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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...

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The 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...

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The 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...

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Round 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....

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Strange 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...

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Small 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...

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The 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...

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Blood 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...

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The 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....

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Death 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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