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Aliens Came in Peace to High Bridge, NJ
In the mid-1950s, a man named Howard Menger and his wife Connie transformed the sleepy town of High Bridge, New Jersey into a mini-Roswell with their thrilling and enchanting stories of alien contact....
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Back From the Dead: Out-of-Print Weird NJ for iPad and Kindle!
Although the print versions of many issues of Weird NJ are now completely sold out and no longer available anywhere, our digitally formatted publications contains the exact same pages that were once...
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The Cult of Mysterious “Monk’s Castle”
Fleeing the Cult at Monk’s Castle Growing up I heard stories about monks, cults, or even vampires, living in Kip’s Castle. When I was a junior in high school, 6 of us girls drove up to Kip’s in a...
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Blood Sport: Revisiting Traction… Er, Action, Park
If you were compiling a list of things you may have experienced in your youth if you grew up in New Jersey, you might include knowing all the sites in the opening credits of The Sopranos, and that a...
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The Tiger Lady of Jackson
Playing Cat and Mouse with the Tiger Lady of Jackson During a New Jersey winter, wildlife sightings are not uncommon. Deer abound throughout our state, and even bear and coyote can be found in certain...
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Homemade Homages to 9/11
September eleventh of this year marks the 19th anniversary of the terrorist attacks that brought down the Twin Towers in 2001. The outpouring of emotion and patriotism has inspired many monuments since...
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The Atco Ghost
There’s a ghost story in the southern New Jersey town of Atco that tells of a young boy who was run down on a lonely stretch of road after chasing his basketball into the middle of the street. The...
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Halloween in Weird NJ
102 Monroe Street in the Haskell section of Wanaque. Weird NJ lawn display created by Kim-Marie Dakake. Folks here in New Jersey sure do know how to get into the Halloween spirit, and often do so with...
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The Tiger Lady of Jackson
Playing Cat and Mouse with the Tiger Lady of Jackson During a New Jersey winter, wildlife sightings are not uncommon. Deer abound throughout our state, and even bear and coyote can be found in certain...
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Hunting for the Buried Treasure of Captain Kidd
By Michael J. Launay for Weird NJ It was cold and rainy on the morning of May 23, 1701 in London, England; perfect weather for an execution. The convicted, William Kidd, was lead to the gallows,...
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S.S. Atlantus: Concrete Ship and Lead Balloon
For nearly nine decades now the weather beaten remains of a ship have lain just a few hundred feet beyond the breaking surf of Sunset Beach in historic Cape May. Although the Jersey coast has become a...
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NEW 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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Ghosts of Christmas Past
Photo by Tracey Consolo Here are just a few of our favorite holiday season sights that have been seen around the state in years of yore… GHOSTS OF CHRISTMAS PAST: Holiday Displays from Days of Yore –...
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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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Christmas Vacation with the Griswolds of New Jersey
Most folks know the movie “Christmas Vacation”, the comedy starring Chevy Chase that has become something of a holiday classic since its debut in 1989. The film was the third installment in National...
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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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“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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Aliens Came in Peace to High Bridge, NJ
In the mid-1950s, a man named Howard Menger and his wife Connie transformed the sleepy town of High Bridge, New Jersey into a mini-Roswell with their thrilling and enchanting stories of alien contact....
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UPDATED: Who Killed Jeannette DePalma?
In late 1997, Weird NJ received a letter from a fan named Billy Martin. The short letter, entitled “In the Watchung Mountains”, read: “There was an alleged ritual sacrifice, I think, in the Houdaille...
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Weird Travels on Essex Road, Tinton Falls/Neptune
There is a strange and lonely road that runs through Tinton Falls and Neptune called Essex Road. Like many of the roads less traveled throughout New Jersey, Essex Road’s lore includes tales of ghosts,...
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