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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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Route 9, Through the Eyes of a Dinosaur
By Steven J. Baeli For almost 86 years now I have stood on Rt. 9 in Bayville watching the world go by (which for a dinosaur is no time at all), the scenery changing with each new decade, the...
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A Governor In Queen’s Clothing
New Jersey’s first royal governor, a first cousin of Queen Anne, took office in 1706, and quickly gained the dubious distinction of being one of our state’s most loathed leaders. Edward Hyde, Viscount...
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Confederate and WWII Prisoner Graves of Finn’s Point Cemetery
New Jersey has plenty of history surrounding the Revolutionary War but not many people know about its Civil War connections. This Memorial Day weekend we take you to a place called Finn’s Point...
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South Jersey’s Statue of Liberty
Most people don’t know that New Jersey is privy to two Statues of Liberty. One stands proudly in New York Harbor, but the other, lesser-known statue has been looking out over Vineland since the 1930s....
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The Quest for El Dorado
Weird NJ reader Ed Cardinal clued us in to a very peculiar all but forgotten resort of sorts that was once located in the town of Springfield , NJ. Ed writes: If you are wandering around the...
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The Cult of Mysterious “Monks Castle”
Fleeing the Cult at Monks 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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Home State Hauntings – A Ghostly NEW Special Issue!
Weird NJ Presents Home State Hauntings: True Stories Of Ghostly Places In New Jersey Home State Hauntings is a 106 pages, fully illustrated, soft bound special issue of Weird NJ, beautifully...
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Halloween in Weird NJ
Folks here in New Jersey sure do know how to get into the Halloween spirit, and often do so with elaborate seasonal displays. Here are just a few of our favorite properties, personalized for the...
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Nazis and KKK Bund Together for the “American Fuhrer”
Bund 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...
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From Shrooms to the Tomb in Edison
Poor Richard and Charles Hoopar. Some time in 1693, the brothers came across some mushrooms in the vicinity of Edison, New Jersey and decided to eat them. Maybe they found them in the woods and...
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Demolition Looms for the Binghamton, Edgewater’s Floundered Ferry
The demolition of a historic Binghamton Ferry, which shuttled passengers from Hoboken to New York City for more than 60 years before enjoying its second life as a floating restaurant will begin this...
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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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2016 Weird NJ Holiday Catalog
This holiday season give that hard-to-shop-for person on your shopping list the gift of weirdness with a 2017 subscription, one of our Wicked New Hoodie, Back Issues, Books, a Special Issue, Skull...
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The Adventure Village That Time Forgot
Our state has a long history of unique youth oriented attractions. Most of the really well known ones though, like Palisades Amusement Park or Jungle Habitat, closed down so long ago only older...
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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 of performers of normal stature. But one curious...
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The Jersey Devil
Without a doubt, New Jersey’s oldest, most enduring, and important pieces of folklore is the tale of the infamous Jersey Devil. For close to three hundred years now, Jerseyans have told tales of this...
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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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Blood Sport: Revisiting Traction… Er, Action, Park
The following article was originally published in Weird NJ magazine (issue #25) and on our web site in 2005. If you were compiling a list of things you may have experienced in you youth if you grew up...
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A Farewell to Overbrook Asylum (Essex County Hospital)
ATTENTION: The Following is a Public Service Announcement. The Essex County Sheriff’s Office has asked us post the following warning to our readers: “please be advised that the essex county sheriff’s...
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