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Emily Haunts the Flanders Hotel, Ocean City
The landmark Flanders Hotel was built on the Ocean City boardwalk in 1923 and named after Flanders Fields in Belgium, where poppies grow over the rows of graves of American soldiers who died there...
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Happy Friday the 13th From WEIRD NJ!
The people of Blairstown, NJ are proud to tell travelers passing through that the classic movie Friday the 13th was filmed in their town and surrounding area, but their loyalty to the film doesn’t...
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The Jet in the Woods
One of the most unexpected things that we’ve ever seen while wondering around in the woods of New Jerseys was the military jet fighter abandoned in the wilds of West Milford, located in the hilly...
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Betting on Disaster: The Newark Bay Train Wreck
It was on this day, September 17th, in 1958 that one of the most tragic railroad disasters in New Jersey’s history, which had occurred two days before, became a windfall of good luck for thousands of...
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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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T.R.O.G. – The Race Of Gentlemen
Get Your Motors Running for… T.R.O.G. – The Race Of Gentlemen Imagine you’re standing on a beach. The summer has just ended and the sunbathing crowds have all returned home, their memories of another...
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Tuffy the Killer Lion – Terror in Wildwood
It was October 5th, of 1938 and like elsewhere in the nation New Jersey was mired in the midst of the Great Depression. Despite the hardships being suffered though, summer tourists would still flock...
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Richie “The Boot” Boiardo: The Real-Life Tony Soprano
The New Jersey Gangster Who Inspired the Creation of HBO’s The Sopranos In the Godfather Garden is the true story of the life of Richie “the Boot” Boiardo—one of the most powerful and feared men in...
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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 Mystery of the Morro Castle
Bayonne resident and Chief Radio Engineer George White Rodgers had his hands full the morning of September 8, 1934. He was a radio operator on the passenger liner the Morro Castle and had been...
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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, Passaic County. This legendary...
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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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Ghost Children of the Cave Grave, Newton
Located alongside Route 621 in the town of Newton is a peaceful little graveyard nestled alongside a wooded hillside, right near the heart of the old town. Though most of the Nineteenth and Twentieth...
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The Ghostly Glow of Green Light Cemetery
Traveling by a dark graveyard or cemetery at night can be a frightening thing, especially when the imagination comes into play and every crack of a stick or gust of wind lends the passer-by to think...
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Peace Pilgrim’s 25,000-Mile Hike for Peace
Peaceful protest, or nonviolent resistance, is the practice of achieving goals such as social change through symbolic protests, civil disobedience, economic or political noncooperation, or other...
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It’s Thanksgiving All Year Round In One Clifton Neighborhood!
“Dear Weird NJ – This appears a little weird. “The Courtship of Miles Standish,” a narrative poem written in 1858 by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is immortalized on the streets of Clifton in the...
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Jefferson Christmas Tree Says “I’ve Fallen!”
An age-old question poses the philosophical quandary: If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, does it make a sound? The answer in Jefferson Township, near Oak Ridge, NJ is...
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Hagertys’ Christmas Village, Pitman
Hello Weird NJ! Within the Grove (Pitman), you can see the Hagerty Christmas lights spreading across a whole neighborhood block. Home of an old Methodist summer camp, the mostly working class residents...
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O Tuckerton Tannenbaum, O Tuckerton Tannenbaum
There’s a desolate five-mile stretch of narrow asphalt known as Great Bay Boulevard located in Tuckerton that leads southeast from Mystic Island across an expansive salt marsh. Along its route it...
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A Nightmare Before Christmas in Trenton
On December 22nd, 1978, Jean Zelinsky was hardly feeling the holiday spirit. She was 48, single, and living with her mother in a small, five-room house in Ringoes. Jean always had trouble finding a...
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