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NJ Beemerville, NJ

NJ A Building Shaped Like an Elephant Located on the New Jersey shore at Margate, NJ

NJ Cowboy, 20', muffler man? Rt9 Berkeley Township

NJ Cream-Valley Dairy ,Mile post 11-12,Rt. 40, pic of large RAT,Woodstown,NJ

NJ Deserted town of Double Trouble, Dover Township, NJ

NJ Easy Street,Howell,NJ

NJ Giant Dinosaur,hit by lots of trucks,Rt9, Bayville, NJ

NJ Jim Gary's Urban Dinosaurs,Farmingdale, NJ

NJ Kingfish Chicken & Ribs roadside stand,Rt. 40,Richland, NJ

NJ Little Cabin Inn, Newburgh, NJ

NJ Longaberger Basket Co.,Rt. 16 E. of Newark, office complex shaped like wood basket

NJ Lucilles Country Cooking(bombing range in Dwarf Pine Barrens & middle of no where, Warren, NJ

NJ Lucy the Elephant, 4 stories high, Margate, NJ

NJ Elsie The Cow's grave and head stone , Plainsboro, NJ

NJ Miss Uniroyal, Rt. 68,20 ' babe waving,Glouster,NJ

NJ Mr. Bill,12', looks like Alfred E Newman,outside Mr Bills Restaurant, Rt561, Winslow, NJ

NJ Mr Cool Waterworks,30' surfer dude, Saeside Park,NJ

NJ RAT Radio Station, This is off Main St. in Belmar, NJ More info

NJ  The Stone Museum, Display World, and Greek's Playland. Jamesburg,NJ weird big stuff

NJ Viking,20' with horns & helmet(Muffler Man??) Rt77, Deerfield, NJ

NJ Washington Hardware,20'hammer,Washington, NJ

NJ World's Smallest Church, Winslow, NJ

 

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Weird Museums

NJ, The Museum of American Glass Millville, NJ (35 miles west of Atlantic City)

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NJ  The Grimes Homestead, Mountain Lakes NJ.   More Info

NJ Peter Mott House, Lawnside Borough,NJ    More Info

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Haunted Places

 

Burlington - Burlington County Prison - cell 5 on the 3rd floor is haunted by Joseph Clough who spent his last days chained in this cell.

Cape May - Cape May County Historical Museum - the ghost of a man with a deep voice haunts this place.

Cape May - Washington Inn - An elderly woman's voice is often heard here.

Cape May - Winterwood Gift Shoppe - 2 sisters haunt their former home as well as a white figure that roams the grounds near a grave on the grounds.

Dennisville - Henry Ludlam Inn - strange sounds and events occur here.

Midland Park - Crayhay Mansion - haunted by many ghosts, including a ghost cat.

Morristown - Water's Edge Cafe - a heavyset male ghost can be seen on the staircase here.

Phillipsburg - Hunt Homestead - a hooded woman has been seen in the kitchen window.

Woodstown - Seven Stars Tavern - a ghost with a noose around his neck and other noisy ghosts haunt this place.

Franklin Township - VanWickle home -  It is a beautiful home that sports a cemetery right on the entrance to the driveway.  It has been rumored to be haunted and many documented sightings are on hand.

Bernardsville - Bernardsville Public Library - was The Parker home and has a strange history of sightings as well as a very mysterious historical past.

Middlesex County - Circle Players - (A local theater group in Middlesex County)  They often boast to be the most haunted theater in New Jersey.

Boonton - Darress Theater - It was closed for many years and was finally bought and used for children's theater (like Snow White, etc.) and they also show movies there at night, too.  The people that are there late at night say they hear voices, footsteps and the chair seats move.  There have also been reports of singing coming from the theater when everyone has gone home for the night.

Morristown -  Jockey Hollow - In a dense wooded area, it is believed you can hear & see the spirits of George Washington & his troops marching through the woods or a woman wearing a  long white dress carrying an lamp.

Cape May - The Sea Holly Inn - a young woman seems to make her presence known every so often and an elderly gentlman who climbed in bed with a Psycic!

