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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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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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| 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 Acto-Burnt Mill Road- Glendora-Gabriel Davies Tavern - Parcipany-Hilltop Care Center Franklin Lakes- Ewing Ave exit
(south side route 208). Union-The Caldwell House Mt. Hope- Mt. Hope Road- Fort Dix-Haunted Hospital- Old Tappan Franklin-Headquarters of the Meadow
Foundation-South Middlebush Road- Passaic County - Annie's Road- Warren-Warren Graveyard- Hoboken - "The Brass Rail
Restaurant."- Columbus-The Columbus Inn- Morristown-Jimmy's- Long Beach Island Haunted Beach- Totowa-Totowa Road- Alamuchy- Newark-Branch Brook Park- Hope- West Milford-Gould Rd.- Elizabeth-Elizabeth General Medical
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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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