Jimmy Hoffa’s Fiery Resting Place Beneath the Pulaski Skyway
The Pulaski Skyway lumbers across the post-apocalyptic landscape of South Kearny like some kind of skulking prehistoric behemoth. Carrying Route 1-9 on its bumpy spine high into the stratosphere, the...
View ArticleThe Legend of Jersey’s “Liver Eating” Mountain Man
The 1972 film “Jeremiah Johnson”, directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Robert Redford as the title character, is about a man who seeks solace in the American West, and to live the life of a...
View ArticleThe Deserted Village and Enchanted Forest of the Watchung Reservation
There is a place deep in the woods of the Watchung Reservation area in Union County that is officially known as the Feltville Historic District. Here, down a narrow winding road that leads into the...
View ArticleRound Valley Reservoir – NJ’s Bermuda Triangle
This past Christmas Eve it made news when three individuals had to be rescued from sinking into the waist-deep mud of the partially drained Round Valley Reservoir. Fortunately, they made it out alive....
View ArticleStrange Figures of Woodbridge Clay Pits
Several peculiar wooden sculptures that have a mysterious history about them were recently put up for sale at a prestigious New York City auction house. The origins of the “Woodbridge Figurines” are...
View ArticleSmall Wonders of Midgetville
It seems to be human nature that people are captivated by miniature versions of everyday things. This is probably no place more evident than in the case of people’s fascination with the smaller...
View ArticleThe 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 Castle. When I was a junior in high school, 6 of us girls drove up to Kip’s in a...
View ArticleBlood Sport: Revisiting Traction… Er, Action, Park
If you were compiling a list of things you may have experienced in your youth if you grew up in New Jersey, you might include knowing all the sites in the opening credits of The Sopranos, and that a...
View ArticleThe Devil’s Pathway at the Great Falls
Descent Into the Devil’s Pathway Life is a series of cycles of discovery, familiarity, forgetting, and rediscovery. The life of our state can be said to be something like this process as well....
View ArticleDeath and Destruction at the Devil’s Tea Table
Perched 365 feet above the scenic Delaware River, on a rocky wooded hillside in the town of Kingwood, stands a geological anomaly known as the Devil’s Tea Table. It’s a twenty-foot-tall pillar of...
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