly old elf who comes down the chimney on the night before Christmas. But in a smattering of Pennsylvania Dutch communities throughout Pennsylvania...
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Blood Sport: Revisiting Traction… Er, Action, Park
The following article was originally published in Weird NJ magazine (issue #25) and on our website in 2005. If you were compiling a list of things you may have experienced in your youth if you grew up...
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Round Valley Reservoir – NJ’s Bermuda Triangle
This past Christmas Eve it made news when three individuals had to be rescued from sinking into the waist-deep mud of the partially drained Round Valley Reservoir. Fortunately, both made it out alive....
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UFOs Over The Wanaque Reservoir: The Roswell of the Ramapos
January 11, 1966 started like any other mid-winter day in the small suburban town of Wanaque, NJ. The air was clear and cold, kids were enjoying the holiday vacation from school, and residents of the...
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The Ghost of Annie on Annie’s Road
Perhaps it’s apropos that in our fast moving, highly mobile state, many of our most notable ghost are seen hanging out at the side of the road, where it is said that they met their untimely end. These...
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Strange Figures of Woodbridge Clay Pits
Several peculiar wooden sculptures that have a mysterious history about them were recently put up for sale at a prestigious New York City auction house. The origins of the “Woodbridge Figurines” are...
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Bizarre Art Inside Abandoned Sandy Hook Bunker
Sandy Hook is a 6-mile long peninsula jutting from the New Jersey coast into the Atlantic Ocean at the northern tip of Monmouth County. Now a major recreational destination, Sandy Hook was for many...
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Wed. 9pm: Paranormal Caught on Camera
Tune into the Travel Channel tonight to see the new show “Paranormal Caught on Camera,” featuring Weird NJ publishers Mark Sceurman and Mark Moran commenting on a variety of eyewitness encounters with...
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Trenton’s Edgar Allan Poe Mystery Monument
Weird NJ reader Cindy Prusik wrote to us telling of a very unique and unusual grave stone she found in Riverview Cemetery in Trenton. Cindy writes: “Riverview Cemetery is the home to many interesting...
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Thomas Edison’s Spirit Phone
Few people would argue with the opinion that Thomas A. Edison is one of the most influential figures of the past hundred years. Just try to imagine the Twentieth Century without recorded sound,...
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Newark’s Steam Powered Robo-Man
These days there’s a popular fashion or “cosplay” fad known a “Steampunk.” Steampunk is based on the idea of futuristic technology existing in the past, usually the 19th century, and often set in...
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Weird Gear Galore!
Now you can have all of your favorite Weird NJ icons on all kinds of cool new Weird Wear, like Tee Shirts, Girls Tees, Sweatshirts, Long Sleeve Tees, Hoodies, Unisex Tanks, Kids Tees, Tie Dyes or...
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Spectro-Chrome Therapy – Technicolor Cures or Kaleidoscopic Quackery?
In the 1930s the Vineland area of Cumberland County, NJ must have been a very unusual place indeed. Perhaps there was something in the water, or maybe the Great Depression left local residents with so...
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Small Wonders of Midgetville
It seems to be human nature that people are captivated by miniature versions of everyday things. This is probably no place more evident than in the case of people’s fascination with the smaller...
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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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“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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