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Presidential Death on the Jersey Shore
Situated alongside a narrow seaside street in the tony Elberon section of Long Branch lies a curious footnote to United State history––a monument marking the death spot of the twentieth U.S....
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Ghosts of the Union Hotel, Flemington
In February of this year it was reported that a new and controversial plan was being considered for the redevelopment of Flemington’s historic downtown area. While the proposed plan is still far from...
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Exploring Abandoned Nike Missile Bases
Nuclear Jersey: Nike Missile Bases and the Cold War Fought Right in Your Own Backyard It might surprise a lot of New Jersey residents today to know that during the Cold War many of our sleepy suburban...
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The Abandoned Howard Stern Rest Stop
The Strange Saga of Howard Stern’s Rest Stop By Nick Muscavage Potato chips, soda and sex — what more do you need from a rest stop? Although it is admittedly not as weird as the Gates of Hell or Mt....
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Rahway’s Unknown Woman in Green
The Unknown Woman in Green A Jersey Murder Mystery By Joanne Austin Princess Doe, the unknown girl found murdered in a Blairstown Cemetery in 1982, is probably the most famous unidentified murder...
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NEW! Ghosts of the Garden State Wall Poster
With New Jersey being so rich in history, legends and lore, it seems only natural that more than a few ghosts have chosen to hang around our fair state and make their presence known. They haunt not...
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Jungle Habitat: Wild, Free and Abandoned
By Mark Moran One day, back around 1997, someone suggested to Mark S. and I that we go check out Jungle Habitat. “Jungle Habitat?” we replied. “That placed closed twenty years ago!” “Yeah, I know,”...
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Zip The “What Is It?”
Circus freaks have always been looked upon as somewhat “show business impaired” in regards to the glitter and glamorous lifestyles shared by those performers of normal stature. But one curious little...
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Tillie Haunts Centenary College, Hackettstown
Centenary College was founded by the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1867 as a preparatory school and women’s college. It underwent several incarnations before becoming a four-year, co-educational...
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The Deserted Village and Enchanted Forest of the Watchung Reservation
There is a place deep in the woods of the Watchung Reservation area in Union County that is officially known as the Feltville Historic District. Here, down a narrow winding road that leads into the...
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Welcome to The Dolls’ House
Meet George, a New Jersey man who collects dolls – so many dolls that his house is like a doll museum. Which made us wonder; is it really George’s house, or is it The Dolls’ House? Read the full story...
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The Haunting of White Hill Mansion
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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Dark Tales From Inside the Edgewater-Fairview Tunnel
One of the great lost passageways of New Jersey, this tunnel stretches from its western entrance beneath the Fairview Cemetery in Fairview (Bergen County) to its eastern opening at the foot of the...
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The “Star Wars” Gravestone, Rahway
On Mother’s Day I was visiting my mother and father’s grave in Hazelwood Cemetery in Rahway. I noticed a long inscription on the back of a nearby stone. I read it and it told of a young man who had...
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The “Lindbergh of Mexico” Goes Down in the Pines
2023 marks the 95th anniversary of the fatal crash of Captain Emilio Carranza, the “Mexican Lindbergh,” deep in a remote area of the New Jersey Pine Barrens. It was in the early morning hours of this...
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Haunted Hindenburg Hangar at Lakehurst
The Hindenburg disaster took place on Thursday, May 6, 1937, as the German passenger airship LZ 129 Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed during its attempt to dock with its mooring mast at the...
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Visiting “Mother” on Mother’s Day
A stop at a tavern in Orange brought us this tale of how local teenagers would dare each other to visit “Mother” at the Rosedale Cemetery, located on the border of Orange and Montclair, late on...
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Death and Destruction at the Devil’s Tea Table
Perched 365 feet above the scenic Delaware River, on a rocky wooded hillside in the town of Kingwood, stands a geological anomaly known as the Devil’s Tea Table. It’s a twenty-foot-tall pillar of...
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Doing Time at the Newark Street Jail
Story and photos by Rusty Tagliareni From Weird NJ’s Special Issue Forsaken: Abandoned In And Around New Jersey The Newark Street Jail has enjoyed a long history as the city jail of Newark since its...
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Brooksbrae Brick Factory – Abandoned in the Pine Barrens
Photos by R. LUBISCHER The Brooksbrae Brick Company located in Pasadena was incorporated in 1905 to manufacture bricks for the Adams Clay Mining Company. The mining of clay started in the 1850s and...
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