New Weird NJ Issue

[MikeBickerson]

Here's what's in the new Weird NJ issue...

ABANDONED BOYS PREP SCHOOL OF WANTAGE - BOMBING RANGE
ROAD - WHOPPING WILLY ROAD - INCIDENT OF POSSUMTOWN ROAD
THE SAYREVILLE HORROR - SHADOWY FIGURE ON PIG LADY ROAD
PRINCE RANDIAN-PATERSON’S HUMAN TORSO - RARE CAMBODIAN
BIRD SPOTTED ON JUNGLE HABITAT GROUNDS - ARMED FOR GATES
OF HELL - ZIPPY THE PINHEAD MEETS ZIP THE WHAT-IS-IT - NAKED
SOCK MAN IN ELIZABETH - HUMAN REMAINS HALT SCHOOL CONST-
RUCTION - CHERRY HILL RACE TRACK NO MORE - MYSTERY TREE OF
MONTCLAIR - ICK-THOSE EGG HARBOR BLOBS! - CREMATORY HILL
ALBINO VILLAGE BACK IN THE DAY - HOUSE IN MARLTON SEWER
GLEN GARDENER’S VULTURE ROOST o JERSEY UFO REPORTS FROM
NEWARK, WANAQUE, CANNISTEAR ROAD, PARSIPPANY, ELIZABETH
& ATCO - FRANK N’ FRIES IN RAHWAY - JIMMY BUFF’S RIGHT HAND
MAN DIES - LIBBY’S LUNCH - VIRGIN MARY VISITS PASSAIC - JESUS
VISITS BELLEVILLE - LOCKED DOWN IN EASTERN STATE PENN - ALL
IN THE FAMILY: RICHIE THE BOOT - CHUMMING WITH FETUS IN LOVE-
LADIES - WEIRD STUFF IN NJ GARBAGE - HUMAN ORGANS IN SOUTH
JERSEY TIDEWTERS - THE NORTH PLAINFIELD TOTEM POLE - STOCK-
TON COLLEGE’S BLUE HOLE - HADROSAURUS - THINKING PINK IN
METUCHEN - ROADSIDE ROBOTS IN NEWTONVILLE - MANNEQUIN
FOUNTAIN IN NEW BRUNSWICK - ATTIC ANTIQUES OF LONG BEACH
SEWAREN’S ROCK AND ROLL RAIL BRIDGE - THE ELEPHANT TREE
THE FRANK SINATRA TOWEL - TOYNBEE IN BELLMAWR - EVIL IN
BURLINGTON - EDISON ORGE - TRIPOD ROCK OF HIGH POINT
ANCIENT VILLAGE UNDER CHERRY HILL - THE PINK LADY OF WEST
ORANGE - WHO KILLED JEANNETTE DEPALMA? - OLD MAN BARS IN
LYNDHURST, CLIFTON, CAP MAY, HAMMONTON & GARFIELD - CEMET-
ERY SAINT OF ATLANTIC CITY - GRAVE YARD TOWER OF CLIFTON
GRAVES FROM ALL OVER - THE CRYPT KNOCKER - CEDAR KNOLLS
CAR GRAVEYARD - BEE LANE SUICIDES OF BLACKWOOD - GHOST
COUPLE IN SEWAREN - BATSTO GHOST IN WINDOW - GHOSTS OF
PORT COLDEN MANOR - GHOSTS AT RINGWOOD MANOR - WILLIAMS
CENTER GHOSTS - FISH FACTORY EXPLORATIONS - MORE INTER-
DIMENSIONAL DEMENTIA - ADVENTURES IN ADVENTURE VILLAGE
THAT THING IN THE WOODS OF MAY’S LANDING - LIDO DINER CLOSES
IN SEARCH OF THE BLAIRSDEN CAVES - WHY THE HAPPY WALKER’S
HAPPY - ELIZABETH ORPHANAGE REVISITED - FENCING THE DEVIL’S
TREE - RABBIT TREE VISIT - GOOSEY NIGHT IN PASSAIC COUNTY
MORE EVIL CLOWNS - MORE BONAPARTE TUNNELS - WEIRD NUTLEY
MEMORIES - MENTAL PATIENT SLEEPOVER - DEEP IN THE SWAMPS
OF DEPTFORD - HE’S NO MONKEYMAN, HE’S CUBAN! - STERILIZED AS
SKILLMAN - WEIRD WILLINGBORO MALL - ISLIN DOLL HEAD HOUSE
DONKEY IN JERSEY CITY - UNTERMEYER TO RISE FROM DEAD - RAMADA
INN RAM RAMPAGE - McCURDY HOUSE BURNS - COLBY MANSION TO BE
B&B - TURNPIKE BURIAL SITES - CHURCH OF MYSTIC LIGHT VANDAL-
IZED - REOPENING SYBIL’S CAVE - IN THE BELLVILLE TUNNEL - BUB-
BLING UP IN RINGWOOD - LUCY THE ELAPHANT WEDDING - JERSEY
DEVIL ON EGG HARBOR HOUSE ROOF - TAKANASSE CASTLE OF ELBER-
TON - AND MUCH MUCH MORE!

