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Brand NEW Issue #40 In Stores May 1st!

That’s right folks, it’s hot off the presses and headed toward a store near you! The brand NEW issue of Weird NJ, #40 will be available throughout the state starting May 1st…and it happens to be the BEST ISSUE EVER! Weird NJ is carried by all major chain book stores and hundreds of independent outlets in New Jersey. Continue reading

Snake Hill’s Asylum, Potter’s Field & Field Station: Dinosaurs

While it is currently a park, Snake Hill has been the site of a variety of different institutions over its history. An almshouse was located here, and several hospitals and a penitentiary. Most famously, Snake Hill was the site of a huge lunatic asylum. Many of those who died while inmates of the asylum still lay in the ground here in unmarked and unidentified graves. Continue reading

The Route 22 Mini-Tour of Concretia

Weird New Jersey from Brian Johnston on Vimeo. Take a little road trip with Mark and Mark as we travel along Route 22 to see some of the sights, like Edison concrete houses, Eldorado Gardens, the Flagship, and more.

Weird NJ Instagram Photostream

We’ve just started an official Weird NJ Instagram feed and we’d like to invite all of you to follow our photo stream at WEIRDNJINSTA. You can share your weird photos by hash tagging us #weirdnjinsta (#roadside #abandoned #tombstones #weirdoes #legends … Continue reading

Forsaken For Your eReader

We are very pleased to announce that Weird NJ’s special issue Forsaken: Abandoned in and Around New Jersey by Rusty Tagliareni is now available for your e-reader! Forsaken is a 142 page full color digital edition devoted to forgotten sites … Continue reading

Advertise in Weird NJ

Our advertising deadline for the Spring issue of Weird NJ is April 1st and pages are filling up fast! Do you have an unusual business or event, or offer a unique product or service that you’d like to bring to … Continue reading

Weird NJ Issues 4, 5 & 6

A Weird NJ Amazon Store Exclusive: Issues 4, 5, & 6 Now Available Individually We have re-issued our early newsletters, numbers 4, 5 & 6, for the Weird NJ collector and purist. With hundreds of letters asking us how to … Continue reading

Pennhurst Asylum: The Shame of Pennsylvania

This state-funded school and hospital center was at the heart of the human rights movement that revolutionized this country’s approach to healthcare for the mentally and physically handicapped. This facility was one of the most striking examples of the maltreatment that was characteristic of such institutions––at one point, papers labeled it “The Shame of the Pennsylvania”. And the legacy of all this suffering might just be the lingering spirits that are said to still wander its abandoned wards today. Continue reading