Mystery History

Mark and Mark October 15, 2022 2

In late 1997, Weird NJ received a letter from a fan named Billy Martin. The short letter, entitled “In the...

Mark and Mark October 11, 2022 0

While most people are familiar with the story of the infamous witch trials that took place in Salem, Massachusetts in...

Mark and Mark July 14, 2022 3

40 years to the day after the body of an unknown teenage girl was found in a Blairstown cemetery the...

Mark and Mark June 29, 2022 1

Nearly 60 years before Peter Benchley's novel "Jaws," a real man-eater lurked the waters of the New Jersey coast. It...

Mark and Mark April 22, 2022 0

Exploring the Inner Earth with John Cleves Symmes, Jr. It seems there’s a lot of crackpot theories going around these...

Mark and Mark October 7, 2021 0

Bayonne resident and Chief Radio Engineer George White Rodgers had his hands full the morning of September 8, 1934. He...

Mark and Mark October 4, 2021 0

It was October 5th, of 1938 and like elsewhere in the nation New Jersey was mired in the midst of...

Mark and Mark September 29, 2021 0

The New Jersey Gangster Who Inspired the Creation of HBO’s The Sopranos Richie “the Boot” Boiardo was one of the...

Mark and Mark September 17, 2021 0

It was on September 17th, in 1958 that one of the most tragic railroad disasters in New Jersey’s history, which...

Mark and Mark August 7, 2021 0

Often referred to as “The Robin Hood Of The Pine Barrens,” Joe Mulliner was a Tory outlaw who was forced...