Cemetery Safari

Mark and Mark July 31, 2017 0

James Bechtold was one of Metuchen’s bravest, and dubbed the unofficial “Mayor of Metuchen.” A fireman since he was 18,...

Mark and Mark November 7, 2016 0

Poor Richard and Charles Hoopar. Some time in 1693, the brothers came across some mushrooms in the vicinity of Edison,...

Mark and Mark August 28, 2016 0

When we here at Weird NJ start receiving multiple letters from our readers focusing on a the same local legend,...

Mark and Mark May 30, 2016 0

New Jersey has plenty of history surrounding the Revolutionary War but not many people know about its Civil War connections....

Mark and Mark April 22, 2016 0

For nearly two centuries now, New Jersey residents who live along the border of Sussex and Warren counties have heard...

Mark and Mark February 23, 2016 0

By Joanne M. Austin Almost anyone who has watched an MGM movie or television show has heard the roar of...

Mark and Mark February 11, 2016 0

If you're heading southbound on the Garden State Parkway, at around mile marker 16, look for the grave of Noah...

Mark and Mark December 31, 2015 0

It’s not unusual to find the occasional cemetery coexisting with homes in suburban New Jersey neighborhoods; it’s the byproduct of...

Mark and Mark November 17, 2015 0

An anonymous Weird NJ reader wrote to us and tipped us off to the mysterious grave stone of an unknown...

Mark and Mark September 12, 2014 0

There’s a local cemetery attraction in Middletown known as the Dancing Jesus. It is said that if you visit the...