Cape May - The Windward House - The ghost of a young Irish girl is occupying the 3rd floor "wicker" room.

Cape May - World War II Bunker - The magazine at Cape May point once housed guns to protect the coast from Nazi subs. A ghostly crew haunts this bunker.  Soldiers have also been seen on the beach surrounding the bunker.

Port Monmouth - Spy House Museum - This house was a tavern during Washington's day and got it's name because the owner would welcome british troops into the tavern, listen to what they were planning and tell Washinton's men (hence the name Spy house) and before that it was used by pirates who supposedly hid treasure in the house and stored their dead in the basement.  There are tunnels under the house and there have been ghosts of both a pirate and a spirit of a child who died in the upstairs.  Soldiers were murdered there also and it is described as the "Grand Central Station of Ghosts" in New Jersey.

Matawan - Rose Hill Cemetary - Dates back to Revolutionary War era. Ghosts, anomolies, ectoplasms, strange mists, vortexs, strange voices, orbs and shadowy figures. A frightening place, particularly at night with winding roads and an extremely "hilly" terrain. You can feel the strange presences instantly.

Cinnaminson - Lakeview Memorial Cemetery - reports of childrens ghost been seen and leaving footprints in the area that is all child graves.  Ghostly anomalies have been observed at the tower also.

Ringwood - Ringwood Manor - Haunted by the last descendant of the former owners and two servants.  Frequently investigated, the spirit of the woman owner is quite feisty and downright mean.   Voices heard, footsteps, portraits that follow you with their eyes, and other phenomena occur.

Franklineville - Iona Lake Inn - The Inn is so large , Many ghosts visit the place.  The old owner who first opened it…still runs the now empty Inn!

Metuchen - Ayers-Allen House - the oldest house in Metuchen, it was originally an inn during Revolutionary War times.   The house is haunted by a Revolutionary War soldier who can be sometimes seen hanging between floors (legend has it that he hung himself).  Also seen is the ghost of a woman (the innkeeper's wife) searching for her son, who was kidnapped by indians when he was 10 years old.  Psychics/mediums have detected the presence of several other ghosts, also.

Totowa - Laurel Grove Cemetery -   Repeated sightings of white robed woman appearimg after dark discussion of said sightings  on radio station WOR dozens of people have reported to have witnessed peaceful spirit.   Cemetery closed before dusk sightings observed by dozens of people through main gates.

Watchung Reservation
Densely wooded reservation with abandoned houses and etc. There are many stories that have come out of here. Example, there have said to have been a murder by the big lake there. Occult practitioners are said to have, and still meet and perform rituals.

Acto-Burnt Mill Road-
It is said that a little boy haunts the road, The little boy lived on the road and was playing basketball outside his house and was hit by a car that was drag racing on the road. It is said that you see him dribbling his basketball and looking up at the stars.

Glendora-Gabriel Davies Tavern -
One of New Jersey’s oldest historical landmarks used to be a tavern during the Revolutionary war. The attic was used a hospital for wounded soldiers.  The original furnishings are in the house and there is still bloodstains in the attic. On occasion it has been recorded the sighting of people walking in the upstairs and strangest sounds of people suffering.

Parcipany-Hilltop Care Center
It is an old abandoned nursing home that had to be evacuated immediately for some reason unknown.  All of the patient's files, clothes, pictures, card, and all of their belongings are still left in their old rooms.  When you walk in and out of these rooms, your flashlights will flicker on and off.  There is only one door in the whole place that can not be opened. There is a room that is known to be haunted and when to door was opened, it stopped and then' started to vibrate rapidly.  Now there is a "NO TRESPASSING"

Franklin Lakes- Ewing Ave exit (south side route 208).
If you take the exit down to the stop sign, put your car in neutral and let your foot off the break, your car will roll up hill. Rumor has it a little girl was hit by a car there and died and she is pushing you away and up the hill.

Union-The Caldwell House
It is now a museum and is preserved for public visits. It is said that Lady Caldwell haunts the house after she was shot in her living room by the British soldiers raiding her house.

