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Nov. 9: The List Family Murders, Westfield
Father Knows Best: The Strange and Horrific Saga of John Emil List You’d think that it would be easy to identify a human being who had gone completely off the deep end. You’d think that the type of...
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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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A Christmas Vacation Engagement
A little bit of that old Christmas magic, courtesy of Weird NJ and the Harbaugh family, the Griswolds of New Jersey… Greetings Weird NJ! I just read your article about the Griswolds of New Jersey. I...
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2021: A Creepy Little Christmas in Manalapan
While Halloween is without a doubt the time of year most associated with all things creepy and scary, Christmas too has a long history of horror in popular culture. Generations before slasher films...
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Santa’s New Jersey Roots
While the image of the jolly old elf we’ve all come to know as Santa Claus may live at the North Pole, the father of this version of Father Christmas once lived right here in New Jersey. The...
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Deadly Tale of Henry Hudson Springs
In early September 1609 Henry Hudson began his exploration of the river that would one day bear his name. Before he ascended the estuary though, Hudson stopped at a small freshwater spring in what is...
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Higbee Beach’s Ghostly Grave
Weird NJ reader J.C. McAllister tipped us off a little-known local legend that emanates from the southernmost reaches of New Jersey, Cape May. J.C. writes: About 40 years or so ago, before the Cape...
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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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The Stone Living Room
Perched high above the border of West Milford and Bloomingdale in Passaic County, one can relax and enjoy the view from the Stone Living Room, the creation of a mysterious race of stone masons that...
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The Devil’s Pathway at the Great Falls
Descent into the Devil’s Pathway Life is a series of cycles of discovery, familiarity, forgetting, and rediscovery. The life of our state can be said to be something like this process as well....
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Investigating 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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Hancock House Massacre and the Ghostly Soldiers Who Guard It
It was early in the morning of March 21, and darkness still lay upon the brick house of Judge William Hancock in the Salem County town of Lower Alloway Creek. The year was 1778, and the Revolutionary...
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Friday the 13th in Weird NJ
When Blairstown Became Scarestown: The Filming of Friday the 13th By Joanne M. Austin “We ain’t gonna stand for no weirdness out here.” – Officer Dorf, Friday the 13th On an early Sunday winter...
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UPDATE: Preservation NJ Names USS Ling One of the 10 Most Endangered Historic...
UPDATE: Preservation New Jersey Names USS Ling One of the 10 Most Endangered Historic Places in NJ. Read the latest NEWS HERE. UPDATE: Charges Upgraded for 5 Suspects in USS Ling Vandalism. Read...
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Gravity Roads and Hills
One of the most common “road” myths in New Jersey is the story of Gravity Road, or Hill. We’ve investigated several of these locations where the forces of gravity seem to hold true in theory only....
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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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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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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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The Haunting of White Hill House
From Bootleggers to Bordellos, Historic Mansion’s Spirits of the Past by Dawn Reichard Situated on a bluff overlooking the Delaware River in Fieldsboro, NJ, White Hill Mansion has stood witness to...
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Fort Mifflin Paranormal Investigation
Located just across the Delaware River from Red Bank, NJ on the edge of Philadelphia, PA, Fort Mifflin is not the best-known historic site in America, but as “the fort that saved America,” its...
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