From Shrooms to the Tomb in Edison
Poor Richard and Charles Hoopar. Some time in 1693, the brothers came across some mushrooms in the vicinity of Edison,...
Stories
Home State Hauntings – A Ghostly Special Issue!
Weird NJ Presents Home State Hauntings: True Stories Of Ghostly Places In New Jersey Home State Hauntings is a 106...
Weird Travels on Indian Cabin Road
When we here at Weird NJ start receiving multiple letters from our readers focusing on a the same local legend,...
The Quest for El Dorado
Weird NJ reader Ed Cardinal clued us in to a very peculiar all but forgotten resort of sorts that was...
South Jersey’s Statue of Liberty
Most people don’t know that New Jersey is privy to two Statues of Liberty. One stands proudly in New York...
A Governor In Queen’s Clothing
New Jersey’s first royal governor, a first cousin of Queen Anne, took office in 1706, and quickly gained the dubious...
Route 9, Through the Eyes of a Dinosaur
By Steven J. Baeli For almost 86 years now I have stood on Rt. 9 in Bayville watching the world...
The White Pilgrim and the Dark of the Moon
For nearly two centuries now, New Jersey residents who live along the border of Sussex and Warren counties have heard...
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...
Murder By Death Shines at the Stanley Hotel
The Weird NJ Interview by Matt Chrystal There has been no shortage of stories surrounding the one hundred and seven...
