The Painted Rock of Route 539
New Jersey's Most Painted Rock I can't remember exactly when I first saw the Painted Rock on Route 539. It...
Stories
Visiting “Mother” on Mother’s Day
A stop at a tavern in Orange brought us this tale of how local teenagers would dare each other 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...
Shades of Death Road
Many legends are associated with Shades of Death Road, which winds alongside Jenny Jump State Forest up to Allamuchy in Warren...
Weird NJ Audio Stories
Hey, You Wanna Hear a Weird Story? Weird NJ has taken to the airwaves! We've started a series of radio...
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,...
O Tuckerton Tannenbaum, O Tuckerton Tannenbaum
There’s a desolate five-mile stretch of narrow asphalt known as Great Bay Boulevard located in Tuckerton that leads southeast from Mystic...
Jefferson Christmas Tree Says “I’ve Fallen!”
An age-old question poses the philosophical quandary: If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear...
Santa’s Devilish Little Helper, the Belznickel
There’s no greater hero in a child’s mind than that jolly old elf who comes down the chimney on the...
The Ghostly Glow of Green Light Cemetery
Traveling by a dark graveyard or cemetery at night can be a frightening thing, especially when the imagination comes into...