Mt. Hope- Mt. Hope Road-
Many voices can be heard and cold winds can be felt. We experienced it first hand this week, figures can be seen in the meadows...

Fort Dix-Haunted Hospital-
Repeated sightings, noises, and furniture being thrown around on the top five floors of the hospital. It used to be a hospital for the victims of the war. In the basement of the hospital used to be the morgue. You can see the spirits that lives there and you can see from outside of the hospital the blinds are all up and that there is someone watching you.

Old Tappan
It is said that the ghost of a revolutionary era bugler for the Continental Army haunts the area around the old Toppan golf course or other stories say the wooded area near there and it is also said that in the middle of the night sometimes you can hear the sound of a horn. The ghost is simply known as the bugler.

Franklin-Headquarters of the Meadow Foundation-South Middlebush Road-
The ghost of an elderly gentleman has been reported to walk through the house and look through the dining room windows.  He is sometimes reported to have been wearing a Civil War uniform.

Passaic County - Annie's Road-
In the 1980's, a young girl was killed on Prom night (hit by a car).  It is said that you can see her blood still on the road and at midnight it has been reported that her ghost will come out.  Her gravesite is located off of the road where she was killed.

Warren-Warren Graveyard-
There is the Warren Graveyard at the intersection of Mountain Blvd. and Mt. Bethel Rd.   It is supposed that you see Sir Isaac warren in the corner by the church with his to grandchildren who died with him in a car wreck nearby.  They are usually only seen on Memorial weekend and Halloween!

Hoboken - "The Brass Rail Restaurant."-
The restaurant is over 100 years old.  Waiters and waitresses have seen the ghosts of a bride, groom and wedding parties walking down the spiral staircase of the two-story restaurant, late at night, when they're cleaning up.

Columbus-The Columbus Inn-
This is a very old restaurant in the center of a very small town.  There have been numerous sightings throughout the years.  They have even had paranormal investigators come in to investigate the series of sightings.  A large piece was done on this restaurant on TV and in the newspapers several years ago.  Inside the restaurant, one of the articles can be found behind the bar.  One of the employees there even told us that there is a legend that the famous "Jersey Devil" was reported to have been born there.

Morristown-Jimmy's-
Local nightclub haunted by female from revolutionary war era

Long Beach Island Haunted Beach-
Sometimes on the beach late at night you can hear the cries of people that have ship wrecked on our beach.  You know when they are near because you get a very cold chill in your bones.

Totowa-Totowa Road-
A girl was killed on this road in 1951 as she was waiting for her prom date to pick her up. A truck driver ran her over and she has been seen walking this street at night, still in a light blue prom gown. The road has been named after her: Annie's Road!!! Also, she is buried at the cemetery which is directly across from where she died.

Alamuchy-
Shades of Death is the actual name of a road located in, New Jersey.  It is said that if you drive down there late at night, and you enter into a patch of fog on the road, it will follow you and you will find footprints on your car...human footprints.

Newark-Branch Brook Park-
The story goes that a couple who just got marry we're passing through the park on there way to there Honeymoon, When all of sudden the groom lost control of his vehicle and crash into a old tree, The impact was so devastating that bride was ejected from the car and fell next to the old tree and they say that the ground open up an took her and when the police arrived all they found was the groom dead and a piece of white cloth sticking out of the ground. The story is she haunting the park at night in her bloody wedding dress.
 
Great meadows-Ghost lake-
Lake was home to American Indians a hundred years ago, many died of malaria, they are said to haunt the area.  Many local legends come out of this area.  There is the "ghost lake house" green, built in 30's, said to be haunted by people who have inhibited the house that have died there.  The first guy who built and lived in the house went crazy, killed his wife and daughter who are supposedly buried on the property.   High activity area.

Hope-
Shades of Death road is a road that is said to be haunted by many spirits. There is one story that tells the tale of a girl in a prom dress who’s car (along with her bf) had crashed into a tree on prom night and it is said that the bf went to heaven but the girl stayed on earth to roam the place she died in.

