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...
Local Heroes and Villains
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...
A Nightmare Before Christmas in Trenton
On December 22nd, 1978, Jean Zelinsky was hardly feeling the holiday spirit. She was 48, single, and living with her...
Nov. 9: The List Family Murders, Westfield
Father Knows Best: The Strange and Horrific Saga of John Emil List You’d think that it would be easy to...
Happy Hollow Earth Day!
Exploring the Inner Earth with John Cleves Symmes, Jr. It seems there’s a lot of crackpot theories going around these...
Peace Pilgrim’s 25,000-Mile Hike for Peace
Peaceful protest, or nonviolent resistance, is the practice of achieving goals such as social change through symbolic protests, civil disobedience,...
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...
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...
Nazis and KKK Bund Together for the “American Fuhrer”
Camp Nordland, Andover, NJ. Today it's hard to imagine that the following sentence could be describing an actual rally that once...
EXCLUSIVE: Matawan Man-Eater Mural Artist Reveals Identity!
If the image of these toothy shark jaws look familiar to you it's probably because at some point you, like...
