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Tuckerton Tower and the Mysterious Monoliths of Mystic Isles
Imagine you’re driving through the crisscrossing streets of the Jersey Shore town Mystic Island, which is not actually an island at all, but rather a part of Little Egg Harbor Township, located just...
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A Bridge Abridged in Hoboken
Artist’s rendering of the West New York Bridge from Scientific American, June 25, 1921. Today, one backyard along 12th Street in Hoboken is five feet wider than it was a few years ago. Because that’s...
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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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ReMEMBERing Napoleon in NJ
This week marks the 200th anniversary of the May 5, 1821 death of French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. While many folks may know that Napoleon’s brother Joseph Bonaparte was a prominent resident of...
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Wed. June 2, 7:00pm – Weird NJ ZOOM Lecture LIVE!
Weird N.J. publisher Mark Sceurman and Mark Moran have been invited to conduct a lecture via ZOOM as part of the Coney Island Museum‘s Ask The Experts series. These lectures give the public the...
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Uncle Sam’s House: Anarchy in Piscataway
Located at 143 School St., in the North Stelton section of Piscataway, is a house that was the brainchild of Sam Goldman, a Russian born artist, musician, paper-hanger and follower of anarchist...
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The Gates of Hell
There is probably no better way to prove one’s courage than by walking straight into the gaping maw of Hell, the gates of which can be found in the town of Clifton, PassaicCounty. This legendary...
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Hunting for the Buried Treasure of Captain Kidd
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, defiant to the end. The noose was...
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Devil’s Tower
An ominous looking edifice stands in the town of Alpine that has come to be known as Devil’s Tower. It’s a six-story gothic stone clocktower that the Devil himself is said to inhabit. There are several...
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Asbury Park’s Tillie and Calico, the “Evil Clown” of Middletown
He’s been a familiar roadside fixture to motorist traveling along Route 35 in Middletown since 1956, but the brightly colored clown known as “Calico” has such a beguiling look about him that drivers...
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EXCLUSIVE: Matawan Man-Eater Mural Artist Reveals Identity!
If the image of these toothy shark jaws look familiar to you it’s probably because at some point you, like just about everyone else, has been terrified by either the book or movie “Jaws”. And the...
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Princess Doe: New Evidence Arises After More Than 30 Years
There are many unsolved crimes in the New Jersey, even after years of painstaking efforts by state investigators. Homicides, disappearances, serial killings and ‘dump jobs’ (a term for unidentified...
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Sat. July 17th Lucy the Elephant Turns 140 – Celebration Planned
Saturday July 17, 2021 Lucy the Elephant turns 140 years old and The Save Lucy Committee announced plans for Lucy’s 140th birthday celebration. Here’s what they have to say about the event: “Everyone...
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Nazis and KKK Bund Together for the “American Fuhrer”
Camp Nordland, Andover, NJ. Today it’s hard to imagine that the following sentence could be describing an actual rally that once took place in a rural Sussex County town of Andover, NJ: “Flames from...
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Cat’s Eyes of St. Joseph’s Church, Jersey City
Something strange has been going on at St. Joseph’s Church on Pavonia Avenue in Jersey City for the past 100 years. Two mysterious “cat’s eyes,” (as neighborhood residents have called them), have...
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A-Bombs Away Off A.C.
By Donald E. Bender The 1950s were an era of unbridled nuclear proliferation. Fears of a potential nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union were rampant. Basement and backyard bomb...
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Jimmy Hoffa’s Fiery Resting Place Beneath the Pulaski Skyway
The Pulaski Skyway lumbers across the post-apocalyptic landscape of South Kearny like some kind of skulking prehistoric behemoth. Carrying Route 1-9 on its bumpy spine high into the stratosphere, the...
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Caldwell’s Mystery Sky Thread
One of New Jersey’s most baffling mysteries came in the form of a silvery “thread” that was suspended for several weeks over the house of Mr. and Mrs. A.P. Smith in the quiet suburb of Caldwell in...
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Beware of the BLOB: It Came from the Jersey Shore!
It was on August 6, 2003 that a large mysterious blob appeared in a Little Egg Harbor tributary. The Jersey State Police’s marine unit called in the Department of Environmental Protection, who poked...
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Joe Mulliner, the “Robin Hood of the Pines”
Often referred to as “The Robin Hood Of The Pine Barrens,” Joe Mulliner was a Tory outlaw who was forced to flee his home in 1779 to avoid arrest, then went on a crime spree throughout the Pine...
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