Weird NJ Issue #57 (Fall/Winter 2021) Weird NJ issue #57 has been mailed out to all paid subscribers and is now available in stores throughout New Jersey! If you have not yet receive your issue there is no reason to … Continue reading
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 holiday, from this year and Halloweens past… Continue reading
Wildwood’s Wall of Death and the Terror of Tuffy
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 to the Jersey Shore to escape … Continue reading
Richie “The Boot” Boiardo: The Real-Life Tony Soprano
The New Jersey Gangster Who Inspired the Creation of HBO’s The Sopranos Richie “the Boot” Boiardo was one of the most powerful and feared men in the New Jersey underworld in the 20th Century. Richie, his son Anthony “Tony Boy” … Continue reading
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 vacation season gone by still warm … Continue reading
UPDATED: Who Killed Jeannette DePalma?
In this all-but-forgotten unsolved case from 1972, the body of a teenage girl was discovered atop a cliff, high above an abandoned quarry in the town of Springfield. The corpse was found thanks to a dog that brought home a badly decomposed human forearm to its master. The deceased would later be identified as Jeannette DePalma, a local teenager who had been missing for six weeks. Before long, witchcraft, satanism and police conspiracies would all become suspects in the bizarre case. Continue reading
Betting on Disaster: The Newark Bay Train Wreck
It was on 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 our state’s wagering residents. A train … Continue reading
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 northernmost part of the state. … Continue reading
Emily Haunts the Flanders Hotel, Ocean City
The boardwalk of beautiful Ocean City, NJ is family friendly resort that you might think would be the last place you’d find a haunting. But think again. The landmark Flanders Hotel, built on the boardwalk in 1923, has its own resident ghost. She’s known as the Lady in White, but her name in life is said to have been Emily. Emily’s thought to be the spirit of Continue reading
Joe Mulliner, the “Robin Hood of the Pines”
Often referred to as “The Robin Hood Of The Pine Barrens,” Joe Mulliner was a Tory outlaw who was forced to flee his home in 1779 to avoid arrest, then went on a crime spree throughout the Pine Barrens of Southern New Jersey, burning farmhouses, kidnapping, and holding up stagecoaches. Continue reading