Weird NJ

[Jem'hadar]

Weird N.J., Celebrating The Odd State of Mind
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...emailarticlepg

I've read 1 or 2 issues. Lots of very interesting stories. Strange how many there are in NJ. I grew up in NJ & remember urban legends of Satanic rituals in the Watchung Mountains. One kid told me he was out there one night & saw the Satanists who chased him but he got away. I also once went over 13 bumps road which is supposedly the graves of 13 witches. Legend has it that if you drive over them & count the bumps, and only count 12, then that means the 13th witch has come back & is chasing you. But after driving over the bumps, I didn't see anything. When I was a kid, a babysitter once told me a story of how her friend's home was haunted by the ghost of this family's firstborn child who had died at a very young age & they even had pictures taken in the house which showed an apparition in the background.

Of course, other states have their weird tales. A friend of mine from Maryland told me a story that when he was a teenager, he & his friends drove into the woods to visit this abandoned church. It was night, & the church was accessed only by a dirt road. When they arrived, they saw an old church that had been boarded up & someone had put upside down crosses all over the doors & windows. They turned off their headlights briefly & suddenly they saw dozens of flashlights in the nearby woods & heard people come running towards them. They drove out of there like a bat out of hell.

[tmutant]

NC's most famous tale of weirdness is probably the Brown Mountain Lights, which appeared over a period of many years with no good explanation. It's said to be the light of a rairoad worker who was decapitated in an accident, and is now searching for his head. Except stories of the lights predate railroads.

[Lt.Khrys Antos]

Weird urban (and rural) stories exist everywhere. Up here in Canada we get the same nonsense about lights flying around "unnaturallly", weird shapes burned into fields and saucer sightings.

I don't know how many times I've had to look at cases which had some type of documentation, only to figure out its all a hoax.

[Cybrludite]

Then there's the all manner of weirdness in the Jersey Pine Barrens, including the Jersey Devil. Of course, we've got one or two spook stories down around here, too. LaLaurie House, the Axeman, the brown needle men, the Sultan's house, the above ground graveyards and Marie Laveau's tomb, all the folks killed in the sundry tropical disease epidemics, a battle or two, active hougans & thier flocks...

[SuperDanny]

http://www.weirdnj.com/

That guy waving in the loading screen is Waving Willy. He would sit on the side of Rt 206 and wave to all the cars. That's all he did. All day. Everyday.