From Shell Pile to Sea Breeze: NJ’s Most Desolate Places
“Shell Pile is named for the great heaps of oyster shells stacked outside the packing sheds. This is a community...
Fabled People and Places
Jenny Jump, Ghost Lake & the Faery Hole
One of the most scenic areas in our state is also one of the most storied. It’s a park in...
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...
Blood Sport: Revisiting Traction… Er, Action, Park
If you were compiling a list of things you may have experienced in your youth if you grew up in...
Ong’s Hat: Piney Ghost Town or Gateway to Another Dimension?
If one takes the Turnpike to exit four and follows Route 70 east, they will come to Route 72 at...
Jimmy Hoffa’s Fiery Resting Place Beneath the Pulaski Skyway
The Pulaski Skyway lumbers across the post-apocalyptic landscape of South Kearny like some kind of skulking prehistoric behemoth. Carrying Route...
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...
History and Legends of the Mysterious “Jackson Whites”
For many years now there have been stories of a degenerate race of people who live an isolated existence removed...
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...
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...