West Milford-Gould Rd.-
Supposed haunt of a young lady who walks this rd. at night.

Elizabeth-Elizabeth General Medical Center in Elizabeth-
The Newborn Nursery is haunted by a woman in white. A room in the Special Care Nursery is known for suddenly becoming cold and furniture and equipment is known to move by itself. A crying baby is sometimes heard in the third unused Nursery. A room in the Post-partum ward is known for a rocking chair that rocks by itself and a toilet that flushes by itself. The hospital operator one night received a phone call from a patient room the voice on the other end requested that she send "help"---the room was in a closed down, unused ward and had no telephone.

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This house, constructed in the late 18th century, was home to the Grimes family, a Quaker family active in the New Jersey antislavery movement. Dr. John Grimes (1802-1875), the most noted and vociferous antislavery advocate in the family, was born in this house and lived here until 1828 when he moved to nearby Passaic County to practice medicine. In 1832, he moved back to the homestead in Morris County and subsequently relocated to the neighboring community of Boonton. New Jersey's citizens were divided over the issue of slavery. Many people in New Jersey were sympathetic to the southern slave owners who had economic as well as social ties to the state. This faction was challenged by another group, largely comprised of Quakers like the Grimes family, who publicly opposed slavery. Once arrested for harboring a runaway slave, Dr. Grimes was repeatedly harassed by supporters of slavery while living at this house and later at his home in Boonton. Dr. Grimes' participation in the Underground Railroad is substantiated in his 1875 obituary in the newspaper Jerseyman, that stated, "In the earlier days, his father's house, Mr. Jonathan Grimes of Parsippany (Mt. Lakes today), was a prominent station on the celebrated Underground Railroad. In later days it was transferred to his own home in Boonton through which many a poor runaway has been helped on his way to Canada. They came to him from Baxter Sayre, Esq. of Madison (long since dead) he forwarding them in the night to Newfoundland, the next station."

The Grimes Homestead is located in Mountain Lakes, New Jersey. A private residence, it is not open to the public.

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Peter Mott (c. 1807-1881), an African American farmer, constructed this house around 1844 and resided there until 1879. According to persuasive oral testimonies, Mott and his wife, Elizabeth Ann Thomas Mott, provided refuge to escaping slaves during the years leading up to the Civil War. 1870 census records show that Peter Mott was born in Delaware, and Elizabeth Ann Thomas in Virginia, but do not indicate if they were born into slavery. Their names do not appear in New Jersey records until their 1833 marriage which is possible evidence that one or both of the Motts may have escaped slavery and fled to New Jersey. The Motts settled in a free black community known as Snow Hill which later merged with a neighboring settlement called Free Haven. Snow Hill, founded in the early 19th century, may have take its name from Snow Hill, Maryland, reputed to be the place of origin for many of its founding residents. Free Haven was developed in 1840 by Ralph Smith, a white abolitionist who was the first Secretary of the Philadelphia Vigilance Committee, an antislavery organization founded in 1838. Smith named his development Free Haven to signify its role as a refuge from slavery and sold lots at low prices to free African Americans for homesites. In 1907, Snow Hill and Free Haven were renamed Lawnside which became the only ante-bellum, black community to become an incorporated municipality in the state of New Jersey. Peter Mott bought the first of three parcels of land on which his house was constructed from Jacob C. White, Sr., a wealthy African American dentist and active participant in the Underground Railroad. Mott became an influential local leader and served as a minister to Snow Hill Church, today named Mount Pisgah AME Church, and founded its Sunday School in 1847. Peter Mott's legacy as an Underground Railroad conductor survives because of his prominence in a free black settlement, his ties to other known Underground Railroad participants, and the strong oral history traditions of the remarkable community of Lawnside.

The Peter Mott House is located at the corner of Moore and Gloucester Avenues in Lawnside, New Jersey. It was saved from demolition by the Lawnside Historical Society . The organization is currently raising money to restore the house and open it to the public.

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