ReMEMBERing Napoleon in NJ
This week marks the 200th anniversary of the May 5, 1821 death of French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. While many folks...
A Bridge Abridged in Hoboken
Artist’s rendering of the West New York Bridge from Scientific American, June 25, 1921. Today, one backyard along 12th Street...
Tuckerton Tower and the Mysterious Monoliths of Mystic Isles
Imagine you’re driving through the crisscrossing streets of the Jersey Shore town Mystic Island, which is not actually an island...
Weird Travels on Essex Road, Tinton Falls/Neptune
There is a strange and lonely road that runs through Tinton Falls and Neptune called Essex Road. Like many of...
S.S. Atlantus: Cape May’s Concrete Ship
For nearly nine decades now the weather beaten remains of a ship have lain just a few hundred feet beyond...
The Atco Ghost
There’s a ghost story in the southern New Jersey town of Atco that tells of a young boy who was...
Homemade Homages to 9/11
September eleventh of this year marks the 21st anniversary of the terrorist attacks that brought down the Twin Towers in...
Remembering the “Forgotten Victory” of Nicholas Parcell
Today, on the 4th of July, we salute a true American patriot, Nicholas Parcell, a Revolutionary War soldier who was...
The Cult of Mysterious “Monk’s Castle”
Fleeing the Cult at Monk's Castle Growing up I heard stories about monks, cults, or even vampires, living in Kip’s...
Back From the Dead: Out-of-Print Weird NJ for iPad and Kindle!
Although the print versions of many issues of Weird NJ are now completely sold out and no longer available anywhere,...