I didn't spot too much to worry about 'round here. CHERRY HILL RACE TRACK NO MORE, can't be too much trouble 'caused there, what are they gonna do, hang out at the Country Buffet and then visit THE ANCIENT SITE OF THE CHERRY HILL RACE TRACK, now featuring Home Depot and eleventeen other big stores that make traffic near my apartment worse by the day? Don't know what THOSE EGG HARBOR BLOBS are. HOUSE IN MARLTON SEWER actually sounds really interesting. ELIZABETH & ATCO, maybe more Atco Ghost stories? STOCKTON COLLEGE’S BLUE HOLE - didn't know that they had one. HADROSAURUS is found now in Philly anyway, and Haddonfieldonians could use a decending of punks to liven up their lives. ANCIENT VILLAGE UNDER CHERRY HILL looks very interesting, 'cause if it's ancient in Cherry Hill, they generally smash it to the ground and put a car park over it.

The only one that has me worried is BATSTO GHOST IN WINDOW. If careless, thoughtless kids ruin Batsto, I'll make them eat their shorts!

Anyway, looks like not too much Pine Barrens stuff outside of BATSTO GHOST IN WINDOW (I love typing in all caps). You can all breath easier...

 

[Ben Ruset]

I wouldn't worry about Batsto. It has enough rangers and people to keep an eye on things.

The Egg Harbor blobs were some fungal bloom that happened in a lagoon down there.

 

[MikeBickerson]

Fianlly bought a copy when I went with a friend up to Red Bank this weekend. There is a good article on Eastern State Penitentiary in PA, not a single devil worshipper or klansman to be found in it.

The Batsto blurb (two actually) has to deal with a ghost sighting (and picture) at the mansion there. I know that the Richard's Mansion at Atsion is supposed to be very, very haunted, I didn't know that the one at Batsto was supposed to be haunted as well. Has anyone else heard stories?

There is also a one page peice on a Jersey Devil sighting in Egg Harbor Township. Very 1909ish, the victim reported pounding on the roof, bizzare screeching, and, of couse, hoofprints all over the roof of the home. Perhaps he is getting frisky again...

Apparently people go swimming at "Stockton's Blue Hole" all the time. Doesn't seem like a smart thing to do to me...

 

[Teegate]

What does it say about the house in the sewer in Marlton, and the village under Cherry Hill?

I feel sorry for you near the Home Depo. I work right near there and route 70 in the evening is tough. I only use it at that time of the day when I head to my moms in Marlton.

Guy

 

[MikeBickerson]

The house in the sewer in Marlton was a strange story. Apparently in 1983, a bunch of teenagers headed down a drainage culvert and walked for quite a ways, peaking out at the street when they could. Eventually they came to an opening, and there was a dilapadated house there, inside of the sewer. They someone came out of the house with a flashlight and chased them out of the drainage system.

The ancient villiage below Cherry Hill is actually worse. A "relic hunter" (I don't like him already) was near the Cooper River with his metal detector. He dug up a 24 inch metal blade that was semi-circular. Then a strange man in knickers with a dog approached this guy, but the man called off his dog in a strange Europeans tounge and they dissapeared. When this "relic hunter" turned around, the blade was gone, and his metal detector was no longer picking up anything.

But then there are the good stories. A contributer wrote a one page article on two teenagers from Blackwood that committed suicide during Vietnam to send a message about the war.

Oh, and they had pictures of the Egg Harbor Blobs. Blech!

I avoid 70 anywhere this side of the 73 Circle like the plauge, Kresson Road is my friend.

I'll have to take a walk down to Haddonfield to see the dinosaur site and take a closer look at the new statue they put up, I've caught only glimpses while driving by so far...

 

[aserdaten]

Could Stockton College's "Blue Hole" by any chance be the borrow pit near the Parkway where students and others have gone swimming for many years? When I was living in Ocean County some 15 to 20 years ago this place was written up as being "clothing optional".

I have never heard of any borrow pits being called blue holes, however. While some of them have grown fairly deep, I haven't ever heard any of them being considered dangerous to swimmers. But who knows?

 

[bach2yoga]

Batsto has been haunted for years, I am surprised that Weird NJ just caught up with it. It is also one of the Jersey Devil's favorite hangouts.
Renee

 

[bach2yoga]

Could Stockton College's "Blue Hole" by any chance be the borrow pit near the Parkway where students and others have gone swimming for many years? When I was living in Ocean County some 15 to 20 years ago this place was written up as being "clothing optional".

I have never heard of any borrow pits being called blue holes, however. While some of them have grown fairly deep, I haven't ever heard any of them being considered dangerous to swimmers. But who knows?

Ah, living out of Jersey has it's disadvantages. :wink: Someone died in a local blue hole almost two years ago. Legend in several of the books I have read says that "the" blue hole has quicksand, and the original couple decades ago that found "the" blue hole was skinny-dipping and the boy never came up. The girl ran back to civilization--took her 3 days to find her way, and her hair had reportedly turned white. That was back when it was thought to be impossible to find it a second time.

Renee