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...
Local Heroes and Villains
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...
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...
The Cult of Mysterious “Monk’s Castle”
Fleeing the Cult at Monk's Castle Growing up I heard stories about monks, cults, or even vampires, living in Kip’s...
The Tiger Lady of Jackson
Playing Cat and Mouse with the Tiger Lady of Jackson During a New Jersey winter, wildlife sightings are not uncommon....
The Legend of Jersey’s “Liver Eating” Mountain Man
The 1972 film “Jeremiah Johnson”, directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Robert Redford as the title character, is about a...
Hall-Mills Murders: The Preacher, the Choir Singer and “The Pig Woman”
In 1922, a murder in Somerset County made national headlines. The dead bodies of a local preacher and a married...
