just wasting time with fun stuff

 

1. Weird NJ is still around? Ha, I used to see their magazine for sale at bookstores ages ago, and I’ve had their hardcover book for years now.

   You betcha, lotsa strange stuff in this state, from Lucy the Elephant to gravity roads to scary inbred hill people to the midget mansions over in Tinytown. Don’t forget the mansion where Napoleon was actually exiled to with his brother, and all the secret brick lined canals underneath it. And that’s not even touching all the hauntings, the dozens and dozens of scary abandoned mental health wards, the rocking horse house, the house of broken glass, the Jersey Devil, or those abandoned amusement parks lost in the woods. Plus all the abandoned colonial iron mines, railroad tunnels from the 1880s, lost military installations, unmarked graveyards, the sites where witches were burned centuries ago and still nothing grows on that land ... all haunted and spooky as all get out. And then there’s the seaside wasteland called Asbury Park. Personally, I don’t believe that the Union Hotel down in Flemington is haunted, but it is where all the reporters stayed when they covered the Lindbergh Baby kidnapping/murder trial at the courthouse across the street back in 1935. I go past it every week.

   Welcome to NJ. Only the strong survive.

   Posted by Drew458       03/05/2012  at  12:23 PM  



2. I love ghost stories peiper. But it beats me how you can tell that’s an alleged Civil War soldier. Which side? I want to believe in ghosts, if only because I’d love to hang around as one. Like the captain in The Ghost and Mrs. Muir. I mean the 60’s TV show, not the 40’s movie. He just had too much fun.

   Posted by Christopher       03/05/2012  at  03:10 PM  



3. I was born (Teaneck) and raised in Bergen county, NJ.

   So I guess that makes me weird................And I am!

   Posted by New Jersey Yankee       03/06/2012  at  07:23 AM  



4. Christopher, the copy ID as a civil war soldier was copied from the link. While I don’t really think it’s real, looking closer (for me anyway) it does look very much like civil war. I think it could also be interpretation. His hat for example appears to be from that period. And I think (?) the cemetery is ID’d as a civil war cemetery at the link. Ass to which side, don’t know cos I can’t recall where the photo was shot. Info at link I think.

   Posted by peiper       03/06/2012  at  07:29 AM  



5. Easy, peasy - CWR - Civil War Reenactors. Heck if he participates on a regular basis - his uniform will probably be worn enough to look real. Pick a particularly hazy/foggy day and walla - a ‘ghostly’ picture ensues.

   Posted by wardmama4       03/06/2012  at  09:28 AM  



6. Okay...maybe I kinda sorta think I see him.  I think I see betwen the second and third gravestone, a man walking, heading left at a 3/4 view of him and he appears to be holding a musket with his right hand on the trigger area and his left hand on the underside of the barrel.  He kinda looks like he has gloves on as his hands are white?  Is this it?  I am trying to imagine him and think maybe I am forcing it alittle...but that is what I see.

   Also, you mention faces in the screen door, but I see no photo of that.  How do I find it?

   Other than that, what a great book to get. 

   Great Post.

   Dekare

   Posted by sdkar       03/06/2012  at  02:44 PM  



7. sdkar ... yeah. I thought I saw gloves as well.

   OK .... faces in screen door.

   http://www.lostdestinations.com/faces.htm

   It’s towards the bottom.

   Posted by peiper       03/07/2012  at  04:36 AM  

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