Ghost Tales, Urban Legends and Cemeteries From Central New Jersey

Views: 4,216 👻 The 3rd Floor “Spirit of the Astor Estate” in Basking Ridge. A spirit has haunted owners and workers wandering the third floor causing ghostly havoc at times.Reported… Read More »Paranormal Oddities at Basking Ridge’s Astor Estate Town Hall

Views: 2,647 Mysterious death, lights in the woods at night, strange chemical smells in the air, paranormal activity, and a YouTuber’s missing persons report continue to plague what is felt… Read More »Unexplained Disappearance at Warren’s Hofheimer Mauseleum & Grotto

Views: 1,460 In the early 1700s, German Lutherans settled around Pluckemin and established one of the region’s first congregations. By 1715, they had built a small log church on what… Read More »The Hills Church & Cemetery & Pluckemin’s Pigtail Mountain

Views: 38,023 The Devil Tree of Liberty Corner (Somerset County) Urban Legend 1 Devil Tree – The Tree and the Caretaker Me and my friends were all contemplating going up… Read More »The Tale of Jersey’s Devil Tree

Views: 3,199 You can learn a great deal of history by visiting a cemetery. NOTE: A quick reminder: Warren was part of Bernards Township until the 19th century, while Far… Read More »Basking Ridge Evergreen Cemetery is a Living History Lesson

Views: 2,095 Historical Note: Bernardsville was still part of Bernards Township up until 1924. Cemeteries are one of the best sources for historical research and MLH leverages many burials in… Read More »St. Bernard’s Cemetery is Bernardsville History

The phrase “cold as balls” reportedly comes from the contraction of metal on ship’s cannons, causing the iron balls to fall. The expression “cold as a witch’s tit” originated from the belief that witches, portrayed as cold-blooded in the 1600s,…

Views: 439 The Lamington Black Cemetery is an African American cemetery in the Lamington section of Bedminster Township, New Jersey, located on Cowperthwaite Road. It is also known as the… Read More »Honoring Civil War Black Soldiers at the Lamington Black…

Views: 2,432 Believe it or not, the dead are alive in central New Jersey, especially in northern Somerset County. The question is not whether they are real or not, but… Read More »Haunted Tales From Central New Jersey #3

Views: 3,263 Being raised in Westfield was a great experience, and sometimes it goes by so fast you never have time to sit back and reflect. As I look back… Read More »Fairview Cemetery – Westfield, New Jersey’s Largest Resting Place

Views: 12,544 Believe it or not, the dead are alive in central New Jersey, especially in northern Somerset County. The question is not whether they are real or not, but… Read More »10 More Haunted Tales From Central New Jersey

Views: 65,986 Weird New Jersey magazine launched an all-out attack with urban legends about what went terribly wrong inside the Blairsden Estate in Peapack, New Jersey. This article was originally… Read More »Blairsden- The Horror, The Nuns and Other Urban Legends

Views: 24,219 Devil’s Tomb & Jacob’s Ladder –Look what happened when Weird NJ Issue #12 came out. A place that sits quietly in obscurity for hundreds of years comes to… Read More »Taking Jacob’s Ladder to the Devil’s Tomb (Grave)

Views: 3,692 on Mischief Night, Cabbage Night, Goosey Night, or whatever you call it – October 30th – RE-LIVE the WAR OF THE WORLDS. GO LISTEN WITH YOUR FAMILY The… Read More »The World’s Greatest Broadcast in New Jersey History –…

Views: 11,821 To expand on an earlier post: The PLOT THICKENS… there’s a 2nd Jacob’s Ladder! So I kept digging about Jacob’s Ladder. Not that I wanted to, but the… Read More »Peapack has a Jacobs Ladder too!

Views: 17,063 Urban Legends, Ghosts, Murder, Nuns gone insane, the Devil and other horror stories we’ve dug up from Central New Jersey’s past. May be urban legends, but they’re OUR… Read More »Legendary Horror Tales and Ghost Stories from Central New…

Views: 20,455 Liberty Corner’s Most Famous Resident? In a quiet little rural village in New Jersey that’s known more for Memorial Day parades and quiet strolls up and down Church… Read More »Liberty Corner had the REAL Zip the Pinhead –…

Views: 10,344 So we’re over at the Bedminster Farmers Market, and while meeting a few locals, one of the patrons mentioned, “Why don’t you research what’s going on over at… Read More »A Unique Bedminster Cemetery-“God’s Acre”

Views: 7,664 Cemeteries showcase some of history’s greatest reminders of where we came from. Many people new to the area are unaware of the local history until you trace it… Read More »Basking Ridge’s Oldest Cemetery

Views: 996 The Liberty Corner Presbyterian Church was founded in 1837 to serve the growing rural community in the Liberty Corner section of Bernards Township, New Jersey. Its adjacent cemetery,… Read More »Retrospective: Liberty Corner – History in the Cemetery

Views: 953 There is a wealth of history to be learned from a cemetery. We have a rich genealogy embedded in many of our stories, and we strive to describe… Read More »Local Cemetery History Research

Views: 6,745   Listen in as we welcome award-winning journalist and Walking Dead actor Matt Ryan, along with filmmaker Will Cook, as they share the creation of their film HAUNTED… Read More »Haunted Roots – The Horror Tale of the Devil…

Views: 15,892 Tucked below the Hills on a quiet cul-de-sac in the Liberty Corner section of Bernards Township, New Jersey, sits a turreted French Norman-style castle known to locals as… Read More »Bill Beatty and the Hills Haunted Phareloch Castle