Big Rusty – South Jersey’s Giant Troll
Big Rusty – A Giant Troll with a Taste for the Abandoned If you walk down an old dirt road...
Roadside Oddities
Friday the 13th in Weird NJ
When Blairstown Became Scarestown: The Filming of Friday the 13th By Joanne M. Austin “We ain’t gonna stand for no...
Blood Sport: Revisiting Traction… Er, Action, Park
If you were compiling a list of things you may have experienced in your youth if you grew up in...
Lucy the Elephant
The New Jersey Shore has always had its fair share of spectacular eye-popping sights to see. Historically there have been...
EXCLUSIVE: Matawan Man-Eater Mural Artist Reveals Identity!
If the image of these toothy shark jaws look familiar to you it's probably because at some point you, like...
The Abandoned Howard Stern Rest Stop
The Strange Saga of Howard Stern’s Rest Stop By Nick Muscavage Potato chips, soda and sex — what more do...
Presidential Death on the Jersey Shore
Situated alongside a narrow seaside street in the tony Elberon section of Long Branch lies a curious footnote to United...
Asbury Park’s Tillie and Calico, the “Evil Clown” of Middletown
He’s been a familiar roadside fixture to motorist traveling along Route 35 in Middletown since 1956, but the brightly colored...
Dr. Leitman’s Waiting Room of Weirdness
When the Weird NJ office phone rang and the Greek was on the other end of the line, I knew...
It’s Thanksgiving All Year Round In Some NJ Neighborhoods
“Dear Weird NJ – This appears a little weird. “The Courtship of Miles Standish,” a narrative poem written in 1858...
