Three days before Christmas, Jean strangled her 78-year-old mother to death in their home. Standing over Julia Zelinsky’s body, Jean took a kitchen knife and decapitated her. Tossing the head into a plastic shopping bag, Jean got into her car and headed straight for Trenton – but not before stopping to wave to a neighbor. Continue reading
Hello Weird NJ! Within the Grove (Pitman), you can see the Hagerty Christmas lights spreading across a whole neighborhood block. Home of an old Methodist summer camp, the mostly working class residents wait every Black Friday to see something homemade, … Continue reading
Here are just a few of our favorite holiday season sights that have been seen around the state in years of yore… Continue reading
An age-old question poses the philosophical quandary: If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, does it make a sound? The answer in Jefferson Township, near Oak Ridge, NJ is apparently yes, due in … Continue reading
Subscribe to your favorite magazine from New Jersey for 2019! That’s right, Weird NJ issues #52 and #53 can be delivered to your door in May and October. We collect stories about New Jersey. That’s what we’ve been doing for … Continue reading
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
Trying to find a place to pick up the latest issue of Weird NJ magazine in your town or a town near you? Here’s list of stores that carry Weird NJ arranged alphabetically by town name. Continue reading
September eleventh of this year marks the seventeenth anniversary of the terrorist attacks that brought down the Twin Towers in 2001. Here are just a few examples of homemade New Jersey homages that prove that the World Trade Center and those who lost their lives on 9/11 will not be forgotten. Continue reading
This Friday we’ll be celebrating “Friday the 13th” in Blairstown, NJ, where much of the classic 1979 slasher horror film of that name was shot. Mark and Mark, publishers of Weird NJ, will be signing copies of the magazine and selling other weird stuff too at the Slash … Continue reading
A stop at a tavern in Orange brought us this tale of how local teenagers would dare each other to visit “Mother” at the Rosedale Cemetery, located on the border of Orange and Montclair, late on moonlit nights. Apparently the … Continue reading
