Handed down over time, our researchers have searched and searched for these historic ghost tales, stories, and twisted history around New Jersey.
Views: 2,356 Mysterious death, lights in the woods at night, strange chemical smells in the air, paranormal activity, and a YouTuber’s missing persons report continue to plague what is felt to be strange paranormal activity at the former Hofheimer woods,… Read More »Unexplained Disappearance at Warren’s Hofheimer Mauseleum & Grotto
Views: 15,260 Tucked below the Hills on a quiet cul-de-sac in the Liberty Corner section of Bernards Township, New Jersey, sits a turreted French Norman-style castle known to locals as Pharelock Castle. Very few locals remember the sad story about… Read More »Bill Beatty and the Hills Haunted Phareloch Castle
Views: 3,788 👻 The 3rd Floor “Spirit of the Astor Estate” in Basking Ridge. A spirit has haunted owners and workers wandering the third floor causing ghostly havoc at times.Reported by a number of Bernards Township Employees at the Astor… Read More »Paranormal Oddities at Basking Ridge’s Astor Estate Town Hall
Views: 3,122 on Mischief Night, Cabbage Night, Goosey Night, or whatever you call it – October 30th – RE-LIVE the WAR OF THE WORLDS. GO LISTEN WITH YOUR FAMILY The date was October 30, 1938, and Jerseyans tuned in to… Read More »The World’s Greatest Broadcast in New Jersey History – War of the Worlds
Views: 2,157 Believe it or not, the dead are alive in central New Jersey, especially in northern Somerset County. The question is not whether they are real or not, but rather whether they are disturbing or friendly. As we share,… Read More »Haunted Tales From Central New Jersey #3
The phrase “cold as balls” reportedly comes from the contraction of metal on ship’s cannons, causing the iron balls to fall. The expression “cold as a witch’s tit” originated from the belief that witches, portrayed as cold-blooded in the 1600s, had an ‘unholy’ body part feeding familiars or the devil.
Views: 16,311 Urban Legends, Ghosts, Murder, Nuns gone insane, the Devil and other horror stories we’ve dug up from Central New Jersey’s past. May be urban legends, but they’re OUR stories! When the leaves start turning and the nights get… Read More »Legendary Horror Tales and Ghost Stories from Central New Jersey
Views: 12,080 Believe it or not, the dead are alive in central New Jersey, especially in northern Somerset County. The question is not whether they are real or not, but whether they are disturbing or friendly. As we share, the… Read More »10 More Haunted Tales From Central New Jersey
Views: 11,657 To expand on an earlier post: The PLOT THICKENS… there’s a 2nd Jacob’s Ladder! So I kept digging about Jacob’s Ladder. Not that I wanted to, but the internet has its way of bringing information right to my… Read More »Peapack has a Jacobs Ladder too!
Views: 64,875 Weird New Jersey magazine launched an all-out attack with urban legends about what went terribly wrong inside the Blairsden Estate in Peapack, New Jersey. This article was originally posted on another site back in 2007. We thought it… Read More »Blairsden- The Horror, The Nuns and Other Urban Legends
Views: 37,280 The Devil Tree of Liberty Corner (Somerset County) Urban Legend 1 Devil Tree – The Tree and the Caretaker Me and my friends were all contemplating going up to the devil tree. I had been up there one… Read More »The Tale of Jersey’s Devil Tree
Views: 23,614 Devil’s Tomb & Jacob’s Ladder –Look what happened when Weird NJ Issue #12 came out. A place that sits quietly in obscurity for hundreds of years comes to an abrupt end when overzealous devil seekers search to find… Read More »Taking Jacob’s Ladder to the Devil’s Tomb (Grave)
Views: 6,486 Listen in as we welcome award-winning journalist and Walking Dead actor Matt Ryan, along with filmmaker Will Cook, as they share the creation of their film HAUNTED ROOTS, “The Haunt of New Jersey’s Devil Tree and a… Read More »Haunted Roots – The Horror Tale of the Devil Tree in Central New Jersey
Views: 19,568 Liberty Corner’s Most Famous Resident? In a quiet little rural village in New Jersey that’s known more for Memorial Day parades and quiet strolls up and down Church Street, there’s this little secret about a man who became… Read More »Liberty Corner had the REAL Zip the Pinhead – Yow!