Mystery History

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 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 1

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

Mark and Mark July 26, 2021 0

By Donald E. Bender The 1950s were an era of unbridled nuclear proliferation. Fears of a potential nuclear war between...

Mark and Mark July 17, 2021 0

Camp Nordland, Andover, NJ. Today it's hard to imagine that the following sentence could be describing an actual rally that once...

Mark and Mark June 1, 2021 0

It was cold and rainy on the morning of May 23, 1701 in London, England; perfect weather for an execution....

Mark and Mark May 2, 2021 0

This week marks the 200th anniversary of the May 5, 1821 death of French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. While many folks...

Mark and Mark April 1, 2021 0

Artist’s rendering of the West New York Bridge from Scientific American, June 25, 1921. Today, one backyard along 12th Street...

Mark and Mark March 25, 2021 0

Imagine you’re driving through the crisscrossing streets of the Jersey Shore town Mystic Island, which is not actually an island...

Mark and Mark November 1, 2020 1

For nearly nine decades now the weather beaten remains of a ship have lain just a few hundred feet beyond...