It’s here! The #56 issue of Weird NJ Magazine: Your Travel Guide to New Jersey’s Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets, is now available. Order yours today and we’ll have a copy mailed right to your door. Continue reading
There is probably no better way to prove one’s courage than by walking straight into the gaping maw of Hell, the gates of which can be found in the town of Clifton, Passaic County–or so the legend goes… Continue reading
Today, one backyard along 12th Street in Hoboken is five feet wider than it was a few years ago. Because that’s when Hoboken’s “Phantom Bridge” cornerstone mysteriously disappeared. Once located in the backyard of 1200 Garden Street, it was a … Continue reading
Nearly 60 years before Peter Benchley’s novel “Jaws,” a real man-eater lurked the waters of the New Jersey coast. A single shark was responsible attacks on five victims, killing four. One has to wonder–could it happen again? Continue reading
Imagine you’re driving down the road in the Jersey Shore town of Mystic Island, just south of Tuckerton on the Great Bay. All of a sudden you see a massive concrete block, twenty feet high and twenty wide, sitting smack dab in the middle of the roadway! Continue reading
There is a strange and lonely road that runs through Tinton Falls and Neptune called Essex Road. Like many of the roads less traveled throughout New Jersey, Essex Road’s lore includes tales of ghosts, Satanists and unseen cannibals lurking in … Continue reading
He’s been a familiar roadside fixture to motorist traveling along Route 35 in Middletown since 1956, but the brightly colored clown known as “Calico” has such a beguiling look about him that drivers still scratch their heads in wonderment at … Continue reading
What says “Jersey” better than the classic Jersey diner? We’ll tell you what – the Jersey Devil sitting atop a classic Jersey diner sign while eating a Pork Roll/Taylor Ham, egg and cheese sandwich, that’s what! And that’s the image … Continue reading
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
Subscribe to your favorite magazine for 2021! That’s right, Weird NJ issues #56 and #57 can be delivered right to your door in May and October of 2021. (Current and recent issues can be purchased HERE.) Weird NJ Magazine: Your … Continue reading
